Commented 10 years ago2013-10-26 13:41:27 UTC
in journal: #8275Comment #61114
"Wait, I thought Jeff was 14 or so..."
"Happy birthday Jeff. I'm a bit surprised you're 18 already, I was under the impression that you were 16 or something. Come to think of it, you probably were the last time I asked."
"Happy bday mate. I thought you were older. Like 21 or something."
"Same as TJB." ("Holy crap, you're much younger than I thought you were.")
Commented 10 years ago2013-10-26 13:36:05 UTC
in journal: #8275Comment #61113
Went to dinner with friends. Split spicy wings for dessert. Didn't drink, went back to dorm, played video games. Previous night they baked me a cake under the guise of a movie night.
Commented 10 years ago2013-10-23 18:06:06 UTC
in vault item: gauss_god_hldmComment #20347
OK! I got around to checking this out.
+ Excellent contruction. + Great color sense and textures. + Great ambience and lighting. + Zappy Cannon. + Amazing details, like the butterflies and leaves.
? I don't know why, but it felt like the sky was too low and it felt like it blocked me from going where I wanted to. Noclipping to the top of the big island I immediately thought that something could have been done up there besides what you did.
- A part of the main island with the spinning generator is cut off by the sky box. This happens in a few areas else where too. With the excellent brushwork, I'm genuinely curious why you didn't make the islands more free floating in the skybox.
- The elevator had a purple checker texture in the shaft. Might be just me.
Overall - 5 just because I like it that much.
EDIT: Should have read the previous comments first... lol. So save some nodes, you could have the bottom portions of the islands, like below the point of no return, have them be illusionary and then use simpler clip brushes to make them solid to players.
To fade out your waterfalls, extend them as far as your max viewable distance is set. They can go outside the skybox, they will still render because a part of them will be visible. At the bottom, VM them into a point, and it will give the illusion that it goes on forever.
Commented 10 years ago2013-10-22 19:24:18 UTC
in vault item: gauss_god_hldmComment #20345
Really cool map, man. Weapon placements nice, the levels are fantastic and detailed really well. Only complaint is that I think I noticed an invisible wall when I was trying to gauss jump to the top of the biggest island, which is a little misleading when you make a guass map with big islands. Either that, or I'm just an idiot who can't gauss jump.
Commented 10 years ago2013-10-21 13:58:35 UTC
in journal: #8271Comment #50952
It didn't happen during the lan, it was coming back from it. I was an idiot and didnt get a taxi, even though my flat is only a 5 minute walk from where the lan was held, it's a bitch to carry a massive monitor and a massive computer along with all the peripherals that far.
It's the heatsink, somehowit fell off. I have no idea how. I can't see any damage whatsoever done to the motherboard components so it should be fine in that sense. Some of the thermal paste is coming off the top of the CPU and just for safety i've removed the spillage using a card. None of the paste has got onto any contacts though. It's managed to get on top of some other heatsink on the motherboard though :/
It's not an AMD heatsink, I checked when I was buying it and it fits an intel processor fine.
I'm going to remove all thermal paste and reapply it because I want as much conduction as possible, if i jam it back on now I'm going to see much less heat dissipation.
I can't do anything about it until wednesday evening ( tonight i'm revising for a physics test and tomorrow my 'buddy' is coming up.. No gaming until after that) which sucks ass
Commented 10 years ago2013-10-21 07:53:18 UTC
in journal: #8271Comment #50955
"I use 2$ thermal paste and my PC is running at 45C with stock cooler in any game."
I used 2$ thermal paste on my GPU and the temperature rose by 5C. Better stick with the Arctic thermal paste, even the aluminium one is better than what regular electronics store have to offer.
But the question is: how did you manage to rip off the entire assembly from your motherboard? Because it's held with screws!
Commented 10 years ago2013-10-21 05:43:27 UTC
in journal: #8271Comment #50957
You don't need to remove the heat transferring solution. Only if it got onto something else than the CPU and the cooler. Cleaning with cotton, toilet paper, or any other soft cloth will do. No need to use alcohol. Only use alcohol if the solution got onto CPU contacts and nearby components.
And you don't need those high end expensive solutions either. I use 2$ thermal paste and my PC is running at 45C with stock cooler in any game.
Best thermal paste is definitely ceramic or silicon.
Make sure to tighten the heat sink back in securely. And inspect did the thermal solution get onto anything else. Those silver ones conduct usually.
"Happy birthday Jeff. I'm a bit surprised you're 18 already, I was under the impression that you were 16 or something. Come to think of it, you probably were the last time I asked."
"Happy bday mate. I thought you were older. Like 21 or something."
"Same as TJB." ("Holy crap, you're much younger than I thought you were.")
Make up your mind, lol.
Previous night they baked me a cake under the guise of a movie night.
easteregg in Gauss God, by zeeba-G: somewhere you can noclip only probably there is a secret music button
Happy birthday anyway, Jeff!
Two Two was one too.
One One won one race,
Two Two won one too.
Bappy Hirthday!
Temporary-Happy-Birthday-Message!
bravo
+ Excellent contruction.
+ Great color sense and textures.
+ Great ambience and lighting.
+ Zappy Cannon.
+ Amazing details, like the butterflies and leaves.
? I don't know why, but it felt like the sky was too low and it felt like it blocked me from going where I wanted to. Noclipping to the top of the big island I immediately thought that something could have been done up there besides what you did.
- A part of the main island with the spinning generator is cut off by the sky box. This happens in a few areas else where too. With the excellent brushwork, I'm genuinely curious why you didn't make the islands more free floating in the skybox.
- The elevator had a purple checker texture in the shaft. Might be just me.
Overall - 5 just because I like it that much.
EDIT: Should have read the previous comments first... lol.
So save some nodes, you could have the bottom portions of the islands, like below the point of no return, have them be illusionary and then use simpler clip brushes to make them solid to players.
To fade out your waterfalls, extend them as far as your max viewable distance is set. They can go outside the skybox, they will still render because a part of them will be visible. At the bottom, VM them into a point, and it will give the illusion that it goes on forever.
Awesome map, man!
Thanks for the tutorial!
Also, I prefer to ALWAYS align textures to face, because when players draw decals on walls, they otherwise will be distorted.
Happy Urby day.
It's the heatsink, somehowit fell off. I have no idea how. I can't see any damage whatsoever done to the motherboard components so it should be fine in that sense. Some of the thermal paste is coming off the top of the CPU and just for safety i've removed the spillage using a card. None of the paste has got onto any contacts though. It's managed to get on top of some other heatsink on the motherboard though :/
It's not an AMD heatsink, I checked when I was buying it and it fits an intel processor fine.
I'm going to remove all thermal paste and reapply it because I want as much conduction as possible, if i jam it back on now I'm going to see much less heat dissipation.
I can't do anything about it until wednesday evening ( tonight i'm revising for a physics test and tomorrow my 'buddy'
is coming up.. No gaming until after that) which sucks ass
I used 2$ thermal paste on my GPU and the temperature rose by 5C. Better stick with the Arctic thermal paste, even the aluminium one is better than what regular electronics store have to offer.
But the question is: how did you manage to rip off the entire assembly from your motherboard? Because it's held with screws!
And you don't need those high end expensive solutions either. I use 2$ thermal paste and my PC is running at 45C with stock cooler in any game.
Best thermal paste is definitely ceramic or silicon.
Make sure to tighten the heat sink back in securely. And inspect did the thermal solution get onto anything else. Those silver ones conduct usually.