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Cd5ssmffan, that is the worst thing I've ever seen

I've not got a personal PC since I moved to London (It's still up in Glasgow), so I'll just post my work setup. It's pretty good for gaming as well

ok

ok

Just got a serious kit upgrade 10bit 422 400MB/s 4k video? Yes pls

Hahaha. I have so many captured characters.
The most painful was Babu Manifold... If any of you find him... Please.

Babu was an expert of stealth and infiltration. He'd be in and out without anyone having the faintest idea; never using lethal methods unless absolutely required. A reputation for stealing some of the galaxy's most sought-after tech was building up under him, but he had never been about the fame. Yes, it was a nice reward when stations were named from the Manifold banner, but really Babu just wanted to find the corrupt bastard who tortured his partner.

It all went wrong on a seemingly normal mission. To be fair, it was one of the largest ships Babu had ever infiltrated. Countless rooms and hallways each contained their own set of challenges, but Babu was in his element.

Suddenly, a ship opened fire upon the very ship that was being infiltrated. Babu had been considering his options, eyeing an officer who held the only level 4 keycard on the ship, and therefore the only clean way into the cockpit.

The first volley cut off a hallway back to Babu's pod. The second tore through the hull and vapourised the officer along with his level 4 key. Babu was trapped. A third volley hit Babu's pod and a briefly considered plan to dive into space and pick himself up before he suffocated was quickly abandoned. No, if he was to survive he had to get into the cockpit and outmaneuver the attacking ship.

Fortuitously, at this moment a panicked guard from deeper within the ship ran into the cockpit and provided a Swapper target for Babu - a gadget that allows you to instantaneously swap places with another person. He swapped mere seconds before the section of ship he had previously occupied was blasted into space dust.

Strapping into the pilot's seat, Babu picked a course and gunned the throttle. Nothing.
With a mounting sense of dread, a quick overview of the ship revealed that it was in much worse condition than he'd realised. The engines were gone. Hell, everything was gone. Volley after volley of torpedoes smashed into the ship as room by room it was reduced to pieces.

In a panic (and not knowing what my screenshot button on my laptop was), I managed to capture this final moment before Babu was thrown from the once mighty ship into space.Hurtling through the debris field, Babu prepared to take his final breaths. His biggest regret that he never avenged his partner...

***

But wait!
The pod that he'd thought destroyed was still sending a signal. It was still out there!
Grasping at the remote control, he hurriedly guided it towards his position. There was so little oxygen left in his suit, but he just... might... make it...

Salvation! Strapped into his familiar and trusty pod, remarkably unscathed from the battle, Babu took a moment to reflect on what had just happened. The emotion surfacing? Pure anger. He'd so meticulously approached the mission. It had been going so perfectly. He hadn't put a foot wrong, and yet he almost lost his life.

Extending his sensor range, he quickly located the attacking ship that had so carelessly endangered him. They were heading back to their home station; satisfied at a successful reduction of their enemy's fleet. Babu set course to follow and quickly caught up:All semblence of stealth was gone. Babu wanted revenge. Babu wanted blood. He picked up a longblade and got to work.Before long they were all dead. Babu breathed heavily as he piloted the attacking ship back to his base to be reduced to parts. He had crossed a threshold, but he didn't hate who he had become... What worried him was that he loved it. He loved the blood. He loved their screams.

Every mission from that moment was a bloodbath.With a killcount approaching a hundred, he eventually got careless and failed to notice how close a target ship was to its home station. Captured and tortured, Babu currently resides in a cell plotting his vengeance.

Maybe not a traditional RPG, but in terms of making a character and evolving them into a high-level badass, no game does it better than Xcom 2 right now. The new expansion is remarkable, and the effort they've put into making each member of your team matter makes the stakes of every mission utterly enthralling.

Soooo... OpenGL

You just don't know about deafness and colours, Instant Mix. Deafness allows a person to perceive and identify what's known scientifically as 'The Gay Colour Spectrum' (or the GCS)¹.

Educate yourself, Oli.

¹Citation Needed

So there we have it.
Laidlaw has published a first person summary of the events of Ep3 as he distances himself from Valve.

Massive spoilers ahead, obviously. Discuss.

The circumstances surrounding the post:
https://youtu.be/urza2sbU68Q

The post with proper nouns corrected:
https://github.com/Jackathan/MarcLaidlaw-Epistle3/blob/master/Epistle3_Corrected.md

For posterity, Jessie, prosperous though it may be.

Yarp!

I'd heartily recommend Audition over all of these options. Why y'all still using software from the 90s?

It seems Jessie is getting an itch that only you can scratch Arch.

Story of my life

Ugh, I miss fallout so much. I'm limited to less extravagant games while I'm down in London without my desktop.

So far I've gotten about 30 hours into civ 6. It's pretty great

So basically Urby had a kid and my career took off.

My advice would be to get me fired + kidnap urby's kid. Otherwise it's going to continue to take forever.

intae it

Over my dead body!

Admer, nobody is suggesting there's any actual controversy here or that anyone will get arrested for making a map of their school. 90% of mappers here have mapped their school.

Mapping this school is just an unnecessary attempt at shock value and a pointless exercise in deliberately being a dick.

Life is better when you're not a dick.

Daubster got it spot on. It's absolutely possible to make light of tragedy. To make art inspired by it. To alleviate pain with comedy.
The important factors are context and tone and this map falls flat on both points.

So map whatever you want, but why be a dick?

I'm all about that A, bout that A, no treble

its power will be enough for a decade or two

I will say, though, that if you're getting into any sort of video production (which you mentioned a few times in this thread) you'll be remiss to avoid Nvidia. CUDA is far too useful to ignore.

PUBG continues to be the best game.

The. Best. Game.

Reginald B. Pinkshoes

moist
spanner
unlicensed gynecologist
Admer Von Aspergers
smelly
lime
rusty

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manholes
terrorise
mailed
tighten
really, really tighten
suck an egg

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Blu-ray copy of the 1988 movie Vampire's Kiss
General Dicksprout
anus
soothingly
prolapsed
festering
twerking
dickhole
dicking
Nick Cage's accent from the 1988 movie Vampire's Kiss
vampire
Honey-Nut Bagpuss

Many, many lols.
It might work better if you pick your favourites from all the submissions and use the best-fitting words from each to create 1 perfect story instead of 3 separate ones?

wooden leg
choking
prostitutes
mouldy

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Urby's mum
factor-45 sun cream
wooden
tunnel

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exploded
Monaco
nipple
distressingly bland
nipple cannon
oscillate
tickling

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muddle
six-hundred-and-eighty-two pirated DVDs of the 1986 movie 'Labyrinth'
creepy
planning
consume
goblin
taint
Jareth's labyrinth from the 1986 movie 'Labyrinth'
bang

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smother
mother
"It's in the way that you use it"

It always makes me so fundamentally happy when someone outside the UK is aware of QI.

What a total cutie. Did you give her a name?

@Stu:
Already mentioned on Whatsapp, but gdamn I'm jealous of your 10mm. The widest I have is a 24mm.

Lots more Wildlands.

Is it a good game? Hell no.

Is it hilarious with 3 mates? Helllllllll yes.

Is it gorgeous? Yeaahhhh....

moments later..

Hi Dario,

Huge fan of your work. I just thought you should know that the 15-year-old mapping website TWHL hosted a recent competition entitled "Half-Life Re-imagined" wherein the competitors were tasked with recreating a favourite classic map from HL with a notable twist.

Almost across the board all entries were based on Crossfire (including my own) and it was so cool to see the love that the community still has for that map.

You created one of the most iconic deathmatch maps of all time, and approaching its 20-year anniversary people still adore it.

Hell yeah, Dario. Hell yeah.

Thanks so much for your time and for the countless hours of fragging,
James Archibald

Hi James,

Thanks for your kind words about Crossfire - that map was so much fun to develop and play! It was my first attempt at a team deathmatch map, when the game didn't organize people into teams, but if people wanted to play together to secure the bunker, they could.

I'm humbled and grateful that the map still gets attention and play some almost 20 years later!

I took a look at your re-imagining of Crossfire and it brought back some great memories! You kept faithful to the original feel of the map and it looks clean and well built, nice job!

Best of luck in all your mapping adventures going forward!

Dario

Jan-Michael Vincent
bodacious
tooth
floppy rubber dildos
floppy
hope

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biscuit-barrel
Jan-Michael Vincent
surprise
this
shiny
beanbag chair
tight

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tipped
hundreds of DVDs of 1993's 'The Fugitive'
Harrison Ford's shaved beard trimmings preserved from the set of 1993's 'The Fugitive'
shaved
mangle
eagle
hear
slimy
penis

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tardy
taint
totalitarian
tell
toolbox
Shut the fuck up or fuck the fuck off!

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MDMA
tripping
breast
bounced

This is for a short documentary, right? Is your 'script' going to be voiceover?

Rather than just explaining what each part is like an instruction manual, you should try to find an actual story to tell about your subject. Documentary is an incredibly creative format - don't limit yourself to just listing things.

No regrets. Please work as seductively as you can.

He said in his post. env_render and a func_door_rotating.
The second stage of the animation is a separate entity.

Out of curiosity, does anyone ever actually take recommendations from this thread?

Also

NP: Pete Yorn - Lose You

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No, we're talking about a solution. The cause isn't particularly important in this instance. Damage is done.

I don't have any invalid brushes. I have vertices off-grid causing micro-leaks.

Sign me up

As a solution to micro-leaks, it shouldn't invalidate brushwork at the smallest gridsize. One of my recent maps is full to the brim with micro-leaks and off-grid vertices. No idea how it happened, but fixing it all by hand would take forever.

Also this was vaguely discussed before, but I've come up with an instance where it would be very useful again...
Would it be possible to get an equivalent of Ctrl + B (snap selected to grid) to work on an individual vertex level? So every vertex of the selected brush or brushes snaps independently to the nearest grid point? Like Ctrl+B, this would work with whatever grid size Sledge was set to.

Cheers! I'm not doing any rendering in Blender, Tet.

Haha, the arm proportions are getting a bit strange, Snehk :3

V1 of a title sequence I'm making. Blender and After Effects.

boop

edit:
V2 boop

Since you're working on this again (yay!), I thought I'd do a better job explaining what's gonig on with the texturing:

clicky

So apply face and values should 1) be default behaviour and 2) apply the exact value of the source face (in this example 0, 0 shift). I don't know why it isn't.

It's much more difficult to explain what it's doing with world and face alignment. It doesn't seem to be predictably replicatable, but it's certainly not maintaining a 'world' alignment when applying texture and values. It's like it's trying to match the exact normal-projection of the source face which is... inverting the world alignment? Or something? I honestly have no idea.

Basically the problem is I don't feel like I know what alignment or values my target faces have when i'm texturing. I know it shouldn't matter - if it visually looks okay, then why bother? But all I can say is my OCD hates it and it's really putting me off using Sledge as my main editor, which I totally would otherwise.

I think potentially even keep the behaviour it has currently, but make it its own mode like 'eye-match source face' or something. Apply texture and values should just apply texture and exact values.

Did you ever try Penny Arcade's Precipice of Darkness? They're surprisingly good Final Fantasy-alikes. You might like 'em.

Clicky

Also clicky

There's a difference between a furry and an anthropomorphic animal, Admer. The Khajiit, for example, are a feline/human hybrid race. The term 'furry' refers to the sexual fetish.

It'll be no surprise that my gameplay tastes are pretty similar to Urby's. My dream game would have the customisation of a hardcore RPG, but none of the grind. Co-op is a must. I got so excited for the idea of TES:Online before it wound up being an MMO. I basically just want Ghost Recon: Wildlands, but as an FPSRPG and with a world as rich as Bethesda's. Lose all the fetch quests and filler content, and just make it an awesome world to explore with 1-4 people.

I'm also a sucker for base building and testing your hand-crafted defenses against AI.
I definitely prefer Human vs AI combat these days. I find myself getting fatigued by Battlefield 1 and R6:Siege after only a few games. It just gets boring trying to compete against kids who don't have lives and jobs and can just play for 12 hours a day

Finally, I'd love an RTS that was basically CoH done way better. CoH2 was a real damp squib. So was DoW2. Fingers crossed for DoW3.

I always loved Nuke and Train.

Do you mean the scale of.. rooms? Or engagement times or something? Maybe time how long it takes to run to the bombsites for each team in your favourite de_map and try to have a similar time in your own creation.

There's no perfect answer to this question.
Room size is dependant on the kind of gameplay you want to emerge in that room.

Kinda strange question, and definitely subjective.

Play the maps you enjoy and figure out what makes them fun for you, then include similar elements and scales.

Those side vents are a nice addition, Tet.

Really enjoying seeing this evolve, Windawz. Great work!

I get confused when people talk about 2000 wpolies being high in 2017. The Core hits 6000 regularly and it runs just fine on a budget laptop. Just how wooden are these PCs that you're limiting yourself so strictly on wpolies for?