{"id":10,"date":"2011-03-25T07:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=10"},"modified":"2011-03-25T07:46:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:46:24","slug":"gdc-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"GDC 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware visited GDC 2011 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game Developer Conference<\/a>) pre-Pax, and the footage is finally becoming available online (well, some of it).\u00c2\u00a0 Bioware made a couple of presentations there one is included in the now available for download content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first presentation was &#8220;Advanced Visual Effects with Directx 11&#8243;\u00c2\u00a0 this panel was actually a whole bunch of game\/video card peeps each talking about a little portion.\u00c2\u00a0 The link to the Bioware (Andreas Papathanasis) portion doesn&#8217;t seem to be posted, but if you&#8217;re in to DX11 programming the ones that are posted might be worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bioware&#8217;s &#8220;Cinematic Character Lighting in Star Wars The Old Republic&#8221; is, however up for download from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/free\/gdc-11\" target=\"_blank\">gdcvault.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s up in a couple of formats, the one that is the most awesome, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/play\/1014361\/Cinematic-Character-Lighting-in-STAR\" target=\"_blank\">Keypoint<\/a> version, as it actually includes some video clip of in-game footage, while showing how BW did some of the lighting effects.\u00c2\u00a0 Also available, are the less awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/play\/1014362\/Cinematic-Character-Lighting-in-STAR\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/play\/1014363\/Cinematic-Character-Lighting-in-STAR\" target=\"_blank\">Powerpoint<\/a> versions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also worth a glance at, but not posted for download (or, from Bioware) is Cryptic Studio&#8217;s &#8220;Ultimate Customizability in Character Creation&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 For all the problems STO has had, it&#8217;s character generation is very good.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s on the gdcvault.com site, with a big &#8220;play now&#8221; button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware visited GDC 2011 (Game Developer Conference) pre-Pax, and the footage is finally becoming available online (well, some of it).\u00c2\u00a0 Bioware made a couple of presentations there one is included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=10\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}