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I’ve been programming with Qt for a bit over two years now and I’ve also done a bit of teaching with it at Kajaani University of Applied Sciences. This TH Animator is my latest project that I’ve been working on for some time now. The name itself doesn’t give out very much, but it is a utility that helps modders to create talking heads for their Fallout 2 mods. It is nearly complete at this point so I decided to give a small preview of the development version in a form of video, which you can see after the break.

Fallout 2 is a old game, and the file formats are hacked open by the active modding community – I couldn’t have done this without all that knowledge that people have gathered during many years. So thanks to all of them. The main motivation for this tool comes from a FO2 total conversion project called Mutants Rising that I’ve been part of for several years now. I urge you to check it out, and if you think you’ve got talents in 3D animation and movie making – we could use your help!

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Last friday we were testing the Scirocco game controller again since there had been some progress in the software development. The steering delay is still a bit too big, about 300ms, and it seems that the bottleneck is in the message protocol with the gateway. If our upcoming optimizations are not enough for the delay reduction, we might need to bypass the gateway and tap directly into the powertrain bus, but then we lose the standard OBD-II interface. Check out the video after the jump, music for the video is provided by my good friend and his project Alpha Mind.

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