Posts by ReNo

  • OLÉ! They Hunger: Source Almost Out!

    Something tells me that this instance of They Hunger won't prove as popular as the others. I don't mind mods going commercial if they are commercial quality, but if something is a "different game" yet uses what looks to be almost entirely the same resources as the game it is based upon, it ISN'T commercial quality.

  • Web portfolio

    Little update, fixing the font and changing the title image a bit (a circle wasn't really in keeping with the rest of the design).

    http://www.snarkpit.net/pits/reno/

    EDIT: IE screws up a the page a bit (links and copyrght info sit too high, "indent.gif" which is at the bottom of each table segment is pushed too far right and looks daft), and I've spent ages trying to fix it unsuccessfully. If any HTML guru's feel generous and bored and take a look at the page source for the problem, I would appreciate it. For now, I sleep. 9am maths tomorrow. Argh.

  • Web portfolio

    Hehe yeah, thumbnails are just there to test layout, obviously they will ACTUALLY link to full size versions eventually Map description text has now been shifted to lower case - was a bit "unfriendly" I guess. I'll probably have to change the links into images if I want to use the same font as I've used elsewhere on the page, but its hardly gonna be a huge additional file size or anything.

    Hey, it's gotta be better than this, right?

  • WIP Helicopter

    Oooh lookin' good ferret! Strikes a balance between realistic and fictional in my eyes. Made me think of the new FFVII game "Dirge of Cerberus" for some reason - I think there was some helicopter screenshot I saw that had a similar design. Very professional looking anyways, good job

  • What's your purchase this week?

    Nothing for me. My 6800GT broke a few weeks back, sent it back for replacement, and ended up getting a refund. Unfortunately I got my 6800GT for an astounding bargain (£165), and bargains like that don't exist anymore I'm now using the money to buy a 6800 standard and a 1gb memory card for my PSP. Nothing left over for any games unfortunately.

  • Cs_Cabaret

    Oooh thats nicer The bar is looking very cool indeed - nice variety of lighting in there. A couple of suggestions - get some frames on the windows in the ruined room (if there are already some, they could use more oomph as it doesn't look like it), and change the texture on the bottom of the pillars in the first shot.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    The first shot is more final than the second, but both are subject to change. I'm definately gonna do something with the lighting in the second one, and quite possibly in the first. I'll try out some blue and see how it looks - should provide a nice contrast to the orange. Thanks for the comments and positivity guys, means a lot

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Been out of level design for months and months now, so been playing around with some things the past couple of days to get back into it. Some may recognise this from a few months back - it was going to be my part of DrGlass's mosaic project (basically a group map effort) but unfortunately that seems to have died a death. I'm planning on continuing the theme and doing some sort of Vagrant Story style dungeon/mine. All, or at least most, of the map will take place underground.

    Also notice I'm jumping on the screenshot marking bandwagon - do you think this is too much or too intrusive? I was toying with a few designs, some of which more subtle than this one.

    [Blocked Image: http://www.snarkpit.net/pits/reno/images/cavern/cavern1.jpg]

    [Blocked Image: http://www.snarkpit.net/pits/reno/images/cavern/cavern2.jpg]

  • Hammer deleting visgroups

    Nah I'm afraid not, but thanks for the suggestion. I found a solution in copying the contents of a problem map into a new empty VMF file. No idea why it worked, but it did I'd saved the original map into a variety of files and it didn't make any difference, but copying and pasting did

  • Attitude and Intent - Ken Banks

    If I wanted fame and recognition I woulda moved onto mapping for mods that people actually play

    He raises some good points there but a few I don't agree with. He seems to be saying that you should only map when you are in a good mood, but I've often used to it to get out of a bad one and I don't necessarily think it always results in poor work. He also seems very jaded about the scene and possibly taking some jibes at more of the famous names, but most of the biggies I've come across in my time have been really nice people who do it for the love of it. People often say there is too much one-upmanship and non-constructive criticism around, but I musta been lucky over the years because everywhere I visit has been far more full of camaraderie than competition.