He seems more concerned about copycat games 
Sequels are needed to improve game concepts, however there is also the other sequel, just to make money.
He is right in the economical point of view IMO, that also happens in other industries when some idea is copied to death. It's like spaghetti westerns, they were economically successful at the beginning, then lot of people started to imitate plots and such, and all those movie companies went to bankruptcy.
That would be solution, but I couldn't find how to assign lower priority before a process starts. However, in the end I need to know why the OS doesn't let me use task manager like every other past windows versions.
BTW, I've solved the compiling issues using a batch compiler, which assign low priority directly.
My issue is basically comes from the OS, not hardware related. I got a dual core but that thing is not relevant, the point is Windows is a multitasking OS, doesn't mind if you have single or multi core CPU.
Don't know what is going on with my Vista, but it happens the same every time some app stop responding or the mentioned compiling process. It doesn't let me use task manager (CTRL + CAPS + ESC in Vista) to kill the process, desktop and everything is blocked too. I can do CTRL+ALT+DEL to enter in the log off options, no more. Maybe it's a configuration error in my system, don't know.
Well, now I don't know what to think, seems some of you have no such problem. I'm also suffering a similar problem (general unresponsiveness) when XSI freezes. I can't open the task manager, but the OS is still working.
With Vista they finally switched to a proper memory management system where it intelligently caches data in the memory even if you don't need it atm. This makes Vista look like it's using more mem than it actually is. The fact that it uses this more memory will make your computer faster, not slower. Linux has been doing this for years.
Yes, I was aware of that, but this OS requires more memory because there are a lot of new services not present in XP as well. I noticed a considerably higher HD swapping.
Ah, thx mate, then it will be fixed in six months or so.
If installing and configuring all my apps again wasn't so boring and time consuming, I'd revert to XP without a doubt. There aren't too many issues using Vista for me (without count how much memory it consumes), is just this compile thing.
I'm experiencing significant issues when I try to compile maps under Windows Vista. Basically the system becomes unresponsive until the compile process ends. This is quite annoying, in XP just I had to reduce priority for that process, but I can't do that in Vista because the system won't respond.
Anyone experienced similar problems? Any magical fix?
Probably you will want to subscribe hl coders list, with valve staff like Mike Durand, that's where the real action is 
http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
Or just browse all the messages, lot of interesting info there.
Modern weapons can't match this old crap in any way This is a colt navy 1851, tried to make it as close as possible to original.
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Around 4000 triangles, my first firearm btw
Hey, I think this is important for those of us who use this ancient level editor. Valve will add lighting preview feature after EP2, when SDK update comes. This info comes from Interlopers forum, directly from Valve. So they got it working from some time, it seems, but can't release it standalone. Hope the new Hammer brings some other goodies as well.
The art looks good, I guess this will be much more impressive when high res media appears and those 20GB makes a difference from current generation games.
On the other side, the most interesting part of an engine to me is not what it can do, but how much time is needed to do it, and mainly, how it will perform.
For XSI there is also something called Roadkill, unwrapping in a single click 
It's also compatible with other 3D Apps. Workflow is great, no need to go out of XSI. BTW, requires python installed.
Seems to make nice and clean UV meshes, but only tested it with a model which gave me lot of headaches, and it did a great job. More feedback.
Seems someone got his hands over it. The environment is very nice, and the lighting superb. I was used to watch Crysis shots and this really impressed me.
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http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread. ... ge=5&pp=15
BTW, this sounds a bit worse:
This will be hard to optimize for CryEngine 2
believe me...
Can someone talk about that matter? Urban environments are quite common, hope CE2 does well there too...
Catalan and Castilian (commonly called Spanish) both emerged in parallel from the same roots -latin-. Its not a dialect, most people in Catalonia speaks Castilian too, but the main language there is Catalan.
Welcome to Spain kleinluka, hope you enjoy your stay here. It's great that a well known studio like Grin decided to expand in my country, hope others follow the same path.
That would be great hessi, any help is very welcomed. We should get some weapons modeled and textured by july though, plan to show some WIPs as soon as possible.
Is western an issue? It will be whatever you want to be Warby
BTW, I wanted to talk about level design later because it deserves special attention. Once our weapon arsenal is completed would be a good time. Just going to say that FoF is a mod that could be enjoyed by those level designers who likes specially the game play design part. I'm talking about designing levels in a completely different way. Usually you got static objectives that have to be placed, and then make gameplay around them, designing paths, etc. This is not the case, our objectives changes its position from round to round, and you have to define how it happens. Some details about the game mode are in our site, but the part how it's done is not really explained. The main thing here is: every level has different flows, different choke points from round to round, probably this is not new, but the way I did it probably is.
I suppose nobody will want to start a level until the mod is released and becomes a big success, but well, maybe someone could give me a surprise.
Thank you, I guess pics have more appeal . I'd like to show pictures but the more interesting part cannot be seen there. I got some videos to show game features and such, if someone is interested. Any character modeler? I got the other 2 positions covered at the moment, but any help in those or other areas also would be appreciated of course.
Fistful of Frags is a Source based modification aimed to offer innovative gameplay, something rarely seen these days. That´s the challenge we want to fulfill. Take a look at [email protected]
Very nice one tomdon, I'll place it in my saloon if you don't mind
