Posts by hessi

this site is hillarious. so many epic fails. each is worse than the other!

ok what do you think?

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wouldnt it be nice to have a working HL2 exporter for maya version greater than 7.0? and one that works with EP2 and EP1 content? and that works under windows vista?

my desk at work:

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your camera has some really short focal length. please use a smaller FOV. the proportions dont look right at all places. i think it would need a little tweaking to become "perfect". since i am low on time this is all i can tell you now. in any way i think you are improving a lot since i know your work for quite a couple of years now.

regarding the playtests. like 2 months before the release we had about 4 playtests of dod_kolsch with the E.i.B. Clan which is a german DOD:S clan that hosts several game servers. they helped finding bugs and general flaws. the dod:s community is small, i think we all know that but since i am dedicated to the game and warby and i started the map years ago you cant actually blame us for mapping for a game that has no community. regarding not having public playtests: there was one big reason for not doing so. probably you can figure that one out. maybe it correlates with my rant about the Source SDK's tools and developers?

in any way your post was a quality feedback. i really appreciate a feedback that consists of more than 2 sentences, combines positive and negative points (mark on the plural here) and giving probable solutions! this post could be linked as "how to give critics!".

because i got no reminder on icq/skype/forums or what ever

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newest version of crazybump also outputs AO maps

but crzy bump doesnt use modeled 3d information, right? afaik it applies some low pass filters onto the image to "reconstruct" the 3d from 2d.

"home improvement"

"family guy"

that's it. got them on my HDD and loop through them all over again

i had a run through today. i dont know what you want to change, but as in general it seems a bit sktechy. dont get me wrong, the screenshots look great! but when i run through it i see so many things that just pop into my eyes or maybe even don't work. for example there are some stairs you have to walk on in the right angle otherwise you are clipped. then there is some weird behavior with the fog which appears only in close areas.

let me know if you want a bunch of images with comments or not!

the only think i like about the ps3 is that it supports a linux operating system without any hacks! wii got the more awesome controls and player interaction!

Well i don't know everything yet, but i might get a shot with the wii too

Nurogames - Thomas Heß

:roll: well it's a "part time"/diploma job. so it's for a fixed timespan right now. Working on assets, textures, levels and most important: Maya API/tools programmer

of course there is a lot of nitpicking right now, but since everybody might expect something different this is ok. i just played it on a server and the people loved it. coming here and reading such comments really turns my happiness down.

regarding the scale: just read the story of dod_kolsch:

http://www.thomashess.net/index.php?cat=7

so if you think this is a shit level: don't play it.

if you like it: come on one of the servers and have some fun.

i won't make those changes to the map. if there would be a critical server crash or something like that... well then i would fix it. but no more tweaking! would be nicer if you worth ship the hard work warby and i had!

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I guess you gotta see it with your own eyes to get the dimensions - it is frickin' huge!

i demand to see the photo you made of us in front of it!

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I'm amazed you have so much time and talent to make such a gorgeous map. My only crit is the church...looks kinda science fiction to me. But....even that is not bad...actually...looks cool as fuck. Just kinda colossal I guess is what I'm trying to say.

how dare you! why criticize the cathedral? that's the best cathedral yet seen in any game! if it looks like science fiction then please never visit the real one!

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congrats man! so dod_kolsch is pretty much my present to you! have a nice day in canada.

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• [*:2cbplnkn]no 1.3 full installer for the client[*:2cbplnkn]no 1.0-1.2 patch[*:2cbplnkn]no 1.0-1.3 patch

please check your mirrors. the release seems a bit rushed since there is a lack of working mirrors for older/full versions.

i added a countdown to my website: http://www.thomashess.net/

since this is a php script the download will automatically be ready just in time!

who 's da girl? is she wearing etnies? since i might have the same as she does (but mine are totally wasted now)

release will be on 27th feb at 21:30 GMT+1 (german time zone). on http://www.thomashess.net i will create a download page for dod_kolsch with bit torrent and direct download + server adresses with servers that run dod_kolsch. also i added some content of dod_kolsch to my website:

Kölner Dom

Flak

Panzerkampfwagen IV

some trees

an here are all screenshots.