Journals

For all those who want to know how to make a dome, i placed a video on youtube. http://youtube.com/watch?v=im3UQDZ03O8

If anyone wants to know how to make any other ... thing...
i'll try to get a video tutorial up.

I is 19 today!
Happy birthday to me.

Many happy returns. - Ant

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Ahhh server bullshit is finally over.
Now hosting this server

76.234.103.38:27015

when i can.

HLDM primarily, so let me know if you would like any maps or anything up yeah. i'll prolly start a forum topic about it.

Going to new hampshire

dedicating a HLDM server while im away

hopefully my computer doesnt update or surge, but here's to you guys

got a few maps up there such as alpestrine from rimrook, cliff, from me, and rpg arena from muzz

enjoy, and here's the ip: 192.168.1.65:27015

if that doesnt work, search for TWHL or Tetsu0

Ok i lied basically. I have a new DM map in the works. Dm_shard
There's no inspiration other than i looked at the Font from halo, and made a platform... then a bunch of walls and yeah...
Lots of glass.. enclosed space with slime and stuff.

Have the basic layout COMPLETE and now on to the detailing...

screen shots if you want them are here >>
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and here >>
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Well
I basically lost all inspiration for any type of mapping whatsoever.
Half-Life 1 Has run it's course with me.
I don't have the time to learn or use source the way i want to.
I dont have the drive to make anything worth while anymore.
So i think i'm just going to stop mapping all together and enjoy games from a consumer perspective.

I've been spending a lot (almost too much time) just wondering how some effects were created in different games, and to be honest, it's not even worth pondering.

I have to utilize my time wiser and not mapping will surely give me some extra time to do more constructive things.

Things such as have a better social life, get tighter with the band because we have a lot of shows booked and if we're going ANYWHERE with it, we need to be spot-on with everything.
Finish painting my "Halo Themed Bike" (Pictures when it's finished if im still hanging around the site)
Fix my truck.... Work more... Succeed in college.

Bah.

They say they always come back. And i will be back.

I just dont think i'll be mapping anymore.
So

Until next time.

Farewell

Its raining.

Shit:(

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I leave to go back to florida tomorrow.

BOO

I'm getting a new roomate because my old one transferred to UCONN (He's the smart one) And i have to deal with the administration to settle out which classes i have to take and whatnot. I dont even know if im oficially registered or not.

Just a whole bunch of CRAP i have to deal with.

Anyway on a lighter point

I still dont have the Wii i was promised for X-Mas And im working on a kickass DM map (yeah again) Because the other one fell through. The wpolys were at 1700 and i wasnt even 1/4 way done. its Not acceptable for a Multiplayer map, not by a longshot.
So this one is a volcano and the lava is instant death and yes, people will bitch, but if they're smart enough to stay on the path they'll be all set. I should start packing seeing as how i fly out tomorrow and i havent started yet. Maybe take a shower so i dont have to take one in the morning.

i hate morning showers

expecially in the winter

too cold...

I have my first REAL show tomorrow night at the webster theater in Hartford Connecticut.

It's pretty cool to see how far my band has come in only 2 years. We went from playing coffee houses for free, to playing at hooters restaurants for cash, and now we have a real venue to jam out at.

All we have to do is sell 6 more tickets and we're golden!!

Oh i cant wait its gonna be sick.

ANd..... im workin on a new hldm map. Modeled after some abandoned processing plant thing. Looks pretty good so far but im only about 30% done with it and i have NO CLUE where im gonna put any spawns or weapons.
Oh well. that'll come in due time i suppose

Dominoes anyone??
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I just got home for Christmas Break and im enjoying being 1200 miles away from college. Dont get me wrong, i love the school (Florida Tech) but i hate being so far away from home (Connecticut)

I have a few maps in progress. One for counter-strike, a mod im working on for regular half-life, and i'm making a fully functional version of my house for hl2.

I'm switching on and off between maps, it seems to be working but i keep losing inspiration, and sometimes i want to map but i dont want to make any improvements or additions to the ones i already started so i make a new one. And then it keeps growing.

I have so many maps just sitting around that do one thing: Rot.

I recently read the journals from the website made from the dude who made de_dust and de_dust2, and it gave me some inspiration to make a good cs map. I have a layout drawn up and i made the basic part of the C-T spawn on the planeride from atlanta, but i keep thinking to myself: "Why even put forth the effort to polish up and submit a map if nobody is going to play it?"

So I keep second-guessing myself and stuff. People here download and play maps, and they comment and i improve them and re-submit, sometimes open up a thread and discuss...

But nobody has a server that they put the maps on and they rarely (if ever) get play time on the net.

sigh

Maybe i should just make a kickass HLDM map and give it to muzz...

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woot!

Halo 2 Lan parties rock the house.
Prit's house to be exact.
Do the math here.

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300ft+ Ethernet cable ~ $400
2 4-way Routers ~ $120
4 X-Box's ~ $550
4 Halo 2 cd's ~ $200
16 controllers ~ $380
16 guys playing ~ Free
4 girls makin grilled cheese sangwiches ~ $30
2 of the girls = mad hot ~ Always good
having both of them on your team and still having fun losing ~

Priceless.

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Teams were stacked though.. as always. NP ( the red team ) Blue team pwns

Okay. This is REALLY frekin wierd.
About a month ago, If i tried to play half life 2 with everything on low quality settings, my computer would still lag.
So i decided to d/l and play day 14 (great game) and i put everything on medium quality, and texture detail to full, and it played with no lag what-so-ever.

DoubleU-Tee-Eff

So then i decide to give Half life 2 a try on the same settings.. and it works.. Flawlessly. I did nothing to my computer. It just decided it likes Hl2 now. Anyway i got from ravenholm to just after Nova prospect when you and the resistance are assaulting the citadel