Altayon Lives... Foofles in a heavy metal band!

That's right folks, I will start playing shows with a metal band in the NYC area starting around January 2011. So please check out the music here: Altayon at Reverbnation. I hope you enjoy!

I'll post a lot of juicy details about life in the band here, as well as samples of the music that you won't find anywhere else :) Of course I am playing guitar for the band.

Foof Engine - Cheese Kung Fu, Grapes of Wrath, and cel shading!

All sorts of things going on in this update... first of all, I decide to try to give the cheese some melee moves. Yup.. MELEE MOVES! He can punch and kick and smack up a few 'nanners and... newcomers! A grape enemy that if in pursuit of Mr. Cheese will throw a grape grenade every few seconds. He also emits some grapes that go squishy when you kill him.

Also put in a rudimentary cel shading technique. Very rudimentary, first of all it clamps all lighting in bands and sort of checks for contrast in depth or normals to decide what an edge is. I sort of hacked it together independently, I'm sure there are better filters out there to find edges, but whatever! For now it works!

Also very interesting is my improved animation system... support for multiple tracks in my foof 3D format! Smooth blending between animations! Having separate bones play separate animations! Hoorah! Still needs LOADS of work.

My first blog post

Welcome everyone to my blog! This is my first post so I thought I'd just give you a little heads up on what's to come: PURE AWESOME FOOF WIN!

I'll update this blog regularly with assorted subjects, like my musicianship, my 3D game engine programming, assorted video games, and maybe I'll just run my mind! Be warned! My mind is not for the weak of heart! :D