Journals
Discovered kHED modelling program that is super simple to use. It lacks rigging/bones but is very easy to make static prop models and has a much nicer UV editor and navigation than milkshape. It also exports UV layouts with vertex normal colors which is super useful for texturing. Lastly makes your QC and exports MDL right out of the program (just put studiomdl.exe in the base directory).
Still working away at the big model export tutorial (3ds/milkshape/blender) but I keep on finding new quirks with the blender exporter. This is gonna be a long one.
Still working away at the big model export tutorial (3ds/milkshape/blender) but I keep on finding new quirks with the blender exporter. This is gonna be a long one.
I've decided to make my project in Unity3D. Because i'm more familiar with it then goldsource modding. And because i rather do 3DS games than PC games.
Have i gone here for nothing? Maybe not or maybe.
Have i gone here for nothing? Maybe not or maybe.
As you may already know, I am involved in a lot of projects, I'm not gonna make a list because that's not the most important stuff.
One of the problems I have with myself is basically this: I work on a project for some time, then stop working on it for a few days or even weeks and when I want to work back on it, I just do it for a few minutes or I can't.
I tried a lot of stuff like music, playing video games before/after working. I even went to the point of trying to set myself deadlines for features or bug fixes. But not a lot of success tho.
This just annoy the hell out of me and this can "harm" those projects by delaying them. So fellow TWHLers, what are your tricks/secrets to work on projects without forgetting about them and finish them to the end?
One of the problems I have with myself is basically this: I work on a project for some time, then stop working on it for a few days or even weeks and when I want to work back on it, I just do it for a few minutes or I can't.
I tried a lot of stuff like music, playing video games before/after working. I even went to the point of trying to set myself deadlines for features or bug fixes. But not a lot of success tho.
This just annoy the hell out of me and this can "harm" those projects by delaying them. So fellow TWHLers, what are your tricks/secrets to work on projects without forgetting about them and finish them to the end?
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I became friends with a furry on Discord. He's so nice to talk to, lol. (extremely nice according to my liking)
Probably because he's the only one I know who's interested in my stories about Jody. Oh, very interested, indeed. Maybe a bit too interested.
He has told me that I was cute (two times, actually, it brought up a smile on my face :D, because only 3 people (incl. him) have told me that).
On the other side, though, he's looking for a boyfriend and really likes me.
gg wp Admer XD
But hey, I can withstand all of it, I guess.
No regrets for meeting him! Well, I maybe regret it because he showed me a bunch of furry porn. No regrets, still!!! >:D
Probably because he's the only one I know who's interested in my stories about Jody. Oh, very interested, indeed. Maybe a bit too interested.
He has told me that I was cute (two times, actually, it brought up a smile on my face :D, because only 3 people (incl. him) have told me that).
On the other side, though, he's looking for a boyfriend and really likes me.
gg wp Admer XD
But hey, I can withstand all of it, I guess.
No regrets for meeting him! Well, I maybe regret it because he showed me a bunch of furry porn. No regrets, still!!! >:D
Second Pride journal in a row, but this one is maybe a little different from Vodka95's.
Many of you know I'm currently down in London for a few months on the biggest job (so far) of my freelance career. Here's my expert 'directing finger' in action, plus my lovely 70-200mm 2.8. Very, very pretty lens
So one of the biggest advantages of being in London right now is that I managed to get to Pride; a huge festival of love and acceptance. It was one the best days of my life, honestly. Tens of thousands of people partying solidly for ~12 hours - smiling and loving life the entire time. It was a beacon of sense amongst recent headlines..jpg)
Many of you know I'm currently down in London for a few months on the biggest job (so far) of my freelance career. Here's my expert 'directing finger' in action, plus my lovely 70-200mm 2.8. Very, very pretty lens
What is your biggest proud?
The mine are my mods (^:
The mine are my mods (^:
Best moments I've recorded in my school:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0_kjaDK5fs
The first 30 seconds or so are simply silent because I planned to add some music there, but meh. xd
This is one of the bigger reasons why I love school. I tried to listen and put subtitles and translate this stuff, but sometimes, it was so muffled and non-comprehensive that I couldn't understand what we were saying.
In the video, you can see characters like Roki (yeah, that guy who will be in Quest For Burek; the guy who got trapped under the chairs and played the guitar) and Enis (the "Bosnian gopnik").
I'm very curious about what you have to say about this little compilation by me.
(I had also planned to include the part where one classmate punches the Qur'an a couple of times and kicks it, sheesh, but that wouldn't be received well xD)
Edit #1: 24 June 2017; Reason: Changed the first sentence, hoping the journal would get some attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0_kjaDK5fs
The first 30 seconds or so are simply silent because I planned to add some music there, but meh. xd
This is one of the bigger reasons why I love school. I tried to listen and put subtitles and translate this stuff, but sometimes, it was so muffled and non-comprehensive that I couldn't understand what we were saying.
In the video, you can see characters like Roki (yeah, that guy who will be in Quest For Burek; the guy who got trapped under the chairs and played the guitar) and Enis (the "Bosnian gopnik").
I'm very curious about what you have to say about this little compilation by me.
(I had also planned to include the part where one classmate punches the Qur'an a couple of times and kicks it, sheesh, but that wouldn't be received well xD)
Edit #1: 24 June 2017; Reason: Changed the first sentence, hoping the journal would get some attention.
I'm writing too much of these journals lately, but screw it. I need another advice, but this time it's development related. It comes to the engine specifically.
I'm considering changing the engine my project is running on. The choice is as follows:
id Tech engines (tech 3 or 4 specifically) - I'm a big sucker for id Tech and really love their engines, each of them is great and has it's advantages and disadvantages, but they are pretty outdated by now and not that flexible. I'm moderately experienced with working for Tech 3, 4th iteration being a bit too obscure though.
Source - I'm not too much experienced with Source, but having a good familiarity with GoldSource might help me with that.
Unreal Engine 4 - the big hitter lately, it has everything a modern engine should have, but I don't have any experience with it at all.
CryEngine - like UE 4, no experience with it.
Berserk option - develop a Half-Life mod, then go standalone with Xash/Solokiller's engine once it's done.
Since what I want to achieve is passable/decent graphics with great gameplay, keeping up a good and relatively efficient development and speed, and cross-compatibility, which engine should I choose?
I'm considering changing the engine my project is running on. The choice is as follows:
id Tech engines (tech 3 or 4 specifically) - I'm a big sucker for id Tech and really love their engines, each of them is great and has it's advantages and disadvantages, but they are pretty outdated by now and not that flexible. I'm moderately experienced with working for Tech 3, 4th iteration being a bit too obscure though.
Source - I'm not too much experienced with Source, but having a good familiarity with GoldSource might help me with that.
Unreal Engine 4 - the big hitter lately, it has everything a modern engine should have, but I don't have any experience with it at all.
CryEngine - like UE 4, no experience with it.
Berserk option - develop a Half-Life mod, then go standalone with Xash/Solokiller's engine once it's done.
Since what I want to achieve is passable/decent graphics with great gameplay, keeping up a good and relatively efficient development and speed, and cross-compatibility, which engine should I choose?
Opened my 3rd year exam results; turns out I haven't achieved enough to continue on with my course. I can still get an ordinary degree by passing the resits in august.
Only hope now is that I can partially transfer to informatics (comp sci) and attempt to get a honours degree with them given half of my computational physics course so far has been... comp sci.
Not great news to hear. Family is supportive though.
Only hope now is that I can partially transfer to informatics (comp sci) and attempt to get a honours degree with them given half of my computational physics course so far has been... comp sci.
Not great news to hear. Family is supportive though.
I was very curious about this, so I decided to dig into my old pictures.
It's a part of my personal history. I've talked about it a lot of times. But I wasn't really sure if that's how it really happened.
Let's see what happened to my old PC (R.I.P., my old friend), and how on Earth did my brother "steal" the laptop from me?
22nd of July, 2014.
A few days after my old PC's death.
A month before that, my parents bought me a laptop. I wanted to build a "gaming rig" (hehehehe, there was an AMD Radeon HD 6450 on that part list, once), but they bought me a laptop instead. It's actually a good decision, considering what I'll probably get this summer.
And as you can see, that PC in the picture is the dead corpse of my old PC.
It had 2GB of DDR2 RAM, an Ati Radeon HD 4650 (which served me well, by the way), and a dual-core Pentium processor @ 2.4GHz.
It also had a Hitachi 300GB HDD:
For some reason, there's duct tape lying on the Ati graphics card:
Weird.
Its life came to an end during the time I was staying at my other grandparents'. Basically, I brought my recently-bought laptop and my brother used the PC I left him at home.
It was inevitable. He was playing Roblox one night and there was a thunderstorm outside. That's at least my assumption. He then continued playing and then there was a strike, and the components got fried.
Sad, isn't it?
When I returned, I was shocked and angry at my brother.
We took the computer to a local PC fixer in Stolac (my nearby town), and we traded. He got whatever was left of the PC (actually, only the graphics card got fried), and we got this 2007 Fujitsu Computers Siemens Lifebook S Series S7120. Fujitsu S7120 for short. That's the one I use now.
So, my brother used that one, probably as a punishment for not taking any care about my PC, and I still used the newer laptop.
(taken in 2015)
Oh, what a cutie. He played DooM when he was 5. :]
This is us playing Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas in my room:
21st of September, 2014.
Oh, the good, old days when he listened to me and wasn't so stubborn. :]
Now I realised that he was so young back then...
But in those pictures, he's using the older laptop! How come he's now using the newer one!?
Well... it all came down to this:
9th of July 2015.
As you can see, I'm in a different house in that picture. Precisely, at my grandparents (and that monitor in the background belongs to a PC which has an AMD Athlon processor, and a low-end, integrated GPU).
What does that mean, then? You can clearly see that I had the older laptop. My brother was using the newer laptop. During that time, he must've gotten attached to its performance, so he noticed the difference between the 2 laptops.
What a bad move, seriously. I don't know why it happened. I really don't know. Maybe my parents told me to leave the laptop to my brother, who knows. xd
And if you're wondering, no, this one happened after my PC had died. My PC died in 2014, while this one happened in 2015. Take a look at those dates I wrote up there...
There. That's why I'm now forced to use this trashy laptop:
But I'll build a new PC this summer! HA-HA! But if I do the same mistakes as I had done them in 2015, then I'm screwed.
Also, R.I.P. my previous journal. It had reached a staggering amount of 181 comments and it shall be memorised as one of those journals which deserve to rest eternally, in the TWHL hall of fame. Rest in pepperoni.
It's a part of my personal history. I've talked about it a lot of times. But I wasn't really sure if that's how it really happened.
Let's see what happened to my old PC (R.I.P., my old friend), and how on Earth did my brother "steal" the laptop from me?
A few days after my old PC's death.
A month before that, my parents bought me a laptop. I wanted to build a "gaming rig" (hehehehe, there was an AMD Radeon HD 6450 on that part list, once), but they bought me a laptop instead. It's actually a good decision, considering what I'll probably get this summer.
And as you can see, that PC in the picture is the dead corpse of my old PC.
It had 2GB of DDR2 RAM, an Ati Radeon HD 4650 (which served me well, by the way), and a dual-core Pentium processor @ 2.4GHz.
It also had a Hitachi 300GB HDD:
Its life came to an end during the time I was staying at my other grandparents'. Basically, I brought my recently-bought laptop and my brother used the PC I left him at home.
It was inevitable. He was playing Roblox one night and there was a thunderstorm outside. That's at least my assumption. He then continued playing and then there was a strike, and the components got fried.
Sad, isn't it?
When I returned, I was shocked and angry at my brother.
We took the computer to a local PC fixer in Stolac (my nearby town), and we traded. He got whatever was left of the PC (actually, only the graphics card got fried), and we got this 2007 Fujitsu Computers Siemens Lifebook S Series S7120. Fujitsu S7120 for short. That's the one I use now.
So, my brother used that one, probably as a punishment for not taking any care about my PC, and I still used the newer laptop.
Oh, what a cutie. He played DooM when he was 5. :]
This is us playing Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas in my room:
Oh, the good, old days when he listened to me and wasn't so stubborn. :]
Now I realised that he was so young back then...
But in those pictures, he's using the older laptop! How come he's now using the newer one!?
Well... it all came down to this:
As you can see, I'm in a different house in that picture. Precisely, at my grandparents (and that monitor in the background belongs to a PC which has an AMD Athlon processor, and a low-end, integrated GPU).
What does that mean, then? You can clearly see that I had the older laptop. My brother was using the newer laptop. During that time, he must've gotten attached to its performance, so he noticed the difference between the 2 laptops.
What a bad move, seriously. I don't know why it happened. I really don't know. Maybe my parents told me to leave the laptop to my brother, who knows. xd
And if you're wondering, no, this one happened after my PC had died. My PC died in 2014, while this one happened in 2015. Take a look at those dates I wrote up there...
There. That's why I'm now forced to use this trashy laptop:
Also, R.I.P. my previous journal. It had reached a staggering amount of 181 comments and it shall be memorised as one of those journals which deserve to rest eternally, in the TWHL hall of fame. Rest in pepperoni.
Shameless plug time!
Hi folks. I used to do stuff on this site. Now I don't!
Just a quick one: if you're at all interested in tabletop gaming, please take a look at my mate's Kickstarter campaign for EPiCS - a laser-cut, interlocking city system. I've been assisting with the campaign for a while now (I produced the video) and can certainly vouch for the quality of these things: they're utterly amazing to see in person.
Hi folks. I used to do stuff on this site. Now I don't!
Just a quick one: if you're at all interested in tabletop gaming, please take a look at my mate's Kickstarter campaign for EPiCS - a laser-cut, interlocking city system. I've been assisting with the campaign for a while now (I produced the video) and can certainly vouch for the quality of these things: they're utterly amazing to see in person.
Hi,
The moment is came again where I need to play with the Hammer.
I downloaded all the assessment and set Valve Hammer Options as usual with right pathes to the building tools, textures and game exec (Half Life/hl.exe)
I run one of the tutorials about doors type (doors) but once in the game nothing happen.
The console says map change failed: 'doors' not found on server.
I checked the valve/maps folder but there's only doors.map and no .bsp.
Do you know a way to solve this issue?
I use Steam HalfLife, Hammer is under Windows 10
Help me !
The moment is came again where I need to play with the Hammer.
I downloaded all the assessment and set Valve Hammer Options as usual with right pathes to the building tools, textures and game exec (Half Life/hl.exe)
The console says map change failed: 'doors' not found on server.
I checked the valve/maps folder but there's only doors.map and no .bsp.
Do you know a way to solve this issue?
I use Steam HalfLife, Hammer is under Windows 10
Help me !
I think I've been hearing a click of death from my laptop's drive ._.
If I buy a new drive, how difficult is it to duplicate this one's exact contents into the new one? It would be bad for my schedule to have to reserve a whole weekend installing Windows and getting everything back to where it was.
What might make a solid, durable choice for a new drive?
Could someone provide any advice?
If I buy a new drive, how difficult is it to duplicate this one's exact contents into the new one? It would be bad for my schedule to have to reserve a whole weekend installing Windows and getting everything back to where it was.
What might make a solid, durable choice for a new drive?
Could someone provide any advice?