Thanks Benny, that's really comforting to know you don't (or didn't) like web programming for the same reasons as me... nice to know I'm not alone 
And that's great to know about the modelling aspect. It means I can spend the rest of my life mastering it
The only reason I wanted to make phone games was because of the ease of distribution that comes from having the Play store - just one $20 (or thereabouts) one off registration fee and then you can sell whatever you like and Google doesn't take a cut of any kind, as far as I know. I would guess/hope that it's the same on the Windows Phone though I've never had one. But if Windows has a similar easy way of distributing programs these days - an app store as it were - then I'd happily make programs for Windows. I'm a bit behind the times as you've probably guessed so I don't know much of what's going on in the Windows world at the moment. I've only had this laptop a few days and before that Linux and before that, Windows XP. And speaking of this laptop, lots of strange blocky 'artifacts' have just started randomly flashing up on the screen. I've never seen that particular fault before with a PC or laptop so maybe this one has been sitting around in a warehouse too long - after all it was brand new but with Windows 7 - how does that happen? I just hope it goes the distance.
Thanks for the video. It was actually kind of beautiful and relaxing in a hypnotic sort of way... could have watched it all day. And the result was amazing. Photo-realistic with incredible detail right down to a cloud of smoke under the lights. I don't think mine needs to be quite that detailed
I couldn't find any snooker table blender models on Google, just pool tables and billiard tables, and mainly with balls and I really need them without. So I've just decided to use the pool table you linked to. Anyway it doesn't seem to have spots so I can probably add snooker spots to it rather than pool. I imported it successfully into Unity and am now in the process of creating another 'scene' in the Roll a Ball project to house it - just to experiment a bit with it using the existing ball mechanics, before using it in a brand new project with different ball mechanics.
And that's great to know about the modelling aspect. It means I can spend the rest of my life mastering it
The only reason I wanted to make phone games was because of the ease of distribution that comes from having the Play store - just one $20 (or thereabouts) one off registration fee and then you can sell whatever you like and Google doesn't take a cut of any kind, as far as I know. I would guess/hope that it's the same on the Windows Phone though I've never had one. But if Windows has a similar easy way of distributing programs these days - an app store as it were - then I'd happily make programs for Windows. I'm a bit behind the times as you've probably guessed so I don't know much of what's going on in the Windows world at the moment. I've only had this laptop a few days and before that Linux and before that, Windows XP. And speaking of this laptop, lots of strange blocky 'artifacts' have just started randomly flashing up on the screen. I've never seen that particular fault before with a PC or laptop so maybe this one has been sitting around in a warehouse too long - after all it was brand new but with Windows 7 - how does that happen? I just hope it goes the distance.
Thanks for the video. It was actually kind of beautiful and relaxing in a hypnotic sort of way... could have watched it all day. And the result was amazing. Photo-realistic with incredible detail right down to a cloud of smoke under the lights. I don't think mine needs to be quite that detailed
I couldn't find any snooker table blender models on Google, just pool tables and billiard tables, and mainly with balls and I really need them without. So I've just decided to use the pool table you linked to. Anyway it doesn't seem to have spots so I can probably add snooker spots to it rather than pool. I imported it successfully into Unity and am now in the process of creating another 'scene' in the Roll a Ball project to house it - just to experiment a bit with it using the existing ball mechanics, before using it in a brand new project with different ball mechanics.
