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Yeah, I don't really like the idea. There's Ace of Spades for that, Minecraft should be for fun.

I have a question. If I already bought Minecraft, do I have to pay once again for the tablet version?

Pacific Rim

A traditional Hollywood story packed in awesome graphix.

Also: starcraft all over the place.

Die Fantastisch Stürmer Land grants eligible citizens free funds for investing in green energy. Thus, most of the houses have solar panels on their roof, or solar heaters for water.
Due to the sub-tropical climate, this means that our country almost never burns fuel for heating water.

Its capital, Grünstadt, was engineered to be a green, self-sustained intelligent city. It has a circular structure, featuring an academic center surrounded by beautiful gardens. There are buildings of blissful architecture that strive to have the least impact on the environment as possible. Legislation obliges each tower building to grow gardens at the last floor.

We should play OpenTTD together.

Yep. At first I thought it was a joke. Now I'm just confused.

If something is good, but old, there's no reason not to be inspired from it. But it's not the same thing with using it.

Some things were good in their era. Nobody uses Windows 98 anymore .

Tetsu0, what is a transfection experiment?

I don't know... For me Half-Life 1 is wearing out even its nostalgic value. Perhaps because I discovered it much later. I know I saw it first sometime between 2000-2004, and then I played it for the first time on my computer in 2007. It's just that... FPS games like Half-Life(which are mostly an engine showoff, but Half-Life was quite good) are extremely exploited.

Plus, we can't even be talking about nostalgia when we interact with HL content everyday- be it media, playing or mapping.

I hope the trend of creating better versions of the GoldSRC engine is just because some people can and will invest time in creating something. If this actually has the purpose of making a better GoldSRC that blends better with current technology, then that's plain stupid and I hope it stops.

Glad you revived this tradition, great occasion to declutter my desktop!

Alt-J - Taro

I don't get what's so mesmerizing about this song. I really like the chorus.

Support for virtual reality? These guys are serious about the Oculus Rift.

Photons area believed to not have any rest mass

That has nothing to do with what I said :).

For an object to accelerate to the speed of light, it would exponentially have to increase in mass (fuel) to reach that speed, which would increase its needs for more fuel, and so on and so on. That is why with our current understanding of things, to jump to the speed of light is impossible.

However, this does not account for things already traveling at the speed of light

From this statement I understand objects already being at the speed of light can travel faster than this. Let's take photons. We know that since they are in motion, they have mass, so they are affected by gravity.
Voyager 2 has been accelerated into deep space by a gravity swing. What stops light from doing the same thing?
What happens with a photon inside a black hole?

I think about that sometimes. Haven't read a lot on the subject, but I imagine all those particles still exist, yet they are incredibly compressed. It's impossible that they don't exist, since all that mass is still there( otherwise I imagine that transforming all that mass-to-energy like in E=MC^2 would blow up several galaxies). Hah, if you think about it, probably black holes exist to prevent the Universe from blowing up! It's a sort of astronomical garbage-collection.

But something new comes to my mind: what if black holes are actually a massive version of a sub-atomic particle? Since all those particles collapse in a point, maybe they don't coexist, because they "don't have the space". So the big particles are broken in elementary particles, until, at some point, just those basic energy vibrations remain, which unite into a single, dense ball of energy. I read somewhere that if you'd take all of the space from within the atoms, a cruiser would fit in a space less than the tip of a needle. Maybe that's what's happening with black holes :.

Me too!

They sort of look like made out of jelly. Interesting stuff ninja.

There is one aspect that is more difficult in Source. That is having NPCs talk custom sentences. In HL1 that is easy as pie, but in Source you have to learn how to use Face Poser, which is a crap program that crashes continuously.

For me, this repeat just doesn't bore me: Woah woah woah!

Original: Lost Horizon - Highlander

Hmm... Never used CTRL-B. Will check tomorrow, it's late now.

I wanted to know how solids are represented in a .vmf, and while tinkering with them in hammer and then visualizing in notepad++, I noticed the thing.

I recently investigated some things about .vmf files. I accidentally noticed that when modifying in Hammer some vertices, even if they appear to be in an exact position, the actual plane parameters are quite odd.

For instance, we have this 64x64x64 cube, positioned at 0,0,0 with its bottom-left corner.Here you can see the plane parameters of the top and bottom face:Now I'm going to rotate this on Y by 180 degrees:The plane parameters now look like this:What's happening here? I believe this doesn't affect how map compiles( although... the compiler interprets nothing else but this .vmf!). But if this happens on most of the brushes, and I use quite a lot CTRL+M, I can start to imagine why sometimes vrad simply stops compiling without reason(I have talked about the issue of vrad.exe stopping the compile on bigger maps( CPU 0%) several times).

Just found out that one of my long WIP maps has been saved 1760 times.
Oh and uh.. images? Definitely upload RAW.

This thread is like a pendulum swinging at full speed from one side to another.

Source would've been great: it cuts down any problems you guys have with 3D skyboxes and other effects you'd like. The Source SDK is easy to install via Steam and doesn't need any manual configurations. Some people don't bother with HL1 mapping anymore. Most of the other TWHL projects were GoldSrc.
I think in 2020( by then HL3 will have hopefully appeared) we'll switch to Source, call that retro and GoldSrc ancient.

GoldSrc, or SoHL, or Xash, or whatever SUPER EPIC AWESOMNESS SPECIAL EFFECTS of 2013 WITH PARALLAX MAPPING MODERN SHADERS IMPROVED GRAPHIX HL ENGINE type is fine by me. A few installs and manual configurations don't scare me, I've done it before lots of times. I'm just intrigued by what we chose.

I will start on mine probably by the end of this month. Until then, can somebody post a map? It's the only way the project is going to start.

Wow! Did this mod just came out of the blue? Seems like a really well-built mod. Can't wait to play it.

I agree with this one. You couldn't agree on the Source engine but you want Spirit of Half-Life.

Just came from Fast and Furious 6.

Appalling cliches, yet I didn't go for the story. The action scenes were mediocre to good.
Overall, it was worth my money and time, but it can be done better.

Oh I was one of the firsts to help set a direction. I'm just too busy with examinations.

This forum needs to inspire itself from the posting structure of stackexchange.
When the discussions are over, someone should post in bold what is actually happening here. I've lost it.

I had no idea KSP looks so nice. I've finished Metro LL.

This ain't no IM either. I was going to edit my message you ninja.

It's just a "Vertical Rooms". If it's free style, the maps might as well be underground. That's a Crustscraper. I'm not against this theme, I'm just saying that the wrong title is being discussed here.

Then just call it Rooms 2! This ain't no skyscraper.

If this is going to be for GoldSource afterall, is muzz going to post his program? I have no mapping tool for GS installed on my laptop and I'm way out of date with what tools are being used now.

Your son grows fast! Good health throughout his life.

Flickr just got a lot more awesome. The site has been revamped, and now free accounts hold 1TB of data! The old free limitation was 200 photos, this is just insane. My favorite photo upload site again.

I'm sorry I'm a bit offtopic on this, but I have a question about BMS assets.
Do they let anyone to utilize their textures as long as anything you create with them is for free?

You mean something like this?

I will happily participate, though I must warn you that next month it's the exam session for me. So you better don't rush up this!

I also think the prefab room, or some dimensions for guidance purposes, is an excellent idea.

My simple point was that we started talking about an organized, architecturally beautiful skyscraper and after that, people wanted to do every floor as they wanted, creating a mess.

Restrictions can also increase creativity, you know.

Don't wet yourself so soon, I only put that image for demonstrative purposes. It seems that you just ignored the rest of my post.

Just... stay away from the bike shed effect.

This discussion started with a skyscraper in mind:Now the theme of the project will be somewhat like:I understand that we shouldn't have restrictions on the project, but if we are to make something beautiful, we should have some consistency across all the floors.

I voted for Source because Source has limits that can be pushed farther than those of GoldSource. What is the point of making a skyscraper without being able to view it from outside? Also, consider the advantage of a 3D skybox.

Regardless of the engine you're going to choose, I'm going to post here some suggestions:

0. ** The consistency I'm talking here shouldn't be that severe. We can decide on a fixed size for every floor, but taking into account that everybody wants something else, we can decide on more "relative" sizes. By that I mean: if one floor is 30x30, the next floor can't be more than double than that. We should try to keep the shape of the tower, without big fluctuations.
We can also decide on an oddly shaped tower, but in that case everybody will have to be tasked with different room sizes:I. ** The relative depth of the room also has to be known, so we won't oscillate by a lot.

II. ** If somebody will want to make pools, then that person has to:
1) Create 2 floors, for the lower floor taking into consideration the existence of a pool behind the ceiling.
2) Talk to somebody who will create the floor beneath him.

III. ** I don't mind science fiction, but please don't put a spaceship in a tower.

IV. ** We aren't forced to limit ourselves to single rooms. But again, think about consistency: if above you there will be tens of "normal-sized"(a relative term) rooms, you can't create a "normal-sized" single room. Either make that a big hall, or more rooms.

V. ** I think we should try to adapt the outside environment accordingly. This mostly applies to GoldSource, if you're going to choose that, because Source can cram in more floors without changing the level.
What I mean is that on the first floors, we should be able to see some ground scenery, but as we go up, we begin to see less and less details(with a farther horizon).
Eventually, if we can be so extreme, we can reach the clouds and even space, with a nice blue haze of the Earth atmosphere. Now that's where I'd put the high-tech floors!

VI. ** I'm going to repeat this. This is not "Rooms" in cake-style. Rooms was without any restrictions because of its style, but we are creating a tower here. There has to be some consistency.

Source.

Here's a nice source of wallpapers:

http://androidwallpape.rs/

Don't let the name fool you, they actually have pretty big resolutions. Most of them won't be 16:9, but I'm sure anyone knows how to crop an image these days.

(yes I also know about wallbase)

Spring puddle by Carstic Productions, on Flickr

An attempt at HDR photography, though not great.

We were all taught that when talking about a real number, there is no natural next number that follows after it, because an infinite number of real numbers can still be found in between them.

That is not the case of natural numbers, where the increment or decrement is always 1. This is very useful in programming, as it is the basis of loops.

But mathematics is an imaginary tool created by our minds in the attempt to explain natural phenomenons. Sure, we can pretend that the set of real numbers have an infinite amount of steps between numbers, but is that true in the real world?

Physicists struggled to measure the Universe from its epic dimensions down to ridiculously small scales.
The smallest scale which is thought to exist is the Planck length.

1 Planck length = 1.61619926 × 10^(-35) meters

What if the "REAL" step when talking about numbers is the planck length?

Accidentally discovered Knife Party - Sleaze on Grooveshark.

This song makes me feel rehglkjxdsvhfgbdlsajkhgfdnfsknl;bhgjgdaksigbfdskl;;

TWHL forum activity is somewhat low and we have many threads that expire just because of that 3 month limit. Imo, it should either be lifted or increased to 5 or more months.
For me this is just a rule that creates redundant threads.

You cannot reply to threads that have been inactive for more than three months. If you really want to post in this thread, you can submit a Thread Bump Request. It is recommended that you just create a new thread.

Wait, there were no submissions this time?

That just means we don't have so much free time we used to have...

D'oohhh, hedgehogs! Haven't seen one for months. They are so cute that... they hurt.

Didn't quite hit the nail with the focus here, but I like it.

Bird in the pines by Carstic Productions

You certainly know how to do your lighting. Your map looks gorgeous.

I watched The Godfather. Yep, first time.