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Saturday, Apr 19, 2008 - 20:43 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Drawing To An End

Reminder to self: Do the poster for the UROP presentation on Tuesday tomorrow, print it on Monday.

Did a short search on producing decent architectural 3D models for my next (long-due) webgame project, and possibly my HYP. I was nearly back to being content with trueSpace (recently acquired by Microsoft, what did I say about the best place to go for world domination?), and then I stumbled upon Google SketchUp (32.5 MB). Which is free, and by the looks of the examples, offers enough power for what I have in mind (isometric projects only anyhow).

Not that Google are above a bit of self-promotion too:


It is already, you needn't have bothered

And Apple helpfully suggests that I download Safari while updating QuickTime, and after I finally did so more out of curiosity than anything the first thing it did was to ask if it could be my default browser. Frankly though, I haven't seen anything from either Firefox or Safari great enough for me to forsake IE (making a cool anti-establishment statement aside), so sue me.

Experimented a bit with a sustainable illustration style for the webgame, and for ten minutes a pop I think this is the best average standard I can crank out so far:


Nothing to crow about but saves worry about colouring, etc. Should add some flavour and not take too much focus from the gameplay. Only paper and pencil (and scanner later) required!

Arsenal lead Reading 2-0 before half-time at the moment, but the odds on an Arsenal bounce-back victory (1.22) were too short for me. Liverpool look good against Fulham, especially since I don't think they are going to blood their second stringers just yet. Even West Ham having it as good as 1.27 against Derby shows how terrible the Rams are, and that's surely not worth a try.

I'll have...

$20 on Tottenham to beat Wigan (at 2.50) - seems like no one believes in Spurs any longer. They're still ok, though
$40 on Liverpool to beat Fulham (1.75) - the table doesn't lie after 34 games, and it says Fulham are just not very good
$40 on Man Utd to beat Blackburn (1.48) - returns a bit low here, just enough for me



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