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A Look At the Tools Used To Make Metal Gear Solid 4
Soft Image is running a detailed story about the making of Metal Gear Solid 4. They explain the game's development cycle, from the art direction to the animation of characters to the building of models and textures.
"In terms of bones used for constructing the bodies of characters, about 21 joint bones were used that contained animation data and were activated through these data. But many auxiliary bones were also used to supplement movements such as the twisting of knees, elbows, legs and arms. These were not activated by animation data. Rather, they were linked to the values of the basic joints that were activated by animation. ... They also used a tool to automatically generate the rig for controlling eyeball movement and the muscles around the eyes. Because the area around the eyes is also controlled using both shapes and bones, when the eyeball locator is moved, the muscles move smoothly just like they do for the mouth. Further, even if the shape is edited to redefine the eye edges, it does not spoil the blinking or brow furrow expressions at all."
They had to include that ugly fag vamp.
Imagine how much cooler episodes II and III would have been if they killed off Jar-Jar.
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For those that have yet to finish it, please take a moment for me to spoil it for you!
* Snake doesn't die at the end
* Big Boss lives and dies at the end
* Eva dies
* Inbetween Chapters 3 & 4 you play the start of Metal Gear Solid 1
* Everything you do plays right into Liquid's agenda
* The patriots are dead, replaced by AI's
* Zero lives, as a vegtable, Big Boss kills him at the end
* Big Boss and Snake make peace before Big Boss dies
There I just saved you $60 and 10 hours, now go do something useful with your time like checking out Goatse!
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You nerds love it!
You could really notice differences with RE4 and Twilight Princess that the cube more powerful than the PS2 and almost as good as the Xbox.
Nintendo screwed up on the gimmped storage in the case of 3rd parties. Nintendo had some very sweet graphics compression technologies that they didn't want to share with their 3rd parties so you had crap like 2 disc games.
I must say though, I dont see much of a difference between the PS3 and 360, look at Burnout Paradise that was designed for the PS3 and ported to 360. Dont see a huge difference, most games are made for the 360 and ported to the PS3 where the 360 version looks better.
I dont see much differneces between MSG4, GoW, CoD4 graphics wise. I am currently playing MGS4 and from what I have seen, so far it seems the 360 could handle it. As for Blu-Ray? They dont bother compressing, I suspect most of that data filling up the Blu Ray is just raw uncompressed data, it's just being lazy.
Make SELinux enforcing again!
For those that have yet to finish it, please take a moment for me to spoil it for you!
* Snake doesn't die at the end
* Big Boss lives and dies at the end
* Eva dies
* Inbetween Chapters 3 & 4 you play the start of Metal Gear Solid 1
* Everything you do plays right into Liquid's agenda
* The patriots are dead, replaced by AI's
* Zero lives, as a vegtable, Big Boss kills him at the end
* Big Boss and Snake make peace before Big Boss dies
There I just saved you $60 and 10 hours, now go do something useful with your time like checking out Goatse! http://goatse.cz/ You nerds love it!
A way to get around the repeat comment thing? Quote it!
* Snake doesn't die at the end
* Big Boss lives and dies at the end
* Eva dies
* Inbetween Chapters 3 & 4 you play the start of Metal Gear Solid 1
* Everything you do plays right into Liquid's agenda
* The patriots are dead, replaced by AI's
* Zero lives, as a vegtable, Big Boss kills him at the end
* Big Boss and Snake make peace before Big Boss dies
Oh and some more I forgot
* Ocelot's body is controlled by Liquid until half way through the final boss fight where Ocelot returns
* You take control of Metal Gear REX to take out Metal Gear RAY
* Liquid re-establishes Outer Heaven and renames it "Outer Haven"
* Chapter 4 takes place on Shadow Moses Island
There, now you don't need to fork out for a PS3
* Snake doesn't die at the end
* Big Boss lives and dies at the end
* Eva dies
* Inbetween Chapters 3 & 4 you play the start of Metal Gear Solid 1
* Everything you do plays right into Liquid's agenda
* The patriots are dead, replaced by AI's
* Zero lives, as a vegtable, Big Boss kills him at the end
* Big Boss and Snake make peace before Big Boss dies
* Ocelot's body is controlled by Liquid until half way through the final boss fight where Ocelot returns
* You take control of Metal Gear REX to take out Metal Gear RAY
* Liquid re-establishes Outer Heaven and renames it "Outer Haven"
* Chapter 4 takes place on Shadow Moses Island
There I saved everyone $60 and saved everyone 10 hours, thats 10 more hours you dont have to be away from Goatse
http://goatse.cz/
Because I know you nerds love it!
No I am not done yet!
* Snake doesn't die at the end
* Big Boss lives and dies at the end
* Eva dies
* Inbetween Chapters 3 & 4 you play the start of Metal Gear Solid 1
* Everything you do plays right into Liquid's agenda
* The patriots are dead, replaced by AI's
* Zero lives, as a vegtable, Big Boss kills him at the end
* Big Boss and Snake make peace before Big Boss dies
* Ocelot's body is controlled by Liquid until half way through the final boss fight where Ocelot returns
* You take control of Metal Gear REX to take out Metal Gear RAY
* Liquid re-establishes Outer Heaven and renames it "Outer Haven"
* Chapter 4 takes place on Shadow Moses Island
There I saved everyone $60 and saved everyone 10 hours, thats 10 more hours you dont have to be away from Goatse
http://goatse.cz/ [goatse.cz]
Because you nerds love it!