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Early today, a friend of mine from highschool, and two others were killed today in my hometown. Reason: he was driving way too fast, and tried to pass a truck towing a boat. He ended up clipping the boat, rolling the car, and smashed into a truck.

http://www.wtnh.com/global/story.asp?s=7167775

Don't drive fast people. Stuff like this happens far too often.

so is anyone gonna post screenies? or keep it under wraps until its time to enter?
just wondering, because i only have one area slightly detailed as for now.

go to wallmart, and spend $400 on a dell
that'll run half life

wth i was working on something behind the scenes as well :-/

Breaking Benjamin - Wish I May

How long does that take?

I'm doing a jungle/water/rock theme

Laughed through every single one of his reviews.

I'm officially in. i've had some free time and i got the layout down, and i'm detailing now!

Sexy.

agreed

i just got the layout mapped. then when i have time, i'm going to detail it, and throw in entity work

mozz hands down

Is that anything like Black and White?

The very first game (if you can even call it a game) i remember well playing, was "Mario teaches typing" for the computer. So by the time i hit 3rd grade, i could type better than my teachers, and better than most of my fellow classmates.

By the time the SNES came out, my family got an NES and my favorite game hands down, was R.C. ProAMi would play it for HOURS. Win races, upgrade your vehicles.. see pixelated women carrying a mass of pixels similar in shape to a trophy
And of course there was Mario/Duck hunt. Track and field. Blaster Master (love that game to death)
The first game i ever beat was the First Zelda. Followed shortly by the second.

Then my uncle bought us a Genesis. Played sonic spin-ball for hours on end as well. Could never beat it until like 4 months ago. Sonic one, never beat. Sonic 2, beat. Sonic 3, owned, Sonic and knuckles, owned me.
My brother and i had a HUGE rivalry on Super-Baseball 2020Shortly after that, i got the 32x expansion to the genesis, and i played this REALLY superbly made space fighting game with my cuz greg. Single player had an autopiloted ship, while you shot at enemies and stuff. And multiplayer was free roam. Where either player can steer the ship while the other shot. Like... Double dash meets rouge squadron.

speaking of which, i JUSt googled the name of that game and its called shadow squadronSo after i figured out how to get my 32x to fit into my NOMAD (the portable sega genesis that ate batteries like candy)i would take that EVERYWHERE and my parents then realized the wonder of rechargable batteries.

so consoles came and went.

the 64 consisted mainly of hexen, waverace, goldeneye, and starfox.
THEN i played the demo of Unreal tournament and i was HOOKED
played for hours, just the demo and then my dad bought the GOTY half life. and again was hooked.

so it wasnt until sophomore year of highschool when me and my buddies started planning out a counterstrike map to make of the highschool.

i was elected mapper and developer.. so i got hammer.. found some tutorials here, and i found the search bar handy until i couldnt find what i needed, and started an account and here i am on twhl learning from the best

counterstrike lead to hldm, and my sp maps fail so hard i have about 14 non released.. i should toss some up here for shits and giggles.

so thats my story.

Hah that's all we can ask

i dont even want to try to imagine how much can be lost.
backup to cd's argh

sweet deal chickenfist i have the mapping guide bookmarked. When i have time, (between classes whatever) ill draw up some plans and start fiddling

I might as well jump in this conversation.

first of all, c-striker stop being an asshole. we'll respond when we respond. It's a forum, not direct Instant message communication.
Have some patience.

But to help you, unless you spent a lot of time aligning certain textures, go into the texture selection, browse to a texture you use a lot (i reccommend the brick in your fy map) mark it, and then hit shift+a (texture application)
select treat as one, align to face, then hit apply. that should cut down on some r_speeds for ya

Bad surface extents.... An example would be having a brush with one side a "!water" texture and the 5 others (assuming its a cube) be a non "!" brush. the ! in front of the texture means water, or something of the like.
in essence, a water brush has to have all the sides the same "!water" texture or else the engine will 'flip-a-bitch'

And if you want a driveable vehicle, yes it needs an origin. just make a big box the size of the vehicle you made, make an origin brush's center on center with the bix box, then delete the box, and assign the origin to the same entity as the vehicle.

Anything else you need help with? If you ask nicely, i'll happily oblige

hell, i'll map.
did you modify the jump distance at all?

It's you
cough

Rim, you're sofa king amazing at mapping.

I can't even begin to imagine the r_speeds

Mario with a Tau cannon

You should know better by now that you're at your own risk when clicking ANY link from TWHL

rim, c-mon it could be a zucchini or something

I thought someone would appreciate that

well, if you want loads of custom content.

models, textures, sounds, coding.

A one-person team for all that is quite tedious.
I usually get overwhelmed making textures for only one map.

• i do use mspaint tho.

omfg... focus and xenocide as a skulk.... = creamy goodness

make a lot (a lot) of smaller, single player maps.
When you can finish 50% of the one's you start, you're ready to make a mod.
then you need a team behind you, but in order for that to occur, you need media first. I.E. a storyline, character list, every detail needs to be set out. You have to have maps already made...

mods arent like lost; 'make it up as you build' (unlike OIFH i think)
which is why there arent many mods floating around this site.
this site is a platform for mappers to .. step up on.. so to speak.

I notice that the rocket turret shoots at the player at a certain point. having the rocket travel the path towards the spot where the player was at the time the rocket was launched.

which means in lamen's terms, that the rocket shoots behind the player.

Now i know that it would be much more of a challenge if the rocket turret interpolated the player's movements and shot in-front of the player so the rocket would hit the player, not the ground behind him.

I realize that this is probably VERY hard to accomplish, but it's just and idea.

Other than that the update is amazing.

you and your map skillz will be missed

i agree.
winrar has that 30 day trial thing that just nags at you when you use it past expiration

the compression is fantastic, and you can even choose to make a self extracting archive if you really want to so the people dont even need winRAR

yeah hotdog is right i'd just put an 8 unit brush at the water level you want. then add some ambient sounds when you go below the surface.

I thought that if you gad a bombsite it would allow it?

vista tells you information about your processes

OEM = ?

i only let it start when i want to scan my system. other than that i have no reason to get viruses.
I google for computer parts, go on twhl, facebook, and yahoo for email.

havent had a virus myself in years. the occasional tracking cookie that adaware picks up, bu other than that, the way one browses the internet has a huge impact on whether or not system cleaning tools are required.

thats the way i think anyway.

heyy.. i use norton AV....
haha. you guys have seriously been a huge help.
i know i'm not going to buy any parts for this computer for years, so im not even going to start researching it because by the time i can afford all the parts and such the machine will be out of sate and therefore not worth it.

ok. note taken
thanks for the info.

note taken thanks

what about 3rd party gaming desktops?
are those any good

yeah, just look for the satellite dish and shoot anything on the way, of course there is the detour with the key and the safe and the grenade launcher, but lets not get into that.

did u set the last (bottom right) color to transparent?

it was a geforce 5200 fx
but it sucked
wouldnt even run splinter cell well at low settings 800x600
im happy with what i have now even tho i know i couldve saved money.
BUt i'm not going to make that mistake twice, i can assure you

Ok. This is a 17" flat screen so i should be all set.

sorry

place a regular player start in there.

the green thing. looks like gordon with the flu

I'm going to start fresh. From the motherboard out. Including case, hardware, monitor.. EVERYTHING is going to be custom ordered.

Probably going to be a pain in the ass for a few weeks to deal with drivers and compatibility issues. but it will be worth it.

Would that be like.. a redeemable voucher, or via FedEx air mail?