In addition to the simple walls and floors, I've decided to add other tile types. Also I've completed a fairly simply texture contouring process that will allow more detain into maps, behold.

Well after managing to score some time to work on things, I managed to nearly complete the male npc model. I decided to take a different route then when I firsted made the model and instead of building it off one object and composed it of several.

I've finished the basics of the mapping engine. Now the U3d version is up to speed with the original, fake shading and roofs have been implemented.

I'm taking a week off of work starting tomorrow, yay. Although I have nothing really planned for that week, its like getting a week off of school…much needed.

I was outside killing my lungs late last night, and I was marveling at the coolness of some clouds passing by the full moon when I got a idea…

Started working with bump mapping effects on U3d recently, so far the results are nice.

I've finished reinventing the map building system, auto-contouring adjacent and similar tiles based on type and texture.

Well I couldn't get the internal modeling aspect to get off the ground in U3d, so instead I'm making the individual tiles in pieces, much like a tile map for rpgmaker with its auto contouring system.

So I downloaded three 3d wrappers for gm, GMI, Ultimate3d and Extreme3d to look through what functions and commands they poses.

I download anim8tor, a nicely portable program even if its not the most powerful modeler. Its free and fairly simple.