Hail to the King

[DarthBeavis]

here is a teaser . . .will post a full work log this week

http://www.geforce.com/#/News/articles/nvidia-presents-the-duke-nukem-forever-pc-mod

[x88x]

Looks awesome, dude, looking forward to it.

[Fuganater]

Sick work.

[licenseless]

hahahahahaah... awesome... i just wish they had this freaking game for sale here on base...

i have to wait until i get back to the states to play this damn game

[xr4man]

just finally saw not 1 but 2 commercials last night for duke nukem forever. i guess they can't push it back anymore now that they are airing commercials now with a date.

[licenseless]

just finally saw not 1 but 2 commercials last night for duke nukem forever. i guess they can't push it back anymore now that they are airing commercials now with a date.

i thought it was released already over seas

[Fuganater]

hahahahahaah... awesome... i just wish they had this freaking game for sale here on base...

i have to wait until i get back to the states to play this damn game

Base? Can't you use your APO address and order it from Amazon?

[nevermind1534]

I got my copy of it on Steam.

[licenseless]

Base? Can't you use your APO address and order it from Amazon?

i leave here in two weeks so its faster to wait hahaha

[billygoat333]

It's on shelves today, I saw it at my store today. Lol

[x88x]

i leave here in two weeks so its faster to wait hahaha

Does Steam work over there?

[Fuganater]

Yes steam works overseas. Worked in Saudi and here in the Congo. I would assume its the same for Japan.

[Frenkie]

Awesome mod man ! When did you start this mod ??? I mean, how did you know it would EVER come out AT ALL? :) Seriously, this mod is super! I love it.:banana:

[DarthBeavis]

This project was commissioned by NVIDIA as a gift to Gearbox for the launch of Duke Nukem Forever. Partners in this project include:
NVIDIA - Financed the project, project manager was Kris Rey, Community Manager from NVIDIA. Special thanks also go out to Eric Liu, Leslie Pirritano, and Mike DeNeffe (all NVIDIANS) for making this project happen. Sean Wix and Tim Springer from NVIDIA were patient enough to let us use their lab space and provide trouble-shooting to get some insane dual-screen 3d action going.
EVGA - supplied Classified 3 motherboard and two Hydrocopper 2 580s
Danger Den - Laser cutting services and all water-cooling at a nice discount
Crucial - killer Ballistix Smart Tracer ram and two SSDS
East Bridge Manufacturing - Discounted metal fabrication services - hub and mini gun came out beautiful!
BoxGods - insane design that make the project so much easier
ASUS - two 23" 3d monitors
Frozen CPU - nice discounts on various parts especially the UV Green wire for the PSUs
Silverstone - 1500 watt PSU
Fernando from Painters Supply in Salem Oregon - busted his tail to help get skin painted in time
The guys at Mid Valley Metal works for the use of their HUGE powder coating oven for bending the skins
My wife Delia who helped me heat bend the pod skins and who put up with the mess in our great room while I built this puppy
and my best friend (next to the wife) Chris Fletcher who gave up his time to travel with me to NVIDIA to complete the build
Gearbox and 2k for making the game and supporting this project!!!

I will not reproduce everything in the Geforce.com article found here http://www.geforce.com/#/News/articles/nvidia-presents-the-duke-nukem-forever-pc-mod but will instead add to it to provide more details and allow you to give feedback. Geno and I feel we want to not only produce worklogs to publicize the project but also to make the worklog a learning experience and to give back to the community. This worklog will be spread out over a a week or so - please keep checking for updates.

As stated in the article, we had several concepts for this project which were considered before arriving at one which everyone liked. My first submission was a school-girl themed design. I will not go into too much detail on this one but you can figure it out if you look at some Duke artwork. The second concept was the single Duke logo with buildings on each side.

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7103/duke01.jpg

If we used this concept, I would have included some pretty insane miniature buildings.
http://web4.hobbylinc.com/gr/dwn/dwn1000.jpg

Geno, true to form, came up with a few twists "just in case" we wanted to go in a different direction. This was his just for giggles concept:
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/2153/5272011124709pm.png

[licenseless]

Does Steam work over there?

yeah... i just wanted the box set... but... now im getting it downloaded at 200k a second... which is bull because i have fiber internet... and all my other game downloads were at about 1 to 4 mbs... this is annoying...


but back to the mod...

i think the building would have been a cooler mod... but i do like the end result...

are we going to get a more in depth work log?

[DarthBeavis]

yeah... i just wanted the box set... but... now im getting it downloaded at 200k a second... which is bull because i have fiber internet... and all my other game downloads were at about 1 to 4 mbs... this is annoying...


but back to the mod...

i think the building would have been a cooler mod... but i do like the end result...

are we going to get a more in depth work log?adding a new worklog post everyday.

[licenseless]

adding a new worklog post everyday.

Right on man ... As for the game ... Its as funny as I remember ... People go get this game ... It's fun... Not a great game... But fun... So I guess that's makes it good enough... Hahaha

[DarthBeavis]

Once Geno had the Solidworks drawing done, Danger Den set to work cutting the acrylic. Here you see some of the pieces from Danger Den
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5088/dscf1007x.jpg

Geno had East Bay Manufacture fabricate the hub and gun

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/865/dscf0978xm.jpg


http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5909/dscf0981w.jpg


Used a wooden buck to heat bend the acrylic the round shape needed to skin the pods



The first effort bending did not produce a perfect result. Had to reskin the buck as the vinyl flooring did not work well

Before bending:

http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/2109/dscf1011b.jpg

After first bending

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/189/dscf1012mf.jpg


http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4055/dscf1014k.jpg

After second bending


http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/7592/53201133012pm.png


http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/2497/dscf1072z.jpg


http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/2303/dscf1070.jpg

[DarthBeavis]

Needed my Wonder-Twin g33k powers to complete this project:

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5939/592011103628pm.png


Jig for drilling and tapping holes in end of rib sections:

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9673/dscf1047m.jpg

Counter-sinking holes

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2411/dscf1048n.jpg

Gluing the pod covers to get them ready to paint:
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/92/dscf1022o.jpg

Tapping the manifold:

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/4543/dscf1037.jpg

Getting ready to leak test the manifold:
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/2080/dscf1050l.jpg

http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/3669/dscf1056.jpg


Duke Manifold Leak Test (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ceqTuhlBi4)

The next step was to glue the skins onto the pods. I used Weld-On 3 - a thin glue which uses capillary action. You apply it to the seems with a syringe.
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/1197/dscf1075h.jpg

Making the window bubblers. Layered 1/8 UV green acrylic . . .stripped down hypodermic needles so air could pass thru them at a reasonable rate

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/8858/dscf1135ek.jpg

http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/3723/dscf1139d.jpg

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5429/dscf1140f.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/540/dscf1141c.jpg

The Reservoir (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4ccjDQIX28)

[msmrx57]

Yup, you're a madman. This thing is WAY over the top. :up:

[licenseless]

nice touch with the reservoir air bubbles... that's pretty cool

as for the UBER GEEK... no words... i have none hahahahaha

[DarthBeavis]

Need to take the monitors apart to paint the enclosures

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1732/dscf1078y.jpg


Masked the pods so there would be windows left after painting - paint done then pack it all up for roadtrip to NVIDIA HQ . . .

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1934/dscf1100.jpg


All the stuff laid out at NVIDIA HQ

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9031/dscf1101w.jpg

Installing the floating PSU

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/5486/dscf1105p.jpg

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2284/dscf1103n.jpg

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4852/dscf1106f.jpg

All the pods in place looks pretty good

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/304/dscf1109y.jpg

Installing the mobo

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9883/dscf1115cp.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9021/dscf1117x.jpg

Let's get those monitors on . . .Epic mod time! Should wrap them in bacon and deep fry them?

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1961/dscf1112b.jpg

Tomorrow we will look at the PSU and rad pods close up - and then get it all fired up including some video

[DarthBeavis]

Today I will go back a few steps to show you how I rounded the edges on the case ribs and how I polished and drilled the screw holes in them.

The first technique is to use wet sandpaper starting with a rough grit depending on the surface you have after cutting or routing. Here I work my way to 1000.

Wet Sand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRvC1pdO3UM)

The next step shows routing the edges then using a polishing wheel with Novus 2.

Routing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhZBM3-Bl9w)

I made ghetto jig to drill the holes in the end of the ribs which I later tapped to M4 screw size

Drillin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMC9W3C1JIg)

[Twigsoffury]

Hey man i think you need more ram on that mainboard.

[/sarcasm]

[licenseless]

im at the damn getting ready to blow the walls up... i think this game is about as much of a Duke Nukem game as any of the others... ITS AWESOME!!!

and so is this build