Its not bad enough that I have to hear all the bullshit from dickheads in the community saying things like my group will fail, or I bring false promises, and shit like that, but to take things one step further and leak a beta from a group out of your own personal spite is just fucken plain stupid. Yep, you guessed it folks, the MMG 2.3.1 beta was leaked on Megaupload by yours truly, Danny Davison and Darius Trinka. How nice of them to even boast it on their msn and also post it on some german forums. I had Megaupload remove the link though which is good that they helped, but spending the last three days having to deal with this shit, along with having to check the staff forum to find out which account they used to access the forum, is just fucken wrong. At least today I was able to find out what account they used and removed the priveledges, so I guess they won't be too happy, oh boo hoo fucken hoo to them. If anyone thinks I am going to be detered from running this group by a bunch of fucken morons, you got another thing coming. I have seen a lot in my day as a mod group leader, nothing deters me.
But it did fucken annoy me, having only a week left till release of the 07 mod, I had to spend three fucken days fixing that bullshit instead of working on the mod. Thankfully however, the mod is still progressing great and is still on time, with some added features we didn't expect to be ready in time. But I will go through those below.
You know. I've been called many things in my time. First I was called a nutcase because I said I would attempt the creation of the 1950 - 2000 mod when it first began, and then the last year always advanced with each year.
I was called many names over the years, and people believed the vision to be impossible.
The vision may seem impossible, but in reality, its only impossible to those who don't want to undertake the tast to make it happen and share the same vision. A vision like this is wanted by any REAL F1 fan, and being a REAL F1 fan, I thought I'd muster the courage to attempt it. Instead, I've been abused and flamed because of trying to attempt such.
MMG is now readying the release of its first mod without problems from deserters, the 2007 F1 mod, which everyone involved including league admins and partners think is a top class mod. We hope the community will feel the same way. However, only those inside MMG, including the league admins now, really know the real work MMG has put in. Any league admin who has been given access can tell you that there are so many mods in the MMG staff forum being worked on that you guys don't know about. You guys have lots to expect from 2008 onwards out of MMG. A hell of a lot!
I built MMG with the hopes to unite modders who shared this vision, to work together on a common goal, to help strengthen the modding community, and create a dream into reality. For this I am labelled a liar, a leader spreading false hopes and false information. Sighs, what must I do? cause to tell you the truth, it fucken beats the hell out of me what those flamers want out of me.
Today I began my day with speaking to Phil Sousa and Vayapelasoo in regards to the MMG 2007 Mod Intro Movie. We discussed what music to use, and the direction we wanted for the intro movie. Phil then continued his work for the next beta of which he was able to finish today and get sent to me.
The new beta includes all the cars, the MMG menu's, the first five tracks of the season, and some more little nitbits I won't talk about here just yet. :P Hey I gotta make you all bite your fingernails in anticipation, this after all the final 5 days before release :P HAHA
After I was done with Phil and Vayapelasoo, there wasn't anyone online from the group that I needed to talk to so I continued chatting with Phil. We had some interesting discussions concerning the AI for the mod. Phil has achieved some extraordinary results with the AI and wishes to go one step further with a unique system he wants to get finished in time. He is working hard at it and I think single player mod players will have something to be awed at.
We also talked about some of the Tracks, and things that have been updated on his behalf. I must say, Phil is doing some very hard work on the tracks which is extraordinary.
By the time Phil went to bed it was dinner time for me. I hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch at all today, so I went into the kitchen and made some quick Ham, Cheese and Tomato sandwiches to kill the hunger, and then I was back to work.
Raymond had come online by that time as had F1Racer. I chatted with F1Racer in regards to a little project he has going for MMG which I will not elaborate on further here. I then spoke with Raymond who showed me the progress of the Liuzzi helmet which was actually finished by a league admin who joined MMG and offered his services to help. Its nice to see that our opening to league admins has also opened the door to acquiring talented modders we didn't know existed.
You can view the template for the renault driver suit below...
We are creating each drivers suit, each driver will have their unique suit with their name on it, including the MMG Driver model which does has arms which will be optional to be viewed in the cockpit, but they are unmovable arms, they do not move.
I then spoke with Albert McSaltens about the 1991 mod. We have great progression in the mod. The demo sounds are now with me and we have organized for Sandrox to finish up the dash and rev lights for the demo cars, and soon enough we'll be able to release a demo. I don't know dates exactly yet, but we are progressing well. We have a lot of things planned and Albert, Antonio and Butch have been working very hard. So a big round of applause for those guys.
This is going back to yesterday but I spoke with Antonio last night to organize some sort of sound pack to be done for the 07 mod release. We may not have all engines done in time, but we will have at least one engine sound by Antonio (our 1991 mod sounds guy) which will be used by all cars if all the engine sounds arn't done in time.
So the good news is we can move off those ISI engine sounds.
I then spoke with Justin Time, who helps us with the car references and ensuring the cars are accurate. We discussed the rev lights and ensuring not only the colours are corrected but the way they light up according to the revs is fixed also. It will be fixed in time.
I also spoke to Juandi who showed me the progression of the Safety Car which should be finished tomorrow. Things are going really well with that too. Juandi is doing a stunning job to paint it and I should have some shots for you guys in tomorrow's blog post.
Also spoke with some MMG partners today which turned out really well, and also my daily chat with Racestart F1 Website webmaster, Maurice.
It has been a very tiring, and busy time within MMG the last few days, and with the release approaching, things are going really well. I hope you all enjoyed todays post, stay tuned for tomorrow's news.
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