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Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-14 07:19:31 UTC
in "The Line" Post #179954

Films became extremely gory and realistic even before videogames had more than 16 colors.
Games can become more gory as far as I'm concerned (I felt the gibs were missing in HL2), just as long as they have an M rating.
Part of the population still thinks that every videogame and every animation movie is for kids, which all of you know is far from the truth. If we can get people to understand that concept, parents will think twice before buying certain games or even buying hardware for their kids.
You say a lot of parents can't control their kids properly... There a lot of ways to control access to a PC or a console, at least in your own home.

I sort of feel lucky to have been born two decades ago. I had the chance to play with these before videogames and PCs became our everyday machines.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-13 04:31:24 UTC
in PS3, Leader of immitation. Post #179718

From what I've seen these past years, all those technological aspects are not really important since no developer uses the full potential of any console. I'm sure that there will be some Ps3 games that will look much better than some Xbox360 games even if it has unified shaders. And some Wii games will look better than some Ps3 games, etc.
Games are what really matter. It's mainly about what developers do with their time and budget, not the console itself.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-13 03:09:18 UTC
in PS3, Leader of immitation. Post #179705

The first thing that comes to mind is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

Look at the robot's legs and then look at the hexagonal pipe supports in the Splinter Cell screenshot. I don't see the same quality

By the way, does anyone know if xbox/ps2 games are displayed with anti-aliasing? That was another lie in the previous console generation.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-12 18:24:01 UTC
in Mountains Post #179661

Try reading the tutorials >> http://twhl.co.za/tutorial.php?id=106

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-12 12:13:17 UTC
in Competition 20 Post #179622

This enthusiasm of people submitting their maps is what makes mapping worth the effort, and gives sites like TWHL a noble reason to exist.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-12 11:50:19 UTC
in PS3, Leader of immitation. Post #179619

I agree. Developers don't always do the best job when they are rushed (quake4 framerates anyone?). I guess it will take some time for good games to come out.
Even so, the best games of the dying generation (I'm thinking the last Resident Evils, Shadow of the Colossus etc) are nothing like what they had promised years ago. In fact, when I first heard about the Sega Dreamcast, I expected graphics like the 360 shows now, not PC-like graphics. I didn't know much about hardware back then, but I was still upset

Edit: Didn't someone say years ago that Xbox would be able to make graphics at the level of the Toy Story 2 renders?

Edit2: Which Xbox games have these graphics they showed us?

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-12 11:39:14 UTC
in Competition 20 Post #179613

I'm fighting the urge to destroy the map myself, hehe.
There are some funny things I will talk about once we are done with the judging.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-12 10:51:01 UTC
in PS3, Leader of immitation. Post #179597

What I mean is that going from 2D from 3D was a huge leap, while the difference now is just some shaders and more polygons. I compared the Project Gotham videos from the Xbox and Xbox 360 videos, and you couldn't really tell the difference unless you were seeing the console itself. This situation would be impossible with a SNES and a N64 game, for example.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-12 10:22:38 UTC
in PS3, Leader of immitation. Post #179592

Yet another console generation I can skip on. The increase of the PS3 price is not on par with the graphical improvement. I have seen some videos (for all three consoles) and none of them are really impressive.
I have some friends who are huge Nintendo fans, so I'll get to play the dozen or so decent games that they'll make. I wonder what the next Mario Party will be like. Probably fun with the new controller.

The first time I saw a game for Playstation1, I had been playing Sonic & Knuckles in my old Sega Genesis the previous day. The feeling of awe when I played the first levels of Tomb Raider is something that I haven't and will never experience again.
Each time it seems the graphical leap is less! Nintendo64 was a huge step over the 2D SNES. Gamecube was a big leap over N64, but not as much. Wii, after the videos I've seen, is even a smaller technical leap over GC. The same happened with Sega, Sony and now Microsoft...

Does anyone remember when Sony talked about the ultra 1337 "Emotion Engine"? Too many false promises. I lost my faith in consoles long ago

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-10 14:05:15 UTC
in Clipping issue Post #179333

But seriously clipping is evil. I really recommend Vertex manipulation!

Not again Xyos!

If you are going to clip, you should use a bigger grid size. To make those func_breakables, I agree that Vertex manipulation is a better choice.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-10 13:53:11 UTC
in Competition 20 Post #179331

unless they are pentagonal bricks

Never heard of them!
But... hexagonal bricks ftw!

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 20:40:47 UTC
in Competition 20 Post #179244

The other compos ended at midnight GMT (altough I managed to update an entry at 00:20 hrs or something like that.
I wish I could've participated in this competition myself. Specially after learning how things are built in real life.
Of course, as judges we won't check technical aspects. You know, just the basics. If there's a brick wall, it will most likely break into bricks instead of pentagonal pieces, etc.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 19:59:41 UTC
in Media Release Update! Post #179238

I like the concept art a lot. I somehow wish I wasn't studying architecture so I could commit myself to a mod project. I can only do small (but intensive) bursts of mapping until summer vacation arrives

Keep it up. It looks very proffesional.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 17:17:30 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179220

Ok. I assumed 2nd hand information usually derives from 1st hand information. Medicine books are not written by someone who has actually seen every single type of illness and situation in their career, I think.
The human race has actually progressed thanks to the passing of information from one another, specially since that info has been written.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 17:01:12 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179217

Nobody said you were timid... You must have felt so yourself! It's like that situation where a kid says "I didn't do it!" before anyone notices the broken window

I'd only like to know which of these two sentences is the one you agree with.
1)First hand information is more valuable than 2nd hand information.
2)2nd hand information is worthless compared to 1st hand experiences.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 16:55:21 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179215

On the contrary, you are trying to close peoples minds to learning telling them that no matter how much they learn, they won't have an opinion until they've lived through those things. -100 points for you sir.

It is true that a first hand opinion is more valued. We all know that. You haven't made any divine revelation here, I'm sorry to tell you.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 16:44:14 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179211

To cover for your loss, you post sarcasm

To cover for your loss, you post advice from some sort of "higher knowledge" possition in which you believe you are. We've been seeing it throughout the thread. It gets a bit old and you still don't get people don't see you like you see yourself.
(by the way, that's just my uninformed opinion, and since it's not valid to you, you don't really need to write another 4 paragraphs in reply trying to convince yourself of something)

Edit:

To many people who are on an opposing side give up whenever they feel intimidated by a bigger named member. I have few peers so my intimidation level is extremely high

I think I missed something... What was this about? LOL

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 15:43:56 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179198

No, I still do not understand!, but please enlighten us with your knowledge, I won't be able to sleep well if I don't get your approval

/sarcasm
Seriously, since you don't know me personally, your opinions on what I understand and I don't understand are still worthless (if we follow your line of reasoning).

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 15:17:41 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179195

Erm, that's what I've been telling you the whole time... I didn't just find out.
A couple of pages ago I said

Now seriously, people don't give a damn if you tell them their opinions are wrong in an Internet forum (you being the exception it seems) No one will take your word as truth, even if you are convinced.

It seems you weren't reading carefully enough.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-09 14:16:27 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179191

you may have an opinion about anything you wish. You may not have an informed opinion, or an educated opinion but you CAN have one. I, and most people I know, will just overlook your opinion as meaningless noise from an uninformed person

And other people might just overlook your opinion as meaningless noise as well. Or did you actually think that anyone truly cares what you and your group of people think? As if you were some kind of reference point?
That's quite funny, really. Yours can also be an uninformed and uneducated opinion if someone decides to think so (as you are doing with people in this thread), no matter how much you've convinced yourself of the contrary.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-08 15:55:37 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179077

A beating heart means something is alive. A baby born dead has died in the womb. If the child is born dead and so didn't induce it, it's sad. But if you do induce it, you killed it...
The reasoning behind all of this is something like: It is right to kill a foetus if the mother agrees. But what if she doesn't? Would you say someone killed her child against her will? No, because if wasn't alive yet? Of course it was.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-08 12:30:30 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179042

A happy live with adoptive parents, for example. Some mothers don't know if they really want the baby until they have it in their arms, you never know...

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-08 12:03:37 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179039

Abortion is rarely about killing a single cell. But that single cell is nothing but a previous stage before growing into a human. That's the whole point. You're not killing a cell. You're stopping a complex process.
There's a difference with the term "potential of life". In your example, sperm and egg cells can create life together. They can't do so by themselves. The moment there's a single cell with 46 chromosomes, that's technically a human.

You can say

that most of the times these girls arent ready for it, neither are their bodies

. But then we come to the obvious conclusion regarding these situations (young mothers). They aren't ready for sex either. That's the whole problem. People thinking they're so grown up and can have relationships without knowing there is almost always a risk of pregnancy. So abortion is not the solution. Education is.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-08 09:09:42 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #179015

I am nearly 100% sure that Hitler the babe, didn't plan on invading Europe

The EVIL gene is fiction!

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-08 08:27:43 UTC
in New Mod: "Turnstile" Post #178999

If you could find a way to trigger something from anywhere in the map (I think it would require coding), you could activate a trigger_camera looking over a semi-3d view of the map, in which you could place moving parts. For example, you open a distant door with a lever, and in the map you can see what door has been openened, etc.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-08 08:24:52 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178997

He was probably a result of different factors like education and personal experiences. I would just educate the little hitler to become a doctor or something like that. And forbid him to use moustache, of course.
You can never be completely sure of the outcome. Everyone must have heard that famous question:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?
If you did, you just killed Beethoven.
Of course, today it is possible to know if a child will have serious problems like malformations etc, and we could've said there was nothing wrong with Beethoven.

You seriously consider a single cell to have the same rights, responsibilities, et c., as a newborn baby

Definately not the same, but at least the most basic one, the right to live.
I didn't know babies had responsibilities though...

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 16:56:30 UTC
in Hello Once Again Folks... Post #178932

Can you model things like statues, sphinxes and that sort of thing? I've been thinking lately that my maps (both HL and Source) could use some custom models...

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 16:18:24 UTC
in Newbie Questions (/apologize) Post #178929

I'll quote myself from the mapping thread:

I'd like to destroy the myth of the overlapping brushes.
While I do agree that overlapping will make HLVIS take longer (needs to make extra face splitting calculations) it will not affect HLRAD since HLRAD uses the information that has been decided in the previous process. When the RAD process occurs, those extra bits of brush have already been discarded and have absolutely no effect in the process.

In other words, it doesn't do any good but it won't cause any problems.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 11:07:40 UTC
in 2006 Mapping competition. Post #178879

From the rules
[quote]# You are expected to map an area/zone/room. The choice of size is entirely up to you. The only restriction will be that you cannot leave the zone you create. Thus, if you build the Eiffel Tower, no one can leave the observation room at the top. You can build all of France, but your player Start must remain at the top with all exit routes clipped off. If you are unsure, get in touch with myself or any other site admin and they will let you know if your idea abides by the rules.

The limit of the zone you create is entirely up to you. It can be as small as a closet, or as large as the entire city you presently live in.[/quote]

How exactly will you determine if those two rules have been breached? In a way it says that your area must be limited, but it also says it is unlimited. Are you looking for an area with the same theme? Or maybe an area in which every part of it can be seen from any spot?

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 11:01:39 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178877

you didn't specify if that cliff was of a sufficient height to cause injury so my opinion

Well, I did say it was a high cliff. Intelligent people don't need to read words letter by letter. It was sort of obvious (except for you, that is)
/giggles in return.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 10:53:08 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178874

You may think you have an opinion, but you don't, sorry

Once again, let's say our thanks to the judge of valid/invalid opinions.
My opinion is that throwing yourself from a high cliff is a bad thing because it will get you hurt. But don't listen to me, I have no personal experience on the matter, just jump and enjoy the ride!
Edit: Now seriously, people don't give a damn if you tell them their opinions are wrong in an Internet forum (you being the exception it seems :)) No one will take your word as truth, even if you are convinced.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 10:43:08 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178870

Ah, the parental attitude when there's nothing else to say, how typical

Cussing doesn't offend me, I was just making a joke in relation to your previous ending in one of the posts. Sorry if the joke was too subtle.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 10:38:59 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178868

If somehow you are under the false impression that anyone will listen to you, just because... You are sadly mistaken.

You seem to be listening since you write about 4 paragraphs in reply to everything I say...

You seem to take things too seriously

Some "Anger Management " needed here me thinks!

Definitely yes.
You used the word "shit" at least a couple of times. I do not like to speak on such terms, and I expect It will not happen again. I guess it happened because you're part of

a group of people who talk shit, and have groundless opinions.

Of course I might be wrong. I don't pretend to be an all-knowing person with the capability to judge people like you do. I prefer to map!

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 09:36:13 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178854

I? Misinterpreted?

You thought I was making a comparison between the effects of abortion and war, when I was really talking about your dictation of worthiness and unworthiness of opinions based on personal experience.

Would it be tactless if I pointed out that apples,oranges and gays are all fruit? No?

I couldn't care less about that sort of joke!

I do not like speaking in such broad generalities.

You can't expect everyone to always talk in your terms...

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 08:54:51 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178839

I wasn't comparing anything, it was just an example that came to my mind. I'm sorry if you misinterpreted it. What I was trying to say is that it's very easy to put off people saying they can't have worthy opinions in things they haven't lived through.
By the way, apples and oranges are both fruit

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 04:10:02 UTC
in 2006 Mapping competition. Post #178811

It wouldn't be too difficult to adapt THIS area. The full map is unreleased so nobody could complain.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-07 03:56:30 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178806

Is that the real point you wanted to make? or were you just talking to hear your own damned voice?

I wasn't trying to make a real point, but you were, by saying that people can't have opinions on something like abortion unless they live through it first hand:

anyone who has a viewpoint on abortion and has never lost, nor conceived a child has no opinion worth listening to.

...

@inuendocrash: war does indeed stimulate the economy of a country, but it can as well deplete its resources and result in the loss of the main working population. We have videogames thanks to the A-bomb project, but go tell the mother of a dead soldier that his death was a small price to pay so you could have cheaper gas and Internet... I would find that hard to do

I hope the technological advances result in less side-effects and innocent deaths in future conflicts... [Shrek voice]Like that's ever gonna happen![/Shrek voice]

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-06 20:18:42 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178772

It is bad if the objective of that enterprise depends on the efficiency, intelligence etc of the individuals, not in the fact that they are men or women.
If a woman needs her government to be composed of 10 male ministers and 10 female ministers (as it happens in my country) to feel represented, that means she does not feel men represent her, and does not feel equal to them.

Edit: [quote]anyone who has a viewpoint on abortion and has never lost, nor conceived a child has no opinion worth listening to.[/quote] You mean that unless someone has suffered the horrors of war, his opinion against it is not valid?

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-06 19:41:13 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178768

Good if it helps them be on par with the rest of the students. Bad if it gives them too much advantage. That would be racist.
The same things happens with the concept of parity. For example, some enterprises want to have the same number of men and women in the important positions. I think it would be wrong to give the job to a woman if there's a better qualified man for the job, and to give the job to a man if there's a woman who could do better. If parity was a reality, no rules about it would be needed.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-06 19:30:37 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178765

How about giving it in adoption to some wanting mother? That's much more sensible in my opinion. And unless there's been a rape or health problems with the mother, I don't think she has the right to choose. You freedom stops where the freedom of another one begins.
Of course, she has the right to choose not to get pregnant in the first place. It seems people make their choices too late.
Abortion is the irresponsible reaction to the irresponsible action of getting pregnant in the wrong situation. There are exceptions, of course.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-06 18:56:11 UTC
in DDHLP Redesign Mapping Contest Post #178758

The links are all messed up...
The rules look like a HLDM tutorial!

eye candy is nice but may not contribute anything to play

I don't like the tone in that sentence...

Don't use monsters (like squads or assassins or gargs, etc) they can really lag out the map and may even crash the server

I thought NPCs didn't show up in HL deathmatch...

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-06 18:36:18 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178757

How does sperm grow to become a human? They need egg cells. And egg cells need sperm. I though everyone knew that!

What is a grown human?
My cousin was born after roughly 8 months in gestation. Do we have to wait one month to consider her a person? How does that work?

Edit: I guess I have the delete all my RMFs because they aren't full-grown maps, damn!

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-06 18:24:11 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178754

It is basically a human, so maybe it has only the very basic rights like... the right to live?
Do children and aged people have different basic rights?
Edit: a just-fertilised egg has the potential to become a full-grown human, so they are the same thing at different stages.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-06 18:12:46 UTC
in Dunce Americans Post #178752

Foeti can't really think

Not if you kill them before they have the chance, that is. Abortion is murder, unless there's a magical number of cells that have to be reached before being considered a human being with human rights...

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-06 14:47:13 UTC
in Competition 20 Post #178717

You still have several days left. Now that you already had an idea, you could do a quick modification of the base map with some of those elements and hope for bronze, you never know!

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-05 12:56:17 UTC
in Question with carving Post #178568

Using a bigger grid size helps lining up the clip line. Moving a vertex is also manual and takes as much or even more effort, right?

With clipping, the operations needed would be:
-Make the brush and select it.
-Draw a clip line and press enter
-Draw the other clip line and press enter.

With VM, the operations needed would be
-Create a wedge
-Duplicate that wedge
-Rotate and change its position
-Deselect wedge in the brush creationoptions and select block
-Create a normal block brush
-Move each vertex of the block to the limits of the wedges.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-05 11:36:33 UTC
in Question with carving Post #178550

Clipping is without any doubt the fastest way from one brush to the other, and causes no invalid solids...

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-05 11:27:13 UTC
in Question with carving Post #178548

Can you really make the brush in the left of this picture become the brush in the right with only vertex manipulation? You must be some sort of magician!

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-05 06:55:56 UTC
in Halo-esque deathmatch map Post #178522

Aaaaah the models, their outer boundaries go outside the hull, does that cause a leak?

Yes it does.

Kasperg

Posted 18 years ago2006-05-04 19:24:07 UTC
in Half Life Deathmatch Source Post #178456

Crossfire turrets have been changed and there's a 3D skybox:
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3329/crossfire0tk.jpg

HLDM:source uses displacement surfaces and blended textures:
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5808/bootcamp1ib.jpg

In stalkyard, even physics are involved!
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/747/stalkyard15km.jpg

Kasperg