Aliens heading towards us
Near Pluto
Is this a hoax?
I don't know what to believe. Since I am almost certain that extraterrestrial life exists, I am a bit afraid. Though they may have peaceful thoughts...
On the other side, I think this is will be some kind of an international hoax, or just an internet one. SETI has been working to discover these things for years, and yet only now they discover this in OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. Seriously, we find about these ships only now?
A possible explanation is that those are just meteorites. A human's brain likes to be fooled.
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Hmm, that is a bit harsh :D.
Anyway, troll science now!
Anyway, troll science now!
Crollo, don't worry. It's even harder to look at them with the 3D glasses on.
Anyway, I looked at them with 3D glasses and the tree one doesn't seem to have a good 3D effect indeed.
Anyway, I looked at them with 3D glasses and the tree one doesn't seem to have a good 3D effect indeed.
I can't map for HL2, source SDK has too many bugsI don't know how it works for hl2, but for source 2009 hammer works just fine.
I can't put all of my reading effort into following every Dimbark's post, but.. did he just say he wants to implement multiplayer on half-life 1 mod?
There is no need for wasting words here Dimbark. Look at this random screenshot taken from a modern multiplayer game:
Remember, people get bored( sometimes really fast) of these kind of games too.
Now look at your mod:
Dimbark, no one aside from mappers like us will want to play a shitty mod(don't get me wrong at this point). Even us don't have time for multiplayer. You will be lucky to get 100 persons to play your mod, in singleplayer. Yes, that is interesting for us- it's just our curiosity to see what you have done. We may be spending about 5 minutes on your mod. That's why I suggest you stop working on any other multiplayer maps.
In fact, I discourage you from continuing this mod. Instead of making quantity, try focusing on quality. Try learning new techniques, apply them in an experimental map, design a singleplayer map or something and then show it to us. Try to advance to the source engine. Making a mod isn't at all simple, you need dedication. You have it. But dedication without quality means nothing, so you better invest your effort into learning rather than wasting it on maps that follow the same damn story that I had enough of.
And btw, is that you in your avatar?
P.S. One more thing, when I am talking of these modern games I am not absolutely reffering to the graphics. It's just that half-life has been smoked.. a lot.
There is no need for wasting words here Dimbark. Look at this random screenshot taken from a modern multiplayer game:
Now look at your mod:
In fact, I discourage you from continuing this mod. Instead of making quantity, try focusing on quality. Try learning new techniques, apply them in an experimental map, design a singleplayer map or something and then show it to us. Try to advance to the source engine. Making a mod isn't at all simple, you need dedication. You have it. But dedication without quality means nothing, so you better invest your effort into learning rather than wasting it on maps that follow the same damn story that I had enough of.
And btw, is that you in your avatar?
P.S. One more thing, when I am talking of these modern games I am not absolutely reffering to the graphics. It's just that half-life has been smoked.. a lot.
Heh, that picture blew me away. You're an... ace ;).
Guys, I think my cats are terminators(catminators?) sent from the future to protect me or something.
Guys, I think my cats are terminators(catminators?) sent from the future to protect me or something.
No, it's trout. That's what I had for the new year's eve dinner :P.
Happy new year guys. After some loud music and dancing on stuff like "When you're smiling, I went to play some lol with my friend for 2 hours :).
You know, I was listening a UK podcast before 2 am(that's before 00:00 in UK). The guy made a countdown and I was expecting some special effects.
Instead "3...2...1.. aaand, you don't feel really much difference, do you ?". Well, I thought for a second, that's true. But it's half-true. You feel really great if you can start that party atmosphere.
So guys, I wish you a very nice year, with as many quality maps as possible, and everything that you want to come true. You know, if you really wish it can come true. Last year's new year I filmed the fireworks with my phone and promised myself to film with a camera the next year. And that came true.
Have a happy new year guys! Love for all!
You know, I was listening a UK podcast before 2 am(that's before 00:00 in UK). The guy made a countdown and I was expecting some special effects.
Instead "3...2...1.. aaand, you don't feel really much difference, do you ?". Well, I thought for a second, that's true. But it's half-true. You feel really great if you can start that party atmosphere.
So guys, I wish you a very nice year, with as many quality maps as possible, and everything that you want to come true. You know, if you really wish it can come true. Last year's new year I filmed the fireworks with my phone and promised myself to film with a camera the next year. And that came true.
Have a happy new year guys! Love for all!
Yep. I can't wait for Sandy Bridge. And money to buy it 
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[EDIT] And here are the fireworks.... At least the last part of them :(. Read the story in the description.
.[EDIT] And here are the fireworks.... At least the last part of them :(. Read the story in the description.
Wohooooo, it's 2011 here. HORRAAAY . HAPPY NEW YEAR
2011
I am fucking drunk.
2011
I am fucking drunk.
2 hours left. Oh boy!
Well, t minus 4 hours.
Ok, I was really hoping nothing bad will happen right before New Year. But it happened.
My pc is in safe mode with networking. Windows freezes at startup. It appears to be loading things from the HDD, then suddenly it stops and it remains at that screen.
It is odd, but it happened after I tried opening Saurbraten. When I did that, it gave me a black screen( not the kind provoked by a GPU error, instead it just refused to answer CTRL+ALT+DELETE or SHIFT+TAB).
I don't know what the fuck to do. I am so damn nervous that I almost fist-knocked my pc from the desk.
Happy New year, indeed.
Does anyone have any idea what is happening?
[EDIT] Holy fuck. I have checked with every damn possible tools for possible system damages and everything is fine. Yet it still freezes in a normal boot. I think I'm going to try one hour of hardcore way- manually disabling services and see when it stops freezing to detect the bad one.
[EDIT] I reinstalled Windows. -_-
My pc is in safe mode with networking. Windows freezes at startup. It appears to be loading things from the HDD, then suddenly it stops and it remains at that screen.
It is odd, but it happened after I tried opening Saurbraten. When I did that, it gave me a black screen( not the kind provoked by a GPU error, instead it just refused to answer CTRL+ALT+DELETE or SHIFT+TAB).
I don't know what the fuck to do. I am so damn nervous that I almost fist-knocked my pc from the desk.
Happy New year, indeed.
Does anyone have any idea what is happening?
[EDIT] Holy fuck. I have checked with every damn possible tools for possible system damages and everything is fine. Yet it still freezes in a normal boot. I think I'm going to try one hour of hardcore way- manually disabling services and see when it stops freezing to detect the bad one.
[EDIT] I reinstalled Windows. -_-
Huntey, I know Scotland is in Britain :P.
This is hilarious. At least until the prime minister of TWHL expresses his feelings and...
Actions.
Actions.
I'm British.Really? I thought you're from Scotland.
You are probably including some wad in the map.
The effect shown ingame is just what's being caused by your spec map. The white bricks are really white which means they're going to be very shiny.But the most shiny part are the unseen bricks!
It's free, you don't have to buy a license.You mean the demo version is okay?
Wtf, I said "For me, 31 hours to go. ". Now I know I am bad at english, but don't make me think I fail that hard at it.
Wtf?Guys leave him alone. I don't know how to talk about this but.. at that age we were all letting our imagination talk without filtering it with the logic part of our brain.
Dimbark, translate that to us please.
I can't wait to see what he responds.
Skals, not everybody is at a college that gives free photoshop licenses like you.
Dimbark, are you running hl on a laptop? That would explain the ridiculous resolution.
Dimbark, are you running hl on a laptop? That would explain the ridiculous resolution.
Ok, I somehow managed to get bumpmapping and an alphaenvmask working. But with funny results again:
Ok thank you for the cartoon effect dear Source engine, but it's not what I want right now.
I think I am doing something wrong. Here's what I did for the bump map.
I grayscaled the texture, and made some adjustments so that the brighter bricks are emphasized. I copy pasted that into the alpha layer and increased a bit the contrast for the specular map.
Then I saved it as a 32bit .TGA
After that I loaded it into VTFedit, chose BGRA8888 for both "Normal" and "Alpha", and saved it:
Also, the .vmt is this:
[quote]"LightmappedGeneric"
{
[/quote]
What am I doing wrong?
I think I am doing something wrong. Here's what I did for the bump map.
I grayscaled the texture, and made some adjustments so that the brighter bricks are emphasized. I copy pasted that into the alpha layer and increased a bit the contrast for the specular map.
After that I loaded it into VTFedit, chose BGRA8888 for both "Normal" and "Alpha", and saved it:
[quote]"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "test_textures\brickorange"
"$surfaceprop" "brick"
"$bumpmap" "test_textures\brickorange_envbump_map"
$envmap env_cubemap
"$envmaptint" "[ 0.7 0.7 0.7 ]"
"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" "1"
//"$parallaxmap" "brickorange_heightmap"//"$parallaxmapscale" "0.08"[/quote]
What am I doing wrong?
As always, post as soon after 00:00 your "Happy New Year" shout!
Or you can post the countdown.
For me, 31 hours to go.
Or you can post the countdown.
For me, 31 hours to go.
The question is: how do I add an alpha layer?
[EDIT] And why do you put " everywhere? It works without them.
[EDIT] And why do you put " everywhere? It works without them.
I think I'm going to stick with VTFedit, it's the simplest solution to me. Also, I have discovered that the above posted texture(the in-game screenshot), is actually using parallax mapping.
Rabid, CrazyBump costs money. VTFedit is an all-in-one, and it's free :).
The $envmap parameter seems to be adding a reflection to the texture as a whole, it doesn't consider bump maps or anything. I believe, from what you are talking guys, that there is a "specularity" map or something like that, a defined are of the texture which will shine? If that is so, can you link me to a tutorial on the valve wiki? I can't find it.
Argh, there's much to learn. I only fully understand how to create a basic texture right now.
Rabid, CrazyBump costs money. VTFedit is an all-in-one, and it's free :).
The $envmap parameter seems to be adding a reflection to the texture as a whole, it doesn't consider bump maps or anything. I believe, from what you are talking guys, that there is a "specularity" map or something like that, a defined are of the texture which will shine? If that is so, can you link me to a tutorial on the valve wiki? I can't find it.
Argh, there's much to learn. I only fully understand how to create a basic texture right now.
I'm not entirely sure I see what the problem is. It's rendering correctly, isn't it?I mean, look at this:
Gray scale the image and mess with the contrast to get a more defined bump map. That's how I do it but I use Photoshop's normal map plugin.Photoshop normal map plugin? Hmm... I used the VTFedit tool to do this. Btw, Archie, if you're not using this what are you using? I read something about scripting this on the valve wiki. Don't tell me you are really that hard-core lol.
If you want more depth, you can change the height map scale from the default value of 2 after picking an image to import.How can I do that?
And Urby, I think I understand what you're saying. But I still need more info about that normal map plugin :). (btw is there one available for GIMP ?)
Thanks for the philosophy, but that doesn't help me.
I am trying to learn how to manipulate source materials, but it seems something is going wrong and I don't really know where I'm doing the mistake.
I am trying to create a texture( the texture is shitty, but that isn't important, it's for testing) that has bump mapping(normal mapping) and can reflect env_maps.
This is the texture:
This is the normal texture:
And this is not what I am expecting!
This is the VMT:
[quote]LightmappedGeneric
{
[/quote]
So, what am I doing wrong?
I am trying to create a texture( the texture is shitty, but that isn't important, it's for testing) that has bump mapping(normal mapping) and can reflect env_maps.
This is the texture:
[quote]LightmappedGeneric
{
$basetexture test_textures\ground_test_texture
$surfaceprop gravel
$bumpmap test_textures\ground_test_texture_normal
$ssbump
$envmap env_cubemap[/quote]
So, what am I doing wrong?
How can you not laugh at this?
This is a compilation of funny gmod videos I made over a long period of time. It's sort of a continuation to "Illegal Broadcast", another video that I also posted here and you might remember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWA_ebfa6bU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWA_ebfa6bU
Wow,
Menew - Don't Give Up On Us NowGosh I hate myself for not finding this kind of music. That song is absolutely beautiful.
That was a good time waster for about 20 minutes. What a horror sound the soldiers make when they die lol.
Backing up means investing money in a second portable HDD, preferably USB3.0. That's where the problem starts.
If I was Santa Claus, I would send you one :P.
[EDIT] lol, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_zQYJZi9Y
[EDIT] lol, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_zQYJZi9Y
1. Download Gimp
2. Download some fancy wallpapers or scenery photographs from around the internet
3. Modify, add titles etc...
4. Place them in your map.
5. ???
6. Profit!!!
2. Download some fancy wallpapers or scenery photographs from around the internet
3. Modify, add titles etc...
4. Place them in your map.
5. ???
6. Profit!!!
Heh, I saw him playing The Citizen 2 yesterday on Steam, and didn't actually observe the "2" :).
FileFront ?
Huntey, I've heard of servers running well over 5 years without being ever shut down.
What the fuck. 10 minutes ago this thread was closed.
I got a crappy 85$ Intel processor and I have no problems. Upgrade your pc.
Since everybody is in love with Minecraft...
I was :D(experiment actually). It worked.
You don't understand. The staff was acting like assholes. You have to read through everything to understand.
And if you were in his situation, wouldn't you be a bit frustrated? Or a bit more? I find his "frustration level" expressed through his words acceptable.
Guys, I don't know if you saw this video, but I'm listening to if for like... 10 minutes and I still didn't have enough :)).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHXQhCPCk2Q
And if you were in his situation, wouldn't you be a bit frustrated? Or a bit more? I find his "frustration level" expressed through his words acceptable.
Guys, I don't know if you saw this video, but I'm listening to if for like... 10 minutes and I still didn't have enough :)).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHXQhCPCk2Q
This is a wonderful example about how helpful Steam Support actually is.
WARNING: There's a lot to read. But it's funny\sad at the same time. You should open the image in a new tab and scroll around.
It seems that you'll get no human-like answers until your ticket is escalated. This is exactly what I'm experiencing, but what this guy did here would be to tiring for me to do. Basically I posted about my source connecting problems, but what they do is give a stock answer with links from the steam troubleshooting( even though I told them I already read those links and nothing got fixed) and then close my question. Have fun reading.
WARNING: There's a lot to read. But it's funny\sad at the same time. You should open the image in a new tab and scroll around.
It seems that you'll get no human-like answers until your ticket is escalated. This is exactly what I'm experiencing, but what this guy did here would be to tiring for me to do. Basically I posted about my source connecting problems, but what they do is give a stock answer with links from the steam troubleshooting( even though I told them I already read those links and nothing got fixed) and then close my question. Have fun reading.
Oh boy, this almost felt like it hurt me!
I must say, the rage face looks awesome.
