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Holy Hell! No one noticed that I did the sky and the textures for the map of the month? Even my artwork on the paintings on the wall...
(Edit: I reread that and noticed it sounds all ego-like. I don't mean in that way, i'm just pointing it out. Besides, don't care if anyone uses my stuff anyway.)

Maybe i should major in texturing? :/

Still, I watched the video and laughed my ass off at the references to me. I watched it in a lab with a lot of noise so I didn't hear a lot of it. I'll see it again.

All due to Worldcrafter, it is a very awsomely designed map. Proves he's good with the hammer. Better than the rest for that month.

Congradualations WC!

TWHL need more additional pylons!

EDIT:
p0rtal is gaming crack!!! Played it at a buddies place. Got me thinking a lot about 6D. I'm stoked for the code so I can see what puzzle I can make.

I finished the first tutorial about texture skinning in 3ds max.Check it out here. (1.14mb)

Could someone get me the heavy machine gun from Opposing Force? I need to for a modelling thing for Sajo... which I think is on a vacation or something...
(Thanks Srry for the generosity, I got the model.)

Also, Max 7 still works fine, and I didn't lose my Laptop for long. I disconnected my external drive and it boots up normal. However I lost something much more dear to me. My Girlfriend left me and went home, she gave up on college and me. She thinks I'm good boyfriend material and that I was always so distracted by schoolwork. I think she's right, and I know it'll be a very long time before I earn another one like her. The worst part is that I know everything was all my fault.

I feel empty.

I'm having some mapping withdrawals or something...

NOT BECAUSE OF THOSE PILLS I'M TAKING! But i haven't made a map for a while. So i think since I'm expecting some 6D development this weekend, I can knock stones out with one bird and make textures for the training area (Sancefar Themed) and make a new Sancefar deathmatch map. I fixed my laptop but I don't know for how long. Its seems stable for the moment so I might as use the opportunity.

Will get something done, because I start tonight if I don't have anything left to do.

My Laptop stopped working, can't you smell the irony?

As soon as I get max 7, this happens. I'm lucky I got something done though. Don't worry too much I have everything backed up on an external drive. I didn't lose a thing and 6D and all of my files besides that are all intact.

The good news is that I have a beast computer partially built. I hope it can run source, but not just that, I hope it can keep up with the work load I seem to put my comps through with high res photoshop files, complicated 3ds max stuff, compiling, rendering, and so on.

It won't be long before I finish it. 1 week at a minimum but I doubt that.

I got these pills and they're fucking great! I know what you're thinking and they're not trippy pills, I got vitamins. Which is working great since I nutritionally suck right now. For once I have clear thought and some steady energy. I feel really good after only two days! So in this new found momentum, I will finish as much as I can of anything I'm working on before the schooling gets tough again.

If you eat food like pizza, microwavable stuff, hotdogs, fast-food, and so on and you admit it, I suggest a good daily vitamin.

dude i gotta model brb

Several twhl members have helped with this, and I'm surprised at the timing. Its my birthday today, 10/04/07. Max7 (hopefully modelling) is a great gift whether you knew it was or not.

When I get back into modelling. I plan on continuing my commissions and continue to develop 6D.

To fix my crippled state of modelling since max8 doesn't work. I got Gmax. Loads ups fine, no errors, I can use it as I would use max8. Problem is that I get the scripts to export fuckin smd's and the exporter doesn't work at all! So fucking close to getting things working too. I've searched the wide internet for a solution and even the best recommended ones don't work. I've seen video tutorials for modelling for HL done in Gmax. For some fucking reason it still doesn't work.

The absolute dead last alternative is that I get 3DS Max 7. But I know a lot of the pirate sites are getting shut down, and its older and might not be available. If I get Max 7, I may continue. Otherwise I will have to drop modelling from my repetoir all together and have someone else finish my designs.

The favor is to get me Max 7 somehow, hosted someplace safe because my school's filter will block pirate sites.

Everything on last hopes here

As the story goes, I once had 3ds Max 8 working for a while on my pc, by the time I was getting comfy with it, the registration screwed up, permanantly locking the program from use.

I know, get a registry cleaner. I did, and it didn't work.

Ok... so get a legitimate version. I did, I got max9 and it worked for a short while then fell under the same set of errors. That was a waste of a good chunk of money.

I've reinstalled it several times under different conditions and even turned back the clock on my system. Nothing seems to work.

I bought a new windows disc, but my laptop doesn't read the disc, tried it on my roomy's comp and its fine so its not the disc. Another fine waste of money. At Least I have a spare windows xp disc.

So... I decided to work at school... until they switched to max9 on me in the middle of doing some weapons for Sajo and the Xen Assault mod. Even then, the only available comps are Macs.

Here's my last plea, since registry with max8 and max9 are messed up, I was thinking of resorting down to Max7, one version before Autodesk took over with the stingy activation stuff. My plugins and stuff will still work and I may continue to model for HL. The stuff I would do for school would be done in school, so this is focused strictly on game content. Even then, Gmax would be nice if someone has the installer for that. It was taken off the internet a while ago and I can't find it.

So the question is, who can get me max7? I'm out of options and I cant look for torrents at school, plus everything is filterd.

I hate bringing this up in this context, but I did and can again host max8 for people to grab. I did it for no reason really, and I would like a favor returned even though I am well aware of the rules on this site about warez and cracks. Even then I still hosted max8.


i know no one is gonna read this long rant of complaining so fuck you too.

I found Gmax on Fileplanet, i'm gonna see how that works and maybe do something...

Node 6 is dead. If anyone wants to use it as a base to polish it up and release as their own, I posted the RMF in the unfinished vault. With the Map of the Month thing going, its worth a shot but it won't be mine. 6D is looking more and more promising, and the hype on that is making it more important that this map. So when I do map, it will be for 6D.

The dying HL factor can be stopped if something orgasmically cool can be done to it. Take gravity shifting for example. If that can be coded for Goldsource thus it will have an edge over Source, even though source has Portals and all that.

Its uses would be a new Deathmatch Mod, with new weapons and maps, as well as the gravity shifting to run on any surface. We have modellers and coders, and especially mappers, it can happen... but I don't think TWHL has enough motivated talent to accomplish a monsterous project like that. Maybe in the near future?

All it takes is some clever thinking...

Besides that, I'm motivated on 6D a little, and Node6 is being pushed aside. Ontop of everything else there are Midterms this week. So I have to study for some tests and work on some class projects.

EDIT: A chat with a coder shed me some light on this possibility... seems possible, but it would take a very experienced person a very long time to accomplish it. Its not happening in other words. I still think it would be cool.

What is it with people right now? There are a few good mapping projects going... PEOPLE ARE MAPPING AGAIN! TWHL IS FIXED!

Anyhow, I have a map project I've been planning out for a good month and a half now, I just started blocking it out, so hopefully I may fix some the usual problems from the past. Like overloaded polies, bad spots of texturing, blurry textures, small map... so hopefully I have a decent design and I'll post it in the unfinished when the blocks are in. I'll be working on it this weekend, don't know if i may get it done.

As for other news, I have a date with my girlfriend at the Zoo. Its part of a class project for her, i'm going along because the Zoo is cool and she wanted me to go with her. Can't argue with that! She is such an inspiration... I wanna finish 6D nowz!

I got glasses. So less mispelled words and more headaches.

Will post an image later.

"Move zig move zig move zig move zig for great justice move every zig..."

-All Your Base

err... whaat??