Commented 12 years ago2012-05-12 03:47:26 UTC
in journal: #7788Comment #60931
Is it me?
Don't panic, Jeff. You're not left behind. But I know how you feel. I wish I could say more to make you feel better, but I can't think of anything right now.
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Commented 12 years ago2012-05-11 11:23:06 UTC
in journal: #7788Comment #60930
Interesting. I'm finishing high school soon too, and exams await me. I'm a bit scared of course, and it's curious that I haven't had nightmares yet. I am crushed, though, by the thoughts and nostalgia that are being brought up to me when I look at younger colleagues and friends. They look like birds in the sky to me, they don't feel the burden of life. My way of calming me down is to think that they too will pass through these years, as others have, and I was too a child once... it's just my turn now. So cheer up!
Urby, it's interesting that I met one of my best friends online too, here on TWHL :).
Commented 12 years ago2012-05-11 11:09:26 UTC
in journal: #7788Comment #60928
When I went to college, I only kept in touch with 2, maybe 3 people from high school, none of them were among my "best friends."
Then once I finished college, I'd lost touch with them completely, made new friends. Since then of course, I have now lost touch with them too, save one who until recently I worked with, and have made more new friends at work.
The thing is, going from education to working life, you will lose touch with most people you have met, it's all just part of growing up. When you get into a serious relation ship you have even less time for friends.
The only person I have really maintained contact with over the years is Archie, who I met online!
This could just be me of course. The way I see it, life is all about moving forward, and leaving certain people behind is an unfortunate part of that. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Commented 12 years ago2012-05-11 10:00:54 UTC
in journal: #7787Comment #43538
Seeing all the dream journals made me want to post my own from last night, but I can't remember what it was. Reading yours rings a bell though, I think it may have been about harming cats in some way. D:
And I think you'll have to put your cat under observation, without letting it realise.
Commented 12 years ago2012-05-10 13:31:04 UTC
in journal: #7784Comment #66436
I once had a weird-ass dream about TWHL.
It was where I found a very old version of the community, back before I had joined or something, and the old community members were all talking and stuff, and I'm telling them I'm from the future.
Commented 12 years ago2012-05-10 09:43:39 UTC
in journal: #7784Comment #66432
I had a dream last night that I went to prison. I was in the prison van with some guy who was saying it's not true in the movies when you know what prison you're going to before you get there. As we pulled around the corner I recognised the big purple building next to the prison, and I realised I had been there before. Last time there was a group of guys that hated me, but this time I was put in a different section where there was an arcade for the prisoners, and I was tasked with operating one of the machines. I also had a cookie.
There was also something about how local thugs had started carrying cricket bats to use when they gang up on someone and beat them up. That dream ended with me being beaten up by a gang of cricket bat wielding thugs. :/
Commented 12 years ago2012-05-10 08:27:48 UTC
in journal: #7784Comment #66437
Lol. Dreaming of TWHL? Are the admins subliminally programming us with various things
Any way, speaking of dreams, ive dreamed of a friend of mine, who is always cocky and such, falling into mud with his face forward with a tricycle he stole from a little kid. I laughed my ass off in the dream. Whats interesting, ive heard from him for the first time yesterday after around 6 months. The entire dream was filled with parties and dark woods with ghosts and what not, who i was not afraid at all, but an other friend of mine was scared as hell. I remember going all "Hell yeah ghosts \m/" in the dream. If only i could see the forest scene again. It was like, from one part where the houses are to other there is this dark forest with lots of spooky shit.
Commented 12 years ago2012-05-10 05:46:46 UTC
in journal: #7784Comment #66434
The truth is that I have dreamed about TWHL, or at least meeting TWHL members in the past. I can't remember the dream though, and I didn't note it down :(. Interesting Inception-like dream though. Keep dreamin'.
Commented 12 years ago2012-05-09 20:31:53 UTC
in vault item: ridge_highComment #19966
Agrees with stokje i LOVE the inspiration that went into this map and almost everybody maps their high school early on in their mapping career.
Lots of neat things about this map but there are also lots of fundamental problems.
Not problems really, but just a phase that every mapper goes through in the beginning. I'll try to give some tips, not going into too much detail because many of the things i'm gonna say, probably won't really make sense until you have had more experience with hammer.
-scale. your scale is way too big in most of the map. if you need to, use some cyclers of a scientist or some other model, to use as a general reference for the proper height/witdth/breadth of things.
-textures. your texture choices are pretty generic. try to stay away from the default half-life ones because they are mostly pretty bad. Also, pay attnetion that your texture scaling is not too big as to look cartoonish(like the brick texture that dominates most of the school).
-detail. for a map this big you will require A LOT of detail to finish it off. Examples would be more furniture and accoutrements in the classrooms, hallways, to make the spaces more believable or "lived in".
-layout. i love that you included working doors to all the rooms but keep in mind from a gameplay perspective it might not be the smartest thing. and you might want to block off some areas so the layout is less repetative or copypasta. (if you DO decide to keep all the rooms accessible, try to vary them with distinct details to be less boring, and to act as landmarks so they are easily distingushable from one room to the next.
-lighting. like everything else, try to keep it more varied with different brightnesses for differnt areas of the map. Explore texture lights as soon as you can if you plan on being a goldsource mapper
Sorry for the TL:DR, and good luck with your mapping! =P
Commented 12 years ago2012-05-09 16:38:47 UTC
in journal: #7779Comment #43530
It seems interesting that when a lot of people tell me about their dreams, they all seem to be centered in the real world somewhat. The details tend to be somewhat surreal, but they generally have a real world setting, and feature people they know. As well as this events tend to follow each other in a relatively sensible manner. However, I notice some people, myself included, have much less realistic dreams, and these people tend to be those who have an interest in 'unrealistic' things, such as aliens or government conspiracies. In other cases they tend to have more creatively focused hobbies.
For example, I've heard a few people mention they dreamed something along the lines of 'I went to the shop to buy a loaf of bread, and on the way I met Mr Richardson who told me my mother had died', and these peoples' dreams are always along these lines. An example of the other type would be a dream I had the other night, most of which I remember vividly. I started out on the end of an aircraft carrier. There was a hangar (of the type normally seen at airports) sitting there, facing out to sea. I opened it and inside was a jet seemingly made out of lego. I had a sense of a female presence, but there was nobody there. I had trouble getting into the jet at first, as if it were a videogame and I didn't know the controls. After I got in, I took off, and turned around to fly towards the mainland. I radioed the female, mentioning I was going to see the base and the bridge the other people had built. As I went over the coastline I pulled up to pass over a small mountain. As I went over it, I was momentarily aware of a large lake or an ocean on the other side, with a bridge leading away from the shore, before the sun blinded me, and my plane went down into the water. The next thing I knew I was back on the aircraft carrier adding covers to the plane canopy so there would only be small holes to look out of, before the dream changed, and I was crawling under a bus belonging to Simon and Lewis from the Yogscast. It had become grounded in the earth, and I was crawling under it to retrieve my shoes. As I looked up I noticed the underside of the bus was see-through, as if it were textured with null. The person inside the bus (I don't know who, but apparently a friend of mine) told me it looked normal from his side.
A bit of a lengthy description but it shows what I mean by 'not grounded in reality'
Also, that made me laugh PB.
[Edit] Seeing the actual post made me realise just how lengthy a description it was. Sorry about that.
I really dig the lighting in the second sequence.. looks too good to be gs
A good puzzle should be challenging, but never confusing.
Don't panic, Jeff. You're not left behind. But I know how you feel. I wish I could say more to make you feel better, but I can't think of anything right now.
You can press the download button a thousand times and them shut down your browser when done.
How are you taught to solve quadratic equations? Seems different countries teaches it differently
I am crushed, though, by the thoughts and nostalgia that are being brought up to me when I look at younger colleagues and friends.
They look like birds in the sky to me, they don't feel the burden of life. My way of calming me down is to think that they too will pass through these years, as others have, and I was too a child once... it's just my turn now. So cheer up!
Urby, it's interesting that I met one of my best friends online too, here on TWHL :).
Then once I finished college, I'd lost touch with them completely, made new friends. Since then of course, I have now lost touch with them too, save one who until recently I worked with, and have made more new friends at work.
The thing is, going from education to working life, you will lose touch with most people you have met, it's all just part of growing up. When you get into a serious relation ship you have even less time for friends.
The only person I have really maintained contact with over the years is Archie, who I met online!
This could just be me of course. The way I see it, life is all about moving forward, and leaving certain people behind is an unfortunate part of that. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Just enjoy it while it lasts.
And I think you'll have to put your cat under observation, without letting it realise.
It was where I found a very old version of the community, back before I had joined or something, and the old community members were all talking and stuff, and I'm telling them I'm from the future.
[EDIT] 60 downloads? I'm surprised no one left a comment...
There was also something about how local thugs had started carrying cricket bats to use when they gang up on someone and beat them up. That dream ended with me being beaten up by a gang of cricket bat wielding thugs. :/
Are the admins subliminally programming us with various things
Any way, speaking of dreams, ive dreamed of a friend of mine, who is always cocky and such, falling into mud with his face forward with a tricycle he stole from a little kid. I laughed my ass off in the dream.
Whats interesting, ive heard from him for the first time yesterday after around 6 months.
The entire dream was filled with parties and dark woods with ghosts and what not, who i was not afraid at all, but an other friend of mine was scared as hell. I remember going all "Hell yeah ghosts \m/" in the dream.
If only i could see the forest scene again. It was like, from one part where the houses are to other there is this dark forest with lots of spooky shit.
Strange how we all got into some dream state.
Interesting Inception-like dream though. Keep dreamin'.
Lots of neat things about this map but there are also lots of fundamental problems.
Not problems really, but just a phase that every mapper goes through in the beginning. I'll try to give some tips, not going into too much detail because many of the things i'm gonna say, probably won't really make sense until you have had more experience with hammer.
-scale. your scale is way too big in most of the map. if you need to, use some cyclers of a scientist or some other model, to use as a general reference for the proper height/witdth/breadth of things.
-textures. your texture choices are pretty generic. try to stay away from the default half-life ones because they are mostly pretty bad. Also, pay attnetion that your texture scaling is not too big as to look cartoonish(like the brick texture that dominates most of the school).
-detail. for a map this big you will require A LOT of detail to finish it off. Examples would be more furniture and accoutrements in the classrooms, hallways, to make the spaces more believable or "lived in".
-layout. i love that you included working doors to all the rooms but keep in mind from a gameplay perspective it might not be the smartest thing. and you might want to block off some areas so the layout is less repetative or copypasta. (if you DO decide to keep all the rooms accessible, try to vary them with distinct details to be less boring, and to act as landmarks so they are easily distingushable from one room to the next.
-lighting. like everything else, try to keep it more varied with different brightnesses for differnt areas of the map. Explore texture lights as soon as you can if you plan on being a goldsource mapper
Sorry for the TL:DR, and good luck with your mapping! =P
Clever Google.
For example, I've heard a few people mention they dreamed something along the lines of 'I went to the shop to buy a loaf of bread, and on the way I met Mr Richardson who told me my mother had died', and these peoples' dreams are always along these lines.
An example of the other type would be a dream I had the other night, most of which I remember vividly. I started out on the end of an aircraft carrier. There was a hangar (of the type normally seen at airports) sitting there, facing out to sea. I opened it and inside was a jet seemingly made out of lego. I had a sense of a female presence, but there was nobody there. I had trouble getting into the jet at first, as if it were a videogame and I didn't know the controls. After I got in, I took off, and turned around to fly towards the mainland. I radioed the female, mentioning I was going to see the base and the bridge the other people had built. As I went over the coastline I pulled up to pass over a small mountain. As I went over it, I was momentarily aware of a large lake or an ocean on the other side, with a bridge leading away from the shore, before the sun blinded me, and my plane went down into the water. The next thing I knew I was back on the aircraft carrier adding covers to the plane canopy so there would only be small holes to look out of, before the dream changed, and I was crawling under a bus belonging to Simon and Lewis from the Yogscast. It had become grounded in the earth, and I was crawling under it to retrieve my shoes. As I looked up I noticed the underside of the bus was see-through, as if it were textured with null. The person inside the bus (I don't know who, but apparently a friend of mine) told me it looked normal from his side.
A bit of a lengthy description but it shows what I mean by 'not grounded in reality'
Also, that made me laugh PB.
[Edit] Seeing the actual post made me realise just how lengthy a description it was. Sorry about that.