Torgo 3000
A change of direction... sort of
Well folks, I'm still employed at MS (or rather re-employed at MS after having been canned with the...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 04/13/2009
A really great look at performance in FSX...
Lotus has a really great post about aircraft performance in FSX. I highly reccomend reading the...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 11/18/2008
Jetway IK tutorial
I captured a tutorial about creating a Jetway using our IK system and Gmax over a year ago. Due to...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 06/09/2008
New Acceleration Pack missions.
We just released three new multiplayer racing missions for Acceleration on FSInsider. I haven't...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 05/29/2008
SDK MaxScript tools.
There has been some confusion about what tools will work with which version of 3ds Max and I hope to...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 05/19/2008
Cool new things...
I must say, I am really excited about where we are heading as a team in terms of tools and content...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 03/19/2008
Let's blow up the exporter real good!
I first came across our vertex limit issue when trying to debug the export of the trike model. For...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/24/2008
First preview of Acceleration
Gamespot put up our E3 preview video for the Acceleration expansion pack for FSX. You can watch it...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 07/12/2007
Performance Art 3: Polygons don't matter.
As next gen technology came online, people started repeating this mantra: "Polygons don't matter...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 06/19/2007
Performance Art 2: When is a draw call not a draw call?
So we know that draw calls are a major killer for us. So you would basically assume that the more...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 06/14/2007
Performance art.
Okay, so I'm not going to get dressed in a sheet and speak in a made-up language while someone...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 06/01/2007
FSX SP1 is live!
You can download the English, French, Italian, German, Spanish or Polish versions from our website....
Author: torgo3000 Date: 05/16/2007
New FSInsider site and multi-mon patch.
The new FSInsider site has gone live. There's a total redesign including a neat new look, more...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 04/25/2007
I never thought the blurries would be a problem with Trainsim....
...but I guess we're going to have to worry about them there as well. Check out this record breaking...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 04/04/2007
Oh what a difference the CPU makes.
So I got this new machine at work. It's one of them new-fangled Core 2 Duo machines that Intel's...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 04/02/2007
IK Craziness
I've heard from our good buddy Nick that the IK on the jetway is a bit confusing, even with the...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 03/26/2007
Why so quiet?
We've all been very hard at work on a variety of simultaneous projects in this studio. As you know,...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 03/05/2007
Problems with your skin.
You may be thinking about eczema, but I'm thinking about that funny thing that happens when you skin...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 02/05/2007
Hey... what's this?
Well, while we're hard at work on the performance issues of FSX and getting the SDK updated, we...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/19/2007
2d Panels on a laptop
I got this question the other day and I thought I should answer it, since I've seen it in a few...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/11/2007
SDK Update is live!
Our SDK SP1 can be found up on the insider site in the Developer's Corner, on the Downloads page and...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 12/07/2006
So close I can smell it....
Of course, that may just be my unshowered goodness coming through. At any rate, the smell that I...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 12/05/2006
Time to eat crow...
Okay, maybe not crow entirely, maybe something more like pigeon or seagull. This was posted in...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 10/31/2006
FSX Missions website.
So I'm off the rants and onto something more useful... a website that has a whole bunch of great...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 10/23/2006
The new FS Insider web site has gone live!
Our brand spankin' new FS Insider website has gone live today. Lots of great stuff there, including...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 10/12/2006
FSX FAQ (Part 1) Article has been posted.
Well, since we're just a week away from the official release of Flightsim in most of the world...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 10/10/2006
FSX FAQ (Part 1)
Q: What the heck is the FSX FAQ? A: This will be a living document designed to answer frequently...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 10/10/2006
One hand full of snake and one hand full of plane...
Monty Coles is my hero. Of all the bad surprises you can get while flying, this has got to be one of...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 06/30/2006
Keeping up with an ever changing world...
Every weekend when I drive down to Portland, there's a special landmark that tells me I'm 45 minutes...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 05/18/2006
It's a bug!!!
I know for a fact that if we ever modeled any of these phenomena, we'd get so many complaints about...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 02/23/2006
Now this is just sad.....
I haven't posted in a while, but I find this both funny and sad all at the same time. The whole...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 02/22/2006
METAL!!!!!!
Who knew there was something out there called Grecian Black Metal. I certainly didn't. But then...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 02/08/2006
A new article.
I've added a Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight FAQ in my articles section. This will be an...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/24/2006
FS2004:ACOF FAQ
Here it is, my very first and very uninformed FAQ about Flight Simulator 2004. Eventually I'll get...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/24/2006
Posting Comments....
I got a question about how to post comments, so here's a simple guide: Click on the # comments link...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/23/2006
More Flight Simulator X previews.
Here's one from Gamespy. Some of the big takeaways.... DVD only! Yay! Finally! I can't tell you how...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/16/2006
A really cool technical demo...
Since I can't talk too much about how we're doing everything yet, here's a link to a really cool...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/16/2006
Interview with our program manager...
... is located here. A lot of great stuff mentioned in both videos. In particular, our new shader...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/06/2006
Flight Simulator X... another link.
FSStation has the video from CES. You need winrar or something compatible to unpack it.
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/05/2006
Flight Simulator X
The forums are already buzzing, and flightsim.com has a great preview here. Avsim also has some...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 01/05/2006
Ahhh, the paucity of posts.
Busy, busy, busy, busy. Also: Slacking, slacking, slacking, slacking. Which makes not for good blog...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 12/20/2005
Smells like a bargain...
After completely stuffing myself full of turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry jello and the grandest...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 11/28/2005
A whole lot of little information.
So I guess the purpose of my last article was rather obscured by the fact that I refuse to divulge...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 11/17/2005
My first article...
So I finally got around to posting an article about what that strange binary blob that represents...
Author: torgo3000 Date: 11/14/2005