Posts by Taylor

Nicely timed so people who work can't do it.

Not that I would anyway.

Quote from Mazy

OFGM#!1 FREI VERY GO!O!11~ongratns!11funny thing is that people getting jobs in the gaming biz isnt all that special anymore :!O!1

So what exactly is special for the members of a game editing community? When people start getting knighted by the Queen for their honourable mapping deeds? And what then, Mazy? WHERE DOES IT END?

Oh, and Gee Jay.

I've not restricted myself to a particular colour, I like them all! Except pink, which is, like, totally gay.

Please don't slap a URL across it.

That fire outside doesn't make a lot of sense. I take it that's supposed to be a blacksmith, but he can't be doing too much buisness if his fire goes out every time it rains; it needs a roof section (and a few anvils and weapons, fitting in with the hole "needs more... stuff" sentiments).

Hurry up and finish it already!

Supposedly you can turn the water effect off to varying degree's - not reflect entities or worldspawn, or just turn it into a Quake 3 style one.

Glad to here there's lots of variation in the voices, I remember being driven insane by Disgaea, whose general battle sequence went:

Laharl:"Ta! Here I come"

CH: "Wuf! Here I come"

Mage: "Ah! haha!"

Laharl:"Ta! Here I come"

CH: "Wuf! Here I come"

Mage: "Ah! haha!"

Laharl:"Ta! Here I come"

CH: "Wuf! Here I come"

Mage: "Ah! haha!"

Laharl:"Ta! Here I come"

CH: "Wuf! Here I come"

Mage: "Ah! haha!"

Laharl:"Ta! Here I come"

CH: "Wuf! Here I come"

Mage: "Ah! haha!"

'twas nice of them to power up the lights a few times.

It is snow. On IRC he said it's supposedly it's the first snow in autumn or something, but yeah it does look a little off.

I read the discworld series by Terry Pratchett (described as a less-cynical Douglas Adams) during mai lunch hour.

I've heard, apart from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Tolkien is a bit... err, crappy. And I must admit I was nearly going to give up reading during the council chapter, I prevailed though, not least of all because I thought Gimli was cool. So I wasn't overly impressed when he was portrayed as a useless midget whose only use was to be the target of "lol, he is the small" jokes in the films. CRIE.

What lovely imagery.

CURSE LARD.

Quote from OL

that X-2?

No, no. In Luca there's a place where you can purchase movie/music spheres of any movies/music you've seen/head. Although it may be possible it's not open on your first visit.

First thing you should do in Luca is buy the movie sphere of the opening Blitzball game because it rocks ze ass.

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All of the above.

Well, maybe not FFX-2.

Nobuo and chums recently did a few Final Fantasy tracks with an orchestra, it sold out in the first nanosecond or something equally ridiculous.

I think a better topic would be the best USE of music. Sure, it's nice that games have totally happening soundtracks, but they've got to be put to good use. For instance Half-lifes soundtrack wasn't really that great, but rising to the surface on that lift with the music starting up really got you pumped to run around dodging random explosions and watch highly trained marines throw grenades vertically into the ground at their own feet.

And the Final Fantasy tracks for the end battles are obviously pre-planned affairs, the cool music kicking in during FFIX's final battle, for example, almost made up for the fact they pulled the entire final battle straight out of their asses. FF7's one winged angel track is probably the only video game track in history people know the name too. And FFX is hard to describe without giving anything away... but, wowz0r.

I just started going around the def and script files and I must say it's a lot easier to understand than I first thought.

Behold:

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Plasma gun marine zombies are the future. All I really need to do is make a seperate entity for them and NEVER USE THEM EVER BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO GODDAMN HARD.

I think a Pain Elemental wouldn't go amiss...

AFAIK most of the textures/skins are actually handdrawn and touched up.

All the id maps have their source in the pk4 files if you want a reference, by the by.

For warcraft? these ones, although specifically this one.

Edit: Screenies.