Reality Factory

i personally use googlemaps alot - any place i'm trying to find now i do a google map of it before i go...and the maps are startling accurate. there are places where the satellite view doesn't 'quite' line up with the actual roads, but the maps are still correct, for all intents and purposes. becaus...

Ok I just bought vampire the masquerade, for 2 reasons, first because I haven't seen or played a good RPG game since deus ex 1, and 2 because it was developed with the Source engine so I wanted to see just 'how' good it was, when used by a third party licensee... The story isn't too bad, but the eng...

they have integrated this into the google maps feature as well, so you can see a map of most locations (in north america at least) as well as switch to a satellite view of the location...OR see a combination of the two... here's a shot of the gdgi offices in downtown vancouver in 'hybrid view' http:...

Oh if you have an old release of it - there is a new, full release linked from this forum - that would be the ideal one to mirror, it's the latest version i managed to get out.

it's larger than 30 megs though

If the CWC installer doesn't work then it didn't download completely most likely.

it is on a completely different webserver than the other resources.

It all depends on what kind of person you are and how you learn i guess. The main advantage to going to a school like PGD is that not only are you learning how to use game engines like RF, as well as programs like 3ds Max & so on but you are learning these skills from people that have used them ...

BTW, the F4000 is the laptop that is included as a part of the tuition for Pacific Game Design - learn Reality Factory, Beyond Virtual, etc from myself and our technical director - AND get a kick ass laptop as well...

Can hardly go wrong...

http://www.pacificgamedesign.com/

You are quite wrong about laptops having on-board graphics cards - these days many types of laptops have dedicated graphics hardware - we bought a dell recently that had the option of a dedicated 256 meg nvidia graphics card included with it (we got the 64 meg dedicated nvidia card option because it...

All i have to say is that we attended E3, we attended GDC, and saw more uninspiring game designs, uninspired characters and boring games I ever could have thought. It really makes me sad when I teach game design courses and talk to new game designers and all everyone seems to want to do is redo the ...

I'm with Wendell - before I discovered RF, I was working on my own Gameshell (with repeated attempts) based on both Genesis and numerous other rendering engines... The reason I stuck with RF over all these years (and still use it to prototype things now) is because the gameshell allows me to get so ...

The numbers that you are quoting are what the Hardware manufacturer claims under ideal conditions - ie you are rendering poly's ONLY and nothing else. This is something that people are trying to spout as 'realistic' numbers when talking about video card performance - when these numbers are often fak...

Just something that I noticed last week - we were teaching a summer camp called 'Introduction to Game Design' for 12-16 year olds out in Delta, BC (outside Vancouver) and the schools' machines were defaulted to 800x600. At this resolution, there are a number of things in RF Edit Pro - both the left ...

Yeah that's the idea - it's not a 'dance dance' type of game, but you will actually be composing the music on the fly using tony hawk style combo's and so on... Don't want to say too much about it before we get things farther along, but it combines story elements like gta where you walk around meeti...

These comments on both sides are the same thing that I've dealt with trying to promote RF to the larger developer community, both at conferences and with 'gamers' in general. From what I am aware of, there are no teams using either RF or Jet that have development funding - this means that the demo's...

glad someone noticed ;} after 6 years of developing games with zero money, and spending the past while developing contract games for other people, it's nice to actually get a bit of funding to work on our own game... I'll keep everyone posted about the game's progress...prototype will be in developm...