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Tera CP Video

Now that we at UK2 Group have release the Tera CP for 10tb.com I can post here a short video I made about it.

Kasia from the UK2 did the voice-over, we did not had a mic, so we used the built-in one on my MacBook Pro, I was afraid the quality would be bad, but in the end her voice was nice and clear.

Enjoy :)

New Video Cam: Sanyo Xacti HD2000

Today I received the new HD camera I bought on Friday, I was quite surprised, as I bought it from Honk Kong .. 3 days (weekend) to get here, and not customs charge … nice.

Since we are off on holiday to Paris next month, I wanted a new video camera to use there, when I read this one also took 8MP photos, I was hooked, plus the pistol grip style and small format, it was a winning combination.

But I had to wait 2 months for it, as it was announced on january, but just released a week or so ago :)

Preliminary tests show the quality is amazing, I was a bit afraid of the lack of Optical Stabilization, but the digital stabilizer seems to do a good job, so I will stop worrying about it and just enjoy the camera.

Also saved 150 quid over the UK price :D (not that you can buy it in the UK yet)


MindMap

Ditlev introduced me to MindMap and now I am hooked.
I try a few different programs, but in the end decided to use the same App as everybody else in the office “MindJet MindManager”, the reason for me to start using it was I noticed that I was keeping way too much info on my head, I needed to start writing down some of the stuff I am working on, especially the Tera and VPS.NET projects, so once I started writing them down in a mindmap, it was just like releasing it from the back of your mind, felt good actually, less clutter in the noggin.
As I always say, every day you learn something new :)


Liver & Bacon

There is a small eatery next to the office that does the best L&B ever.. Dirt cheap too, me and Everaldo have lunch there almost daily.

Why I love Sally …

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This is a good example of why I love my wife .. she manages to find new way to make me chuckle.

Take the conversation above, it is Friday, normally today I arrive from London to spend the weekend at home, so on the text above she is asking me where am I, and she is surprised I am already at home, she did not heard me come in, she is also not thinking of the fact she is at the moment in the only computer in the house (well, there are others, but they media centers), regardless, she proceeds to ask me to put some mozarela in the Lasagna she is cooking and makes sure I did it (like all wifes do)

No problem .. right ?

Wrong, that is not me, she is telling a total stranger over the web to go sprinkle cheese on a lasagna, the person even apologizes to her for coming into the house and not making itself noted ..

She then went downstairs, saw “I” did not put the cheese on the Lasagna, cant find me, proceeds to call me (I’m at the train station at this time, mind you) and yell at me for not doing what she asked … (at that moment I tough she had finally lost it and it was time to commit her to an asylum)

It seems when she added me (and gave the nick “Hubby”) she forgot 2 characters on my username, so she was bossing around some poor soul over the web, who is now probably now asking his own spouse “where is the lasagna ?

Yep, you gotta love Sally :D

Tera CP is coming …

For a long while now, we have been working on a new Control Panel for the UK2 Group called Tera CP.

This new CP is unlike anything myself or anybody else has done before  .. it’s a new dynamic experience (not the boring, static content of yesterday), and it will blow users (and competition) away.

I am extremely excited about it, and with the Public Beta coming next week, I cannot yet say more about it (it’s ben hard enough to keep my mouth shut until now), but sometime next week I will post some screenines when we release it ;)

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Robot Scene Work

Tonight I spent some time adjusting the light on the robot scene, the textures also did not felt right last tim I render it, so I adjusted some of it’s size and falloff

Also fine tuned a few elements, the glasses frame was too rough, not it’s using sub-d’s and looking much better.

Still more work to be done, too bad Modo does not have IK

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Back to London

I’m in the train going back to London for another week of work.

I can’t believe a week has passes already since I last posted on tweeter the same thing.

Time sure flies, I take solisse in the knowing I have Brazilian feijoada waiting for me in London … Yummy !!!

Robot Update

Tonight I managed to start some of the texturing on the Robot, unfortunately Modo is still proving unstable at times, it crashed a couple of times on me.

Texturing in Modo, I cant say it’s hard, but I prefer the way lightwave does it, hopefully with the upcoming versions it will get better, I was also a bit disappointed with the lack of “Glow”.

Next I will try painting on the textures, to give it a bit of an worn-off look in some areas, I still need to make the belt, tools and more detailing, but it’s getting there

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Robot 2

Today I managed to create the arms and the hands/claws of the mascot, next I ned to create the antenna and start texturing, I’m also not happy with the rings, so will work on those later.

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