Posts by insta

The road texture looks better when used on a 256 unit surface. At only 128 units wide, it looks much thinner than a real road. Try placing that car model onto the road for a second and see if it looks "right".

Quote from johnm487

the menu is especially ridiculous. its got unicorns, an eagle, lions, and birds that shoot lighting bolts.

Those are all the signs of excellent game design.

It's an Aphex Twins music video actually. It's really neat

Lets make Allies vs Counter-allies, where the allies try to assassinate Hitler and the CA has to stop them, and in between each battle each side can spend cigarettes and food to trade themselves better weapons.

Who would pay money for that? Eww

Oh god I need one.

No, I have never heard of Hakim Bey.

Quote from Zyndrome

I sometimes only eat dinner , and some sandwiches around midnight...

I'm exactly the same and I'm doing just great

Kudos for releasing the maps, I'm sure some people will find it very helpfull. Are you continuing mapping for HL2 or another engine?

Is there a community around BiA? Does anybody play the multiplayer?

Looks great, KoKo5oVaR! How about making some coins and have them behave as a sawblade when thrown with the gravgun?

Quote from FrieChamp

Yea I expected the worst, everybody remembers the downtime of 2004...I don't know if I could go through that again...

Oh god don't remind me, or else I will get the razorblades out and start cutting myself (just like last time)

Quote from FrieChamp

Why can't everybody be so wise and mature like Kosmo is?

He is my favorite new poster

Quote from Pericolos0

i wasn't even talking about that Just the graphics, FEAR has a pretty generic realism style, eventhough they use all the latest blingbling the art side of it isnt very original

Have you seen screenshots from the multiplayer beta test? The maps and textures aren't very impressive at all, atleast not compared to the stuff which was seen in the movie with that scary girl and whatnot.

Off-topic, but Reno, update your website info from .com to .net

Quote from marque_pierre

I suppose it would be the wimpish way out to go as Gordon Freeman...

Atleast you wouldn't have to talk to the other people there.

Quote from KungFuSquirrel

Had plenty of time on the computer this evening... and felt like modernizing this: http://www.snarkpit.net/maps/HL/images/124_2.jpgResult so far is this (beware, full in-editor shot, ~1meg): http://www.button-masher.net/wip/logs/e ... mage12.png

Starting to try and figure where I'll start cranking out the detail on it... needs lots of pipes and wires, of course, and various other bits o' goodness. I was surprised how quickly I ported the geometry over... maybe 15 minutes for both sides roughed-in. Took longer than that to find a texture set I was comfortable using.

Looking good! And I envy your dual monitor setup. A whole monitor reserved for the 2d view? Bah, luxury!

Quote from KungFuSquirrel

Why reinvent the wheel on piddly details? Content from scratch takes longer and longer to make (at least, until tools catch up a bit more ). Especially in this case, where after the first release they'll be pushing out an episode every 3-4 months, they need every minute they can spare.

I did notice the props in there, but it didn't bother me one bit. They look like they fit. Now, if we saw a citadel in the skyline... that'd be another story

Yeah, it's not a big deal really. Anyway, I'm pretty sure they're just placeholders for now. As you can see from the other screenshots using only original content, their artstyle is a bit more cartoony than HL2, so I'm sure it will eventually be replaced.

Quote from Tequila

Not enough to make me cry though, thankfully. Seems like there's more than enough content to define the SiN universe.

I wonder, if you license the source engine for a project, do you get the right to use HL2 art and model assets as well? Or is this some special deal with Ritual. Otherwise, I fear we will see HL2 white metal railing models in all future Source games.

I'd go as a suicide bomber.