Posts Tagged ‘hype’

Rob Bennett (no relation to Tony) over at UselessCreations has put together a 3D screen saver with Spider-Man as the main character. While this may sounds like Spider hype with the movie fast approaching, the interesting thing is that Rob used The Sims as the basis for his creation. It started when Rob found a cool Spider-Man skin for the Sims. After being a little snuffed by the skin creators, he put together his own and began looking at the character file format for the 3D mesh information. It wasn’t hard to figure out so he put together a little key-frame type animation program of his own and thus his screen saver had life. I find it interesting yet another outlet has made use of The Sims. Maybe you can take the animations Rob created and put them back into the game (you’ll have to get them from him first as they’re not included in the screensaver). It would be pretty slick to see Spidey crawling around on the walls of your game. I installed the screensaver and it’s pretty cute. The animations are a little rough as Spidey looks like he’s diving into a pool (where did that animation come from??) when he leaps off a building but he does run, jump and swing around in a downtown environment. A fast 3D card is required but you shouldn’t have too many problems with it. Anyways, you can find the screensaver page here where you can download it.

Hi guys. I had a plan to get everything complete by today but as usual (I don’t even wanna hear it, so stop right now) time wasn’t on my site. However, to quelch all the rumors, this site is NOT going pay, subscription or otherwise. I have always made a promise to provide free Sims tools at the cost of my own time and this has and never will change. So you stop thinking about that right now too. Having said that, yes there are some major changes both to the site and the programs but I’m not going to get into it right now. Why? I don’t want to commit anything to record until everything is complete and in place. There have been hints dropped and perhaps some rumors flying around and I’ve even heard discussions about what’s going on in the chat rooms. Just give me a couple of days to get everything in sync and we’ll be good to go. Sorry about any anticipation you guys are subject to. Yes, some of this just hype but in the end, blueprint will become a great “resource” to the Sims community. Catcha later.