Journals
Opened up some ink cartridges to learn how the ink is stored.
Happy Australia Day my cork-hat wearing, lager drinking, kangaroo riding bruvs.
TF2 vmfs
I've finally started to open and check out the TF2 .vmfs which are included with the Source SDK, and i must say they are very informative and interesting.
Besides instantly being able to see what the TF2-specific entities are and how they work, you also get a peak into how valve optimizes their maps and some cool tricks they use.
If you would like to check out some .vmfs that are not included with the SDK, try here.
I would highly recommend any source mapper to check these out, whether or not you map for tf2.
I've finally started to open and check out the TF2 .vmfs which are included with the Source SDK, and i must say they are very informative and interesting.
Besides instantly being able to see what the TF2-specific entities are and how they work, you also get a peak into how valve optimizes their maps and some cool tricks they use.
If you would like to check out some .vmfs that are not included with the SDK, try here.
I would highly recommend any source mapper to check these out, whether or not you map for tf2.
journal
jour·nal
noun
1.
a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations: She kept a journal during her European trip.
I Win Dimbark and Archie.
jour·nal
noun
1.
a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations: She kept a journal during her European trip.
I Win Dimbark and Archie.
Hello twhl, I recently made an animation for one of my college units, and I need some form of audience feedback/response on it. I uploaded it to youtube so you guys can check it out, please drop me a constructive comment on the youtube page or here telling me what you taught of it, don't expect anything amazing. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mWugh25wc&feature=youtu.be
Like I said I want an audience response and that's all, I will not be making any changes to it, because it's already finished and now I'm on a different task which requires me to ask people what they taught of it and then evaluate their responses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mWugh25wc&feature=youtu.be
Like I said I want an audience response and that's all, I will not be making any changes to it, because it's already finished and now I'm on a different task which requires me to ask people what they taught of it and then evaluate their responses.
Anonymous is going to attempt to take down the UN, Xbox Live, US Bank, Capital One, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
As Lyssa and I were visiting the bookstore for some Steven King stuff, I noticed the Romance novel section. I made a rather astute observation and decided to conduct the following experiment.
Thesis: Does the content of the cover really tell you about the contents of the book, can a romance novel be judged by its cover?
Process: Thumb through and read parts of the books until satisfied with content therein.
Conclusion:
Book 1 - Cover showed a man and a woman couple.
Apparently Ms. Rowe went to her sister's wedding, and predictably enough finds a strappingly beefy Scottish man names Brian visiting as he was a relative of the groom. They kick it off, but reluctantly he had a wife in his home country he didn't much care for. He cheats on his wife until she flies to the USA and confronts the woman, but later she finds a new lover of her own and everyone is relatively happy.
Book 2 - Cover shown an elegant woman only.
After thumbing through, the lovely miss Thomlins in a 1700 Britain was trapped in an arranged marriage. She found herself coming into a fond attraction with the bar maid at the local tavern. Conclusively they had a sweet and romantic undressing and canoodling before Thomlins whacks her groom-to-be with a candlestick at the altar and runs off into the countryside with her lesbian lover.
Book 3 - Cover of a cowboy only (there were lots of these anyhow).
Regrettably Riley was on a ranch and found an attraction by the name of Stoker (really?) also working on the ranch. Shortly enough, the two end up having snoo snoo where Riley was worried about it falling out. Nuff read.
Book 4 - Cover of a pleasant town in a valley.
Who knoooooows.
Report:
Yes. Romance novels CAN be judged by its cover with a distinct and disturbing accuracy that is simply uncanny. Further funding for this experiment has be cut due to risk of resonance cascade.
Thesis: Does the content of the cover really tell you about the contents of the book, can a romance novel be judged by its cover?
Process: Thumb through and read parts of the books until satisfied with content therein.
Conclusion:
Book 1 - Cover showed a man and a woman couple.
Apparently Ms. Rowe went to her sister's wedding, and predictably enough finds a strappingly beefy Scottish man names Brian visiting as he was a relative of the groom. They kick it off, but reluctantly he had a wife in his home country he didn't much care for. He cheats on his wife until she flies to the USA and confronts the woman, but later she finds a new lover of her own and everyone is relatively happy.
Book 2 - Cover shown an elegant woman only.
After thumbing through, the lovely miss Thomlins in a 1700 Britain was trapped in an arranged marriage. She found herself coming into a fond attraction with the bar maid at the local tavern. Conclusively they had a sweet and romantic undressing and canoodling before Thomlins whacks her groom-to-be with a candlestick at the altar and runs off into the countryside with her lesbian lover.
Book 3 - Cover of a cowboy only (there were lots of these anyhow).
Regrettably Riley was on a ranch and found an attraction by the name of Stoker (really?) also working on the ranch. Shortly enough, the two end up having snoo snoo where Riley was worried about it falling out. Nuff read.
Book 4 - Cover of a pleasant town in a valley.
Who knoooooows.
Report:
Yes. Romance novels CAN be judged by its cover with a distinct and disturbing accuracy that is simply uncanny. Further funding for this experiment has be cut due to risk of resonance cascade.
Scott's Portal 2 drawing.
Note the turret, a light bridge, Wheatley, and the warning signage for toxic water.
Partially hidden behind him is the plush headcrab that his mom made for him. Lamarr protects him at night from monsters.
Note the turret, a light bridge, Wheatley, and the warning signage for toxic water.
Partially hidden behind him is the plush headcrab that his mom made for him. Lamarr protects him at night from monsters.
New Video
I'll be honest. It's just me talking nonsense. Still, it's not just another update video and you may actually find it a little amusing.
Not sure what's up with my camera at the moment though...
I'll be honest. It's just me talking nonsense. Still, it's not just another update video and you may actually find it a little amusing.
Not sure what's up with my camera at the moment though...
Edited yet again with Day 4. You won't see much of Archie over this week because I am currently working as 1st AC on a high-budget production being filmed in a full studio lot (Scotland's equivalent of Hollywood.)
It's a horror film, so there are loads of night shots and as such the hours are crazy. Some days I'll be sleeping at the studio.
I'll be taking photos every day.
It's so surreal. There's an entire fictional Glasgow street built here. It looks totally believably until you go in the houses and just find plywood.
Here's one of the studio buildings. There are six of them and each one has anywhere up to 30 different "room" locations inside. From pubs to bedsits.
Let me know what you want to see in the comments. I have not had to sign an NDA (this is the first production I've worked on since I started making money in this industry that I can show you everything).
DAY TWO
"- Inside views of indoor sets."
"- More shots of that good looking blonde. :P"
Also, we're shooting in 4.5k. HD is 1080. An xbox360 is 720. 4.5 thousand.
I was really busy today so I didn't get a spare moment to go around other departments, sorry Captain Terror.
More tomorrow.
DAY 3!
Crazy busy today. We were behind schedule due to heavy rain, so I've been non-stop for about 10 hours. So tired ;_;
It's so much easier to work in rooms without ceilings.
This little thing was awesome. Basically a jet engine to rapidly heat the room. Literally.
It wouldn't be a horror film without a mad lassie cutting up a paint canvas.
Big 300mm lens on.
This was a rehearsal. The mat had to be removed for the take. I do not envy this guy having to lie in rainwater in temperatures of around -2 C.
The 7k bulb returns.
DAY 4!
It's a horror film, so there are loads of night shots and as such the hours are crazy. Some days I'll be sleeping at the studio.
I'll be taking photos every day.
It's so surreal. There's an entire fictional Glasgow street built here. It looks totally believably until you go in the houses and just find plywood.
DAY TWO
More tomorrow.
DAY 3!
Crazy busy today. We were behind schedule due to heavy rain, so I've been non-stop for about 10 hours. So tired ;_;
DAY 4!
Just got pulled over for the first time ever at a police checkpoint. Yay!
Lots of people see them from a mile away and make a turn as soon as they can. Fools. I just laughed and pulled over. I don't have a problem with it, all my documentation is up to date and I have nothing to hide.
Lots of people see them from a mile away and make a turn as soon as they can. Fools. I just laughed and pulled over. I don't have a problem with it, all my documentation is up to date and I have nothing to hide.
Just began to write my HL1 modelling-tutorial as html document. I've submitted my proposal 2 weeks ago, but got no answer until now.
You can download it at file-uplaod.net or mediafire.com
( http://www.file-upload.net/download-4031566/Tut.zip.html )
( http://www.mediafire.com/?2c8z4z568gu8rth )
I also hosted it: http://manionsen.bplaced.net/
The tutorial is about creating models with Valve's Hammer Editor, some texturing and poly-optimizing only.
I haven't finished yet. There much more to discover when modelling with VHE. 3D-skyboxes, Displacement to model conversion, how to add deails to architecture, advanced texturing techniques, lighting theory for models and faking shadows are comig soon.
Keep in mind that I am no native speaker of English. please contact me if you have suggestions for improvement.
You can download it at file-uplaod.net or mediafire.com
( http://www.file-upload.net/download-4031566/Tut.zip.html )
( http://www.mediafire.com/?2c8z4z568gu8rth )
I also hosted it: http://manionsen.bplaced.net/
The tutorial is about creating models with Valve's Hammer Editor, some texturing and poly-optimizing only.
I haven't finished yet. There much more to discover when modelling with VHE. 3D-skyboxes, Displacement to model conversion, how to add deails to architecture, advanced texturing techniques, lighting theory for models and faking shadows are comig soon.
Keep in mind that I am no native speaker of English. please contact me if you have suggestions for improvement.
Hello Fine Gentleladies of TWHL(I jest!), I am sick of my Avatar, a recolored Scott Pilgrim I recolored a year or so ago. So I am looking to create my own original one using Photoshop. Sadly, I suck ass at it, I can do some basic stuff. But really I can't use it worth shit, so here is the main question, does anyone know any good beginner Photoshop tutorials? And the idea of making a journal wasn't mine. It was CTs, get mad at him. But in all seriousness, any help would be appreciated, any beginner tutorial would help, google is being a dick and all these advanced tutorials are coming up, even when I put in beginner. Thanks in advance!
Liebe ist fur alle da , nicht fur mich
Apart from the apparently random rammstein lyrics , I've got higher prelims in two weeks. Talk about unprepared.
For all of you that don't know of the scottish education system ( and probably english as well I'd assume) , you go through 4 phases when doing exams.
The first phase is the prelim , an exam , usually of slightly higher difficultly than the actual exam. Prelims will not only give the pupil , myself , an idea of what grade they'll get in the exam , but can also be used as evidence to increase your grade if you fuck up in the exam. If you balls-up your prelim , or if you haven't actually covered the whole course when you get the prelim , you'll do a post prelim. It's exactly the same as prelim , but just done later on.
After those two stages , you are set with the actual exam. The final stage is appeals , if you are absent from the exam because you are sick / injured / dead , your teachers will put forward an appeal based on your prelim / post prelim results. The better you do in your prelims , the higher the chance that your score will be upgraded.
And since the prelims are the "all-cure" , I don't think i'm going to do too well in them. We've done fuck all preparation past-paper wise in english , and haven't finished the course in music or in physics.
Apart from the apparently random rammstein lyrics , I've got higher prelims in two weeks. Talk about unprepared.
For all of you that don't know of the scottish education system ( and probably english as well I'd assume) , you go through 4 phases when doing exams.
The first phase is the prelim , an exam , usually of slightly higher difficultly than the actual exam. Prelims will not only give the pupil , myself , an idea of what grade they'll get in the exam , but can also be used as evidence to increase your grade if you fuck up in the exam. If you balls-up your prelim , or if you haven't actually covered the whole course when you get the prelim , you'll do a post prelim. It's exactly the same as prelim , but just done later on.
After those two stages , you are set with the actual exam. The final stage is appeals , if you are absent from the exam because you are sick / injured / dead , your teachers will put forward an appeal based on your prelim / post prelim results. The better you do in your prelims , the higher the chance that your score will be upgraded.
And since the prelims are the "all-cure" , I don't think i'm going to do too well in them. We've done fuck all preparation past-paper wise in english , and haven't finished the course in music or in physics.
So I need to make a decision within less than 12 hours.
I recently got a kickass new grahpics card and PSU to back it up.
A sweet GEFORCE GTX 570 and a 1000W Cooler Master somehow crammed into my HP Pavilion. The whole bundle for $719 AUS with free installation because I suck at installing hardware.
My grahpics are now so shiny. I've been playing Civilisation 5 AND I HAVE SHINY WATER!!! OMG IT'S SHINY WATER!!! /spaz
Anyway, the geforce gtx 570 supports 3D for non-3D games. I can currently play any game with the good old Anaglyph (red/blue) glasses but these things ruin colours and I would much prefer sterioscopic 3D. However, this is mach more powerful and requires some further purchases which I can't decide.
Nvidia 3D Vision requires:
1) A 3D-ready monitor that has 120hz refresh rate. I am currently looking at the Samsung 2233RZ, which is basically the exact model I already have but 3D ready. (I would also love to have dual monitors again). This monitor goes for around $500-$700
2) A Nvidia 3D vision pack which includes an IR emitter and allows on the fly adjustments to 3D depth and wireless 'Shutter Glasses'. I really don't know how they work so don't ask me. This pack usually goes for about $75-$100.
Currently on eBay I can get a bundle pack of the monitor AND the 3D kit for only $340 including postage. It's the ONLY bundle I can find and it's actually one of the few monitors that I can get for less than $500 as most other supported monitors are over $500 on ebay let alone their retail value which can reach $1100.
I have less than 12 hours (ebay item ends) to decide and thanks to my car, money is really short. I can afford it but I don't really want to but this is an awesome deal.
Eeep!
I recently got a kickass new grahpics card and PSU to back it up.
A sweet GEFORCE GTX 570 and a 1000W Cooler Master somehow crammed into my HP Pavilion. The whole bundle for $719 AUS with free installation because I suck at installing hardware.
My grahpics are now so shiny. I've been playing Civilisation 5 AND I HAVE SHINY WATER!!! OMG IT'S SHINY WATER!!! /spaz
Anyway, the geforce gtx 570 supports 3D for non-3D games. I can currently play any game with the good old Anaglyph (red/blue) glasses but these things ruin colours and I would much prefer sterioscopic 3D. However, this is mach more powerful and requires some further purchases which I can't decide.
Nvidia 3D Vision requires:
1) A 3D-ready monitor that has 120hz refresh rate. I am currently looking at the Samsung 2233RZ, which is basically the exact model I already have but 3D ready. (I would also love to have dual monitors again). This monitor goes for around $500-$700
2) A Nvidia 3D vision pack which includes an IR emitter and allows on the fly adjustments to 3D depth and wireless 'Shutter Glasses'. I really don't know how they work so don't ask me. This pack usually goes for about $75-$100.
Currently on eBay I can get a bundle pack of the monitor AND the 3D kit for only $340 including postage. It's the ONLY bundle I can find and it's actually one of the few monitors that I can get for less than $500 as most other supported monitors are over $500 on ebay let alone their retail value which can reach $1100.
I have less than 12 hours (ebay item ends) to decide and thanks to my car, money is really short. I can afford it but I don't really want to but this is an awesome deal.
Eeep!