Playing with PSX Textures

"Can I make something like that, but... in a different shape?" (Image: RR-Ken site)

A couple of important updates before going with the topic: first of all, Eid Mubarak to the Muslim readers, after observing a month of Ramadan! During the month, I know I've done a lot of things within that timespan including the revisions of my final paper. Beyond that, I've been doing a lot of things that I should made the blog post of but I'll see whether I can take the opportunity or not, but it should be possible. To give you a hint, I have done a couple of games and I might try either covering the game or something more interesting than that, trying to make a creation from those games for example.

Every 3D Car Making Attempt, Ever

Choose your fighter!

A long time ago, it was actually started as a project to fill up my own inventory for use with Mike Nike's TSR Replayer tool which would allow custom 3D models to be used in the tool. This TSR Replayer tool would turn a Turbo Sliders Recording file into a 3D experience, as the past videos showed during the last F1 World Championship season. This of course motivated me to make my own models, but after a while, I realized that it's really fun. I mean, real fun, something so fun, you'd learn things off of video tutorials and do things with the blueprints you've saved, which has been what I did recently.

With the little to no signs of activity in my top down racing game communities, I have decided to immerse myself in Blender car making with one goal in mind: low-poly cars, considering that I'm still a beginner and, as a big bonus, they can come handy as game assets for making my own game, top down racing games especially. That said, I've started at bottom first: the basic low poly car video tutorial which gave me a car with a cartoon-esque shape, but I put my own spin at the end. The next couple of tries were a series of tests to "make it right" with a couple of car types, and ultimately harnessing the next-level texturing which would give even a low poly model an edge and a classic feel, just like in classic video games.

The Precious Four Laps

Well, this would actually make up for a short post as I don't have much updates going on at the moment. However, last Wednesday (last week Wednesday, as in... April 23) should actually be one of the precious days for me. I know that I started off a day with not-so-good condition, even worse, but not that I have a sickness or anything. It would have anything to do with family matters, but that's about it as I won't go further than that.

Rendy's Car Skinning Life Ep 06: Reboot, Improve

I don't know what's happening with me but suddenly thoughts of skinning in TMUF got the best of me amidst my activities. While I've been sitting on couple competitions and the Fashion Week, it was a domino effect that actually led to a positive progress. Why? Here's a thing: it all actually started when I was going to make something as close as the Formula Gran Turismo in Gran Turismo 4 with whatever modern-day Formula car available on the TrackMania Carpark due to the fact that I couldn't resist after seeing tons of Gran Turismo F1500T-A skins on Gran Turismo Sport and that I don't have PS4 yet.

While I managed to create a simple skin with only one color to work on, I also decided to improve another WIP skin of mine: remember the Wayhaught MP4-12C GT3 from the previous post of the series? The skin has been improved in terms of sponsor stickers and numberplates which will also serve as the new numberplate for my skinning projects. I've been watching two seasons of Wynonna Earp and realized that maybe the car wasn't Earper enough for a skin that revolves around Wynonna Earp references, among other things. Other than that, the new numberplate and a special Aston Martin Vantage GTE project are also present.

An Applied Coefficient System to... Movies and TV Series?

First of all, Happy New Year!

(Image: Best Animations)

To start off this year, I am presenting you a rather unique system to determine the season's best in movies and TV based on award shows. I know I've introduced this on my fandom blog, but I thought it's a better idea to introduce this here as well. The main motivation was that I was trying to craft a new system which would override the old system I had whose progress I post on the fandom blog. The old system in question awards "Championship" points in two ways: award shows, where points are given for wins in main categories, acting categories, and technical categories (for movies and TV) in addition to the nominations they receive, then translated into the "Championship" points based on the said wins in total (only those with at least one category win can score point here); and polling competitions, where points are given based on bracket placements and final percentages, usually only involving television shows, and shows outside the eligibility criteria for the system will not be classified for any point.