Bud's House Model

Bud's House model renders

i've been busy all day rendering the interior of Bud's house to upload to Turbosquid. The renders took a long time in 3DS Max using Mental ray, one omni light for the candle beside his bed and settings for soft shadows. I'm very pleased with how the samples turned out but they sure took a while to render.

This morning in Unity 3D I was working on a particle effects for the little candle beside Bud's bed. Lots of tweaking and a while later I was starting to get something "Candle Flame like." I still want to tweak it a bit as I feel it could be better but I think it's getting there.

I feel the 000Webhost that I have my game currently on is not very reliable of friendly with Unity 3D's Web Player as I keep getting a "Bad File Length" error message. Seems sometimes I get it and sometimes I don't and I still can't tell if my load bar is quite behaving the way it should. It seems to move very slowly and then does not completely finish and then suddenly the game level loads which does not seem right to me, but unless I can find another more reliable web host I can't really tell what the problem is.

Bud the Spuds House Interior

Bud's House Interior

Here is a sneak peek at the interior of Bud the Spud's house. It's very simple since I figure a potato does not need much. I might add some more details but I'm not sure what at the moment. I want to keep it pretty simple and basic, I was even debating about the stove but I kinda liked it so it got my vote to stay since he has a smoke stack on top of his house that you can see in the exterior version in level 01 of the game. I might add a crudely wooden framed picture or two on the walls, something "Potato" related, again not sure what at the moment.

Load Bar issues:

I'm not sure if my load bar is or is not working?? It seems to work sometimes and then others the web player stops and says "Bad File Length" whatever the hell that means?? I don't know if anyone else has had the same issue with it as no one has contacted me or commented on the blog about whether or not it's working or not so buggered if I know. It would be nice if someone did let me know either way. I can't fix it unless I know what the problem is and if I can't fix it then you can't play and that's gotta suck six ways from Sunday!