Welcome to Skate Zilla Studios!!
Here you'll find my 3d Projects, Videos and Pictures
Update December 25th, 2008 - I Haven't had time to actively maintain my website for about a Year now, as evident by the many outdated sections, and sections that have remained disabled since the SQL Server transition in 2007, I've been either working at my job, or working on projects some known, some still kept under wraps until permission is given to reveal, but for the time being this site will not be updated for a while and possibly shutdown upon web-host re-newal time, I am actively updating the community of my progress with known projects at both message boards at CombatAce.com and SimHQ.com
Thanks For Stopping By Skate Zilla HD Studios
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 | | Site News: Video Card Returns..... Back to working on 3d Projects! |
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 My Video Card Finally returned (actually it was a completly different one, but hey, its the same model and its running awesome), shut down my PC installe dhte sucker, did a little cleaning while I was inside the case.
Im now trying to catch up on the month and a half of 3d Work that I missed while waiting for the card to be fixed. I have alot of notes and stuff from looking over reference pictures on the CVN, so I have a few changes to make and alot of random things I want to tweak.
Since Theres Room for more pictures, I'll prolly get the camera and go take some random pictures this next few weeks. My internet lately has been randomly losing speed (going from 10,000 mbit down/2,000up to 1,200 down, 800 up), which is kinda irratating, ..... I might need to do a rounds of the external service entrance, I think something may have happened to it during hte storm Monday.
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Well .. what can I say... the fan on my Ati All In Wonder 9600XT died... sounds absolutely horrid..... loud grinding sound... anyway... The card is removed from my system and getting packaged up to send to Ati Support to replace the fan, until then my video editing, 3d Modeling, games, and stuff are all on hold, the VGA Adapter built onto this systems motherboard is the weakest piece or poo you've ever seen.. trust me...
Update: December 06, 2006
ATi acknowledged my problem and Im preparing the card for shipping,
however, the situation has become more complicated, after running an errand, i came home to a bubble "WRITE DELAY FAILED ON DEVICE" so, i immediately checked the event viewer to find that the ENTIRE IDE01 (Secondary) Channel had switched off... Both the Hard disk and the DVDRom Linked to it where no longer listed in the Windows Disk Manager, and i had about 10-15 disk/atapi warnings/errors, I Don't know if this is just a random error or not, but its very nerve racking. The Hard disk in question only contained Windows Vista Beta so, and is most likely in tact.
Apon Rebooting, the system returned to a "lagged" state... the startup and shutdown wavs stuttered when playing and the mouse cursor would pause every second or so.... no errors in the event viewer though, Im starting to think something on the Main board is messing up, So... As Soon as I Can, All My Max Projects will be backed up to DVD-RW as a pre-precaution (in case all the Hard disks get messed up),
So Things I can think of:
I Added a Case Fan and the Harddisk Vista was installed on a month ago. Both the Vista Drive and the DVDRom were Using the same IDE Channel and Using the Power Line that was also powering the Case Fan I had added...
Power Supply is Weakening.... Im gonna go look at voltages ASAP.
Something with the On board Controller is quirky or there is a loose IDE (possible),
But I cant think of anything that would explain why the system would boot to a stuttering/lag state.. to add. the Current Drives in it (minus the Vista Disk scan fine, ram as well), its possible it could be windows re-assigning IRQs or whatnot from detecting a hardware change, but it did this before i removed the ATICard as well.
Update: December 07, 2006
It May Very well have been the ATA Cable, Seeing the DVD-Rom has Power but it not showing Up On the Machine at all, yet it has power, it is possible the cable was worked loose when i was removing the card, either way the Vista Drive is out of the system for now, since its pretty much unused.
Update: December 14, 2006
The Card has been shipped to ATi's Support, I Hope to Have it back Mid-January (hey, its Xmas Season, im not gonna say i'll have it back in 2 weeks with all the shipping going on), in the mean time Im taking notes on the changes I want to make to my CVN-75 Model and a few other things, looking at screen shots of other models for FS2004/FSX for references as well as some pictures I received via email.
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| | Site News: Hey All, Sorry For Long time in Between Site and Blog Updates |
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Like the Title Says, sorry for the long time between this update and the last one, I've been reallly busy with some 3d Stargate models and some other Projects,
The 2006 NAS Oceana Airshow was held over the weekend, they had a few problems, but I went to take pictures, I took over 600 Snapshots, however, since my new Lens did not arrive in time for the Venture I was restricted to using the default 4x Optical Zoom Lens, which seemed to not like the daylight at all, so over half the shots were cut for being Dark, Blurred, Too Far Away, or a mixture of all of the problems, Most shots were Originally 6 MP and were either scaled down or Cropped from the orignal image.
So Enjoy the 188 Pictures Now Posted in the PhotoGallery, the Pictures consist of the Air Power Demo, Fleet Takeoff, 2 Different F-104 Performances, F-15 Demo, F-18 Hornet Demo, F-18 SuperHornet Demo, a Few others, and The Tomcats Farewell .. and Of Course The Blue Angels...
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| | Stargate: Stargate Models Take Over Front burner of My time |
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 As you probrably can tell by looking at the photo gallery, a new section for Stargate, and already a nice stargate model (though not complete yet),
I've recently been asked by a large community of stargate modders to build some low poly, good quaity objects for Stargate mods, including the gates, ships, weapons etc etc, and a few large renders for desktops, this is the first time I've ventured outside of 3d Modeling for flight sims in my short 3 year stint, but I love Stargate just as much as flight sims, and this community (Stargate Community) seems to need me more than the flight simulation community at the moment,
I'll still build models for flight simulations and continue working on models I have, but flight simulations is now behind stargate in my overall agenda, no Im not leaving the community, but i have a large list of objects to build for stargate, and only a few for flight simulations... I'll continue participating in community events and play and support other modelers in the flight simulation community, again, this in no way is a statement of parting ways with the community, just a update on how I'll be partitioning my availible time...
Note: Stargate, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Atlantis are copyrighted under MGM
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| | CVN Poject: CVN - 75 Beta Version .3 Build 06-13-06 Released!! |
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Thats Right, the Latest Build Is Released and can be found at CombatAce.com,
Under Strike Fighters Ships Section!!
Happy Download and Happy Operations!
Note: Dowload From Combat ACE HERE
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A Newly Edited Video has been released online For Version .3 Of the CVN-75, main feature of the video is cleaner particle systems, better model arrangement and mapping and Weapons Operations, as well as the Mirage Factory F-14A!,
Click Below To Watch (Host on Putfile.com 798 kbit/sec, 640x480 Stream)
Note: Click here to watch 'CVN_Beta_3_Preview'
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Updated to Run with the Latest Patch (SF/WoV/WoE/SFG ),
Also Working now is the Weapons (CIWS and Sea Sparrows), A HUGE, and I Mean HUGE thanks goes out to Capun for helping me through this...
Before I Release it later in the next week, I'll go through and get stuff cleaned, and a List of Fixes and Readme HTML ready, I also have to test with some new planes so... I ALso have to make a Separate Data INI for use with installs that are Runnning the Addon Weapons Pack (Better Guns and Missiles)
Heres a Video of why you dont want to fly up to the Carrier in a Enemy Plane (yes Im in a A-4, the Test was done on a Stock install), and The Ai Seems to Favor Shooting at my wing man (who is out of view) until he blasted me with a Sea Sparrow.
Note: Click here to watch 'CVN-Ver3-Beta-Weapons-Test'
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May 16, 2006, www.thirdwire.com
We're releasing a new set of Service Packs for our games! These service packs include many new and exciting features, fixes, and improvements.
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Thirdwire announces that Wings Over Europe: Cold War Gone Hot, next in our line of jet combat games, has officially gone Gold! Look for it at your favorite retail stores in few weeks!
Note: FULL STORY HERE
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 03, 2006 – Destineer Publishing’s Bold Games division, a leader in casual games, today announced the sequel to its top-selling flight-simulation.
Available this April for the PC, Wings Over Europe: Cold War Gone Hot delivers seat-of-your pants dogfight experiences flying some of the most legendary jet fighters in Cold War history.
FULL STORY HERE
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