Weekly Update - April 19, 2009
April 19th, 2009 by InZaneFlea Welcome to Sunday the 19th of April! As always, it's time for your Weekly Update. This time around we have a few new things to show off you haven't heard anything about, so it's bound to be exciting.First off, we'd like to welcome Chad509 to the team as a weapon animator! Chad has previously worked on Allied Intent xtended and Experience World War 2 for Battlefield 2, as well as some work on the Viral Outbreak mod for Source. We're super excited to bring him on, and can't wait to start showing off some weapon animations! Currently Chad509 is working on rigging up our hand model, and will be starting to get melee and firearm animations completed in the coming weeks.
Elsewhere, CrazyMatt has changed his focus for a short amount of time to finishing up our hand model now that we have an animator that can actually use them.
Myself and Maxx have been both plugging away at our levels some more, along with everyone else on the Level Design side of things, attempting to get fully blocked out levels to start testing with. We figure it's going to go smoother if we test before we spend hundreds of hours on custom textures and props only to realize half of them have to be changed to make the levels work better!
Dark and R26 have been collaborating on our new Website Re-Design (I'm sure you'll hear more about this later), and have come up with some pretty sweet looking themes so far.
Our coding trio of ssba, Takhiarel, and Big_Nah have been working hard as usual. We currently have a functioning round system in place (That will eventually control the pre,beginning,middle,end, and restarts of the maps), as well as a few more attempts at modifying the AI Netcode so we can have tons of zombies on the screen at once.
Beckett and DaveOfDefeat have been battling each other in the sound department, both pumping out amazingly high quality sound effects that range from bullet being fired to zombies dragging their feet across different types of ground. Beckett worked on what will one day be the NMRiH Main Menu Theme. You can check out a small snippet of that down past the screenshots.
For media this week we have two more melee weapons ready to show (There's one more left after these, any guesses?), as well as that theme clip from Beckett! Enjoy!
And here is that small clip of what we're working towards being our theme song! : CLICK HERE
Check back next week for more exciting news and art!
