GDC Conference Associate

I recently applied for an associate position at the Game Developers Conference 2009 in San Francisco, CA. They've accepted me, and I couldn't be more thrilled! I was already planning on attending GDC, and now it will be an even deeper experience and I can't wait to meet all the interesting people and be informed of exciting news in the game industry. Here's a link to the GDC homepage: http://www.gdconf.com

Skeletal Mesh Animations in the Unreal Editor

Not too long ago, I found a tutorial from the Unreal 3 forums on how to import custom animations. I decided to use this for the WWII plane that I previously modeled, as I am now going to be mostly in charge of getting the B24 project running correctly in Unreal 3. I managed to get the skeletal mesh of the plane and custom animations in, but setting up an animation tree seemed to prove tricky. I was controlling animations from within kismet, which is a really roundabout way of doing it and not advisable random animations. Here's how the plane looks (I also went back and removed a lot of unnecessary tessellations and faces to reduce the poly count).





Recently, I have been looking at Uscript and have been starting to get the hang of it more. I am working on a new mod with about eight other people, and I am in charge of level design, programming, some concept art, and some environment assets. I really look forward to how it will come out. I recently updated my website with a floorplan of the level I will be working on; the project is currently called "Overrun."