Posts by Zacker

If you computer currently can run what you need, then I see no need to upgrade at all. Personally I have never had a state of the art pc and yet I have always been able to run everything I wanted.

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Are todays card supporting dx10 and are they good enought to run games like Crysis or Unreal 3 powered games?

Nope, but with a good gfx card from 2006 you will still be able to run those games, just in either dx9 mode or emulated dx10.

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shall I wait until Vista comes out? (one year of bugs and errors?)

All decent graphic cards today will work fine with Vista. Check Nvidia's list here:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html

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and why did them change the engines so often for the game?

Rumors are that the Quake 2 engine is a little outdated today.

I have learned everything so far by studying other addons. Many prefer tutorials, but just studying other peoples code can learn you a lot.

If you want WoW specific LUA tutorials then I think you can download some kind of sdk somewhere. Afaik it's not of much use though.

Yes Polaris, you got it there:) And well LUA itself is interesting, so far it feels like a mix of coding javascript and vb.

Looks like a great idea and site Zaph! I really do think that you should take amount of votes into account when calculating position on the frontpage.

Some weeks ago I decided to give a go at learning LUA. The result of this is an addon for the mage class in WoW which automatically gives water to people who ask for it.

Usually a mage spend a bunch of time with handing our water when raiding. With this addon, that is a thing of the past.

This is the first public beta and it is therefore still in the early stages.

http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addo ... ntain.html

Yay a sourceport!

Some of those filters look quite kickass and I would not have guessed that they were purely filter made.

What's even more cool imo is the way you can get the program. If you create a filter which gets popular, then you get the program for free! How cool is that not? I imagine making a cool HL2 map and thereby getting HL2 for free:)

These lasts shots are very nice.

You just did it again Blaz! Fantastic work as usual.

I demand that you port them to Source!

Lack of support for model scaling is indeed incredible sad. It would make so many things so much easier.

Especially when e.g. placing stuff like rocks or plants in outdoor areas. With just rotating you can't really place more than 2-3 of them near each other before people notice the the similarity. If I also could scale them, then it would open for a lot more combinations giving greater maps with less models.

The current trick I use to simulaet size is to move rocks and palms more or less into the ground. Horrible cheap trick, but kinda the only option atm in Source:/

Loose the CS alike crates. Even though it's Source, they are still annoying.

Really great work there! With the first shots I was unsure of you had just been lucky to get a good angle or such, but it seems like that the mapping actually is of a very high quality.

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Long time ago I needed a nick and due to not wanting to rip it from somewhere, I began constructing one instead.

First of I wanted it to be a little special, so I picked the letter Z as a start as it's rarely used in danish. Next of a needed a vowel and the first one was "a", so I just took it.

Next up the third letter, where I for some random reason picked "c" as it's also the third letter in my real name. After the c it sounded logical with a k, as "ck" is quite common in english.

The last "er" was mainly just some sort of typical ending of a word describing something or someone.

Haven't heard of many others who got their nicks this way:D

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"Hot chick meets uncomfortable smartass wannabe?":D

The small danish game studio Serious Games is making a game called Global Conflicts: Palestine, which is in the same style. Check it out here:

http://www.seriousgames.dk/gc.html

I must admit that I do obtain some of my software, games, movies and music through other channels. I do buy a lot of it, but it would be damn impossible for me if I had to buy it all.

Games and music I usually buy, especially if it's smaller companies/artists which I want to support.

Software is probably the thing which I buy the least of. I need PS, max, etc. and buying it would ruin me, so warez is kinda the only option I got. It's bad I know, but...

Mouse, those rock textures looks like they need to be downscaled or maybe sharpened. I am not sure, but they got an annoying and blurry look.

There is for sure something wrong there Squirelly, my first guess was the normal map but it could also look like a misplaced overlay as Dennis says.