Posts by KungFuSquirrel

She can't live period. Her brain has liquefied. There's a cat scan image of her head with a gaping hole in the middle of her head.

I just love how every court has sided with the husband to date. Parents appeal. Court rules against. Parents appeal. court rules against. Parents cry to congress, somehow get them to call an emergency session giving jurisdiction to a federal court. Federal court sides with the husband. Parents appeal to the supreme court. Court sides with the husband.

Gee, think we might have a legal precedent here?

People can lie to themselves all they want, but this woman is dead already and has been for years. And we have abortion rights activists plotting to smuggle food and water into her room. Riiiiiight...

Quote from ginsengavenger

omai is there another zeta? i wasn't aware :sthanks and yes definitely want the crits dudes~

Not recently. Second map I released back in June 2001 was dm_zeta for HL. I think you'll be ok. Couldn't resist the comment, though

OMG NAEM THEIF!!

*ahem*

Looks pretty snazzy

Awesome! Nicely done

Quote from skdr

Thats the most uncomfortable desk ever, you have way too much stuff going on and small amount of space for your arms to rest. Also you have to keep looking right to see the monitors -> your head and neck is going to explode.

It's still a little messy from setting everything up and clearing off the mess of stuff that was on this desk before, but with that stuff gone it's completely clear. My chair rotates and has beefy arm rests, so all the arm space I need is there.

New toys! Just arranged this tonight... can finally use this desk now that I don't have 2 hulking behemoths that weigh 15-20lbs more than the max weight per panel

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Going to finally pick up my copy... about now!

I've been denied twice already (thought it was out yesterday, no luck, then went in today at lunch and the shipment wasn't in yet), so if I don't come home with it this time there will be mayhem.

Gotta snag Cold Fear, too...

You're showing some excellent progress with the tech. Nice work! This is in a completely different league than your previous shots (you did do that tomb-ish thing, right?)

I think there's a few things you can do here to make this some really impressive stuff.

1) Bring up the brightness. Biggest thing people complain about in D3 is darkness, so don't let them complain about it You can have cheap lighting that lights things up well. Multiple lights (done properly) also help to sell the normal maps, something D3 didn't really do much.

2) Re-examine your color choices. More gentle colors accented by more saturated accent lights could give some really nice results.

3) Flares. Re-examine your use of those It looks like you're just slapping them over a brush. Take a little time to line them up to the edges of the light glow pass on the texture. the effort will be well worth it.

4) Start taking some of your pipes, and instead of going down, 90 degree curve, horizontally, 90 degree curve, down again, try making some 45 degree curves and then an angled piece in the middle. It's really easy to line these up to the grid and the patch subdivision will give you some really precise results. A few off-angle shapes can make a huge difference within a scene, especially taking into account the lighting and shadows

It's still taking some people a long time to learn the tech, but like I mentioned above, your progress is great. Despite my above comments, there's some really great ideas here, some that are even clicking off some ideas for my own work. You're very much on the right track.

Catch me online sometime if you want; I'd be more than happy to give you some more detailed tips.

Rather than a box, perhaps simply collapsing the PC boxes and pulling out the PS2/Xbox liners and placing them in a sturdy envelope would be more cost effective? *shrug*

And yeah, if there's any way to get my hands on a poster, that'd be awesome. Willing to possibly negotiate trade for any current/future project I'm on. Trying to build a bad-ass collection of game posters to frame and line my home office once I get that established.

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[Homeworld soundtrack]Homeworld and Homeworld 2 are both products of Vivendi Universal Games. Any publication/use of music from those games must be with permission from the VUG legal department. Sorry, can't help ya on this one.

However, my cousin made a couple of short movies in film school using both HW and Half-Life music, and he got in touch with VUG legal and they allowed him to use a song or two. The catch was that it was for educational use only and not for a commercial release.

For this context, I am not sure how VUG would feel about releasing an entire soundtrack.

[/Homeworld soundtrack]

I imagined that was probably the case Maybe I can just find a copy of the old GOTY edition with the soundtrack CD somewhere

In other news, yesterday was the greatest day ever. I found these, thanks to a nudge by a friend:

Beyond Good and Evil. 31 Mp3s. 172 megs. Awwwww yeah. *does a little dance*

http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EpZVyAAAZEhBjcpQpA.php

http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EpZypFAVlVWQAxqHsA.php

http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EpZlppyZVEShihRvCx.php

Quote from DelaZ

What about DM_NATURAL-SELECTIONTEXTURES

Shader Lab

Relic25 had already been using the Majestic set from SL in his Nostromo map before converting it into Bast. That's how those textures got there, but Charlie always was trying to discourage people from using them due to their outside origins. Made the NS texture set deal a lot more complicated than it should have been

As I mentioned already, I like the looks of it. Eager to see how it turns out.

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aren't the 2001FP's like $800? ( A PIECE)

Normal price, yes, but they go on sale every week for up to a couple hundred bucks off. They drop down as low as $600 or so.

You were the one looking to spend money, so there's a great way to spend a lot of money.

Screw the 6800gt, just shell out for one of the ultras.

Also, Dell 2001FP 20.1" monitor(s) = a must.

I'm planning on splurging on a 6800 ultra and 2 2001FPs, this summer, possibly an Aeron chair as well... the 'smaller' monitors mean I could finally move to my better desk and I doubt this easy chair would work well there

I'm quite happy with my Dell Inspiron notebook... got it about a year ago and it quite handily can run 1024x768 UT2K4 and Halo quite solidly. Actually used it at a LAN once since I was too lazy to drag my system and one of the hulking 20" monitors to go with it

I also have a few-years old set of ProMedia 5.1s. I got the kinda faulty batch at first but got them replaced without too much hassle and aside of that have had fantastic use of them for almost 3 years. Definitely would recommend their equipment .

I posted this on the Natural Selection forums a couple days ago, so some of you may have seen it, but I know there's a few of you here who enjoy a good game soundtrack now and then... Thought it worthy of a re-post here

So particularly with the inclusion of soundtrack CDs for Half-Life 2 and Dawn of War being made available with orders and pre-orders, I've started actively searching more soundtracks where I can find them. Turns out there's actually quite a few available online.

Blizzard made available a huge selection of tracks from Diablo 2 and Lord of Destruction over time a couple years ago. Many are available in one large pack, with a bunch more as single downloads. I kept up to date with these as they were originally released, but still have to go about grabbing them again. Most can be found here, with additional MP3s in the specific Bonus and Lord of Destruction sets.

More recently I've discovered a series of game soundtracks for free download on sites such as Fileplanet and FileShack (and I'm guessing you could find plenty of mirrors elsewhere, as these are official releases). Among these are:

Deus Ex 2:

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/139383.shtml

Chronicles of Riddick:

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/142261.shtml

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5125

Men of Valor:

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5310

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/144628.shtml

Metal Arms: Glitch in the System: (this is a fun one, check out the stereo intro to Rat Race in particular)

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/135381.shtml

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=4204

Myth III:

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/80000/80877.shtml

Children of the Nile:

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/148784.shtml

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=6010

Some mods are even included - Red Orchestra:

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5844

This doesn't technically count, but don't miss the punkish cover of the Katamari Damacy theme song by TX-based Corey vs. Corey:

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/147319.shtml

I've also been tracking down some other games with actual CD soundtracks... Freedom Fighters has one I've been meaning to get for a while, and apparently there is a Homeworld soundtrack CD available with the game of the year edition of that game. Curse me and my getting it early... (Izuno, maybe with your THQ and thus Relic connection, you could lend a hand? )

Then there are the games that should have soundtracks released, but don't... Like Beyond Good and Evil. *crie*

Splash Damage

Bah. Space bar = your best friend.

Until you go over to/back to Radiant... *shiver* the copies, THE COPIES!

Who uses the camera button?

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you ever going to show us more?

You know, I do have a full-time and then some job, a wife, and a huge stack of unfinished games.

I did play with it a little more last night. Tried some UV stuff, but oh lordy did it fail miserably. Might be a while before I have an update on how things are going.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/bro ... 16276.html

Brothers in Arms Xbox MP hands-on, for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

Sounds like it'll rock the proverbial balls. Getting even more excited for this one!

Heh, DD was right when he said you Gearbox guys loved Quake 3.

Q3 is hands down my favorite (*cough*released*cough*) MP game. The speed, the mayhem, the fun... everything DM should be. Don't get me wrong, I loved the first 2 Quakes in MP and the UT series is top-notch, but Q3 is the one I always find myself going back to even after all the years.

I wish looking back I'd jumped into the mapping community for that... So much crazy abstract off-the-wall design, not to mention the fluidity of the good stuff.