Thanks mate but it's the "small things in life" that most interest me. Maybe, after I've had a break, I'll think more on the subject and see where I go from there. I'm really hampered since my 30 day trial of max ended. I was really getting into Max so I'm a bit limited in the scale od my work.
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Actually when I say the small things in life what I really mean are the fine detailing or to put it another way, the attention to small historic details, that most often gets ommitted from games. I know that a new vehicle is much more "sexy" but I'm driven (excuse the pun
) over the years by the smaller things. My work on MAT Manager was all about trying to put some historically accurate markings into the IL-2 series games. Likewise plus superdetailing the skins with the multi-skin bomber work for WOV. My mods for SH3 were all about detail again, adding things that were missing from the game. IMHO it is the small details that add much to the immersion possibly as much the bigger details.
What folks never see are all the hours that I spend modding and re-modding until I'm happy that I've done the best that I can do, "perfectionist", yes, "perfection", no. I'll never claim that my mods can't be bettered, of course they can, there's always someone who knows better and is more skilled thn oneself but I do however claim that I've done the best that I can with my current skill-set. At heart I'm probably happiest working with 2D stuff, textures and suchlike but I've enjoyed working in 3D as well. I've lost count on how many skin versions I've gone through with this mod and my previous 251 mod, I often produce many tweaked or altered versions a day before I arrive at what I consider as the finished article. Hope this all makes sense
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I guess there are few who casually play the game that really care much about the small details and, why should they?. Differing from game to game of course but the ratio between those that notice and/or care about small details to those that don't is probably highly in favour of those that don't. My passion has always been WW2 military history since I was a kid growing up in the early sixties, especially Wehrmacht equipment, books and models and then computers and games/sims came along. When I see something missing or wrong it just "grates" and starts me thinking "could I do something about it?", I guess it is just the way that I'm wired
and there's not a "m odder" out there, present company included, that doesn't know that "buzz" when something comes together, something that wasn't there yesterday but is today.
