Journals
My parents left at 5am today to go to America for a week, so I'm home alone which is the equivalent to a good holiday for me! I get to relax with friends and alcohol all week, and a potential girlfriend.
I'm starting college a week today too, so I've been diving back in Logic Pro 8 to get back into the swing of things since no doubt the next two years will be a lot tougher.
Making music and sound effects for a mod I'm working on called Pipe Dream will be fun and helpful.
My parents think I've been acting differently for the past month or so, so they confronted me about it two days ago, long story short they think I'm depressed and have bad ideas and that they don't really wanna go on holiday because they would be worried about me. It then took me two days to convince them that I'm fine and that they should go.
Apart from all that, I have a spot on my ass and I can't sit down properly.
I'm starting college a week today too, so I've been diving back in Logic Pro 8 to get back into the swing of things since no doubt the next two years will be a lot tougher.
Making music and sound effects for a mod I'm working on called Pipe Dream will be fun and helpful.My parents think I've been acting differently for the past month or so, so they confronted me about it two days ago, long story short they think I'm depressed and have bad ideas and that they don't really wanna go on holiday because they would be worried about me. It then took me two days to convince them that I'm fine and that they should go.
Apart from all that, I have a spot on my ass and I can't sit down properly.
:C
A few things have happened this week...
I've joined a mod team, along with Habboi. The mod is called Pipe Dreams and I joined it because it has some pretty crazy ideas, new ideas which havent been done before. So this naturally got me interested, at the moment we're gathering momentum and putting ideas down, so hopefully the mod will take off soon.
Apart from that I'm now drumming in a band, the guys who are in the band are also in my college course so I ended up writing all the drum parts for their songs. Long story short they didn't like stand in drummers so they persuaded me to join. I'm now playing at an arts theater on the 29th of this month, Manchester Academy sometime in September and then Liverpool Academy later this year.
All venues are rather large, bigger than anywhere I've played before so this will be pretty interesting. The band have played in Manchester Academy before, but only as an acoustic, so It's good we're going back with a bigger sound. They said you get the whole VIP treatment, which includes the VIP tag, dressing room and they even give you a bottle of water to go on stage with.
It'll be recorded but It's still some time until the actual show, so I'm gunna get my drumming hat on and start burning my fingers.
I've joined a mod team, along with Habboi. The mod is called Pipe Dreams and I joined it because it has some pretty crazy ideas, new ideas which havent been done before. So this naturally got me interested, at the moment we're gathering momentum and putting ideas down, so hopefully the mod will take off soon.
Apart from that I'm now drumming in a band, the guys who are in the band are also in my college course so I ended up writing all the drum parts for their songs. Long story short they didn't like stand in drummers so they persuaded me to join. I'm now playing at an arts theater on the 29th of this month, Manchester Academy sometime in September and then Liverpool Academy later this year.
All venues are rather large, bigger than anywhere I've played before so this will be pretty interesting. The band have played in Manchester Academy before, but only as an acoustic, so It's good we're going back with a bigger sound. They said you get the whole VIP treatment, which includes the VIP tag, dressing room and they even give you a bottle of water to go on stage with.
It'll be recorded but It's still some time until the actual show, so I'm gunna get my drumming hat on and start burning my fingers.
Time for another journal me thinks.
So as most of you know me and Huntey dragged our asses to Crewe, where we met up with a slightly sexily damp Urby and then stayed with him for a while.
The event consisted of alcohol, JFK reloaded, GTA4, Archie and chlamydia.
But after that (since we did that on the second day of Hunteys arrival to Wales) we got up to some more stupid shit which left us feeling rough.
The following day after returning from Urbys we had a party, so that night we dragged our asses around town because the party was a fail. We ended up in a pub with a lot more people, which turned out just as awesome!
Friday night, one day before Hunteys departure, we went camping with a lot of my mates, because I was driving Huntey back to the train station the following morning I wasn't drinking unfortunately. But I still had some good lols.
We never took a tent and 3/4 tents were full, the other one had a couple shagging in it, so 3 of us ended up sleeping in my car, me, Huntey and "10"... A mysterious guy who we didn't know and picked up on the way to camping, and he was irradiating the fact that he was a virgin.
Well anyway, I got about 1 hour of sleep because Huntey woke me up going mental because the clock on my car read "17:05" and his train was at "12:12" now, naturally you would look around aswell, Huntey didn't.
Despite being still pretty much darkness and morning dew over everything, and that general morning feel, Huntey decided to wake my ass up, I then couldn't get back to sleep and had to sit there for 3 hours watching him snore. f u.
8am we decided to make a move... With 1 hour of sleep I drove to SUBWAY! Where we bought food and drink which sort of woke me up, but I was still struggling to stay awake. I then drove to Rhyl and said my goodbye's to Huntey and a manhug took place.
I was then stuck in 30 minutes of traffic getting out of Rhyl, and nearly falling asleep at the wheel.
Oh, and we saw my mate running down a street with no pants on.
So as most of you know me and Huntey dragged our asses to Crewe, where we met up with a slightly sexily damp Urby and then stayed with him for a while.
The event consisted of alcohol, JFK reloaded, GTA4, Archie and chlamydia.
But after that (since we did that on the second day of Hunteys arrival to Wales) we got up to some more stupid shit which left us feeling rough.
The following day after returning from Urbys we had a party, so that night we dragged our asses around town because the party was a fail. We ended up in a pub with a lot more people, which turned out just as awesome!
Friday night, one day before Hunteys departure, we went camping with a lot of my mates, because I was driving Huntey back to the train station the following morning I wasn't drinking unfortunately.
But I still had some good lols.We never took a tent and 3/4 tents were full, the other one had a couple shagging in it, so 3 of us ended up sleeping in my car, me, Huntey and "10"... A mysterious guy who we didn't know and picked up on the way to camping, and he was irradiating the fact that he was a virgin.
Well anyway, I got about 1 hour of sleep because Huntey woke me up going mental because the clock on my car read "17:05" and his train was at "12:12" now, naturally you would look around aswell, Huntey didn't.
Despite being still pretty much darkness and morning dew over everything, and that general morning feel, Huntey decided to wake my ass up, I then couldn't get back to sleep and had to sit there for 3 hours watching him snore. f u.
8am we decided to make a move... With 1 hour of sleep I drove to SUBWAY! Where we bought food and drink which sort of woke me up, but I was still struggling to stay awake. I then drove to Rhyl and said my goodbye's to Huntey and a manhug took place.
I was then stuck in 30 minutes of traffic getting out of Rhyl, and nearly falling asleep at the wheel.
Oh, and we saw my mate running down a street with no pants on.
Sorry guys, not killing myself today, I passed. <3
Tommorrow I take my driving test again, if I don't pass this time I'm going to hang myself.
I'll update this post when I get home tommorrow, my test is at 11:40am.
Tommorrow I take my driving test again, if I don't pass this time I'm going to hang myself.
I'll update this post when I get home tommorrow, my test is at 11:40am.
House party tonight, I unfortunately missed the last one for some reason, I can't remember why... Well anyway, I'm going to this one, I've been warned it gets pretty wild considering that last time a guy put his hand through double glazing, peanuts where thrown everywhere (oh the horror) the house was wrecked and the cops and ambulance turned up.
THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME.
In my last journal, or the one before... I can't quite remember, I mentioned how I had to do a live performace for a show that night, well my friend actually recorded me and put it in his band videoblog. So, for your entertainment you can see me at 16 seconds in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOo6QKEsyso&feature=channel
Note that drums are being played and I'm not moving an inch
So TWHL, you might not hear from me for the next few days as I will either be so hungover I'm bedbound or dead.
Cya!
THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME.
In my last journal, or the one before... I can't quite remember, I mentioned how I had to do a live performace for a show that night, well my friend actually recorded me and put it in his band videoblog. So, for your entertainment you can see me at 16 seconds in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOo6QKEsyso&feature=channel
Note that drums are being played and I'm not moving an inch
So TWHL, you might not hear from me for the next few days as I will either be so hungover I'm bedbound or dead.
Cya!
Hey guys.
So as some of you know I failed my driving test first time, I'm taking it again on the 20th. I'm sticking by "70% of people don't pass their test first time, and the ones that do are involved in more crashes" as this makes me feel better
I've been learning since January, so for me to give up now would be very stupid, I wanna be able to ride around with shades and loud music gettin' all the girls yo.
My survival map; Wetwork will indeed be tilted, and as I learned yesterday func_details don't cut up visleafs, I never knew this, so I was wondering why the infected were spawning in rather gay places. SO! I put nodraw walls inside of the func_deatiled walls (which is allowed by the way, Valve do it) and the infected started spawning in much much better places, and a constant lag I had with the level dissapeared thanks to the visleafs.
I now also have a poster, courtesy of Huntey. - http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3927/wetworka.jpg
It is indeed pwn.
And a hot girl I know broke up with her boyfriend.
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY.
So as some of you know I failed my driving test first time, I'm taking it again on the 20th. I'm sticking by "70% of people don't pass their test first time, and the ones that do are involved in more crashes" as this makes me feel better
I've been learning since January, so for me to give up now would be very stupid, I wanna be able to ride around with shades and loud music gettin' all the girls yo.My survival map; Wetwork will indeed be tilted, and as I learned yesterday func_details don't cut up visleafs, I never knew this, so I was wondering why the infected were spawning in rather gay places. SO! I put nodraw walls inside of the func_deatiled walls (which is allowed by the way, Valve do it) and the infected started spawning in much much better places, and a constant lag I had with the level dissapeared thanks to the visleafs.
I now also have a poster, courtesy of Huntey. - http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3927/wetworka.jpg
It is indeed pwn.
And a hot girl I know broke up with her boyfriend.
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY.
The past 2 days have been pretty crazy for me!
Thursday night I went to a party with some friends at a club near me, as usual I ended up drinking too much and got groovy on the dancefloor and I think I had something to do with making a radiator fall off the wall aswell. My bad.
So anyway, I staggered home at some point in the morning and spent about 10 minutes trying to get the damn key in the door, eventually I got in and jumped into bed.
The next morning arrived and I was woken up by my mum leaving for work at about 8:15am. I then spent from that time to 10:00am throwing up. Woo, but atleast I was done doing that so it can only get better!
10:15am my tutor from college turns up at my door and reminds me that I'm doing the sound for a college gig today and he's here to pick my drumkit up. FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU. Okay.. No problem, I'll just get my sorry ass through the day as quick as I can. I arrive at the theater and unload my drumkit, I then end up going to the backroom and falling asleep sprawled across two chairs when I was supposed to be setting up equipment, apparently I was so far gone that I didn't move when my tutor came in and dropped a load of metal parts and drumskins on the floor right next to me.
So anyway, a long story short, I eventually woke up and made my way back to the stage area, went and got some lunch and felt a little better, but then had to stay there until 11pm doing the sound for the show... And it was a loud show.
Thursday night I went to a party with some friends at a club near me, as usual I ended up drinking too much and got groovy on the dancefloor and I think I had something to do with making a radiator fall off the wall aswell. My bad.
So anyway, I staggered home at some point in the morning and spent about 10 minutes trying to get the damn key in the door, eventually I got in and jumped into bed.
The next morning arrived and I was woken up by my mum leaving for work at about 8:15am. I then spent from that time to 10:00am throwing up. Woo, but atleast I was done doing that so it can only get better!
10:15am my tutor from college turns up at my door and reminds me that I'm doing the sound for a college gig today and he's here to pick my drumkit up. FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU. Okay.. No problem, I'll just get my sorry ass through the day as quick as I can. I arrive at the theater and unload my drumkit, I then end up going to the backroom and falling asleep sprawled across two chairs when I was supposed to be setting up equipment, apparently I was so far gone that I didn't move when my tutor came in and dropped a load of metal parts and drumskins on the floor right next to me.
So anyway, a long story short, I eventually woke up and made my way back to the stage area, went and got some lunch and felt a little better, but then had to stay there until 11pm doing the sound for the show... And it was a loud show.
'(
I had the most craziest dream ever last night!
I dreamed that Valve announced a sequel to L4D, of course this would be stupid since L4D has only been out for about 6 months... But with the announcement they posted gameplay clips too, and it looked terrible! You could set zombies on fire pretty much using the igniter tool from Garry's Mod but with a gun model. But it didn't stop there!
It got even more strange and completly random when the whole dream was set somewhere in southern America, the accents were INCREDIBLY annoying and you could basically see the inbred irradiating off all of it.
I woke up in a sweat and screaming! Eventually I calmed myself down and realised it was all just a dream, Valve wouldn't take the path of EA and make some adjustments then slap a "2" on it for what appears to be the need for money.
Imagine that! A bunch of redneck's running around setting zombies on fire with bullets, it doesn't start a meere flame, BUT CAUSES THE ZOMBIE TO BURST INTO A WILD BLAZE. And whilst all of this is going on, they're all wearing ridiculous clothes which wouldn't fit with a L4D theme.
Well, thank God it was all just a dream.
... Wait a minute.
I dreamed that Valve announced a sequel to L4D, of course this would be stupid since L4D has only been out for about 6 months... But with the announcement they posted gameplay clips too, and it looked terrible! You could set zombies on fire pretty much using the igniter tool from Garry's Mod but with a gun model. But it didn't stop there!
It got even more strange and completly random when the whole dream was set somewhere in southern America, the accents were INCREDIBLY annoying and you could basically see the inbred irradiating off all of it.
I woke up in a sweat and screaming! Eventually I calmed myself down and realised it was all just a dream, Valve wouldn't take the path of EA and make some adjustments then slap a "2" on it for what appears to be the need for money.
Imagine that! A bunch of redneck's running around setting zombies on fire with bullets, it doesn't start a meere flame, BUT CAUSES THE ZOMBIE TO BURST INTO A WILD BLAZE. And whilst all of this is going on, they're all wearing ridiculous clothes which wouldn't fit with a L4D theme.
Well, thank God it was all just a dream.
... Wait a minute.
I PASSED! GET IN.
Alright, I'm taking my theory test again tommorrow, I've been doing practice tests and passed all of them with a percentage higher than 90, and I've done the same with the hazard video clips too, so hopefully tommorrow I'll pass it. I'm not holding my breath on it though.
Apart from that I got my college report thing today, I'm working at a very high standard, my tutors are all impressed with me and I've never missed a day since I started. So atleast that's going well.
L4D version of Wetwork (Survival) is going well besides a few bot problems and nav mesh errors, for some reason infected will stop climbing the ladder just short of the ledge which causes them to fall, and rising the ladder does nothing to help, very strange and VERY annoying. That bloody Nav Mesh Error message won't go away either.
So yeah, I'll update this journal tommorrow to say wether I passed or not, my test is at 9:30am.
Alright, I'm taking my theory test again tommorrow, I've been doing practice tests and passed all of them with a percentage higher than 90, and I've done the same with the hazard video clips too, so hopefully tommorrow I'll pass it. I'm not holding my breath on it though.
Apart from that I got my college report thing today, I'm working at a very high standard, my tutors are all impressed with me and I've never missed a day since I started. So atleast that's going well.
L4D version of Wetwork (Survival) is going well besides a few bot problems and nav mesh errors, for some reason infected will stop climbing the ladder just short of the ledge which causes them to fall, and rising the ladder does nothing to help, very strange and VERY annoying. That bloody Nav Mesh Error message won't go away either.
So yeah, I'll update this journal tommorrow to say wether I passed or not, my test is at 9:30am.
I failed, I was 4 marks off passing... Today is a bad day.
Turns out you have to atleast get 44/50... and I got 40.
FUCK MY LIFE.
Turns out you have to atleast get 44/50... and I got 40.
FUCK MY LIFE.
I'm taking my theory test this coming Monday, I've been reading the books and stuff but who knows wether I'll pass, probably not.
Apart from that I haven't been doing an aweful lot else, progress has slowed down on Wetwork because it's come to the point where I need large things done, such as models and various effects, so I'm waiting on a few people for those, but it IS starting to come to an end finally.
Next Wednesday my college course is going to a theater and setting up all the live equipment and micing up a drumkit, and since I'm the only drummer on the course I'll be playing it, so hearing it coming out of a PA system is a new thing to me, and should be pretty cool!
I also need a haircut, all I need to do is turn my head and it could be classed as "moshing"
That's all for now.
Oh, and I recently started playing L4D versus again... And it reminded me why I stopped in the first place, people are just plain shit at that game and make me rage.
Apart from that I haven't been doing an aweful lot else, progress has slowed down on Wetwork because it's come to the point where I need large things done, such as models and various effects, so I'm waiting on a few people for those, but it IS starting to come to an end finally.
Next Wednesday my college course is going to a theater and setting up all the live equipment and micing up a drumkit, and since I'm the only drummer on the course I'll be playing it, so hearing it coming out of a PA system is a new thing to me, and should be pretty cool!
I also need a haircut, all I need to do is turn my head and it could be classed as "moshing"
That's all for now.
Oh, and I recently started playing L4D versus again... And it reminded me why I stopped in the first place, people are just plain shit at that game and make me rage.
It's not common that I do something stupid but which requires some balls at the same time, I just do stupid things all the time. This one was going to a fancy dress party as the completely wrong theme. The theme of the party was "Around the world"
SO! There everyone was, dancing, drinking and talking in the club all dressed up as Greeks, Indians, Chinease and whatnot, then next minute Lord Vader and two fucking Stormtroopers walk in.
We pulled it off though, more people were amazed that Vader and two Stormies were walking around the party than the theme, and if asked we just said "But we are from around the world... In a galaxy far far away"
Good times. <=)
SO! There everyone was, dancing, drinking and talking in the club all dressed up as Greeks, Indians, Chinease and whatnot, then next minute Lord Vader and two fucking Stormtroopers walk in.
Good times. <=)
Water splashes up the side of the ship, just didn't catch it in the screenshot, there's also thunder and lightning and the skybox will be changed.
Everything you see in this picture involving lighting isn't final, just progress.
Kudos to Huntey for making the badass textures for me.
And Happy Easter guys!
Time for an update me thinks!
In my last journal I gave rough estimates for the worktime on each area left on the Wetwork boat I'm currently making, well, ignore those estimates because I've beaten them to the floor, waggled my willy in their faces and stolen their pants.
My parents went away for the weekend leaving me home alone, so instead of getting some sleep like a responsible person, I decided to crack open a Carlsberg and continue working until about 5-6am, and I did this twice including a days work beforehand. SO!
Tower = complete
Deck = complete
North Tower = roughly 90% done
Apart from that I only have very minor things to add such as the weather, which I've already made a start on. I also threw in a Blackhawk for the CT's spawnpoint, mainly because it looks badass and fits in perfectly.
After all of this, I'm going to spent X amount of weeks optimizing it in every single possible way, and even then I wouldn't be suprised if it takes a few days to compile.
So I'll go Black Mesa on you to be safe - It's done when it's done.
Until next time!
(Still looking for a modeller!)
In my last journal I gave rough estimates for the worktime on each area left on the Wetwork boat I'm currently making, well, ignore those estimates because I've beaten them to the floor, waggled my willy in their faces and stolen their pants.
My parents went away for the weekend leaving me home alone, so instead of getting some sleep like a responsible person, I decided to crack open a Carlsberg and continue working until about 5-6am, and I did this twice including a days work beforehand. SO!
Tower = complete
Deck = complete
North Tower = roughly 90% done
Apart from that I only have very minor things to add such as the weather, which I've already made a start on. I also threw in a Blackhawk for the CT's spawnpoint, mainly because it looks badass and fits in perfectly.
So I'll go Black Mesa on you to be safe - It's done when it's done.
Until next time!
(Still looking for a modeller!)
Alright, I've been trundling away in Hammer for the past week trying to bring my Wetwork remake back to life since the first version I made in hammer had a massive brushcount, I'm getting there slowly. So far I have the south tower done 100% (excluding small window adjustments and textures)
I've now started working on the deck, so far the worktime on the tower was somewhere around 5-6 months (100% brush-based, even has both floors with all the details too) so I'm expecting the deck worktime to be around 1-2 months, and the north tower 2-3. So I can't say this is coming soon just yet, but this WILL be finished. The brushcount was HALVED with me giving it a makeover.
I can't model, and I'm going to need models for this map otherwise the brushcount will kill hammer completely, so if you have some spare time and feel like helping me out please get in touch with me, It'd be greatly appreaciated! It's for CSS, since that is the closest to COD4.
I'd like to thank Archie for the awesome textures, and please ignore the deck as it is very much still a WIP.
I've now started working on the deck, so far the worktime on the tower was somewhere around 5-6 months (100% brush-based, even has both floors with all the details too) so I'm expecting the deck worktime to be around 1-2 months, and the north tower 2-3. So I can't say this is coming soon just yet, but this WILL be finished. The brushcount was HALVED with me giving it a makeover.
I'd like to thank Archie for the awesome textures, and please ignore the deck as it is very much still a WIP.