Posts by Minos

  • Post your pic extravaganza 2007!!!~

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    A child drug addict and criminal, Danny Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for armed robbery and drug offenses, he successfully completed a 12-step rehabilitation program that changed his life. While speaking at a Cocaine Anonymous meeting in 1985, Trejo met a young man who later called him for support. Trejo went to meet him at what turned out to be the set of Runaway Train (1985). Trejo was immediately offered a role as a convict extra, probably because of his tough tattooed appearance. Also on the set was a screenwriter who did time with Trejo in San Quentin. Remembering Trejo's boxing skills, the screenwriter offered him $350 per day to train the actors for a boxing match. Director Andrei Konchalovsky saw Trejo training Eric Roberts and immediately offered him a featured role as Roberts' opponent in the film. Trejo has subsequently appeared in many other films, usually as a tough criminal or villain.

    lmao

    Yeah I remember that fella from a few B rated movies

  • dm_moil

    I played the map last night. Here are a few crits (I know the map is finished, sorry for not posting these before )

    First of all good work on the lighting. The layout seems good for a dm map but the flow in some areas may be a bit bad because they are either too tiny or cramped with stuff.

    Ventilation ducts are really a bad choice in DM maps! They might work well in CS but plainly suck in DM maps because DM players just want to get to other areas as quick as possible, instead of sneaking behind the opponent as a CS player would do.

    I like the openness in the map but it affects performance in some places, specially when you are in front of the warehouse entrance and look towards the street. I think you should have made some of the windows in this place solid (to work as vis blocks) because they add nothing to the gameplay. I know it won't look as good but performance would be better and that's what matters in online maps.

    It's overall a nice map and looks fun to play. Good job

    (moving this to the finished works gallery... could you edit the first post with updated info ?)

  • My new Portfolio [updated]

    Quote from Taylor

    Looks funky on mine as well, if the window is wide enough it likes to put the site in colums and if I scroll down before the graphics loaded the bottom div ends up above the images.Firefox, 1600x1200 (well, 3200x1200 but as much as I love you I didn't open it across both).

    uh that's weird. Working with divs is quite annoying some times... could you please post an screenshot of the site in your res ? (resize it down please )

  • My portfolio

    I have seen quite a few portfolios and I always liked the one-paged ones, because it's easier and quicker to navigate.

    Your portfolio is good (as in quality of work) but I think you should focus on the area you want to work on. If it's level design than remove all the other random works (or create a separate page for them, like "assorted works") and put level design related stuff in relevance. And as hourences already pointed out, remove the news posts since they are distracting and add nothing to a good portfolio.

    In fact I think you should keep this as your personal site/blog and create a separate portfolio.

    One paged portfolios I can remember now:

    http://www.philipk.net (blaz)

    http://cmdstud.khlim.be/~beulaers/portfolio/ (peris)

    http://mazy.net/portfolio (mazy)

  • My new Portfolio [updated]

    Quote from Mazy

    Solid stuff Mino, was gonna say that it could use some more stuff but you got quite a lot in terms of levels, models and textures so I think its fine. Now go get hired somewhere! Btw, is that Insurgency map in the mod? Don't remember playing it

    Yeah the map isn't included yet, I'm rebuilding most of it at the moment

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    Change resizeSpeed to 10 instead of 7 in lightbox.js.

    Thanks man, will do that asap

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    I found a bug with your site minoz... on my 24" dell screen the "portfolio" part of your site is on the right side of your "who am i" stuff..

    I was afraid that was going to happen on real high resolutions, what res are you using now ?

    I'll fix it asap as well

  • My new Portfolio [updated]

    Quote from Acumen

    i think it was on the forums some time ago, but i wouldn't add the old hl maps on the frontpage. you could make an archive or something but i don't think its of any use showing these old engine maps - if only for nostalgic reasons. your current work represents a nice skill level - i think that's enough. only i would like to see 3 different screens of your map. i've seen these on almost every ins related site now please take your time and take different screenshots

    for the 3d modelling part. i think it would be useful if you show some kind of wireframe screen of the models itself. i mean you want to show your modelling skills and poly usage is an important aspect.

    and that little sign is a bit - well - i can't really recognize much there

    and what stolve said. 3 screens for each map would be better imo. otherwise it looks a bit like what some guy on the mapcore forums did with his "screenshot mapping". i mean from looking at these pictures i couldn't really tell if you did an entire map or just a scene out of that. i don't think a single screen justifies each map.

    Good points.

    The INS map is undergoing major rebuild at the moment so I can't really take new screenshots. I agree with you to be honest... There's only one pic of dm_nimrod because the other parts weren't as good, but now that you rose the point I think I'll take a night off and spice that map up.