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@Worldcraft Dude: Cats are always funny

@DieH@rd: I would self advertise but I've never released anything overly* ground breaking.

*overly as in 'not in the slightest bit.'

I once started a mod called "Attack of the cheese monsters."

Would anyone have played that and taken it seriously?*

*Despite the fact that it was anything BUT serious.

The Full Review still stands when you release this Mod.

Note i say WHEN, not IF. WHEN.

Get it done!

Hey guys. Sorry about that really obnoxious title but I thought 'Hey, why not make a big show of coming back to TWHL?'

Got a new net connection and I'm back in business.

Sooo...

Boo.

Lookin Purty!

Hey guys,

Just thought I'd drop in and let you all know I'm still floating about. Also I'm still working on Kinetix and will hopefully have some presentable material the next time I drop in.

In the meantime here is a lovely brief journey into the mind of one of Neonite City's most treasured and discreet specimen. What follows is simply a journey into the mind of a psychic, alien, political guru. This will give you an insight of the attitude your potential spirit guide will convey.

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So long as your just sitting there pay attention. I do not care for your puny race. I do not care for your miserable planet. I only care for the safety and well-being of my own kind. Unfortunatly my own survival is key to this one responsibility and since my mortal frame is trapped on this disgusting rock I am willing to accept what little assisstance one of your kind can offer.

When I crashed here four years ago I had hope. I could feel the active, apparently intelligent minds which were dancing around my craft as the crowds gathered. I remember the disappointment when I awoke in that primative laboratory that was constructed by your most powerful research and development company. I thought for a second that I may have travelled backwards in time. However this is the grim reality and now I come to you.

You are the best this planet has to offer me. Please do not let this go to your head. It is not a compliment on any level. You are not the world's strongest super man and you do not have an overly high IQ. You are eqaully matched in both areas. You are emotionally laid back and fairly stable. You are not the perfect hero but you are the perfect puppet. You have what it takes to jump-start my little operation.

What lies before you is a path of destruction and choas. My enemies are closing in at a rapid pace and they will destroy everything in their path. The fact that I have chosen you indeed makes you the luckiest human being there is. You alone can survive the oncoming slaughter and you may help whoever you please along the way. I cannot promise they will be able to come with you when the time comes to...well...if I told you that now then I may erase what little bit on enthusiasm you are currently showing.

Just know this...your journey will be...out of this world...

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I take it that this story in no way leads on to HL2? Will you have a reasonable explaination for that?

Just tell me what you guys think. I'm trying to get it so that you can imagine the emotion of the situation.

?We are the last hope.?

I remember those words well. They were the last words that Sergeant O?Brien said to us as we piled out of the door of the immobilized APC. As we stepped into the torrential downpour of rain I remember hearing the scream of the guy standing beside me as he was cut down by enemy fire. I can still feel the warm blood spattering across my face as a rifle shot ripped through his neck. Guns were being fired from the front of the group in a desperate attempt to suppress the entrenched soldiers raining hell down from the gun towers. A mortar shell struck the APC behind me and the whole thing went up in a fireball, which had certainly come up from Hell itself. Metal fragments ripped through the crowd. One was so close to my head I heard it flying past my ear before it embedded itself in the back of a young infantryman in front of me. I lost my balance and fell forward onto the group. My face and hands sunk into a disgusting layer of mud, red with the blood of those who had fallen. The crowd kept moving forward as more men piled up on the ground. My rifle was trapped under something and I couldn?t shift it. I turned to see my best friends lifeless eyes staring back into mine. He had been hit in the forehead by an anti-armour round and was bleeding out of his eyes and nose. I grabbed his arm and rolled his body over towards me. His sniper rifle slid from his hand and was buried into the thick sludge as more soldiers trampled over it. I snatched it from underneath a soldier?s foot and he fell sideways. He got onto his hands and knees, his eyes wide with fear and his face covered in mud and camouflage-paint.

?Hey!? he yelled above the screaming and gunfire. ?You?ve got a sniper rifle!?

?Yeah??

?Use it.? He gestured towards the central gun tower. As he did three shots shredded his chest and he collapsed, vanishing under more bodies as they fell.

I turned back to the rifle lying in front of me. I took hold of it and examined the scope. It was impossible to see through due to the thick coat of grime, which had covered it. I turned to my right. There was a deep puddle a few feet away. The dark brown water was the best thing this harsh battlefield had to offer. Another APC was hit by a mortar shell and its occupants where hurled into the air. They came down with a mighty impact, some breaking bones and others being shot before they even hit the ground. A body landed in the pool, turning the water red as blood flowed from a gaping wound I his back.

?This is fucking hopeless.? I heard one soldier cry.

?Come on? yelled his CO ?We?ve got to get out of their firing line. Get to the base of the towers.?

They disappeared through the mist and gun smoke. I thrust the scope into the red water hoping it would be enough. I took it out and looked through it, the crosshair barely visible in the dense rain. I looked to one of the towers and noticed that its occupants were now clearly visible. I clicked the scope back into position on the rifle and braced it on top of a corpse. I took aim, right between the eyes of the gunner, took a deep breath and set my finger on the trigger.

I think I just shat my pants.

I'll do it when i get home and upload it when I can. (Whether the thread dies or not.)

Keane - Is it any wonder?

Hurrah for the new album.

NP.

Will do ASAP.

My PC is still undergoing surgery but as soon as its up and running I'll resend you the Garg and the Zombie.

Anything else you need in the mean time (Skins/Voice acting/Sound or Music) just ask.

(Not aimed at anyone here) It really annoys me when people say physics and destructable scenery don't effect gameplay. Uhm, yeah they do. Especially multi-player.

MP Scenario: The last surviving player on team A is sniping from a steel girder tower and is racking up some major points. The other team (B) is down to its last 2 men. Neither of them have any ammo left eccept for remote charges. Now:

Game without physics. Team B attempt to throw a charge into the tower but can't throw them far enough, loose their last charges and get sniped in the face to death falling in pre-set animations.

Game with physics. Both players rush the tower giving the sniper time to get one. He strikes him in the head and he collapses, limbs flailing in a great display of physics powered ragdoll crumplage. The other grabs his charge in mid flight and gets below the tower planting the 2 charges on each girder on one side of the tower. He runs for cover and detonates them, sending the tower and its occupant into the floor with dusty crushing smashyness. Effective and bloody cool to watch.

I rest my case

Leaving my arse

???

What are you implying 7th?

I said i'd drop in every now and again. I'm having a spot of bad luck with my PC at home at the minute. I've blown the power supply although thats been fixed and now I find out that I've burned out my CPU too. Saying that it was a 2.2 Ghz in desperate need of an upgrade.

Looking at this whole physics thing has made me think deep deep thoughts and now I'm worried. Looking at games like Crysis and UT2007 the graphics are damn near perfection right? So now we move on to physics and when we've perfected that whats next? Surely we are on the brink of gamings demise. What happens when 'The Perfect Game' is released. Where can we go from there?

?219 on play.com. I imagine thats nearly 400 US dollars.

Won't be getting one of those anytime soon. Sooner or later they will be a requirement and games companies will force prices to drop.

Pretty stuff though.

The next generation of gaming is almost upon us the the key word is PPU's. Physics processing units for your PC. They take the strain of Physics off the CPU for more fluid (Quite literally) physical gamplay.

As the author of the 'Concerned' comic once delicatley said.

"Don't worry, that sound of a boner ripping through my pants was just my boner ripping through my pants"

Check out these movies.

http://www.ageia.com/physx_in_action/tech_demos.html

w00t! O RLY OWL FTW!

Crysis does look incredible. Looks like its time for a system upgrade.

Black Mesa FTW!

That soft ball looks more like a physics simulation. Nice work.

Is this going to be a full story over the 25 maps (plus intro and outro) or is this the first in a series?

I think I've just shit my pants!

Ahem...

http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/6716/moutside6gt7zr.jpg

I really do hate to nit-pick but this requires some attention.

Domain: http://www.BlackParadox.co.uk
Costs: Free (I'm a friend)
Space: As much as I need
Bandwidth: Shit loads. (Don't know exactly)
File Size Limit: None
Restrictions: No porn and shit like that.
Scripting: PHP, MySQL and more...I think
Database: Lets just say yeah.

I'm not counting for the fact that my website has gone down though.

Thankyou, Urb!

For the lack of my.php? You are most welcome.

No phone line means no net connection.

Urb suddenly remembers the new possibility of wireless broadband

YAY! I'll see what I can do.

However it may not be for a while seeing as my recent road accident has cost me a total of ?350 so far.

As for the soldier, for reasons best known to itself, the TFC soldier model came up with a red skin and when armed with a shotgun would crash the game.

Here's one last update. I scraped the shitty TFC soldier in place of Romka's Male Assassin model. Credit will be given and I will ask permission before I actually implement it into the mod.

I edited the textures on the arms and legs and added a helmet also with edited textures.

I can hardly think of any besides Rabid and M_Garg. :

Google is your friend!

http://www.jawed.com/jawmd2/

I found some DN3D textures on my PC the other day. 6 of them just sitting out in the open area of my E:) Drive. So I made a DN3D wad. It looked shite. End of...

The quake ones may look good however.

Brilliant stuff. I'm impressed.

Here's some more screenies before my computer gets packed up and the net connection goes.

As you may notice I've replaced my amine textures with modified versions of the far more superior Morningstar.wad.

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Wha!?

Had to watch the 'numa numa' dance one more time

Oops.

Ah...welcome ChapterNine.

[this thread is not intended to offend anyone. It is simply a personnal observation and I do not wish to start a fireplace]

Is it just my imagination or has the Source SDK opened the world of mapping to n00bs!? I have just glanced through the 'Source Mapping' section in the forums and it just looks like half the people on there have just dived into hammer and started making blocks and cylinders and calling it a map. This is what I was afraid of when I first used the Source SDK. Making a basic map is far too simple with source and half of the work (I'm talking of props here mostly) is done for you.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a post yet saying "I've opened this hammer thingy and I've just got loads of buttons and 4 black boxes. WTF!?"

Hmmm...Screenshotage!

Lookin' sweet. Keep it up.

So is this Jimmi or what?

Meh iz teh confuzeded. (Translate :- 'I'm Confused.')

Huh? Whats that?

J/K

Keep it up. This looks cool. More media now! ME WANT!

So many kind words. Obviously I made more of an impact here in the last 2 years than I realised.

Like I said I will pop up very rarely and what MNuTz said is probably very true.

/ drooled over that /

... cried at the inevitable lack of Urbanebula

Laughed at that...
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...Then cried...

Now I'm watching this.

Update. The crowbar nasty pick axe replacement has been replaced by a baton with some nice shiny blackness going on (although honestly it looks like a dildo in the game cos you cant see the grip until you attack with it) and some nice custom thwacking sounds.

Also I have replaced the HGrunt with TFC's high def soldier model. I think its looking pretty damn cool.

Me neither

I can't see whats changed with the Barretta model other than the colour of the arm.

I'm the character that didn't take the crappy online test.

Ah yeah, the boring one in the background that nobody knows.

@Elom: Its all one movie. Pulp Fiction

Yeah, pfft.

Urban searches for self on google.

/ Ha ha ha. No matter where you go an author will always find his work. It's creepy.

This is looking impressive.

Well, its happened before but I believe this time its going to stick for a while. The new relationship is going well, make that incredibly well and I've never been happier. However I quite quickly realised that this girl is THE ONE and therefore life must go on and things must go up to the next level. I'm moving into my own flat. Hurray for freedom and all that.

However this flat, my relationship and work is going to be where all of my time goes from now until God knows when. Basically I will not be able to afford my lovely internet connection that I clutch to so dearly and even if I could the property is rented, doesn't have a land line and never will.

So I'm into my last week of Internet access. I will continue to work on my mods and although I won't be open to constructive critisism I will take into account what I have learned from everyone here at TWHL. Although I may pop up from time to time it will be a very rare occassion. One day I will return properly, I know that without a doubt but I'm thinking no sooner than a year or two, when I either mess things up with this perfect woman or get a place with a phone connection and a much better paying job.

As for now I'm here and will be for one more week.

Goodbye's are always so hard.

Got home from ripping the carpets out of my new flat.