My book was published on the 18th of Feb. This is a companion guide to anyone wanting to learn how to use GROME. It also covers plugins and scripts for exporting to other game engines. GROME is kind of like Photoshop for terrain.
Now available from Amazon US: http://amzn.to/UCXeQH
And in the UK: http://amzn.to/12GRoRZ
I want to quote from the forward at the beginning of the book as it's addressed (in part) to you guys:
Finally, a big thank you to the simulation community, SimHQ, and various individuals that continue to be supportive in the face of my endless and annoying prevarication and distractions (of which this book is but one of them). Sorry!
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
You can also buy direct from the publisher which may still have it at the pre-order discount here:
http://www.packtpub.com/grome-terrain-modeling-with-ogre3d-udk-unity3d/book
GROME is a product of Quad Software and available here:
http://www.quadsoftware.com/index.php
It uses the Graphite Engine which comes as an SDK with every GROME license. Streaming and paging comes as standard, originally designed for use in an MMO.
Now that project is over and done with, Combat-Helo development will now resume in earnest. Watch this space.
p.s. Thanks again all.
Congratulations on your book Rich!
ReplyDeleteWould be great to see some news on CH development soon.
Im joining the congrats! Im glad You made it happen.
ReplyDeleteWell done!
ReplyDeleteI've been following for four years now, I'm sure there are many just like me. Checking up on the blog every few weeks is just something we do now. Keep up the good work, and keep at it!
Also, check out the AH-64E, sick!
great stuff! i like the the excerpt from you book! will be watching this space indeed
ReplyDeleteJeepers, CH has been in development so long even the real Apache has been upgraded :/
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DeleteThey're calling it the "Guardian". Not a fan. I suppose its appropriate. It's pretty cool though, control UAVs, etc. Interesting stuff. Of course that just sets up issues where a young CPG starts flying to an interesting dot (his aircraft!!) on the horizon with the UAV and has a midair with himself.
DeleteTo the last generation of real combat pilots! Cheers!
Well done with the book, can't wait to see some news about combat-helo though!!
ReplyDeleteYup, busy on that. Working on a new build to show off mid May.
DeleteSome footage is being shown on the Leadwerks stand at GDC this year (right now) but nothing you haven't seen before.
I,m sorry , but i,m giving up on Combathelo . I just dont believe anything real will come out of this. Sorry
ReplyDeleteI,m sure it has the potentential to because what it was supposed to be but it would take an extremely long time to ever get what the team invisioned in the first place. But it might take so long to finish this project that a big dev team will step in and take over before Combathelo is ever finished.
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