Posts by leplubodeslapin

  • Half-Life Alyx

    The index has been out of stock for more than a month now (Europe warehouses I guess) and I haven't heard any news about when it's going to be available again ? I'm afraid people are going to rush-buy it when it becomes available once again and I miss it.

    Does anyone know anything aout the Valve Index stocks ?

  • Half-Life Alyx

    Quote from [HP]

    1 hour ago, [HP] said: If you're like me, and the announcement of Alyx makes you wanna replay HL2, this mod seems to enhance things a little bit. I absolutely love the feature that turns the projectiles from hitscan to "bullet drop".

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    I'm already more than halfway through, too late ! :D Seems nice, the SMG feeling should be much better with the bullet drop instead of hitscan + the iron sight

    It's such a great game, guys replay it, now is the perfect time !


    I bought new ram and CPU, and I asked for a motherboard to santa claus :D And I'll buy the Index in january ! ? I'm so hyped !!!!!!!

  • Half-Life Alyx

    The lighting is just insane, pause the video at any frame and it's incredibly crisp and clear with no glitch whatsoever. I'm sure this brings a lot to the table of VR and player immersion.

    I don't know what to do, it's just so expensive (I would want to play it on the Index for sure, and my PC is quite not up to date enough ?)

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  • Goals for 2019?

    That's really cool dude, congratulations that's a lot of achievements for 1 year !

    Your portfolio is really neat and showcases nicely your work ?

    Well done for surpassing these two laborious years, good luck with all these new projects :)

  • DE_CACHE (new version)

    what

    Guys ok it's nice that you can be so accurate with your feedbacks and I'm pretty sure that they're welcome to improve the visuals of the map and make it more "realistic".

    But please, understand that not everybody is an expert in AC, plumbing and in the history of USSR vehicles from decades ago. It's something that the map creators can take into account and change but it's their map, they don't have to change these things to please a community of people.

    Appreciate the work applied here and do your feedbacks as suggestions of stuff that could be improved, kindly.

    Just my 2 cents :x

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    He doesn't mean that ^^

    A normal map is in the end a colored picture with a combination of red, green and blue colors. Each one of them is a layer, a channel. Maybe look for how a normal map works (try here ?), but to explain it as simple as possible : the green and red channels are used to explain in which direction an area of your texture would be looking at if it was in 3D. The red is for horizontal direction and the green is for vertical direction. The issue with Source is that the green channel is reversed compared to most of the other 3D engines (like : low value would look downward and high value would look upward or the other way around, I dont' remember, and it's the opposite of the standard of other 3D softwares).

    This ends up with your brick texture that has cement between bricks. This cement should probably remain in between the bricks (recessed) and not spilling outward. But since your green channel is likely reversed, the normal map is in the wrong way.

    Kinda hard to explain :x Does it make sense ?

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    They would just need to switch from a bounding box used for the player collision with the world to a more classic capsule or something else. It would probably impact the gameplay quite a lot though and people are really used to it for precise movements.

    I wouldn't mind a transition to Source 2 the same way they did it on Dota 2, or even with CSS back in 2010 (where they moved it from an old 2006 Source engine to the Orange box version)

    → They did a beta branch that lasted a few months and in the end the transition was completely invisible for everyone.

    I believe it could be useful to bring back map makers to CSGO and get newer and better content. But yeah, nothing makes this necessary for them and it's risky.

  • The random model thread!

    Quote from PogoP

    12 hours ago, PogoP said: UV'ing is really odd in Blender, that's my main issue with it. I just love planar mapping from 3ds max :P

    Isn't the option you're looking for "U (unwrap menu) → Project from view", with the camera looking at the selected faces with the desired angle of projection ?

    Recorded a gif to show what I mean :

    https://i.imgur.com/GkhTSNX.mp4


    Also btw, i'm following the excellent beginner tutorial BlenderGuru is currently making for Blender 2.8. I'm making a waffle, it's really nice to follow :)

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    (Still missing materials and the rest of the scene basically ? )

  • Blender

    @Serialmapper You don't need SMD files anymore, you can compile a model for Source from a .fbx now !

    So you don't need that SMD plugin anymore.

    You just have to give .fbx files to your .QC, here's an example :

    Quote

    Quote $modelname "cs_archives\furniture_desk_01a.mdl" $cdmaterials "models\cs_archives" $body "Body" "furniture_desk_01a.fbx" $staticprop $surfaceprop wood $sequence idle "furniture_desk_01a.fbx" $collisionmodel "furniture_desk_01a_phys.fbx"{ $concave }

    Personally I was really used to 2.79 (I mean before 2.8).

    I tried working on a blend file on 2.80, on the next day I tried to open it with an older version of Blender and it didn't work anymore (makes sense) so I continued working on 2.80 and I'm getting used to it it's great :)

  • Blender

    Hummm ... I believe Blender got its 2.80 update (still in beta but plenty of people are using it) → People realize it's at least as good as maya/max for what they do but it also has plenty of tools within the same software that can replace other softwares (sculpting, baking, rendering, physics simulation ...) → They give it a try and it's just much better than paid softwares ?

    Plus it has an incredible real-time render view (eevee).

    Maybe guys you should give it a try ?


    To me, it's 1000% deserved.

    (I'm no expert, I'm not an 3D artist)

  • Collision mesh for source models in blender

    I don't really understand your issue, what's the problem here with creating just a basic collision shape like this ?

    [Blocked Image: https://i.imgur.com/n0fGOsg.png] → [Blocked Image: https://i.imgur.com/2daBD8z.png] OR [Blocked Image: https://i.imgur.com/CABQPSc.png]

    Also if you have unecessary geometry like that and you don't want to destroy the faces and rebuild everything by hand, you can select the edges like this :

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    Press DELETE (or X) and pick "Dissolve Edge". It will reconstruct geometry without these edges.


    EDIT

    Can you show us the complex geo that you struggle with ?

    Most of the time, I think it's just about the amount of elements I use in my collision meshes. By using multiple you can create concave geometry but you'll quickly hit the limit amount of elements (don't remember how high this limit is but it's pretty low)