Posts by Mr.Ben

I brought a pair of those shoes after i robot

It's about two things: The leader and the teams ability to motivate itself.

KFS was a damn good leader for NW, and browsing the NW development forums gave you a hardon; you couldn't help but be inspired viewing some of the work on display and you'd run off and get to work yourself.

PS someone hire me I rock.

The white pipes are ugly but rest is rather lush

I'm not feeling the rock work at all

ahahahaha

Touch my winky, ferret.

It reminds me of that mod on HL ages ago, it was like light fade central. Buggered if I can recall it's name though.

I like the way CJ seems to have an endless stream of ideas

Fetter, i demand you give me shots.

I've said it before, Brad Pitt is uncannily good looking, i left the cinema feeling somewhat gay.

Oh yeah baby, float those crates, float umm!

baby jesus cries at the thought of fading on your map, mouse

Maybe I missed something but where did the parts of the walkway that broke off go?

Busted

Maybe not matters, but it takes certain qualities to take 10 random NS players and turn them into a team. Leadership, charisma, ambition, a determination to see that ambition through, organisational skills, people skills, the list goes on. It all sounds easier because it's for a game, you just play, but believe me it's no walk in the park.

Being in the top clan is irrelevant, it's about the personal attributes that I display through my NS "career." If nothing more just the ability to form a working coherent team from a group of strangers. Add that to the experience you get from working on NW and I think you get a good idea of the sort of guy I am and what I'm capable of. It might not be directly related to gaming or MODs, but in my opinion, leading a succesful clan requires the same characteristics as leading a succesful mod; and leading a succesful mod is always a useful thing to have on your resume.

Nah RD. I'd basically been working on NW for a year and concentrating on working on my chapter. The shots NW shots in there are the most impressive scenes i could capture from the 3 bsps. Anything more would just become repititive. Before NW i'd only worked on DarkTruths. The only standalone project I ever attempted was ns_forsaken, so there's a distinct lack of content, but I guess the experienced gained from working on NW with guys like KFS, Ken, badmofo more than makes up for it. Or it should?!

As for new games, I actually don't own any. My gaming needs have been satisified by NS for the past 6+ months. It's free and I happen to be the leader of an exceptionally good clan. As much as I'd love to play the games, I've always had more than enough gaming fun with NS and my mapping time was always filled up with NW anyway. I take playing NS quite seriously, if i didn't i'd of not played for teamUK or competed in NS's equilivant of CAL-I. Hopefully the leadership and dedication shown by leading an active NS team from zero to hero, over the past 8 months should help counter balance the lack of experience with new tech.

I don't plan on applying anywhere for a while though, and hopefully I'll have a summer job lined up soon so I can get some hardware upgrades and purchase some new games like HL2 and get mapping with umm! Till then I think i'll consider doing a short single player experience, just to give my portfolio a bit more content.

Well I can't, I'm only familiar with hammer. I don't see learning tech as an issue though. The major issue with learning a new package is time to sit down and go through the tutorials etc, and the money to buy said package. Anyone can learn how to map or model, the question is do they have the creative flair and artistic talent to create something worthwhile.

I assure you that if someone brought me a modelling package and freed my schedule up from college, exam, leading an active NS team (scrimming 3 hours a day) and my other commitments then i could learn any package needed.

The comments about DarkTruths have been noted, I only added them because my portfolio was somewhat lacking content. I guess that's what happens when you work soley on one project and the same 4 rmfs for a year.

It's been a while but after a couple of months break from mapping i'm returning! Yey i hear you all scream. When I finally find myself a saturday/sunday job i'll purchase HL2 and get cracking with a real engine. Until that time i'm just gathering up my portfolio. It took a break from mapping to let me realise just how much I enjoy it and now more than ever I want to work in the industry. I'd appreciate any feedback you could give me on my choice of shots for my portfolio.

EDIT: I hoep this is the approiate forum

Nightwatch: Chapter 4:

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Nightwatch: Hazardcourse

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Natural Selection: ns_forsaken

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DarkTruths: Chapter 2

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Welcome to Euroland, please don't feed the French.

Now come visit me keke

Great stuff, cj. I can't wait to get HL2 and run around it.

Great stuff, insta!