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Stories and comments across the archive that link to discreet.com.
Stories · 6
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Sony Endorsing Open Graphics Format For PS3
News for nerds writes "At the tech talk as part of the forthcoming SIGGRAPH 2004 conference on August 11th, an open graphics file format for the interactive 3D [videogame] industry called COLLADA will be unveiled by Sony Computer Entertainment. COLLADA is supported by major 3D toolchain companies including Alias, Criterion, Discreet, Emdigo, Novodex, Softimage and Vicarious Visions. If you combine this with the recent news that Sony has joined Khronos Group to support OpenGL/ES, OpenMAX, OpenVG and OpenML, it seems evident that Sony is quietly fighting back against the loudly trumpeted Microsoft XNA (/. coverage) with its plan of an open game development platform." -
The Future of Game Dev (Except in St. Louis)
ksquire writes "Ben Sawyer, of Digitalmill, has published an interesting article at Avault.com about the past, present, and future of game development. Sawyer argues that the game industry is going more and more toward 3rd party development tools and '4th party' publishing -- meaning that game developers are essentially tool developers for game enthusiasts to create mods (also using tools like Alienbrain or Discreet's GMAX). I'm really curious as to whether the Slashdot community thinks we'll see a future era of standardized game tools and developers courting modders, or if we'll continue to see more specialized game engines. Maybe a greater PC / Console split?" Meanwhile, over in St. Louis, the Free Expression Policy Project has filed an amici curiae brief by 33 media scholars saying that "Most studies and experiments on video games containing violent content have not found adverse effects." They're trying to stop the county from banning violent games -- Wired has the story. ksquire points out that "Sawyer also wrote an article, Serious Games: Improving Public Policy through Game-Based Learning and Simulation, which was discussed on slashdot."netphilter and TCPALaw get credit for the Wired link. Previous Slashdot stories on violent gaming include this one and this one.
TCPALaw's full comment was (minus a dangling modifier): "Wired has a nice story on the St. Louis ban on violent video games. If the ban sticks (it was upheld by Judge Limbaugh against a constitutional challenge... Rush Limbaugh's uncle ... the same judge who struck down the federal ban on junk faxes as an abridgment of free speech - go figure) it could be extended to MP games available to play over the Internet."
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Gmax, Editing Tool for 3D Games
Michael 'Buccaneer' Koch writes: "Earlier this week, Discreet, the makers of 3D Studio Max, released a new tool for making content for games like levels and models. Its name is gmax and can be downloaded freely. Developers can build support for their games by writing plugins for gmax and paying a fee to Discreet. It really sounds like a good idea for the mod-community." -
Gmax, Editing Tool for 3D Games
Michael 'Buccaneer' Koch writes: "Earlier this week, Discreet, the makers of 3D Studio Max, released a new tool for making content for games like levels and models. Its name is gmax and can be downloaded freely. Developers can build support for their games by writing plugins for gmax and paying a fee to Discreet. It really sounds like a good idea for the mod-community." -
Gmax, Editing Tool for 3D Games
Michael 'Buccaneer' Koch writes: "Earlier this week, Discreet, the makers of 3D Studio Max, released a new tool for making content for games like levels and models. Its name is gmax and can be downloaded freely. Developers can build support for their games by writing plugins for gmax and paying a fee to Discreet. It really sounds like a good idea for the mod-community." -
3D MAX To Laser Light
Laserfuzz writes: "Remember LaserMAME? Well this isn't new but Pangolin has a plug-in for 3D Studio MAX to convert 3D objects and scenes into laser outlines. Opens laser show programing to a larger group of people." I s'pose not everyone has that kind of hardware sitting around, but you sure could light up a party.