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I love Goldsource, but I never understood the point in all the effort people put in to making it use features similar to Source when they can use... well... Source.

As far as I'm aware (and I could be very wrong since I don't use Source) you'd be better off rebuilding since all your entities, props and models etc will be incompatible.

Heh, go for it.

It's just an HLDM map.

I also made this:I'm not sure what these things are, or why I'm making them. It's just kinda fun.

More dm_waterlogged wippage.I like my little lightbulbs, but I think the lighting might be too dark here.

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It's flawed. Most of my unplayed games are expansions which run within the main game.

We're still completing all the websites we can but I am attending interviews starting tomorrow. Regardless of how that one goes I will be finishing at the current place next Friday, as they cannot guarantee payment after that and I can't afford to waste petrol money driving for an hour each day for no money.

I will map as and when I can but I have started removing mods and other bits from the work PC. I'll work on the DM map to the bitter end and then maybe bring it home to work on whenever.

maybe you should consider moving onto Source... maybe after you've finished this project of yours.

Maybe... maybe.

More DM_Waterlogged progress.
Seems I have a time limit to get this done now. The company I work for has announced that they are closing. Seems I am now redundant.

Thanks.

I'm thinking of using this modern style for the penultimate chapter of The Core. Modern interior design style with focus walls for a splash of colour. Should make for interesting lighting too with Vluzacn's tools.

HLDM update

Did another hour or so of mapping today. No new media as I ran out of time to compile and now I have a sad face.

Yeah, that.

Map a floating sky village.

Any game, any theme, as long as it floats and could be lived in. Any method of flotation accepted, be it technology or magic.

Taking that as a compliment. Thanks.

The textures aren't just solid colour. They have a very slight grunge overlay. The dark trims are also wooden.

Of all the elaborate pitches for competitions in this thread, ninja swoops in with single words and images and has the best ideas yet!

Woah! Wait wait wait. How about a bridge leading to a mountain on an alien planet!?

Extremely WIP. Threw it together in about 30 minutes to test the new textures. This area will be pretty messed up when it's done.

Mirror's Edge?

No. I just added some colours that weren't grey or brown. Also, Mirror's Edge tends to stick to 2 tone colour schemes.

Nope.

I like the green things I think. I like how they look like stuff.

Can't get more retro than "shit maps that they never released"

Speaking of shit, that same room again, from a different angle, after a further 45 mins work.

As always, I am really interested in mapping, and as always, I have no time.

Originally posted by Urby the complete dickhead
It was just short of £7.99 and would just about run HL2.

Gonna go with "oops" there. £799*

Same map, 1 hour later. Much happier with this hallway now.And a new room, more work needed.

If you're wanting to run modern or upcoming games then a laptop isn't going to cut it. It'll be out of date within the year and mobile graphics cards are usually total arse.

About 3 years ago I got my missus a "gaming" laptop which she could also use for Uni. In the end, she used it for Uni. It was just short of £7.99 and would just about run HL2. Oblivion and The Sims 2 caused it to overheat...

Not sure how I feel.

So much waffle, not enough WIP shots. These are VERY WIP. Working on a classic style (original textures, no model props, etc) map for HLDM at work because The Core SVN doesn't work there any more.I know the lighting is crappy at the moment and some of the textures desperately need changing.

...That was Gabe at 3:03 right?

Hmmm. My post was in response to the last post on the previous page... odd.

No, he's saying 14 hours isn't close.

Am I allowed to guess Archie?

Very nice work Dimbark. Has a nice classic Half-Life feel to it. A lot of things like that popping up again at the moment and I love it.

Opposing Force and Blue Shift are really good sources of inspirational mapping. Sure Valve knows their stuff, but Gearbox really blinged out their maps.

I wouldn't mind seeing some people playing watchdogs. It would be nice to see how much freedom people get and how much of the demo is scripted.

The Wii U just looks like another cock extension for the Wii. Pikmin 3 might be ok, but the other ports just sound like the same old story. Existing titles with added gimmicky bullshit.

Nintendo has taken the stage. First up, the Wii U and Pikmin 3... heavy sigh

No offense, but the PSP's history should have tipped you off about the Vita's future.

The future of gaming will never lie with the hand held consoles and developers need to get that into their heads.

No offense, but the PSP's history should have tipped you off about the Vita's future.

The future of gaming will never lie with the hand held consoles and developers need to get that into their heads.

I'm not sure how much of it was scripted

I'm guessing a lot. No way that shit could be dynamic, especially the pileup containing the mark. Either the pileup is scripted as soon as you hack the lights, or if you don't hack them in time you fail the mission.

EA games just love to cash in huh? I mean, I love BF3 and I imagine I will own all the DLCs at some point or another to avoid getting booted off of servers when the map changes.

Anyway, awesome to see this thread again Pb.

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I want that game. D:

Didn't even consider GTAIV EFLC until Archie mentioned it to me...

Also, bad company 2 doesn't appear on this list because I had a boxed copy originally. That would be way up there like Archie's

Open your Steam games library right now. Go on. Just do it!

Right, now look through your titles, like, some of the ones you feel you play the most. Then look at a few others. You might be surprised, I know I was.

Then post up here where you thought most of your time would lie, and what surprised you.

I was thinking Half-Life would be well up there, what with me working on The Core and being a ProGoldsource guy in general. However, it's sitting at a fairly meager 55 hours.

I figured it would be higher than the counter-strike series anyway, seeing as I'm not a big cs player. CS1.6 and CS:GO beta are fairly close to one another at 12 and 11 hours respectively and CS:S is just... 179 HOURS!? I have considered however, that a lot of this could be testing Archie's maps, dicking around with bots and whatever else. Still, 179 hours accounts for a whole fuckton of dicking.

Then there are the obvious time black holes, the free-roaming RPGs. Fallout 3 was not on purchased on Steam but I know that's way up there. New Vegas is at 189 Hours, Skyrim at 170... Fuck. Not counting Fallout 3 that's already over 2 weeks of my life sunk into Bethesda titles. Sad thing is, I'm yet to finish either of those games, and I need to start the Mass Effect series after that...

Anyway, that pretty much covers the major ones. A lot of my other games are sitting around the 30 hour mark and then there are the bottom feeders, some because I just don't feel like playing them and others because I haven't got round to it yet.

Worms reloaded - 8 hours
Duke Nukem Forever - 11 Hours (and never likely to move from that spot ever)
TF2 - 13 Hours
Operation Flashpoint RR: 4 Hours
Just Cause 2: 2 Hours
Metro 2033 - 59 minutes

Seems I need to finish the games I've got rather than complain about the new ones I can't afford... What's that? E3 starts on the 5th? Fuck.

tl;dr - I play a lot of games, now get out of this thread.

I just assume he's kidding all the time. Makes shit easier.

In college we had a lunchtime gaming club. One of the guys made map based off the main college building. Nothing ever came of that. Saying that, because we were on an IT course most of the tutors were gamers anyway. They were all for the idea.

Yup.

I don't see the issue here either. The map vault and forum are just 2 separate elements of the site. People have the right to chose the one or the other or both if they wish.

Imagine if imgur wouldn't let you post an image without rating or commenting on 10 others first. You'd just get a fuck ton of spam posts.

So, I decided I'd ask the professionals.

You got it. Not wanting to sound like an Archie fan boy but if there's one thing he knows, it's lighting.* Really nice guide

*Of course that's not all he knows. He's also good at mapping, editing, camera work, texture work and a bunch of other stuff. He's a bastard like that.

Nails it hard.

Your mum joke here.

Topic

So, when will we be able to play this little game of yours?

Oh... That's much worse.

Ooooh. Me like.

twatebula

"Twait-Boo-Lah?"

Nice post Archie. Not only does it prove your point, you also got to pimp some of your projects (including one which should be under wraps )

@The_(c)Striker: He's talking the mod Natural Selection v3.0, not the commercial title Natural Selection 2.