by goldenboy » Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:41 pm
Mine are usually like, "oh, let's wander off and do a Doom 3 mod." "Oh, why not remake Hexen 2's Blackmarsh." "Oh hey, why not map for STALKER/Crysis/someotherprettygame." "Oh, why not mod Mount & Blade."
Basically, I get tempted into making some easy, quick pretty stuff. Instead of, you know, coding an RPG from scratch and slogging away on giant levels etc.
Also: "Oh hey, let's make something with Unity. It must be good right?" And then a couple days later, after realizing all the things I cannot do with that, I sit and softly shake my head.
It has become less and less though, since I can do pretty much everything I could do in those other games in my own game now. So I might as well put the time into that.
To be honest I also usually run into limitations in other games pretty quickly. I spent 10 hours one day trying to trigger a chaingunner to walk through a door in Doom 3, and said "screw that." I noticed that no Hexen 2 map compilers could compile my Hexen 2 map anymore, and people tried to blame me. I said "screw that." I noticed that Unity can't reliably make holes in terrain, and that the free version doesn't have occlusion culling or pretty water. I said "screw that, too."
I'm actually pretty comfy with my stuff atm. My recent temptation is to get SJ running in Darkplaces one day, but to be honest DP is just different enough from FTE that there is actual porting required in some cases, and that means extra effort.
I'm not terribly tempted by anything out there anymore. I do think "oh it would be nice to mod this or that" but it goes away after a while. Especially once you see that other games/engines/software are just cooking with water, too. We have particles in FTE. We have terrain, physics, CSQC, ragdolls, and all the other crap. I don't need some other software for that. We have GLSL in FTE so if I want depth of field, I damn well better sit down and code it. And one day I will. I hope.
I have Blender. I don't need any magical content generation software, because what I have lets me do what I want. Yes, it takes lots of effort. Anything worthwhile does. No magic bullets out there.