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Also, used my phone as a remote and monitor for my camera which was super useful!

KSP is so fucking cool now. It's mind-boggling how much it's grown since I first played it - probably around 2 years ago. It didn't even have the Mun back then!

Yes, it's Battlefield 4. Hella great game.

Those are glorious Satchmo. The first one in particular is so mischievous. Marvellous!

I just spent all my pennies on a Panasonic GH3 - primarily for its exceptional video datarate (72Mb/s - almost double the BBCHD minimum requirement for broadcast in the UK) but it's also a fantastic stills camera. I don't have any particularly exciting lenses yet and I've been working so much that I've barely had time to play with it, but here're a few shots I've come up with so far. There are full res options for a few of them for comparison. The RAW shots come out at about 19.5MB each, so the full res images have been compressed slightly with Photoshop.FULL RES (7.9MB)FULL RES (7.5MB)FULL RES (6.3MB)FULL RES (8.1MB)

I don't think the MotM itself needs to be more visible, but I do think there's still an element of the reviews not being obvious enough up at the top right.

Perhaps links with the reviewer's avatar under a nice big "Reviews:" heading below the main MotM score page. This presumably wouldn't be too difficult to add since the review submission page already asks for the reviewer's user ID.

No need to wait, LaVolpe, the motm publishing tools support multiple reviews. It's just a matter of either penguinboy giving you motm admin rights or myself or one of the other team members publishing a review on your behalf.

Having the motm winner in shot gets you bonus points.

For me it really started feeling like a thankless task. Myself and a few others were trying really hard to zap some life back into the community with MotMs, retro tournaments and prizes, etc.

At the end of the day it just seemed like too much effort for little to no gain. It wasn't attracting new members and existing members didn't seem to care, as dwindling vote figures all too clearly showed.

If it was to work, I think a general motm discussion thread would be necessary. It'd provide a way to discuss candidates and reviews and arrange tests and games in a less closed setting than each review's own comment stream.

I also think it might work best if, once the winner was revealed with its one or two 'official' reviews, users were encouraged to write their own reviews. This'd provide the most useful gains for winners. How this could be achieved, I don't know. Perhaps some sort of submission system like the one for tutorials, which has the 5 criteria we judges motms on and automatically calculates the percentage score based on the user's inputs. It's a stage above basic comments and the 5 star system

I'll throw my hat back in for a while at least if a restart is planned. Just bought myself a new camera and a couple of new lights so it'd be a good platform to test those. Although we do have to come to terms with the fact that even if it does start up again, no video review will ever be as good as the one for de_twhl2011

Few people will invest in a second living room playing PC.

That is basically what this gen and the next gen of consoles are - purpose-focused PCs - and millions of people invest in them despite owning PCs. Also the ability to stream from a more powerful gaming rig is brilliant.

There are games that are always going to be better at a desk with a mouse and keyboard - FPS, RTS, TBS, Simulations, etc. but I much prefer playing platformers, sports games and beat-em-ups on the couch. It's a far more social environment. I don't buy into consoles, though, because the games are overpriced and the systems are extremely closed. An open system with Steam's prices? Fucking yes.

Is Valve planning to walk hand in hand with Linux against Microsoft?

Not so dramatically, but Gabe has been very outspoken about his dislike for Windows 8 and its closed nature (the exact same reasons I hate consoles and Apple) so it makes sense that he's moving Valve onto the only remaining open platform. The SteamOS will not be competing as a desktop alternative. Not yet, at least.

The map I'm trying to open

Choosing a Steam installed game will crash every time I choose 'Half-Life', though cstrike and blue shift will not crash.
When choosing 'mod' without Steam Install ticked, it will snap back to cstrike every time I open game config. The Core does appear in the list and I am applying and closing every time I choose it.FGD setup, I have also tried just with half-life.fgd

But is there something i need to do? the map is just brushwork, no displacements or ents & only nodraw.

What's this someone said about Sledge being able to open vmfs? It crashes instantly if I try...

You can, you can turn them on and off from the options menu without disconnecting from the game

It's atrociously laid out on that poor excuse for a forum with 'download' links just taking you deeper into threads, etc.

Get this

Get this - make sure it's .jar and doesn't switch to .zip

Get this

then install them in reverse order following the instructions on the main forum link muzz posted.

The Shadows and water refraction are nice little extras, but the truly amazing thing here is the DoF. It's handled better than most modern AAA games and runs super sweetly on my PC.

I'll fucking cut you, son

Why's it so bright?

How tall are you? 45kg is INSANELY underweight. Medically. Alarmingly.

Like, that's the sort of weight you'd expect a twelve year old to be.

Wow, some really neat stuff, guys I like how open some of you are being.

Another fact; I often lie about my age.

Why? Do you say you're older or younger? I guess I could say I often lied about my age getting into bars back when I was underage, so is that what you mean? :3

Central Heterochromia and Heterochromia are two different things. Not sure if you had them confused. I've never seen the movie though, I could be terribly wrong.

Don't worry about the details, just save the planet. GOD.

It is impossible for me to get a job. I've applied submitted over 70 applications to over 30 places. All get denied or ignored

Yeah, that's the stage where you gotta start considering a redesign of how you're presenting yourself when applying; in CV design & content, showreel and who you're actually approaching.

The Hunter enjoys Badminton.

The only higher-intensity racket sport is squash. Badminton is an amazing cardio workout.

Oh I like playing table-tenis btw, colloquially known as ping-pong.

I love a bit of TT, but I'm horrifically bad at it. Every time I try to slice and add spin I end up fucking it off a wall or up someone's nose or some shit.

Skals, that is a glorious club tale. Glorious and horrendous. Gloriendous.

People with Brendan's iris mutation are the key to the cure in 28 Weeks Later. Want to survive the zombiepocalypse? Now is the time to give him your bribes.

That is so cool/unusual, Kurosaki.
I know plenty lefties who use a mouse with their right hand but I've never seen it the other way around!

Here's the place for those quirky little facts about yourself that most people don't know.

I'll start off:
The green filmstrip logo I use as my brand in both my hobby and in my professional life was actually created by TWHL's own Daubster without any instruction from myself other than "I like green". I will never be able to thank him enough for creating my new identity before I even knew I wanted one.

I'm a predator - rapture. (I am killin' it)

Bwoo.

At home:
(new flat)At work:

Some extremely cool fan art from the very talented Eva Logan.

I actually commissioned the top one to be used as in-game Black Mesa artwork after she sent the first one to me.

I consume most of my television on a 4.8 inch Samsung Galaxy S3 and find it absolutely fine. 7 Inches isn't that small when you're holding it 12" from your face.

Penis joke.

I have a handy link here that should help explain how to find Urby's stunning work.

I really feel like someone should really be calling him out on how dickish it is to create a leaving thread then just pop back. Honestly, I'd normally do it but I work far too much to keep up my Urby abuse quota. If someone wants to step up, that'd be hugely appreciated.

you cant just post here after a month of absence with no media

And that's not even including any of Urby's stunning work. But yeah, we've been keeping the media releases pretty regular.

I map in the same way, LaVolpe. Block it out with nodraw then just spend a couple hours 'painting'. I find it a very efficient way to design things, particularly since I tend to build textures for specific brushwork.

Alberto309, your stuff is really solid looking. Very well-built.

It serves no purpose other than making it look non-standard and clash with the OS standard.

Are you kidding? Video and photo manipulation is far better with a dark background. That sort of work where you're staring at minute details for 8 hours a day is such an eye strain with bright UIs. It was one of the most requested features amongst the After Effects community.

requesting a new overview due to muchos construction last night.

Thrilled to bits that this has made it to alpha! I'ma repost a PM I sent you years ago, though, because I still think it'd be a great addition!

Mocked this up quickly to demonstrate a couple of ideas I had for the face editor.
Firstly a random shift function which works with the "treat as one" tickybox. It would allow you to quickly randomize, for example, a set of stairs so that they don't so obviously tile on the X plane.

Secondly, something gtkRadient has which always amazed me wasn't implemented in Hammer 4 - a tiling fit option so that you can fit, say, 4 tiles of a texture to a face rather than just stretching it to 1, untiled fit. This is extremely useful.

::: Trade Route Established :::

Archaen supplies Gaul with ingredients and lab equipment for Getafix the Druid.

(+9001 DEF)

Gaul supplies Archaen with menhirs.

(+6 Dinner-Party Conversation Piece)

Scotch, your reference is heartily and nostalgically received!Fabled as 'The Unknown Continent', this northern landmass was not settled until late in the planet's history when its founders grew tired of the constant small wars, political subterfuge and needless exacerbation demonstrated by many on the mainland. Despite this, Archaen keeps many trade routes open with other planetary leaders through less public channels.

So I guess Urby was a leetle girl about leaving TWHL and made a thread about it and everything. How terribly embarrassing.
Anyway, don't think we've forgotten The Core's roots even if we don't come round anymore.

Here's a bitta media. If you haven't been keeping up with the ModDB page, it's still the best way to get a taste of The Core as we're developing it and we're about to pass 100,000 unique visitors which is neat!

Zeeba, your costume is fucking glorious. I admire your dedication!
I went for a fairly boring Rick Grimes in a universe where he doesn't have the survival instincts demonstrated in the show.(Troy and Abed high five)

Cheers!

Adobe's video editing software is called Premiere Pro.
After Effects is for motion graphics and VFX.

Preview of a work in progress of a preview of a work in progress.

the motm is up to date.

Lets use the current July one as an example:

Voting for july's motm can't be done until august, else all the possible submissions wouldn't be there. because of how slow this community is, it was felt necessary to allow an entire month for voting.

It's now September and voting for july's motm is over meaning the review process can begin. All of the review team have jobs and other commitments, so again a whole month is allowed...

It's October 1st and the reviews are published. Nobody reads or watches them and absolutely nobody comments on them resulting in the review team wondering why they bother.
Of course that doesn't matter either since there were ZERO votes from the community in July anyway, so clearly nobody would miss the feature if we just stopped.

The Dota 2 one won't work after it's released, but after it's released it'll be free anyway. This just gives you access to the beta. :3

The Payday one is unlimited.

24 hours(ish) left on this competition if you wanna quickly throw an entry together!

Edit:

Or not!
Anyhoo, Cstriker wins!
The other entries are cool, and I love that you used real applications, but I always prefer creativity over reality and Cstriker's has a nice amount of visual elegance. I won't be using the actual image you submitted because it contains copyrighted material, but I'll create one based on your design and layout and you'll be credited.

I've PM'd you the Steam Product Keys

Tetsu0, you're terribly kind. I don't really have time to learn a new game atm - I barely have time for BF3 as it is, but I'm definitely going to keep WoT in mind.

Here's a couple more because I'm enjoying messing with this new plugin too much. Best £200 I've ever spent.

Archie says

I don't voice the episodes.

The TWHL ship Worm has arrived safely in sector two, emerging from a nauseating FTL jump into a gassy nebula. Nebulas, while indefinably sexual have the added effect of disrupting sensors – both internal and external. As a result, we can only monitor rooms that currently contain crewmembers.What an excellent opportunity to remind you of the crew roles! In the pilot’s seat we have Strider – an Engi with synthetic origins expertly skilled in repairing ship systems. Manning the guns is Ant, the ship’s only human crewman. He’s providing a cooldown reduction between shots. At the shield generator, keeping the shields up is Pebs, another Engi. Both him and Strider speak with a ridiculous Australian accent for some reason. Must be an Engi thing. Finally we have Nathan, a freed slave Mantis, skilled in hand-to-mandible combat and currently providing an evasion bonus in the engine room.
A benefit of the nebula is that as well as blocking our own sensors, it also hides us from the approaching fleet of rebels constantly chasing us, hindering their progress. However, we can’t stay here indefinitely! We have a mission to accomplish! Time to FTL the FTL out of here!
First jump in sector 2 brings the Worm up against a Rebel Rigger, typically used for mining. It’s barely armed, but does have the exact same class of attack drone we’ve been using so far to outsmart our enemies. If they manage to bring down our shields, the attack drone will cause havoc!Fortunately it’s only sector 2, and for some reason ships this side of the galaxy are a bit rubbish so they quickly surrender, offering their best security officer as a bargaining chip. Pipaluk the Mantis joins us! We may have to change the dinner menu now that there are two Mantises (Mantii?) to cater for.They also provide us with a Breach missile launcher – it does very little damage to hull integrity, but causes small fractures that vent oxygen from the enemy ship. Missiles also completely disregard shields which only protect against energy weapons. Always pleasant!
After just one more jump it looks like we might have opportunity to test it! A well-armed bully of a ship is claiming the jump beacon as their own and demand tribute to pass.I think not! Breach missile awaaaaay! A direct hit on their weapons systems render them useless, and a quick couple of blasts from our patented attack drone finishes them off. The scrap gained allows us to purchase an engine upgrade, increasing our chance to dodge incoming attacks.The next jump brings us up against a fairly standard scenario – an unmanned drone attacking a friendly station. The Worm intervenes, of course, but oh my goodness! We’ve come up against a stealth ship and can’t target it until its stealth drive runs out of power!Conveniently, to afford a stealth drive they traded off having shields, and they’re space dust just seconds after uncloaking. The station we just saved compensates our effort with a kickass Hull Smasher laser.It pretty much does what it says on the tin – massive hull damage, very little system damage. Unfortunately it has massive power requirements as well as needing an overall weapons system upgrade to use which we won’t be able to afford for some time.
For the first time in ages, our next jump doesn’t lead to combat! Instead a small independent trader has set up shop above an uninhabited planet.Their wares are a bit rubbish, but I sell the breach missile launcher for more scrap and use it to fully repair our hull.
The rest of the system is fairly uneventful until the penultimate jump where we stumble across a heavily armed rebel fighter class ship. Curiously they hail us and offer their services to delay the approaching rebel fleet. What nonsense, charge weapons!And so we arrive at the system’s final jump beacon just ahead of the approaching wave of the enemy fleet.With weapons systems upgraded enough to use the new Hull Laser (albeit still unpowered) and a fully repaired hull, things are looking bright for sector 3!Also Strider didn’t die for some reason.

Is that World of Tanks? Never tried it, but PC Gamer magazine love it. Quite tempting.

Here's another few along the same lines as the first two.