Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news
From: (Robert Swan)
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Roundup of events
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 19:09:23 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Ive just come back after a long time to find several hundred messages
- obviously i'll try to read them all to see if I can make any
educated guesses for answers.

For those that don't know me I was on yaroze a few years ago - did
some stuff at uni on them (Middlesex university) which meant I could
waste the time trying to write a game for GDUK and me and two others
went up to Scotland for the final where the best man won. It wasn't
me. I did get offered a job at Sony and thats where i work now - just
finished my first game that was 2/3rds of the way through (This Is
Football) and now working on the next project.

Reason I'm back is because i always threaten to but I never get the
time. However, I have been thinking about something that interestes me
enough to come back etc, etc. Which is that I do want to have another
go on the Yaroze now and seeing as I want to mess around with Windows
C++ MFC programming I thought I could do both - and considering that I
quite enjoy trying to help others I wouldpost up progress as I go
along to see if it helps anyone. A lot of it will be theory first
before examples, but I think it pays (if you want to do games) to get
strong at maths etc, etc. So when I get my internet sorted at work AND
I try to find all the bloody emails of people on Yaroze that I've
somehow lost (twat) then I should get started.

I've personally learnt loads at Sony, and I also know how I want to do
my website (my advice to people is make it neat, simple, and without
needing any large amount of maintainance; it becomes a drag).

Hi to everyone out there - and once i get the disks for me Yaroze I'll
try out everyones demos. Will trawl through all the unread messages to
see if I can help - Ive been thinking loads about LOD and creating
TMDs on the fly (not just at the start of the program) to allow
morphing between hi and lo detail models. Now all I have to do is put
it into practice.

PS - any emails people have for me probably dont work -
One at uni I cant access now (lost loads of email addresses dammit)
One at Xerox - well I dont work there
One at Sony has changed
Its now Robert_Swan@scee.net

bye

Rob