Commented 7 years ago2016-08-30 07:13:07 UTC
in journal: #8743Comment #68566
Well, that's nice. Although, you should be careful with the VM tool, since some of these UT maps have rocky terrain, shapes which are not common. And sometimes, you can't get the results you want.
Here's a tip: use Ctrl+F to connect 2 vertices with a line. It's helpful with solving a common brush error.
Commented 7 years ago2016-08-29 08:04:02 UTC
in journal: #8740Comment #61731
Probably a card game about Rebels vs. Combines.
The Strider card could effectively destroy 3 regular rebels. And, a Dog card would be able to destroy an APC. An Odessa card (the guy who gives you the RPG), could destroy either an APC, or an Airship.
The Crowbar card would be the rarest. It defeats everything.
Commented 7 years ago2016-08-20 20:43:23 UTC
in vault item: Moving TerrainComment #20291
This is surely going to help mappers who don't understand how it works.
When I first tried to make moving terrain, I cut it into segments, and tied the whole group to a single func_conveyor. Then, I tied it to a func_train. It took me 4 months to realize that I need to have a separate func_train for each segment.
Commented 7 years ago2016-07-24 12:16:00 UTC
in journal: #8723Comment #68065
@Striker That's 35 things. And, thanks!
@2muchvideogames I'm not sure if I will ever emigrate. Emigration depends on my career, and my career is related to game development, so I might run my own studio somewhere, or be a co-founder, my friends from school and I talked about it. In fact, that seems like the best idea for now.
@Stojke You're like a teacher of morality, and life. The more you give, the more you get, it seems.
Commented 7 years ago2016-07-07 18:46:47 UTC
in journal: #8719Comment #68055
@Urby
I don't really know. They perhaps never heard of Lord GabeN XD
My dad first said the thing about scams when I was 8, I wanted to buy an activation code for Blockland, and I even showed him the 10 reasons to buy Blockland.
Then he said, begin quote: "Listen son, I know you really want it, but the people who sell these passwords on the Internet are scammers. They, once you enter the credit card number, will sweep all our money, it doesn't matter if it costs $10 or even 5, the prices are always higher in the background." Huh, as if everyone is a hacker. Tell that to the people who have the codes.
I remember these words very well, and I'll remember them for the rest of my life, just to prove the opposite.
I believe I asked him: "But how do these thousands of people already have the serial key?" He never replied. My mom, of course, has very little idea on how to use a computer, so she never talked about these things.
Now I can finally grab my chance, if you remember my 2 journals of "Teh epik master plan". I'm opening the bank account in less than a week, and I will finally bring justice to my neighbourhood!
(yes, the neighbourhood, I also have a cousin/neighbour, who also wants to buy games on his mom's mobile phone, but they won't allow him)
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Commented 7 years ago2016-07-04 10:47:04 UTC
in journal: #8718Comment #62888
"Also, stop the warez. Buy the games."
Just go here. You'll soon find out that all this piracy of mine will stop. I have the will to buy, but my parents never, never, but would never buy me a game on Steam. Sadly, even the Steam wallet codes are hard to find.
Commented 7 years ago2016-07-04 08:53:47 UTC
in journal: #8718Comment #62887
No, the runtimes were for the VM, my host OS already had them. How do you think I made my maps on GameBanana (?), if I hadn't installed the games?
And it took me 3 days to get the VM working, mostly because it took forever to download the ISO file, and then to install VirtualBox itself and get that working. Everything else went well in a couple of hours: the installation, the drivers, installing WON Half-Life etc.
Commented 7 years ago2016-07-03 20:33:25 UTC
in journal: #8718Comment #62886
Facepalm*
I installed the WON version because I was too lazy to make the cswarzone non-Steam version, install properly. It needs C++ 2005 Runtimes, I think...
Afterall the weapon bobbing is SO MUCH better in the WON Half-Life, so it won that round. I hate the weapon bobbing in Steam Half-Life, Quake II is better than that, especially with that "free-style" swing-it-around bobbing when you move the cursor.
Plus, I want to have the hardware limitations. I mean, a Voodoo 3 + Pentium 2 setup would perform nicely at buttery-smooth 25 fps. Explosions + gibs would drop the framerates to 15 fps.
Contradictory, my Intel GMA X3100 would be the holy grail of GPUs back then, in 1999. It would even handle Crytek's demos from 2001 very well. That's why, I decided to do some VMery, even though I could just set fps_max to 24.
Commented 7 years ago2016-07-03 16:56:26 UTC
in journal: #8718Comment #62885
To re-play it as if it was year 1999, even though I was born in 2002. I'm simply that old-school kid who would play these games, simply because I didn't play these games in the appropriate time.
To be honest, I think that less than 100 people even play Half-Life Deathmatch, on servers.
Commented 7 years ago2016-07-03 12:44:38 UTC
in journal: #8718Comment #62884
I'd totally have the same reaction. In fact, I was going to install XP in a virtual machine a few days ago. I didn't install it, but I did install Windows 98 and Half-Life on it.
"GS" can mean the short of "GoldSource" or "GoldSRC", but also many other things: "grand stadium", "golden state", "gelasonium" et cetera, as long as you had these terms in context.
P.S. I'm not sure if "gelasonium" is actually a thing, since I made it up.
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-27 10:52:05 UTC
in journal: #8715Comment #46197
Wow, and I'm still here, lying in my bed, thinking how Bosnia and Herzegovina has THREE PRESIDENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Back on topic: Sometimes I wonder when will the UK fall apart, completely. Trust me, it will happen after a few decades, or centuries. The same goes for the EU.
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-18 14:18:43 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68049
Now, the only problem left is my brother...
Well, unbelievably I have convinced him that he will go to jail if he ever "steals" my new computer. I also told him that, as soon as I get the new PC, we will play PAYDAY together, and I'll let him play GTA V.
I think that the only thing left is to find, either the parts, or a used PC.
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-17 08:21:56 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68048
Finally, thank God. I realized what you're talking about.
So, if some (more expensive) parts/computers over here can be bought for less (used, of course), and I show to my parents how much of an advantage that is, they will agree, and I'll also get a good gaming rig. (if all goes according to plan)
I think that I have hit a rock with my head a couple of times, mentally.
So, a €300 used PC with parts similar to what you mentioned up there, would be much more cost-effective (bang for the buck) than my planned PC build with an R7 240. I see what you mean.
And, off-topic, 20 comments, yay! 20 is wealthy (it rhymes)!
EDIT: My brother, though, cannot be teached boundaries...
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-16 12:40:18 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68047
I'm not going to eat the orange tomorrow. Because I am a retro gamer. Perhaps the only reason for eating the orange tomorrow will be when Half-Life 3 comes out, or Crashday 2.
But I'm not looking for a decent computer, I'm not a true gamer. Gamers, real PC gamers spend more than $900 on their computers.
There, according to my current hardware, I'm not a gamer at all. Even with a $300 PC, I still wouldn't be a PC gamer.
But there's one thing we didn't think about at all:
My parents
I mentioned their yearly income, if you remember. They would never spend more than €500 on a PC like that. NEVER. It has always depended on my parents: can I have this? Can I have that? It always depended on them, if they are OK to open their wallets, so I could have proper gaming hardware.
My parents also have a strict policy on buying things:
If I pass with an A, I can get things which I want, but it's limited
If I pass with a B, well, I can't get anything
If I behave well, I can also be bought something, but again, it's limited
If I don't behave well, they'll take everything I have
So, even if I do things very well (always get As, and behave well), my parents still won't buy the things which I want (e.g. a proper gaming PC).
"I found the following for €150"
If that's used, then my dad wouldn't agree to buy it. Sure, the price is attractive, but it's used. He always thinks that used things are broken, not working, need to be fixed etc.
Yeah, not everything is my parents' problem. When I was 9, I didn't know anything about CPUs and GPUs, so I didn't want a new PC, even if it lagged.
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-16 09:02:10 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68046
OK, let's say that I bought a PC with that GPU, but why would I need it? Fine, maybe I'd play GTA IV (and V) and Crysis 2 & 3, but certainly not other titles: Witcher 3, Fallout 4, especially not Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 etc. Simply because I would play them for a few days and just uninstall them.
My need of low-end GPUs is perhaps the effect of my modesty, because I don't buy 3 oranges if I eat 2, why would I need the extra orange?
Since the R7 240 really is a bit underpowered, I'm going for an R7 250. It used to be my choice, but the price grew, and then I stopped making part lists for some reason.
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-15 20:00:45 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68045
But, think about it that 1€ = 1.95 KM, so it would cost around 230 KM to get one. Too freaking expensive...
Dude, I live in a village, not everyone's income is more than $80 000 per year. My parents' combined income is only around $20 000 per year. I mean, the most expensive thing we ever bought was a €600 car...
Therefore, if I'm asked, I choose the MSI's version of R7 240. Period.
Ah well, it's at least a good GPU. But, I will not need such a powerful GPU. I only do easy things, like: -Playing Far Cry, Half-Life 2 etc. -Making maps for Far Cry, CS 1.6, and more... -Video editing in Sony Vegas Pro 11 (and I have Corel VS Pro X7) -Music production with FL Studio 11 -And, of course, things related to mapping: coding, texturing, sound, etc.
I'm very, very sure that an R7 240 or a GT740 is perfectly enough for all of that. And an R7 270X is something that should be used in, for example, Unreal Engine 4, or the latest CryEngine, it's just too powerful for those older games.
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-14 13:23:39 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68042
I'm not sure, Stojke, but I am sure in this:
My previous (dead) computer had a price of 700 BAM. And that was the price of my first laptop!
Telling by the parts, the laptop is worth pretty much the same as my PC. However, the laptop has a worse GPU, but twice more RAM, and twice the HDD space.
The charger, and the battery are probably part of the price, regarding the laptop.
But, yeah, even if I do buy a laptop, I will make a choice between:
Dell Inspiron 15-5545 (AMD A10-7300 APU with an R7 M265 on it)
HP ProBook 650 G1 (Intel Core i5-4310M with Intel HD 4600)
Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Non Touch (Intel Core i3-5015U with Intel HD 5500)
I'd rather get the first one, because of that sweet APU. And, it's perfectly enough for me, because I play older games, and not that Witcher 3 crap, which would make my X3100 beg me to shut it down. Witcher 3 isn't crap, it's a seemingly good game, no offense.
EDIT: In fact, I'm more likely to buy a desktop PC I mean, who would say "no" to a dedicated, discrete GPU in that good-looking case which has fans blowing air? Oh dear, I've realized how much I miss desktop PCs. *grasp
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-11 16:20:33 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68041
Wait a minute. It's not like I'm going to play the latest DOOM, or GTA V, Fallout 4, PAYDAY 2, and other large AAA titles.
But, it's your assumption that I was going for a GTX 980 equivalent. Actually, I was going for an R7 240, a lower-end GPU meant to max out games like Garry's Mod, and to run BF3 on low settings.
But here's why I'd rather not install an eGPU: power usage. See, the 240 has low TDP (power consumption), and it powers itself from the motherboard (?), so it doesn't need a dedicated power supply. The method of setting up a DIY eGPU requires to connect a PSU to the graphics card. Hence I gave up on this idea.
So, I'm, indeed, going to buy a new laptop if I get a chance, since I really had good marks this year (12 A's, and 2 B's).
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-11 09:45:42 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68040
First of all, thank you for clarifying the component's name.
But, I'll disagree with you on one bit:
-investing in a second-hand laptop
Why would I go for a laptop which is even more weaker than a weak laptop? It confuses me...
But, in any case, I should build a good desktop PC. The problem is, my 6 year-old brother (addicted to FNaF and ROBLOX) will "steal" it from me.
The laptop my brother uses now, was bought for me. Simply, he loved it more than his laptop, and he took it away from me, that little bastard! And now I live with the trash I'm used to.
Ah well, I could buy a good laptop for around $500 and say to my brother that it lags a lot. After all, I think it's more cost-effective than buying eGPU equipment.
Here's a tip: use Ctrl+F to connect 2 vertices with a line. It's helpful with solving a common brush error.
You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining Half-Life centers.
The Strider card could effectively destroy 3 regular rebels. And, a Dog card would be able to destroy an APC. An Odessa card (the guy who gives you the RPG), could destroy either an APC, or an Airship.
The Crowbar card would be the rarest. It defeats everything.
It actually kind of looks like it...
When I first tried to make moving terrain, I cut it into segments, and tied the whole group to a single func_conveyor.
Then, I tied it to a func_train.
It took me 4 months to realize that I need to have a separate func_train for each segment.
And now:
The opposite is the Zastava 750. The surface is very smooth. Smooth surface = a lot of polygons. It will be so funny, because it's like the VW Beetle.
I'm planning to make a Zastava 750 (a classic Yugoslavian car), an Opel Kadett Caravan, a Volkswagen Scirocco, and 2 or 3 more cars.
That's 35 things. And, thanks!
@2muchvideogames
I'm not sure if I will ever emigrate. Emigration depends on my career, and my career is related to game development, so I might run my own studio somewhere, or be a co-founder, my friends from school and I talked about it.
In fact, that seems like the best idea for now.
@Stojke
You're like a teacher of morality, and life. The more you give, the more you get, it seems.
If it's me, then I can say that I treat mapping etc. exactly as I treat other people. Calmly, carefully, and with a good grip and a smile on my face.
Yes, it's a modded GTA III or something. That's how lame Bosnia is. Yes, it's pirated, yet I paid for it.
Worst of all, I'm still waiting for that debit card, and my parents won't say anything about it.
Hold on, it actually does, I tested it
Bank Account - Not Completed
Debit Card - Not Completed
I'm sorry to say this, but I'd prefer a debit card over a gift card. After all, the debit card I'll get is a MasterCard, not Maestro.
I don't really know. They perhaps never heard of Lord GabeN XD
My dad first said the thing about scams when I was 8, I wanted to buy an activation code for Blockland, and I even showed him the 10 reasons to buy Blockland.
Then he said, begin quote:
"Listen son, I know you really want it, but the people who sell these passwords on the Internet are scammers.
They, once you enter the credit card number, will sweep all our money, it doesn't matter if it costs $10 or even 5, the prices are always higher in the background."
Huh, as if everyone is a hacker. Tell that to the people who have the codes.
I remember these words very well, and I'll remember them for the rest of my life, just to prove the opposite.
I believe I asked him: "But how do these thousands of people already have the serial key?" He never replied. My mom, of course, has very little idea on how to use a computer, so she never talked about these things.
Now I can finally grab my chance, if you remember my 2 journals of "Teh epik master plan". I'm opening the bank account in less than a week, and I will finally bring justice to my neighbourhood!
(yes, the neighbourhood, I also have a cousin/neighbour, who also wants to buy games on his mom's mobile phone, but they won't allow him)
Just go here. You'll soon find out that all this piracy of mine will stop. I have the will to buy, but my parents never, never, but would never buy me a game on Steam. Sadly, even the Steam wallet codes are hard to find.
In fact, I'm opening it by the middle of July.
And it took me 3 days to get the VM working, mostly because it took forever to download the ISO file, and then to install VirtualBox itself and get that working.
Everything else went well in a couple of hours: the installation, the drivers, installing WON Half-Life etc.
I installed the WON version because I was too lazy to make the cswarzone non-Steam version, install properly. It needs C++ 2005 Runtimes, I think...
Afterall the weapon bobbing is SO MUCH better in the WON Half-Life, so it won that round. I hate the weapon bobbing in Steam Half-Life, Quake II is better than that, especially with that "free-style" swing-it-around bobbing when you move the cursor.
Plus, I want to have the hardware limitations. I mean, a Voodoo 3 + Pentium 2 setup would perform nicely at buttery-smooth 25 fps. Explosions + gibs would drop the framerates to 15 fps.
Contradictory, my Intel GMA X3100 would be the holy grail of GPUs back then, in 1999. It would even handle Crytek's demos from 2001 very well. That's why, I decided to do some VMery, even though I could just set fps_max to 24.
To be honest, I think that less than 100 people even play Half-Life Deathmatch, on servers.
P.S. I'm not sure if "gelasonium" is actually a thing, since I made it up.
With glasses.
(°^°) <- Look at the penguin XD
Back on topic:
Sometimes I wonder when will the UK fall apart, completely. Trust me, it will happen after a few decades, or centuries. The same goes for the EU.
EDIT: So the [s] is strike-through, interesting...
Well, unbelievably I have convinced him that he will go to jail if he ever "steals" my new computer.
I also told him that, as soon as I get the new PC, we will play PAYDAY together, and I'll let him play GTA V.
I think that the only thing left is to find, either the parts, or a used PC.
P.S. We fell into trouble in the ShoutBOX.
You made a mistake, it's:
/voteban
So, if some (more expensive) parts/computers over here can be bought for less (used, of course), and I show to my parents how much of an advantage that is, they will agree, and I'll also get a good gaming rig. (if all goes according to plan)
I think that I have hit a rock with my head a couple of times, mentally.
So, a €300 used PC with parts similar to what you mentioned up there, would be much more cost-effective (bang for the buck) than my planned PC build with an R7 240. I see what you mean.
And, off-topic, 20 comments, yay! 20 is wealthy (it rhymes)!
EDIT: My brother, though, cannot be teached boundaries...
But I'm not looking for a decent computer, I'm not a true gamer. Gamers, real PC gamers spend more than $900 on their computers.
There, according to my current hardware, I'm not a gamer at all. Even with a $300 PC, I still wouldn't be a PC gamer.
But there's one thing we didn't think about at all:
- My parents
I mentioned their yearly income, if you remember.They would never spend more than €500 on a PC like that. NEVER. It has always depended on my parents: can I have this? Can I have that?
It always depended on them, if they are OK to open their wallets, so I could have proper gaming hardware.
My parents also have a strict policy on buying things:
- If I behave well, I can also be bought something, but again, it's limited
- If I don't behave well, they'll take everything I have
So, even if I do things very well (always get As, and behave well), my parents still won't buy the things which I want (e.g. a proper gaming PC)."I found the following for €150"
If that's used, then my dad wouldn't agree to buy it. Sure, the price is attractive, but it's used. He always thinks that used things are broken, not working, need to be fixed etc.
Yeah, not everything is my parents' problem. When I was 9, I didn't know anything about CPUs and GPUs, so I didn't want a new PC, even if it lagged.
My need of low-end GPUs is perhaps the effect of my modesty, because I don't buy 3 oranges if I eat 2, why would I need the extra orange?
Since the R7 240 really is a bit underpowered, I'm going for an R7 250. It used to be my choice, but the price grew, and then I stopped making part lists for some reason.
Dude, I live in a village, not everyone's income is more than $80 000 per year. My parents' combined income is only around $20 000 per year. I mean, the most expensive thing we ever bought was a €600 car...
Therefore, if I'm asked, I choose the MSI's version of R7 240. Period.
Ah well, it's at least a good GPU. But, I will not need such a powerful GPU. I only do easy things, like:
-Playing Far Cry, Half-Life 2 etc.
-Making maps for Far Cry, CS 1.6, and more...
-Video editing in Sony Vegas Pro 11 (and I have Corel VS Pro X7)
-Music production with FL Studio 11
-And, of course, things related to mapping: coding, texturing, sound, etc.
I'm very, very sure that an R7 240 or a GT740 is perfectly enough for all of that. And an R7 270X is something that should be used in, for example, Unreal Engine 4, or the latest CryEngine, it's just too powerful for those older games.
So, that PC + a GT740 (if compatible with the motherboard) would result in a good retro gamer's PC. And for less than 500 KM (a.k.a BAM).
My previous (dead) computer had a price of 700 BAM. And that was the price of my first laptop!
Telling by the parts, the laptop is worth pretty much the same as my PC. However, the laptop has a worse GPU, but twice more RAM, and twice the HDD space.
The charger, and the battery are probably part of the price, regarding the laptop.
But, yeah, even if I do buy a laptop, I will make a choice between:
- Dell Inspiron 15-5545 (AMD A10-7300 APU with an R7 M265 on it)
- HP ProBook 650 G1 (Intel Core i5-4310M with Intel HD 4600)
- Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Non Touch (Intel Core i3-5015U with Intel HD 5500)
I'd rather get the first one, because of that sweet APU. And, it's perfectly enough for me, because I play older games, and not that Witcher 3 crap, which would make my X3100 beg me to shut it down. Witcher 3 isn't crap, it's a seemingly good game, no offense.EDIT: In fact, I'm more likely to buy a desktop PC
I mean, who would say "no" to a dedicated, discrete GPU in that good-looking case which has fans blowing air? Oh dear, I've realized how much I miss desktop PCs. *grasp
But, it's your assumption that I was going for a GTX 980 equivalent. Actually, I was going for an R7 240, a lower-end GPU meant to max out games like Garry's Mod, and to run BF3 on low settings.
But here's why I'd rather not install an eGPU: power usage. See, the 240 has low TDP (power consumption), and it powers itself from the motherboard (?), so it doesn't need a dedicated power supply.
The method of setting up a DIY eGPU requires to connect a PSU to the graphics card. Hence I gave up on this idea.
So, I'm, indeed, going to buy a new laptop if I get a chance, since I really had good marks this year (12 A's, and 2 B's).
But, I'll disagree with you on one bit:
-investing in a second-hand laptop
Why would I go for a laptop which is even more weaker than a weak laptop? It confuses me...
But, in any case, I should build a good desktop PC. The problem is, my 6 year-old brother (addicted to FNaF and ROBLOX) will "steal" it from me.
The laptop my brother uses now, was bought for me. Simply, he loved it more than his laptop, and he took it away from me, that little bastard! And now I live with the trash I'm used to.
Ah well, I could buy a good laptop for around $500 and say to my brother that it lags a lot. After all, I think it's more cost-effective than buying eGPU equipment.