Journals
I played Buddhist Wars, that one random mod that epitomizes a half-assed effort without even trying to hide its own laziness.
This is the excellent story the team (calling themselves "Adrenaline Bawls") came up with: You join the war of a bunch of Buddhists against a Nazi garrison in a mayan ziggurat in the middle of nowhere.
The first map with action is, as I said, a mayan ziggurat in the middle of the Americas I presume. You arrive in a glitchy drop pod and witness a lag so atrocious that you have to look away. It is basically a large yard with a giant ziggurat in the center, and monsters dotted all around the map. Barneys fight nazi soldiers fight houndeyes, zombies, and headcrabs. Expect framerates to go rock bottom.
Your objective, which isn't given to you, is to climb to the top of the ziggurat, which has a hidden elevator for you to ride in. But Nazis have taken positions all around the temple and making your climb only a bit harder. It's easy. Why? Because the author(s) decided to make the mp5 deadly accurate. If you are looking to shoot with a kickass mp5, then this is your mod.
So, once you ride down the ziggurat's elevator, you arrive at an underground base infested with greenskins. Immediately 3 slaves prepare to zap you as soon as you arrive. Act fast or you will be reaching enlightenment faster than you can say "Siddhartha".
The greenskins are all grouped together in clumps at a time, which I don't think is the best way to design gameplay. Usually you will run into zombies backed by slaves, but the way they are placed lines up perfectly, meaning snap-to-grid placement and unfortunately for them, the slaves will friendly fire-kill the zombies. Good for me.
You arrive at a red Nazi Apache Helicopter (if that even exists) which magically teleports you to a "Nazi hangar" with a mass of black headcrabs (because there's no lighting.) Reminiscent of a mod called "Alien Blast", except in the hangar, r_speeds are as atrocious as the mayan ziggurat and you will lag. Do not fight the headcrabs. Just open the door and run the the next room
Filled with zombies. Oh, well, more exercise is healthy, right?
So you arrive at this badly-designed lift, which will get you stuck and then proceed to crush you to death. Slowly and painfully. Unless you jump right before the lift stops. If you can.
However even if you ragequit there, you won't miss anything except the ending. Where you stand aghast before a legion of Hitlers. Map loads, you fall thru black space, credits appear. Then you will know the true meaning of Enlightenment.
This is the excellent story the team (calling themselves "Adrenaline Bawls") came up with: You join the war of a bunch of Buddhists against a Nazi garrison in a mayan ziggurat in the middle of nowhere.
The first map with action is, as I said, a mayan ziggurat in the middle of the Americas I presume. You arrive in a glitchy drop pod and witness a lag so atrocious that you have to look away. It is basically a large yard with a giant ziggurat in the center, and monsters dotted all around the map. Barneys fight nazi soldiers fight houndeyes, zombies, and headcrabs. Expect framerates to go rock bottom.
Your objective, which isn't given to you, is to climb to the top of the ziggurat, which has a hidden elevator for you to ride in. But Nazis have taken positions all around the temple and making your climb only a bit harder. It's easy. Why? Because the author(s) decided to make the mp5 deadly accurate. If you are looking to shoot with a kickass mp5, then this is your mod.
So, once you ride down the ziggurat's elevator, you arrive at an underground base infested with greenskins. Immediately 3 slaves prepare to zap you as soon as you arrive. Act fast or you will be reaching enlightenment faster than you can say "Siddhartha".
The greenskins are all grouped together in clumps at a time, which I don't think is the best way to design gameplay. Usually you will run into zombies backed by slaves, but the way they are placed lines up perfectly, meaning snap-to-grid placement and unfortunately for them, the slaves will friendly fire-kill the zombies. Good for me.
You arrive at a red Nazi Apache Helicopter (if that even exists) which magically teleports you to a "Nazi hangar" with a mass of black headcrabs (because there's no lighting.) Reminiscent of a mod called "Alien Blast", except in the hangar, r_speeds are as atrocious as the mayan ziggurat and you will lag. Do not fight the headcrabs. Just open the door and run the the next room
Filled with zombies. Oh, well, more exercise is healthy, right?
So you arrive at this badly-designed lift, which will get you stuck and then proceed to crush you to death. Slowly and painfully. Unless you jump right before the lift stops. If you can.
However even if you ragequit there, you won't miss anything except the ending. Where you stand aghast before a legion of Hitlers. Map loads, you fall thru black space, credits appear. Then you will know the true meaning of Enlightenment.
Custom models are a pain in the ass.
I spent 2 hours tonight going through DonPunch's XSI modeling tutorial and everything worked, save for the textures.
Come to find out .png's don't work. (yeah im an idiot) So i booted up vtf edit and all those and i tried making a texture from a targa and putting it in my proper folder and making the .qc file and making the vtf, vmf, all those.. included $vertexlitgeneric, blah blah blah.
well I went through about 40+ iterations of different combinations/ file locations across the span of 4 hours... Then I gave up. Model materials have defeated me. [HELP!]
BUT
In the process, i learned how to make custom textures for use in source, NOT ON A MODEL, and i also scored a free plugin for paint.net that makes it SUPER easy to create bumpmaps from any picture..
I made a nice grungy rusted metal texture and bumpmapped it myself:
I'm so proud of myself.
But i still cant get the freaking model texture to show up. The model is there, but its all checkered and junk.
Also that texture is just a random picture my g/f took and left on my desktop. It was just pure laziness that it was right next to the VTF edit shortcut so i could just click+drag over and it automatically trimmed/re sized it.
Yeah. so anyone know how to make model textures? I'm baffled.
I spent 2 hours tonight going through DonPunch's XSI modeling tutorial and everything worked, save for the textures.
Come to find out .png's don't work. (yeah im an idiot) So i booted up vtf edit and all those and i tried making a texture from a targa and putting it in my proper folder and making the .qc file and making the vtf, vmf, all those.. included $vertexlitgeneric, blah blah blah.
well I went through about 40+ iterations of different combinations/ file locations across the span of 4 hours... Then I gave up. Model materials have defeated me. [HELP!]
BUT
In the process, i learned how to make custom textures for use in source, NOT ON A MODEL, and i also scored a free plugin for paint.net that makes it SUPER easy to create bumpmaps from any picture..
I made a nice grungy rusted metal texture and bumpmapped it myself:
But i still cant get the freaking model texture to show up. The model is there, but its all checkered and junk.
Yeah. so anyone know how to make model textures? I'm baffled.
Feck.
Is Hammer (HL1 Hammer) compatible with Win. 7. I'm using and everything seems to work fine that is until I try to add an ambiance sound which won't play. I've extracted the audio out of the gcf and into gearbox/sounds (this is for op4) but the sound won't play. I've done this before (on my TZS map) and the only differences now are I'm using op4 instead of HL and I got a new Windows 7 laptop.
But anyway the map will be a relatively short SP map for Opposing Force. You are a soldier and you and your squad have been pushed back into retreat by xenian forces. You take shelter in an abandoned military outpost to the north only to be ambushed in the night by them, you wake up to find your squad decimated and must escape the base. (This map doesn't take place anywhere near the BMRF, it is much farther north)
That's the basics of it.
But anyway the map will be a relatively short SP map for Opposing Force. You are a soldier and you and your squad have been pushed back into retreat by xenian forces. You take shelter in an abandoned military outpost to the north only to be ambushed in the night by them, you wake up to find your squad decimated and must escape the base. (This map doesn't take place anywhere near the BMRF, it is much farther north)
That's the basics of it.
Finished that scene I've been posting lately. Made a timelapse video for those that are interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJyYhZOI0wY
Direct Link to Finished Picture:
http://www.habboi.co.uk/images/personal-work/sci_fi_final.jpg
Going to start applying for jobs now. My first target is Rocksteady.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJyYhZOI0wY
Direct Link to Finished Picture:
http://www.habboi.co.uk/images/personal-work/sci_fi_final.jpg
Going to start applying for jobs now. My first target is Rocksteady.
The long-awaited sequel to Half-Life Cliff Notes is finally here!
BLUE SHIFT CLIFF NOTES
By 2muchvideogames
LIVING QUARTERS INBOUND
Barney rides the tram into the bowels of Black Mesa.
INSECURITY
Barney arrives to find that just about everything in the facility is broken. Including the elevator that he's in.
DUTY CALLS
Barney wades thru rusty canals poaching innocent animals.
CAPTIVE FREIGHT
Barney comes across US Marines who were secretly exporting scientists in large shipping containers to foreign countries.
FOCAL POINT
Rosenberg sends Barney to the border world to collect the skins of alien lifeforms which can be sold for a handsome profit.
POWER STRUGGLE
Barney takes 3 hours to figure out the puzzle near the coolant bay.
A LEAP OF FAITH
Barney discovers that turning a steam valve and pressing a button is all it takes to successfully operate a massive prototype teleportation machine.
DELIVERANCE
Barney escapes from Black Mesa, but he realizes deep within his heart that he will always be a security guard, one way or another. To that end, he becomes a mall security guard until the Combine took over Earth. From there he joins Civil Protection, which, much to his pleasant surprise, is actually the equivalent of a Combine Security Guard. Barney ponders if he can actually do something useful for society in the near future...
BLUE SHIFT CLIFF NOTES
By 2muchvideogames
LIVING QUARTERS INBOUND
Barney rides the tram into the bowels of Black Mesa.
INSECURITY
Barney arrives to find that just about everything in the facility is broken. Including the elevator that he's in.
DUTY CALLS
Barney wades thru rusty canals poaching innocent animals.
CAPTIVE FREIGHT
Barney comes across US Marines who were secretly exporting scientists in large shipping containers to foreign countries.
FOCAL POINT
Rosenberg sends Barney to the border world to collect the skins of alien lifeforms which can be sold for a handsome profit.
POWER STRUGGLE
Barney takes 3 hours to figure out the puzzle near the coolant bay.
A LEAP OF FAITH
Barney discovers that turning a steam valve and pressing a button is all it takes to successfully operate a massive prototype teleportation machine.
DELIVERANCE
Barney escapes from Black Mesa, but he realizes deep within his heart that he will always be a security guard, one way or another. To that end, he becomes a mall security guard until the Combine took over Earth. From there he joins Civil Protection, which, much to his pleasant surprise, is actually the equivalent of a Combine Security Guard. Barney ponders if he can actually do something useful for society in the near future...
I am probably the only gamer who plays GTA and obeys all the traffic rules. I stop at all the stop signs and red lights, and stops for all the pedestrians, even when they are jaywalking.
What irony to be a murderer who is afraid of breaking traffic laws.
What irony to be a murderer who is afraid of breaking traffic laws.
I know this sounds crazy, but what if we had a TWHL mapping podcast?
So, I'm back here at TWHL again. I've been working at a local college as an assistant at the music programme they have there. Now I'm working as a "central-antenna technician" at a local firm.
This means that for once I actually have some money to spend. I've bought a new hd-tv, 4gb more ram memory, a new 2tb harddrive, a new external soundcard so I can record my guitar at home, and a few games on steam. Life is good!
This means that for once I actually have some money to spend. I've bought a new hd-tv, 4gb more ram memory, a new 2tb harddrive, a new external soundcard so I can record my guitar at home, and a few games on steam. Life is good!
Once upon a time I had a friend. Not a girlfriend, just a chick who happened to be my friend. A good friend. A great friend. One day she decided to not be my friend anymore, and overnight reduced our contact to one or two emails every few months - always pretending everything was normal. After fruitlessly trying to maintain the original status I gave up and let it be the way she wanted - I started being a bad shitty friend and barely gave her any significant attention. After a few years of this, her last email (today) ends with her stating she misses keeping contact with me.
WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF SICK JOKE IS THIS??
Perhaps this is the reason I'll never have a girlfriend. I've had enough, I don't want to put up with this shit.
WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF SICK JOKE IS THIS??
Perhaps this is the reason I'll never have a girlfriend. I've had enough, I don't want to put up with this shit.
I just quit that thing I did that wasted 40 hours a week doing whatever it was I did.
So Everyone in the Northeast USA is getting a fair bit of snow. It's at 16 inches right now, and it's supposed to keep going well into the afternoon. It's 9:36am EST right now, and here's the snow situation:
And my boss wants me in work.
No thanks.
No thanks.
So I need 3 parts to my computer left
PSU-- getting the Corsair HX850w
SSD...??? 30 gig of something haha
And the video card...
Urby, and others which GTX 570 would you guys consider?
(gigabyte/msi ..etc)
PSU-- getting the Corsair HX850w
SSD...??? 30 gig of something haha
And the video card...
Urby, and others which GTX 570 would you guys consider?
(gigabyte/msi ..etc)