Tobibrocki

Hey everyone,

sorry I've been so mute lately, thing is, I have a pretty busy time at the moment (work, small spare time, you know the drill). When I come home it's usually straight to bed, maybe an Anime/Cartoon Episode before that and that's my day pretty much. So, sorry that I have not been able to draw much (or at all) the last few weeks.

Currently I'm also trying to save up cash for a new tablet, I'm not sure which one I'll be able to get but I hope it'll be at least a little bit bigger than my Bamboo. I have been browsing Amazon and other sites to see what's out there and I've seen Wacom's Cintiq 13HD tablet. It has a very nice price for a Cintiq, a full HD display at 13.3 Inches and I heard it's pretty robust. I have included it in my list of possible tablets I could potentially save up enough for. 
In general I have noticed a (fairly recent) HUGE increase in products of the Built-in-Monitor-Pen-Tablets (like the Cintiq) sector from other manufacturers, usually at a fraction of the cost one would have to pay for a Cintiq. Right now I have not come across a "Cintiq killer" though, they all seem to be lacking in a few departments to the point where most are rather uninteresting for me still. Either the resolution is really low, the pen has a battery, cables are to messy or the screen has bad viewing angles amongst other things. The Monoprice 19" Pen Tablet Display seems like a good option though, at only 400 Dollars and with a (from what I heard) more accurate Digitizer than Wacom's a pretty good value overall, it's screen has bad viewing angles though and the stylus requires a charger (but a battery charge is supposed to last a long time). Definitely the best value I've seen so far.
I'm actually glad the market is expanding with more cheaper options, competition is good for business and Wacom (as much as I like their products) have had a monopoly going on for far to long and their prices could be a bit more affordable. I think this competition is only going to lead to products with better prices and in the end, we as customers can only benefit from that development.

All in all I'm not sure what I'm going to be able to afford in the end, but it's always good to have a few options on the table to choose from, so yeah, that's all I wanted to say for now. Not sure when I'll be able to pick up the pen again to do some regular drawing and stuff (like I said, busy busy busy), but when I do it'll show up here like in the past.

Cheers guys! =3

Just wanted to quickly inform everyone here that as of today I have a new Harddrive that I will install in my computer very very soon (probably today even) and that because of this, new pictures and work on models will have to be delayed for probably a week until I have this system in fully working order again.
This is absolutely necessary btw. my Computer is as slow as a slug, it takes over 10 minutes for it to be usable once I hit the power button and I have barely any space free (right now I have 10 GB of free space left on a 1TB HDD), and a simple reinstall of the OS won't do me any good either since I don't want to delete a majority of stuff just to get a few gigs of space again.

Hopefully this will also improve performance for games a little! ^^

The New Harddrive is a Western Digital "Blue" WD10EZEX, its again a 1 TB Capacity one and has 64MB of Cache on board. My current Samsung one that came with this PC has lasted me for 4 years and still does, but I feel it's time to upgrade before it starts to fail on me one day.

Only one thing left for me to figure out, I wanna connect the new one as a primary (master) Harddrive and the old Samsung one, at least temporarily, as a secondary (slave) one so I can grab all my stuff from it over the configuration period.

With that said, I hope you guys will understand.

So PUMPED!

The stream is still running at the time I'm writing this but the UT portion is already over, and I feel like writing a journal for this.

So a new Unreal Tournament has been officially announced, it will be a game developed by the Unreal Engine 4 User Community and will be overseen/directed by Epic Games at the helm. No game exists at this point in time since development literally starts TODAY!
The game will be free to download and play, though make no mistake, it won't be a F2P (Free-2-Play) title with microtransactions and stuff, it will literally be 100% FREE. The game will however include a market place where modders and independant developers will be able to post their optional content (mods, maps, player models, etc.) for free download or they can charge money for their work if they so desire. Epic will get a percentage of these sales on said marketplace and thats how they are going to pay for the game, the marketplace and charging money for ones content is completely optional though so I personally expect a lot of free content to choose from there.
Additionally the game will have no final build or final version since it will be a title that is going to be developed continuously with no end in sight, so we can expect to see regular updates happening.

There is not really much else to say at this point other than that it will be quite a while until a first alpha will come out. Also it's doubtful that a free version of the Unreal Engine 4 Editor will be made available for the larger crowd that just wants to do basic things, nothing has been said in regards to that yet though.

Last but not least, the games title will be "Unreal Tournament". Nothing else, just that, it was stated in the Livestream that most people know the original UT as UT99 and that this game wouldn't cause much confusion in that regard. We'll have to see about that, maybe once the game is progressing more a new title might pop up, we'll see, but for now, its just UT.

And thats all, I can't wait to see what direction this project will take in the coming months as it gets off the ground.

Hey everyone,