Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Robert Swan Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: ECTS and other round ups Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:12:06 +0100 Organization: I wish! Lines: 50 Message-ID: <35F6A8D6.485@mdx.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: nova.mdx.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4u) Ill stick all my stuff in here in one go, as I don't want to clog up newsgroup with 5+ responses... ECTS - hmm, I must admit I get annoyed being around the majority of people who turn up to these events. So its trade only (for what its worth), just means we get only 18 year old+ idiots as opposed to idiots from all the age ranges! I mean, I wanted to have a go on Zelda, but it was full, came back nearly an hour later, same people playing it. I could have just ripped the sodding controllers from them, but why I should bother at all I don't know. I got no freebies as I'm not too interested in them, but I did win a radio controlled car (which maybe with James S's joystick prize can be the basis of our own yaroze compo). I made two mistakes regarding ECTS: one) I had to leave the Sony party on Monday night in the middle of Pulp's songs which made me SO angry its unbelievable. I wasnt chased out, I just had something to do the next day. Free drink + free food at a large party for the first time ever for me, and I have to leave early. Pulp being there just made it the whole thing a nightmare :) Loved what I did see though. two) turn up on Tuesday at 4.15 thinking the show shut at 6, but oh no it shuts at 4. Silly idiot that I am :) Meant I missed out on giving my phone number to all the nice women there. It was funny meeting all the yaroze owners, and what I'd like to say to everyone is 'Put up your darn source code'. Noone cares if its rubbish, they simply won't look. If its good then cool, maybe people will learn something. Putting up source code is a gesture to show how open and warm and lovely you are, so do it! Anyway, more specific - With total soccer, are the players 3d models or just rotated and scaled sprites? Im hoping they are 3d models, and Im asking if its possible to have access to the models, as they are probably some of the better quality ones around, and it would be nice to use them. As for me panicking over total soccer being entered into gduk, its true - its got some decent AI which is what is missing from just about every other program on the yaroze. Would be interesting for you to talk about how it was done... Cant think of anything else at the moment, Rob (Ill go back to my full name now that Robert Ryan is about (hi!) Robert Swan http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~middex2 Oh yeah, thanks for the numerous emails regarding adventure game - its cool getting contact like that. I should even be able to respond in full tomorrow, wow!