A question for the Devs...

[Corporal Cody]

You guys are all incredibly skilled and talented people. The stuff that you guys create is amazing.
My question is, where, how, and why did you learn your skills? When did you start? Do you remember some of your older/first works? What were they like?

I'm simply curious where the masterminds of PR started out. Especially Chuc, as there are almost no really useful animation tutorials for bf2 ANYWHERE (at least, none I can find).

Thanks for any responses, and keep up the amazing work!
~ Cody

[Chuc]

My first work:



Icons for PR.. I know I trampled on a couple of heads to get the job, and hence I became a sprite artist when I got 'conship'.

Then I moved onto texturing, which inadvertantly started with the G36c for the Germans.



My advice to people wanting to skill up.. dive into the deep end. Raise your hand for a job and don't be afraid to ask questions.

Animation on the other hand came as a result of asking for a set of super holy-grail of tutorials from Spearhead, our old animator. Unfortunately the original author requested no public redistribution of the tutorial videos after he himself took them down from the BF2 Editor forums. However to get an idea as to how quickly I learned, I did this in June.

4shared.com - file sharing - download movie file BF2Editor 2008-06-18 15-32-59-43.avi

[-CJ-]

Hey Chuc, do you have any other tutorial ? Or can you make a video tutorial ?

PS : Props for all your work

[Chuc]

Nope, no other tutorial. Its just that good (though I did learn probably another 50% of my ability through good ol' trial and error..)

[ice_killer]

dos Con count to for dev

well i actuly started whit mapping, when i had BF2 (was on the day of release) i heard some time later that er came later that year a map editor, so i actuly started to think of my own map. the idea was pretty simple

4 US carriers some land whit oil fields a smal city. i lookd like **** but he i loved it. tons of planes choppers AA was quite fun on a LAN party . then i became meber of BFeditor.org tose guys helpd me a lot. i ended up @ a mod fro Bf2 that was about Lord of the Rings. the idea was UBER 1337 (had to ).
but a few days after whe gone offical online whit de development whe god a E-mail from EA. hence they caredabout us tose days . that whe where in problem whit copy right etc.

so whe had to quit i wend on and went from 1 mod team to the other all dead to small team to little team you name whe had the problems .

i spotted PR very fast after there first release i playd it like non stop. around 05 came out i joind these forums (a shame i did not do it before .

i started whit modeling @ the same time. i first made M-109 self propeld artilery 105mm animated and all

vid :

M-109 final render - Google Video
then i started ona Heuy hence irember lookd liek Lego so blocky

its proberly still around these forums whit a name of get youre bucket youre gonna love this 1 if im not wrong. .

after that a started on the chinook THE BEST TOPIC IN COMMUNITY MODDING whit

613 post 36,564 Views

during that i got promo to R_con the rest is know

and this is the final product (that is what you guys think (did i say that ? ... lol))