My latest animation from Universe at War

Fuh, after a weekend of compiling and rendering all the animations, they are finally done and uploaded to my website. Just go to the animation gallery and you can see them there. These are just the better ones from a ton more that I have animated in the game. I pretty much did all the characters, 20+. Also, they are all meant to be viewed from top angle like many RTS game, so it may look weird close up like this.

Also, I have some new ones, that are work in progress. They are actually my best animation to date, unfortunately, I am not allowed to show them yet, sorry for teasing, hehe.

And yes, I also figured out how to embed the FLV in to my website, yippee!! I think they work better and also nicer presentation wise. I will try to convert all my previous videos to this format. That will have to come later. I need a break now... its already 12.30am Monday. Time to get some zzz.

Blu ray is the future

I am so glad the HD format war is finally over! For those of you that care, its been a long painful competition that only frustrates and confuses every movie buff out there. Warner finally decided to go blu exclusively to deal the death blow to HD DVD camp, like my friend John Dumbrow had predicted. Strangely, even my wife has told me this last month about blu's victory, hehe. So what is left now is for retailers and manufacturers to all jump in and support only Blu ray products. This will help bring the cost down and also expand the film library for this format. Nevertheless, its a good day for all of us. Finally I can look forward to watch Ratatoille and all the other great shows in 1080p. I hope all movie studios speed things up releasing all the AAA titles asap. All of us are ready and have been waiting for you..

Xbox live is retarded!

So I finally receive my copy of Universe at War. I was excited to play it in my home pc. So I started installing it, everything went allright. When its done, I start the game. It doesn't want to start. Instead, it froze my pc. Tried this 3 more times, even shut down my Spyware Doctor. Still failed. Then I put the game cd into another drive, and voila, it works.

In the main menu, it says theres an update for the game, I clicked no, not wanting to waste more time. But it was nice to know of this feature in the main menu. Then up comes the Xbox live prompt... sigh.

So I clicked yes, I have a Live ID and tried entering it. Then it tried to download profile. Screen freezes for a few minute. Then up comes a new prompt, asking to update Live, or else, I can't sign in. so I have no choice but forced to click yes, because I want to login so to obtain game achievements. So it tried to download an update that took a while. Then the game exit to windows and tried to run a new Live package, ending up crashing my computer!

One and half hour later, no luck signing in to Live. I can run the game fine, but can't sign in, so no achievements.

This is so ridiculous!

Updates:
Our programmer expert, Brian, told me to go download the Live package manually and removed the current version in my pc. I did and it finally worked! Still, I never had any problem with PC games before... Live for Windows has a long long way to go.