Journals
Well, I just found a new model site, and I managed to find a Deagle that may be useful for Colony 42. It does'nt look quite like what I was looking for, but it uses HD HEV hands and it is a Desert Eagle, so I guess It'll have to do until I get some software and learn how to hack and rescale models. The site is the HIT Model Depot, http://www.hitmodel.half-lifecreations.com/filedb/ Perhaps you may find something you like there, It's got everything from Weapons to NPCs to Gibs.
EDIT: On second thought, the deagle is'nt really that good. I doubt I'll use it, But I'm leaving this up for the link.
EDIT: On second thought, the deagle is'nt really that good. I doubt I'll use it, But I'm leaving this up for the link.
ANY self respecting mapper will love this short.
Watch World Builder by Bruce Branit.
I think it deserves its own journal. When I saw this, I was deeply inspired as a mapper... and its funny how the experience is so relative. If only we had that kind of technology, I don't think I'd ever leave my room.
Watch World Builder by Bruce Branit.
I think it deserves its own journal. When I saw this, I was deeply inspired as a mapper... and its funny how the experience is so relative. If only we had that kind of technology, I don't think I'd ever leave my room.
I am now the proud owner of a brand new Playstation 3 console thingie. I won it in that competition that Ant didn't win, as a voters prize. It also came with a game called Tiny-Huge Island, which I assume is related to Mario LittleBigPlanet, which has nothing to do with Mario, except that it's a sidescrolling platformer. It's pretty crappy, so I'm planning to sell it to Strider and buy RE5 instead.
Recently I went on a used game buying spree, from Ebay, and certain trading stores. Here's the results of my search:
That's:
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - $10
Beyond Good and Evil - $8 + $6 postage
Timesplitters 2 - $16 + $4
Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun - $10
Myst: Masterpiece Edition - $2
GTA Vice City - $16
Deus Ex: Invisible War - $12
Not pictured:
Golden Sun: The Lost Age - $10 (no box)
Neverwinter Nights - $2 (crappy "classic edition" box)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - $25 + $6 (in the mail)
Project progress (see previous journal):
The 11 is now reduced to 7.
53% to announcement.
21,500 lines. (Yeah, I haven't done much lately)
Recently I went on a used game buying spree, from Ebay, and certain trading stores. Here's the results of my search:
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - $10
Beyond Good and Evil - $8 + $6 postage
Timesplitters 2 - $16 + $4
Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun - $10
Myst: Masterpiece Edition - $2
GTA Vice City - $16
Deus Ex: Invisible War - $12
Not pictured:
Golden Sun: The Lost Age - $10 (no box)
Neverwinter Nights - $2 (crappy "classic edition" box)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - $25 + $6 (in the mail)
Project progress (see previous journal):
The 11 is now reduced to 7.
53% to announcement.
21,500 lines. (Yeah, I haven't done much lately)
OMG! FL_C2 is finnally here! 
(for those of you who arent familiar with this little project yet: Chapter1)
took me quite a while to do this one since i have alot of things to do instead of mapping, but here it is
I wont spoil it for you but ill give you the idea:
Title: Chapter 2, The Rescue
Brief: You're in a Xen Research Facility and your searching for answers or even survivers that can tell you what happened there.
Here are some screenshots:
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Download it here: Map vault
(for those of you who arent familiar with this little project yet: Chapter1)
took me quite a while to do this one since i have alot of things to do instead of mapping, but here it is
I wont spoil it for you but ill give you the idea:
Title: Chapter 2, The Rescue
Brief: You're in a Xen Research Facility and your searching for answers or even survivers that can tell you what happened there.
Here are some screenshots:
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Luck just so happens to be coming right at my way, first i managed to compile the hl2 code alone, and now I've sucessfully created a placeholder weapon for my mod.
Ignore the fullbright map.
EDIT: Watch for further journals as i will be posting wip models for my mod, ect ect.
Merged journal:
Guess what, i just got a new model for my (placeholder) weapon, the "Powner weaponz"
It looks quite ugly, but hey, i didn't assign any uv's to it, and it turned out pretty well for a untextured weapon!
EDIT: just a quick note, all the coding, modeling, and mapping was done by me, i didn't get any help other then setting up visual c++ to work with hl2.
--------------- Old Journal -----------------
I worked for several hours, and i finally got the message I've been waiting for.
Man those have got to be the most frustrating hours of my life.
Thanks m0p, for kindly guiding me through to the end
----Journal combination by your friendly journal combining moderator, TheGrimReafer <3
EDIT: new barrel model
EDIT: Iron sights ftw!
No, it's not a animation, it's pretty darn accurate, i had to spend several minutes trying to get it correctly looking down the sights.
-Banned
EDIT: Watch for further journals as i will be posting wip models for my mod, ect ect.
Merged journal:
Guess what, i just got a new model for my (placeholder) weapon, the "Powner weaponz"
EDIT: just a quick note, all the coding, modeling, and mapping was done by me, i didn't get any help other then setting up visual c++ to work with hl2.
--------------- Old Journal -----------------
I worked for several hours, and i finally got the message I've been waiting for.
Build: 2 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped
m0p deserves all the credit, i gave up after i got about 4 different linking errors and then a miracle happened, he found the solution.Man those have got to be the most frustrating hours of my life.
Thanks m0p, for kindly guiding me through to the end
----Journal combination by your friendly journal combining moderator, TheGrimReafer <3
EDIT: new barrel model
-Banned
Well, since I've already found what normal people respond like to this, I may as see how mappers respond:
You are in a hallway. It goes on forever, and gets larger as it goes along. There is no curvature like the earth. What do you see?
On a more journal-related note, I think I'll deticate the upcoming weekend working on Colony 42 and writing.
You are in a hallway. It goes on forever, and gets larger as it goes along. There is no curvature like the earth. What do you see?
On a more journal-related note, I think I'll deticate the upcoming weekend working on Colony 42 and writing.
Went to see Watchmen tonight. It's an interesting experience, but an absolute clusterfuck of a film. Zach Snyder really is a one-trick pony - every movie he's directed so far is basically nothing more than a combination of "on-and-off" slow motion and buckets of gore. The complex back story the comic provides just isn't enough to disguise it.
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Ant lied to me, he said there's a blue penis shown on screen... there's four. D:
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Ant lied to me, he said there's a blue penis shown on screen... there's four. D:
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I really want to work on Complex Opinions so that I have media to revive the MODDB Page with. It was the one project I've worked on alone that I was genuinly happy with. Some areas need reworking and tweaking but I just can't cope with altering graphics settings each time I switch between Hammer and Half-Life.
Such a pain in the ass.
Such a pain in the ass.
What is with the sudden overabundance of horror mods these days?
It seems for every decent Source/GoldSrc mod that is currently in development there are 3 or 4 more horror mods with development teams who believe that to induce fear you need darkness. These so called ‘teams’ are usually made up of a single kid producing content, sometimes even less than that (hurray for stealing other peoples work!)
Here are the basic essentials to producing a horror mod these days:
What a load of bollocks.
It seems for every decent Source/GoldSrc mod that is currently in development there are 3 or 4 more horror mods with development teams who believe that to induce fear you need darkness. These so called ‘teams’ are usually made up of a single kid producing content, sometimes even less than that (hurray for stealing other peoples work!)
Here are the basic essentials to producing a horror mod these days:
- 1 Blocky map with no lights 100 zombies and 1 or 2 corpses.
- 1 custom zombie model / skin.
- A few custom zombie sounds.
- 1 crappy ass title (Fear: Source / Dark Black / Zombie Manor)
What a load of bollocks.
How hard is it for people to say "Thank You" these days?
I put in 10 hours work yesterday. I was running the department while my manager was away. Therefore I had to work 10 hours from 9am to 7pm with 1 hours break for lunch. From 9am to 4pm I had to cover the office doing several managerial jobs. From 4pm on a Sunday I have to put out advertising and do legal price checks for Monday morning's trade. If it's not done, the company is then displaying false advertising, which by-the-by is considered illegal by trading standards.
I usually work 12pm to 9pm on a Sunday which essentially gives me from 4pm to 9pm to do advertising. So last night I was 2 hours short not to mention suffering from a major stress induced migraine. I was sick when I got home. My shift for today was supposed to be 7am to 3pm, however with 2 hours lost last night and the doors opening to customers at 8am I was an hour short to get everything done. So I started an hour early, wandered in through the doors and then I get a load of other work dumped on me. I worked my ass off from 6am to 12:30 without a break. I had 30mins and was told I could leave at 1pm for not taking my lunch hour.
Finally 1pm rolls around and I leave passing the Store manager on my way out. He turns to me and says:
"What time are you in tomorrow mate?"
"I'm not" says I
"Oh God." He calls back "Pain in the ass."
...
RAGE!
I put in 10 hours work yesterday. I was running the department while my manager was away. Therefore I had to work 10 hours from 9am to 7pm with 1 hours break for lunch. From 9am to 4pm I had to cover the office doing several managerial jobs. From 4pm on a Sunday I have to put out advertising and do legal price checks for Monday morning's trade. If it's not done, the company is then displaying false advertising, which by-the-by is considered illegal by trading standards.
I usually work 12pm to 9pm on a Sunday which essentially gives me from 4pm to 9pm to do advertising. So last night I was 2 hours short not to mention suffering from a major stress induced migraine. I was sick when I got home. My shift for today was supposed to be 7am to 3pm, however with 2 hours lost last night and the doors opening to customers at 8am I was an hour short to get everything done. So I started an hour early, wandered in through the doors and then I get a load of other work dumped on me. I worked my ass off from 6am to 12:30 without a break. I had 30mins and was told I could leave at 1pm for not taking my lunch hour.
Finally 1pm rolls around and I leave passing the Store manager on my way out. He turns to me and says:
"What time are you in tomorrow mate?"
"I'm not" says I
"Oh God." He calls back "Pain in the ass."
...
RAGE!
I wonder what would happen to the mod community if everyone maintained this attitude? More Neil Manke's maybe...
Of course, it's not a fair comparison given his situation, just a thought
Also, anybody else notice there's like five or six people who constantly post journals? Maybe it's just me. Scary.
Of course, it's not a fair comparison given his situation, just a thought
Also, anybody else notice there's like five or six people who constantly post journals? Maybe it's just me. Scary.
It is a dark day, TWHL... My Goldeneye 007 cartrige for N64 is getting into worse and worse condition. I was playing caverns, and while I was running up through the huge spiral room, the entire map started shaking, and the music went all weird. Then the game froze. This is as bad as the Knife-stab-sound-twitch-guard-glitch... My days of playing goldeneye are numbered...
I will be leaving for Taiwan tomorrow.
It's my birth place, and it's probably the birth place of the computer you're using now, if you build your own computers.
ASUS, G-Skills, Gigabytes . . . all of those well known and well respected companies for any computer hardware enthusiast are based in Taiwan. Some of my compatriots were responsible for putting your computer together.
It's my birth place, and it's probably the birth place of the computer you're using now, if you build your own computers.
ASUS, G-Skills, Gigabytes . . . all of those well known and well respected companies for any computer hardware enthusiast are based in Taiwan. Some of my compatriots were responsible for putting your computer together.
Falling asleep while eating.
This has turned into a Fun Journal. Enjoy!
As a serious Journal note:
Recently I thought of a simple and possibly fun experimental mini-mini mod idea. Believe it or not, HL can have up to 16 levelchanges in a single map. I've seen no more than 4 in HL and most mods are rather linear in path. What if a gridular setup was done? Like a 4x4 (16 total maps) layout of a part of a world. The paths would be many and exploration and discovery would be greatly promoted as the player would have to decide where to go and look around. Also, randomized events could vary the gameplay in a variety of ways on each map, making things renew as you go. The player would have to perform tasks and solve puzzles to unlock new areas of the 'world'.
A simple idea is to make something like the Xen world with teleportals that take you to the next square over based on which one you go in.
A more elaborate idea is a really hardcore 'escape from Black Mesa' where the player has to figure something out on their own.
Now, back to you regularly scheduled crap:
Random Paragraph Generator is fun... turns out some awesomeness with some tweaking. Enjoy!
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As a serious Journal note:
Recently I thought of a simple and possibly fun experimental mini-mini mod idea. Believe it or not, HL can have up to 16 levelchanges in a single map. I've seen no more than 4 in HL and most mods are rather linear in path. What if a gridular setup was done? Like a 4x4 (16 total maps) layout of a part of a world. The paths would be many and exploration and discovery would be greatly promoted as the player would have to decide where to go and look around. Also, randomized events could vary the gameplay in a variety of ways on each map, making things renew as you go. The player would have to perform tasks and solve puzzles to unlock new areas of the 'world'.
A simple idea is to make something like the Xen world with teleportals that take you to the next square over based on which one you go in.
A more elaborate idea is a really hardcore 'escape from Black Mesa' where the player has to figure something out on their own.
Now, back to you regularly scheduled crap:
Random Paragraph Generator is fun... turns out some awesomeness with some tweaking. Enjoy!
The vagina creams Captain Terror. Captain Terror damages the era. The certificate drags the suffering dawn. The vagina frightens the blame. The numb policeman opens Captain Terror under the propaganda. An evolutionary screw sustains Captain Terror. Captain Terror overwhelms the vagina after the pretend anguish. Beneath the folding leadership runs the bizarre spectacular. Captain Terror sandwiches the current confidence. Captain Terror staggers over the vagina. The vagina smiles! The idiot sugars Captain Terror beside the husband. A bacterium rails. The shoe ministers to Captain Terror across a switch wealth. The knife truncates the vagina. When will the cuckoo stop? The computer separates the party professor against our apparatus. The vagina harms Captain Terror over its ancient wizard. Should the chancellor overlap beside Captain Terror?
Ant's cock consumes the boiled missile inside the defeated. The interior clears Ant's cock over an atheist. Will Ant's cock conform around a wish? A naughty photo recovers next to the acceptable contributor. Penguinboy launches the historic constituent. Penguinboy persists past the recognizable sentient. Ant's cock spins into the lunchtime. The scholar bobs outside Ant's cock. The widespread connector scores on top of every crisp. Penguinboy boils above Ant's cock. Penguinboy rests outside each country tongue. Penguinboy bypasses the obsolete pencil across the causal piano. The concert steams? Penguinboy rates the approving warm on top of this fellow. Penguinboy entertains a pressure inside the punishing reactor. Should Penguinboy celebrate Ant's cock? A customary tunnel dominates Penguinboy. A dialect encodes the profound algebra.
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