Posts by DD

  • gold baby.

    I'm hoping I can drive over to Id and get my copy signed Of course I highly doubt it will happen but I'm pushing for that. Oh and then sell it on ebay for $1729381719, not really though.

  • TS_antrodome ~

    Quote from -Stratesiz-

    As a matter of fact the chairs are models, but they are just extremely plain ones that I only retextured. I don't really like them but I'm not a modeler and they can't be really that complicated since there are six of them and two more sofa models in the background.

    Each one of those chairs are only 36 polies, at most, * 6 = 216 polies. The cost it takes in memory and space is more than the render time. You can afford much higher, talking thousands higher, even for hl, and a crappy machine. Each one of those chairs could be 150-250 without a problem even in multiplayer. So lets say those two sofa's are 800 polies total + 250 * 6 chairs = 2300. Let's assume the average player model is 1200 polies. 1200 * (10 players) = 14300 polies. In reality it would probably end up being much lower because I doubt the player models are that high, and sofas. In any case it would be well within the hl limits. You can also group those six chairs into a single model to save even more on speed, maybe .5 frames faster but still :X

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    I'm pretty much maxed as far as brush based entities are concerned. A few more them and HL would crash.

    This is when I would start grouping as much as possible! Doesn't look like a big map, you have near 400 brush based entities?

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    Yes, model lights would be a nice touch but I would like to see the actual source of the light, as in a bright spot in the model. This would require two models with different settings yadayada... and since I can't use more brush based entities it's out of the question. I just hate the HL1 engine and all its lame restrictions.

    Yes model lights would be nice. One thing I do, seen others do, rather than having two models, make the bulb transparent (in the model) and add a env_glow in the center. Looks really good. I've seen transparent glass, with chrome inside which does a really cool fake lighting effect.

    I'm not talking about brush based models, I'm talking about actual models. ie .mdl files. .mdl aren't brush based. They don't count towards the 400 brush based entity limit.

    These are just suggestions, that could take your map from awesome to super awesome.

  • TS_antrodome ~

    Very good~! Not much to say. Try getting models for those chairs and even your lights. The placement of the lights are good but I mean the actual source of the light. Those big chunky square bsp pieces are kinda the ug. One cool thing to do is make the light source a func_wall or illusionary, make it invisible but you can still use rad lighting, then you can place a model there, a good one with transparency on it. Oh also try some random lights upward against the walls, etc.

  • BiA non shaky cam video HOT HOT HOT FULL FRONTAL

    Quote from GrayFox

    Looks pretty nice, but there were a few things that annoyed me:When the first fight started, one of the guys STOOD behind a tree through the whole fight. That is something you should never do. Lying is what one should do.

    And later when one of the guys got killed in the middle of the road, the medic (or whatever he was) didn't drag him to shelter before doing a checkup. He totally exposed himself by just sitting there in the open...

    So much for the totally authentic tactics... or were they just stupid during WWII.

    The player ordered his squad across the street without good cover. It was a bad move and his squad members died for it. It's not bad game design, its a bad player. Also nobody said totally authentic, just very

  • HL2 & CS2 or so the news says..

    I would have 5 years ago too. Quake had one of the best rendering, physics, entity/logic systems, and pretty good AI for its time. Building all that from scratch would have caused HL1 to be 2 or 3 years longer. Oh and HL2 isn't based off quake, but HL1, you could say its based off quake but very little is there, so really no.

  • Official E3 trailer

    Quote from DUFFY

    band of brothers the game?it looks.....ok....but like already said, what can this game offer that the numerous other great WW2 games havent brought to the table? COD, MOH, DOD.....meh....prove me wrong for it will make me happy

    While COD, MOH, and DOD are all fun games, they all fail to be authentic. Call of duty looks great and its fun, but there is no way one man could defeat the entire German army, or at least it appeared so. MOH is a pile of crap with neat sequences. DOD is a cool multiplayer ONLY game which come close to being authentic, but theres obvious cuts and adds to what was and what wasn't real for fun.

    BiA takes a step forward by actually being more authentic, but not at the cost of the fun. Like whats been said on many websites, BiA is a squad game. This doesn't mean you watch your squad sequence through a game, you're in control. You need your squad and your squad needs you! You need to use tactics like fire and movement using our awesome one button squad command system! I've already said enough, if you want to know more, read/watch interviews, previews, etc.

  • New screenies

    I would bash you fken idiots for even thinking in the slightest possible way that the graphics compares to hl1, but... oh wait. I guess normal maps, shaders, 1287391823719 of on screen polies, high detail l.o.d npc's, real time dynamic reflecting water looks like hl1.