I'm still going full steam ahead. Though things are taking longer than expected development wise [read delay in BETA]. The physics and AI aspects need more work so I'm spending hours a day working on that, trying to get things to be the best they can.

So far Ageia's PhysX vehicles seem to be many times more stable than with Newton or any of the other physics-libs I've integrated. With a few more days of work it should be looking great...can finally get some drive-bys goin' on, and some action. I'm going to do these great looking car models some justice, physics/simulation wise.

Also, I'm literally surrounded by test computers and large monitors at the moment...it's kind of freaky. I've spend probably well over 10k-15k on new hardware etc...I have many brand new high-end / low-end test machines all on one gigabit network switch and KVMed through two of my monitors...including this monstrous Samsung 30" that makes the lights in my house flicker.

Seriously. I sit in a brand new black leather Lazy-Boy all day staring into a picture frame of a monitor @ 2560x1600...I can now never go back to regular office chairs, and 15" monitors. I got a couple of quad core machines, Dual-core AMD 64s and Core-duo Intels, and some old-school single core Intels. The whole gamut of video cards from ATI/NVIDIA...RAM ranges from 4GB to 1GB. I now have 11 new (as in purchased for my company/project) computers in my fleet...it's pretty cool to see them all arrayed.

They will be helpful in testing multiplayer locally, and for eliminating hardware issues. The way I see it, the more machines I can get my grubby paws on, the better off I am.

I'm also renting high end dedicated machines & hosting in London, Dallas, and Atlanta to handle the game's servers. Though I still have a T1 here in Raleigh to act as the Master Server.

I will take some pictures of this scene soon, it's interesting.

Anyways, here are the screens of the new weapons...I want to have videos of the 'new Ageia PhysX' car physics soon.

- Danny