Posts by KungFuSquirrel

Oh... that night...

You know, on the subject of games I could easily see myself going 2-2 1/2 hours. All in enjoying the subject matter. Of course the way I ramble, no one else would want to be anywhere near.

Daxter!

Picked up Far Cry Instincts Predator yesterday but still waiting on Tomb Raider and Top Spin 2.

Yeah, I got shitty at that too.

I'm pretty good at starting stuff, at least

Oddly enough, I've been doing a really good job of finishing stuff on the 360.

I can't go 2 weeks without buying 1+ game(s)

Eh, 3 episodes is (supposedly) equivalent to 1 full game, then 3 'games' in the full series... Doesn't seem unreasonably out of the ballpark to me.

There's this cool sort of style all your renders have that, especially in looking at this one, makes me think Oblivion. But I think Oblivion is kinda ugly. This is not ugly at all!

I dig it!

Quote from The Postman

Pipes will become the new barrels. Boring hallway? Add some pipes!

Pipes have been the new crate for a few years already.

Hmm... you could have painted a teenager's face on the nose for added shock value against enemy troops.

ahhhhhhh, I see. That's a tricky one, then

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I totally agree with you, but the problem with the cliffs is simply that the FR sits directly behind them, so there's very little room to manoeuvre. The yard was knocked up in a day or so, so I'm sure I can come up with something better or get more creative to solve it. /me puts thinking cap on.

Why not push the rockwork out instead of back? Make it more of an overhang? Could give you a more interesting silhouette.

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The weirdest thing is that was ten years ago! Feels like just a few years ago I bought HL.

well, 7 1/2-ish. Game shipped in November 98, so it'll be 8 years this november. But still... yeah.

Crazy that they gutted almost all of that in the course of the following year or so. I remember that formal looking room with the pillars and such (two marines and an old hostile barney in the video) being one of my favorite shots pre-release but it never made the final game.

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Link ? If I remember correctly I saw on tv that the next sun eclipse will be in a decade.

Probably relative to your region. I remember seeing something about how the ISS crew would be able to view this one from space, which is a pretty rare occurrence for anyone up there.

Quote from Tequila

The soldier is tripping on a mild dose of magic mushrooms to answer your question. Soon the environment will change colors and the street will form into waves of liquid.

What button does that in BF2?

It's a secret one that only unhides itself after you spent 45 minutes in the key binding screens... meaning the odds of you finding it are about 99%!

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True, however look at BM Source, if they're going to remake the whole HL1 then we're looking at over 100 bsps here

96. If I recall...

Thing to remember is those are, with a couple exceptions, damn small. Check out the c1a0 or whatever .rmf that shipped with the HL1 SDK - a couple of rooms and that's it. The initial plans for NW that included the 80-count were looking at maps typically close to the HL1 size, especially given the much higher texture resolution and poly counts, needed to keep load times down. They bloated a bit, as should be almost expected, I suppose, but I think final counts during my tenure were closer to low 60s, of which I think I remember 35-40 were well under way if not nearly done. But still smaller maps.

You could build a bsp or two in just a couple days under the original HL limitations.

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I think it would be up to Adam Foster to release the WADs, since he made at least 95% of the textures.

I know he's providing the guys with the (usually) high-res sources currently, so I imagine a lot of them will show up in the Source version, too.

I would assume the same would be said for his chapter 2 stuff (or whatever chapter it became). I still get chills on the flyover with the non-electronic version of this track in the background.

Zacker, keep your own experience to your own projects. I don't think we lost a single person from our level staff out of lack of interest, at least not during my stay. I've been gone for nearly 2 years now and still can look through my gigs upon gigs of content and random progress shots and the like and be just as excited now as I ever was for it. Ken and I talk quite often about how much fun it was and how we miss it to this day. God, that initial team we had, even through the first round or two of expansion, absolutely shamed me and everything I've ever built. I was damn proud to call myself the worst on the team.

If we had been able to retain our original core team (well, plus an animator, maybe ), I still believe we could have and would have nailed it. But that's not how it ended up. When other opportunities arose or more important issues got in the way, we lost people, and bringing in people took time to get up and running and that's valuable time we lost, no matter how good the results ended up being (ferret, Ben, CJ, among others, I'm looking at you ). That's by no means a dig at people we added later, who are all great minus the few deadbeats we had to deal with along the way, but for a while before people were being plucked away from us we were absolutely cranking.

I could go on and on about all the things I did wrong or could/should have done differently, but that's true for anything I've worked on on any scale. I'm happy to just leave it as a bunch of great people I had the chance to work with on something that, I dare say, turned out to be pretty damn cool. My only real regret per se looking back is that I had to leave it.

I can go back and forth on the Source decision all day just by myself, but I think the guys who are still there are set on still delivering what we set out to do, or at least roughly so (and with a far, FAR better story, phew) and for that they've got my trust and support.

Although if Adam's chapter 2 stuff doesn't get transferred over, someone will die a painful death...

The intarweb buzz machine killed that link, try here instead:

http://www.primotechnology.com/hosted/alex/snakes.htm

http://www.tagworld.com/snakesonaplane trailer starts automatically down on the page a bit.

This is the single greatest event ever to grace movie theaters. Ever.

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Reminds me loads of KungFuSquirrel's "Repair Bay 4" in style. Looks like a nice old retro-themed HL1 map

I can see that. This one looks more fun, though

Thrik, you are still not giving me a codec

You know, that's all I'm assuming for any 'news' I've heard so far, but can't argue with reason to point out how awesome the original was/is.