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Journal #8507

freedslave • 9 years ago2015-02-16 15:34:53 UTC • 12 comments

Until 2day I only managed to use Valve Hammer Editor to test the physic engine and the behavior of entities and never get to build up a real map. It seems to be a huge and daunting task alltogether.
I made a little combo box with html and Javascript which put in the Windows clipboard the string of the chosen entity to paste in whatever field that needs this bit of info.

Journal #8506

Tetsu0 • 9 years ago2015-02-16 14:31:11 UTC • 7 comments

Public Service Announcement:
While some of you might have significant others, most of you probably could care less, February is the month of LOVE!

Show your computer some love by tenderly undressing it and exploring it's insides- cleaning as you go

Get yourself a Vacuum, Compressed Air, old toothbrushes and some Arctic Silver!

Re-seat your ram, clean your vents and filters.
For god's sake, at the very minimum clear out your heat sink!
Let your processor go topless and breathe a breath of fresh air while you clean the mating surfaces and ensure maximum heat transfer into the sink.

Or you can end up like me and overtemping your processor to +90C and bringing your lovely machine to it's knees. I cooked the old thermal pad D:

Don't let this happen to you:

This message has been brought to you by Tetsu0

Journal #8505

ninja defuse • 9 years ago2015-02-09 19:45:29 UTC • 3 comments

"There are roses that grow on an island in the sea. The man who can reach and pick them, will live
several thousand years. The Gods have created darkness to cover the island so that no one can reach it."

Journal #8504

Instant Mix • 9 years ago2015-02-09 01:05:01 UTC • 6 comments

This is why people don't like mathematicians

The T shirt says

...
and it was delicious.

What does it actually say?

i 8 ( sigma / sum of ) pi and it was delicious.
.. that is,
I ate all of the pie and it was delicious.

the fact I know that frightens me

Journal #8503

Archie • 9 years ago2015-02-02 11:40:43 UTC • 22 comments

Does anyone have any experience with 1440p displays? I'm in the market and would love some recommendations.
I've been looking at the Asus PB278Q, but it's not massively spec'd towards gaming whereas the PG278Q seems to be far more geared towards it. I'm just wondering if the massive price difference is actually going to amount to a big enough difference in image quality for a casual gamer to justify the cost.

Thoughts?

Journal #8502

zeeba-G • 9 years ago2015-02-01 19:11:21 UTC • 15 comments

I'm twenty six today! Thanks TWHL for being so 4w350m3! ! ! Such a warm and cozy community. TWHL is like a cardboard box with a bunch of fuzzy kittens in it.

Journal #8501

Striker • 9 years ago2015-01-29 15:47:29 UTC • 10 comments

Journal #8500

DiscoStu • 9 years ago2015-01-26 04:34:17 UTC • 14 comments

I keep coming up with all these ideas on how a certain game could be so much better. Game mechanics, GUI, anything. I kept thinking there had to be a way to somehow hack the game and throw in all that stuff. Then I realised it was almost like a new version of the game, rather than just a handful of fixes. Then I realised I never did anything resembling game coding and I have no idea how to actually do any of it.

How lame.

Journal #8499

DoktorAmazing • 9 years ago2015-01-26 04:12:23 UTC • 1 comment

Doctor Amazing here, coming back for one time to say...
RIP kitty0706
So much talent, passed away from leukemia last night. Source Machinima will never be the same again

Bye all

Journal #8498

Dr. Orange • 9 years ago2015-01-25 10:08:23 UTC • 20 comments

Light, without it we wouldn't be able to see. And so it is in videogames. Lights are fundamental, every game have some sort of light, if ever so simple. In todays 3D games, there need to be some way to compute lighting data within 3D space, as volumetricaly most of the light eixst outside of a 2D face where the light is visible. How does the lighting really work in the GoldSrc engine? Does anyone know except for Valve themselves?
This is my theory on how it works:

Of course I can't be sure... But anyone should know.

Journal #8496

Jessie • 9 years ago2015-01-16 04:08:40 UTC • 10 comments

I don't really know why I'm doing this.

If you can't figure out what I'm doing from that, its a WIP texture pack using various sprites from NES games.

For those curious:
Kid Icarus - dirt, iron door (the one on the right)
Super Mario Bros. - granite, daisies, mushrooms, andesite
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - grass (and tall grass), oak logs + leaves (those closest trees), sand (not pictured)
Faxanadu - oak door (the one on the left), potions (not pictured)
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - stone (+ ores)

And a bunch others not yet significant enough to be pictured.
Faxanadu especially will get more. It's too good not to.

EDIT: Caves are a lot more colourful now =3

Not happy with iron ore (the purple-blue blocks at the back), but Simon's Quest doesn't have any blocks with a colour quite fitting enough.

EDIT: Liquids! I was tinkering with water, trying to get it to look any good and accidentally made it look cool.

That's the water from the overworld of Zelda II and the lava from the Heat Man stage of Mega Man 2, with the palettes altered to match. Lava is much the same.