http://www.machinimafordummies.com/articles/2007/12/04/new-engines-for-christmas en-us 40 Blogging the writing of "Machinima For Dummies" <p>It&#8217;s CHRIIIIISTMAS! (or it will be soon)</p> <p>And there are new and exciting engines crawling out of the woodwork left, right and center. </p> <p>First up, Ricky Grove has written a piece on <a href="http://machiniplex3.blogspot.com/2007/12/gears-of-war-unreal-3-1-good-game-2.html">persuading the Unreal Engine 3 editor to work</a>, both with Gears of War (fail) and Unreal Tournament 3 (pass). It&#8217;s an interesting read, and includes links to some great resources too. I&#8217;ve had a look at the U3 editor myself, and there&#8217;s some real power in there. </p> <p>Secondly, Cinemassively points us to this <a href="http://www.massively.com/2007/12/03/cinemassively-specials-potbs-machinima-preview/">Machinima trailer for Pirates of the Burning Sea</a>. Very impressive stuff - nice swashbuckling swordfighting animation, some truly awesome ship combat, and what looks a lot like a lipsynched character. I forsee a lot of pirate Machinima coming out, probably starting with the PotBS open beta, <a href="http://www.burningsea.com/page/news/article&amp;article_id=10483">which will open on December 7th</a>. </p> <p>So that&#8217;s four engines at least we need to cover: Halo 3, Source, Unreal 3 and PotBS, plus the updated Moviestorm tutorial. We&#8217;ll be getting into those in the new year. </p> <p>Of course, time is always an issue. Just out of interest - would any of our noble readers be interested in a subscription-based service, where we promise to deliver MfD-the-book-quality content every month or so, in exchange for a small number of your pennies? It&#8217;s no more than an idea at this point, but it would potentially allow us to spend more time developing quality Machinima tutorials. </p> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:51:00 +0000 urn:uuid:a109a096-6ebf-4834-8483-677a920c1f77 Hugh "Nomad" Hancock http://www.machinimafordummies.com/articles/2007/12/04/new-engines-for-christmas Tips and lists http://www.machinimafordummies.com/articles/trackback/13728 <p>Sorry about that - I&#8217;ve been meaning to post since I heard the news a couple of days ago. My bad - I&#8217;ve made a post about Antics v3 today (5th December 2007).</p> Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:51:14 +0000 urn:uuid:2cf41347-d99b-4f34-b65a-20b736064ef5 http://www.machinimafordummies.com/articles/2007/12/04/new-engines-for-christmas#comment-13737 <p>I&#8217;m surprised you haven&#8217;t mentioned in this blog that Antics now has a free version. Over at <a href="http://www.antics3d.com" rel="nofollow">www.antics3d.com</a> you can grab a copy.</p> Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:31:26 +0000 urn:uuid:246e2226-0522-42fa-9555-d79c799b73c6 http://www.machinimafordummies.com/articles/2007/12/04/new-engines-for-christmas#comment-13735