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If I understand what your saying your searching in hammer for 'cs_office' in the textures screen. The actual textures may not have 'cs_office' in the name. Try searching for just 'cs' or just look through all the textures without typing anything in the search box.

Urbanebula@hotmail.com

Logged on earlier but you guys must have been and gone already. Keep updating this thread cos I have very little net time and E-Mail me any stuff I need.

HL1 will stand forever as a shining beacon of gaming excellence.

I think its normally on at 9 or 9.30 in the morning. I think.

Challenge is 121 on Sky Digital

HL1: Throw a grenade instead of a satchel. Or forget where you set a satchel and press the button to detonate it only to realise its under the water your standing in.

HL2: Try and Drive the buggy with the rollermines on and fail. Damn cliff. Or trying to swin in the sea to see what happens. Scared the crap outta me!

Erm...If you have sky its still on Challenge every morning.

Somebody needs to start proofreadign

Oh how I giggle...
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...Seriously.

W00t! I'm a volenteer!!1!oneone!

Sorry. Still diggin around for my Op4 disk.

Edit - Found it.

so this is where all my voters are

not guilty.

B it is but I'll have to write it tomorrow night (Friday) cos of work.

For those who prefer using the high definition models there will be a pack released after the mod is completed. The only thing at the minute is that the high def models are so bloody difficult to animate.

have you seen appleseed?

Apple seed? What the bloody hell is that?

The building texturing looks like a bit of a weak point from all the shots.

I admit its a bit off but I wouldn't say its particularly bad. Just different. I kinda like it.

I uploaded this especially for you but its not my first map. I just found this. I think its mine anyway but I remember I few of my mates playing with worldcraft too. Oh i don't remember.

The point is its on my PC, its a map and its very old.

enjoy.

http://www.twhl.co.za/mapvault_map.php?id=3629

Avenue Queue - The internet is for porn!

hehehe.

Also...

Keane - Everybody's Changing
Keane - This Is The Last Time
Keane - Bedshaped

Wonder why so many people dislike Keane. Its very powerful stuff.

I think its certain textures of an organic nature. Like the xen slime ones for example. I think it also latches onto all models.

More publicity. This skin has been complete for about a month now but I think It needed a good showing off.

Get this: Secret passwords around the level will allow you to view original concept art work as well as some old versions of my models that weren't included so you can play the game the way it was originally designed to look. I already have 3 different versions of this Hgrunt model and I believe this to be the last. Who knows though.

Very discriptive indeed. If i was a little more talented in a paint application I would make an image of how I see the scene in my head. Definitely somthing I'll stick with reading.

As for the choices given : I'll say C, it may mean being sitting ducks for a few minutes but being ready for combat has got to be better in the long run.

Resident Evil style

W00t! I'm already planning my section! Op4 you say?

digs around for Op4 disk

I need more votes!

Oh and @seventh:

I'm gunna say 'A' for the quickest and safest way

Safest? ahem...

Green lights were flickering from outside the glass doors and a shadow bolted across the platform outside

--Dr. Henderson's blog--
--Day 1--
--The system crash--

?Hey Pete.? I said, darting out of my chair. ?Cheer up buddy.?

?I?ll cheer up when I actually have an eventful day for once in my life.?

?Hey,? I said ?Careful what you wish for. For all you know an eventful day in Black Mesa could mean anything from an explosion to a chemical leak.?

?It would still make a change.?

We reached the security desk at the front of hour sector. The lobby of sector A was one of the most attractive. Much older than sector C, sector A was built when the facility had a bigger budget. The glass doors at the front led to the transit system and all day you could see people going back and forth on the trams through the windows. About half way from the door to the desk 2 structural pillars shot up from the floor into the ceiling. They were lined with marble tiles, which were as clear as a bathroom mirror. Where the floor would be cheap lino in sector C here it was tiled. Dark black tiles that always looked wet and reflected the entire room upside down.

Officer Mitchell, the guard behind the desk was on the phone. Dr. Wilson was behind him with a younger scientist, possibly another trainee. Mitchell put the phone down and turned on his swivel chair to face Wilson.

?Sector C says the systems there haven?t been affected. The experiment is already underway. They?re just waiting for their research assistant to get over there from the dorms.?

?Very well.? Wilson gestured the younger scientist over and they disappeared through the door to the left the desk back into the labs. The offices were through a door to the right.

?Got your flashlight Joe.? Said Pete, handing it across the desk.

?Oh, thanks buddy.? Mitchell looked up. ?What time are you on till??

?Six tonight.? Said Pete

?Catch me later and I?ll buy you a beer.? Mitchell?s face disappeared behind a copy of the Black Mesa times.

Suddenly the ground started to tremor. The lights hanging from the ceiling started to sway slightly. They flickered on and off.

?What the Hell?? I asked

?Probably just a tram going by. Happens all the time.? Mitchell said, not looking up from his paper.

?Wait,? Pete was looking at the Tram timetable. ?There isn?t one due to Sector A for 2 more hours for the lunch run.?

The ground shook again, more drastically this time. Green lights were flickering from outside the glass doors and a shadow bolted across the platform outside.

?What?s going on?? I asked

Another jolt and the marble tiles shattered off one of the pillars as it buckled, dropping dust from the concrete supports above.

?We gotta get out of here.? Said Mitchell as he darted up from his seat.

?Where can we go?? yelled Pete

A) Run to the tram platform

B) Run to the offices

C) Run to the labs

D) Stay put.

Short I know but I gotta get ready for work.

i thought i would just say hello, so, HELLO!

HELLO!

Circle was great.

C

I know it may seem illogical but those smart guns are heavy.

By the way, the story is good and the description is excellent but at one point you switched the writing style. First you were telling the story in the third person (saying 'they' and using Ryan's name) but then for 1 paragraph you switched and said "we had only touched down...etc etc" in the first person. Just a note.

the assassins are also the governments doing when the military's cover up failed. (both use some of the same weapons)

The Black Ops are in a higher devision than the military but they are both the governments doing. The military failed to cover up the disaster so an even more elite team had to be dispatched to silence them as well. The Black Ops brought the Nuke in with them and the G-Man re-armed it because he had already led Freeman to safety. He was simply cleaning up the mess that everyone had made in all the chaos.

As for the actual topic of this thread, if you were to reskin the gman's textures onto a scientist model or a zombie model it would look awful. The mesh is entirely different and the textures would be all over the place. The best thing to do would be to add the gmans mesh to the scientist skeleton in Ms3D or somthing but the zombie one...well...that would just look ridiculous.

Try the bink videos that were released in 2003-2004. They were all beta stuff.

Trying to remember the names.

kleinerslab.bnk
tunnels.bnk (i think. That one was good cos it showed off the Hydra)
striders.bnk
traptown.bnk

I can't remember most of them now.

oh oh, barricade.bnk was my favourite.

Google it - HL2 bink videos.

some are new and some are old.

(edit - Oh wow! I just found this which includes fottage from way back in 2003!)

http://www.fileshack.com/browse.x?cat=1478

Oh crap, I knew it wouldn't take long...

Hey MNuTz. Guys this is my bro-in-law.

For those of you who have played OTOS, my compo entry, he's the one who came up with the window concepts.

The Glasses are not that grotty no. They have got writing and icons on them. I used MSPaint to compress the image. I know, I'm an idiot.

Might take a while to get some more pics up because the networks being a little bitch and ignoring my computer! I hate networking.

Ok the story:

Originally the idea was to have it based in a military base and the player was a rebel mercinary trying to overthrough an overpowering force that had taken over the world and enslaved the human race. Then i thought, "Why am I making HL2 in the HL1 engine!?" SO its changed and the best way I can explain it (without spoiling the twists I have planned) is this.

Urban.Inc. is a major company that owns everything in Skyline City. It controls the people's daily routines right down to their clothing. (Note: the grey jacket and pants with the SLC (SkyLine City) initials.)

SkyLine city itself is built as a Eutopia for the rich and powerful, set on a gravity defying disk hovering just above the cloud line and built entirely by Urban.Inc. the City protects its citizens from the creatures that are growing ever more ghastly in the world below.

Think of it this way. The story goes something like Final Fantasy 7 merged with Half-Life 2. SkyLine City is Midgar, Urban.Inc. is the Shinra corperation.

No concepts of the entire city have been created yet but I believe this will give a general example[Midgar from FF7]

Also as I mentioned in "THE NEW URBANEBULA" the game will be released chapter by chapter and at the end of each short burst will be a choice like in my fan fictions. Then a thread will be dedicated to the mod on my forum for the players to make choices. The next chapter will then be created using the players desicions. Nifty eh?

I always wanted to learn Russian or Japanese but I have no time anymore

I was talking to a TWHL member on MSN and I suddenly realised that having announced and started working on this Mod a few months ago (as well as a page on my website (soon to be updated)) that THE URBAN PROJECT doesn't have a thread for itself. So here it is.

I have to jet off to work in a second but here is a little publicity photo. More news and info when i get time.If you want more info now then search for "The new urbanebula" thread.

There are 2 starship troopers games. One is a strategy game which was released in 1999 ish and which quite frankly i thought was "Fucking Awesome!!!11!!" But the most recent was a very disappointing FPS. I played the demo and...well...I could review it but I don't want to make a gigantic off topic post of cursing and generally being pissed off.

Anyway. The screenies look sweet. Methinks a single player mod would "KICK TEH ASZ!1!

That your teasing us with some old screenies you've found on your HD?

Or maybe that you've found time to work on it.

Being generally unlucky in every aspect of my life means that I never expect to be recognised for anything I do. I am 19 years old and next week I start my first full-time job as an (get this) 'Administrator' (he he he)

The thing is I don't want publicity. The way I see things is the more people you know, the more shit that gets put around about you. Take a look at the modern day celebrity for instance. Thousands of people know them but don't actually know them. They are not all there friends. The rumours are catastrophic and they can barely hold themselves together let alone any decent relationship. I have only 5 really close friends and thats fine by me. They're all the greatest people I know. I love my girlfriend and I one day hope to start a family. If I can be appreciated by that small group of people (my friends and my family) I can die happy.

Mapping is my hobby, I don't care about getting good reviews, Hell, I barely care about what other people think of them. I also enjoy jogging but I don't want people telling me that I'm doing it wrong. I'll do it the way I bloody well like. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind constructive critisism (It makes my life easier when it comes to mapping). I love being able to sit down and craft my own world in a way. Its a real escape from the bordom of unemployed teenage life. But as I said earlier that is about to change.

Unbreakable - I guess I'm a different sort of person from you however I'm rarely around here since I finished college and I never got time to get to know you or appreciate your work. However I have read a fewof your posts and they all (including the recent insulting one directed at me, but with due cause) make you seem like a decent hard working guy.

I wish you nothing but the best of luck.

See you around

A it is. Writing it tonight.

BLOODY SHIT INVALID COOKIE BOLLOCKS!

I just wrote a short review but I got booted when i hit post and lost it all.

Basically HL2 is short, repetitive (especially in the drving sections) and has no entertaining multi-player aspect or replay value.

Also steam is a bag of shit and runs like something Microsoft made.

6/10
disappointing

about time people realised you can fight people with fists and feet and not just guns

F.E.A.R implemented hand to hand combat and kung-fu style moves as well as some pretty nifty weaponary.

But there was an animation where the zombie hauls a sci and a barney

Also it features in chapter 5 'Blast pit' in Half-Life. If you go through the door on the second level of the silo with the tentacle monster before you do the ground floor you can see the zombie dragging them on the level below you through the grate on the floor.

Just found this thread just as I was thinking about what to do to pass the time. I'm working hard on my project and need a break. This'll do nicely.

I'm in.

of course. language skills are required for a good review and you certainly have language skills

Cheers.

Unless you are being sarcastic in which case...cheers...

garg re-skin-by Urbanebula and Ambient Impact

Yay! Credit!

And to be put alongside Ambient.Impact...wow...what an honour.

I didn't think so either. I was lookin at the HL1 maps.

Tension among the ranks. I'm waiting for server to get back on-line so I can upload my revamped web-site.

Hey Hunter. Do you still want me to review Hostage Situation on its release?

Wow. The HL1 pic at the end of the first page looks impressive for the engine.

I know its taken bloody ages for me to post. This part was done about a week ago. Trying to access the net has been murder.

--Dr. Henderson's blog--
--Day 1--
--The system crash--

The automatic door squeaked and moaned against its rollers as it was opened by hand. A beam of light cut through the darkness as Peter returned to his desk with a flashlight.

"No lights out there either then?" I said, despite the fact that I already knew the answer.

"Well," he said, leaning backwards on his leather desk chair "Dr. Wilson says its probably just a power cut but I overheard somone say that the trams have stopped on the entire northbound sector of the facility."

"What about the Sector C Test Labs?" I asked, not really caring at all.

"I don't know. Nobody can get in touch with them." Peter turned his chair to face his blank computer screen. He placed the flashlight on his desk, shining onto the right hand side of his keyboard which created a line of black trapezium shapes on the wall on his left. He looked at them and smiled. Pushing his keyboard back he placed his hands infront of the beam of light and proceeded to amuse himself by making shodow puppets on the wall. "Mind you I doubt this experiment will be different from any other."

"What do you mean?" I asked

"We'll give them the technical data they need, some other guy will send the sample up, some bottom rate research assistant will help out with the practical work and the senior professors at Sector C will take all the credit." He slumped back in his chair and looked up to the ceiling. "We won't even know how it goes. They'll just call us up in 2 days time and ask us to do the same thing again."

"So basically you hate your job?" I said "You want to be higher up."

"Well yeah," Peter launched himself back up straight and stared me in the face. "Each month when I get my 3 days outside of this place I always go to this little bar down the road from my crappy apartment and there is always a couple of my best buddies there."

"So?" I said, waiting for the point of his rant.

"So," his tone was sharp "they all talk about the stuff they do all day at work or at home."

"So?"

"Would you give me a break and just listen?" Peter was obviously hung up on something. "I've lived in this underground laboratory for 329 days for each of the past 4 years. I type information I don't even understand from a sheet into a computer, call up some brainy science jockey to tell them what the computer tells me and then I hear nothing more of it. When my friends ask me what I do all day all I can say is 'I don't really know' and they always look at me like I'm a lunatic."

"If your unhappy just leave." It wasn't really helpful comment but its all i had.

"I tried that. I wanted to go into selling insurance." he said, his head was in his hands "When I told them I used to work at Black Mesa they basically said I was overqualified and that they couldn't afford to pay for my services. Nobody feels liable to take on an ex-BMRF employee because of the wages they pay here. Not even Micros-"

He was interupted by an electrical hum. The lights flickered back on and the computers beeped as they loaded the boot records.

"Hey." I said, in the light I could see his sad expression "Are you alright?"

"All I need is a change." he said "I want something different to happen someday. I want action and adventure."

"I know." I didn't know at all. I'd only been here for 6 months and the thought of working in a high security underground lab still excited me. It was just to put his mind at ease.

"I'm gonna take this thing back." He waved the flashlight as he got out of his seat and headed for the door.

I thought about what I could do.

A) Go with Peter and try and cheer him up

B) Let him go and sort himself out while the computers are booting

C) Get more coffee

D) Go and talk to Dr. Wilson and find out whats going on with the rest of the facility

(ok guys, remember that the disaster is imminant so wherever Henderson ends up in the next section will seriously affect his situation when it hits)

Jesus!

I left this thread for dead the day after I made it. Its still going!? WOW!

I've really enjoyed some of the input. You guys all seem like fairly decent people. Thanks for taking part. Continue if you wish

Wanna-be emo kids who are pathetic and say they are going to cut themselves purely for attention and never do.

Thats almost me except I'm not a kid and I don't cut myself and don't want to and I'm more Punk than Emo. But I am pathetic.

Mark Matheson 38 Mains Wood, Erskine, Scotland, PA8 7JW SOMEBODY RAPE HIM!

Would that be an arch enemy by any chance?

I got a Canon PowerShot A410 for Christmas and it got me thinking. I really like taking photos but with a film camera its not as simple. You can't see what your getting until you've paid to get it developed. I love taking photos of landscapes and nature.

Do any of you guys like photography and do you have any decent photos to share. If not, just post your crap.

I will soon when I get time but at the moment its too dark and cold to get any decent outdoor photos.

Favourite bands: Daft Punk, Gorillaz

Damn, same here. Forgot those ones.

stuffonmycat.com

There's another for my LOL list.

Looking good guys.

Also its nice to see someone else who still uses the classic Low poly models.

What are your other system specs.

It doesn't run too well on mine either.

well, I just thought you could have left the fact that you did'nt want to give me tips or hints out of the thread.. it was spam

Sorry, I'm having one of those days. I'll get a MOD to delete the post.

Sorry for calling you a prick then. Where cool.

Cheers mate. Sorry again.