Posts by grapen

  • de_scepter

    Quote from FMPONE

    Just now, FMPONE said: A bit of a derail of this thread, but it's not even clear that the Workshop needs a downvote feature. Who gathers the most up votes would be sufficient.

    I suppose the bots would win either way :D but banning users who link to phishing sites should definitely be a thing.

  • de_scepter

    Yeah it's most likely that guy with the scam ads. Always wondered what it felt like to have a front page workshop submission for a week. Dream over before it started. :)

  • de_scepter

    Quote from FMPONE

    Just now, FMPONE said: Hey, don't worry about that. Workshop ratings aren't really important. Try to get views, subscribers, etc.

    Yeah your retweet certainly helped :D but now It's buried, so I probably won't get anymore views and subs. :(

  • de_scepter

    Quote from El_Exodus

    1 minute ago, El_Exodus said: Looking neat so far!

    However, it needs way more dirt and wear overall. It's too clean to be believable.

    This has been the most troubling design choice for me. I've been inspired by Hohenzollern (google image: hohenzollern courtyard), and that castle is spotless in parts, likely due to its young age as well as good maintenance. More grime and dirt is something that I'll be considering though.

    Quote from MadsenFK

    5 minutes ago, MadsenFK said: Looks absolutely stunning!

    This view honestly has to be one of the most beautiful I've ever seen in a Counter-Strike level, so much depth.

    Nice shot, I never thought to screenshot this angle :D

    Quote from blackdog

    Just now, blackdog said: Wow, congrats, this map has been looking great for a while.

    Looking forward to see it in the next op ;)

    Thanks man, I wish I had your confidence, this was a very anxious release :)

  • de_scepter

    A map made by grapen.

    Workshop: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…s/?id=972609667

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    Special thanks to a couple members of this community who's documentation and/or support was of great help: @will2k, @Yanzl, @Squad, @[HP] - and of course an extra special thanks to the staff for running this joint.


    This map was a first in many ways for me: my first source engine map, my first meshes and my first textures/materials. I've made a ton of mistakes, but I learnt from every single one of them (I'd like to think). It honestly wouldn't have been possible without this great community, so thanks everyone for commenting, liking and PM:ing. Every last bit of motivational boost counts.


    Until next time.

  • Goals for 2017?

    Surprised not to find a post from myself in this thread, I must've thought about posting but forgotten to do it.

    My goals for this year are to finish two maps and publish my portfolio. The portfolio and first map will be released next week, so it's looking up. :)

  • Overwatch

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    9 minutes ago, Jetsetlemming said: Surprised he isn't a Defensive hero, since that's the only category they haven't added to since launch. He reminds me a lot of Roadhog, actually: short range, high damage, very attention grabbing because of the threat of his combos.

    Orissa is pretty defensive ;) but I suppose you are referring to the categories in-game? I mean aren't they just tooltips for noobs?

  • Goals for 2017?

    Quote from ElectroSheep

    2 hours ago, ElectroSheep said: One of my main goal was to take the plane for the first time to get rid of this stupid fear of final destination heights.

    Now it's done, I felt very stupid to be afraid about that. It was very cool (except the smell of the guy who thow up a few seats in front of me) and thanks to that I managed to visit Berlin.

    Next time, get out of Europe.

    50 000 commercial flights up in the air, every day. You'll be alright. :)

  • using >> -lights [file] << keeps crashing

    What do the console say when you compile, is the file not being read at all? Or is it being read but the contents of it won't work in game?

    There might be erraneous formatting inside the rad file. Are you using regular slashes or backslashes in your paths? Because regular slashes will not work in my experience.

    Edit: Oh, are you trying to run the rad file with bsp or vis? =P add it to $light_exe (just making sure here).

    Edit 2: Pretty sure it's not allowed to put the -lights call after -game, try moving it before that. Here's an example:

    -threads 6 -lights scepter.rad -textureshadows -staticpropbounce 32 -hdr -StaticPropLighting -StaticPropPolys -game $gamedir $path\$file

  • What's going on with your life?

    Quote from MadsenFK

    1 hour ago, MadsenFK said: Just the symptoms I have, and what I don't have in more basic form:

    [*] "Racing" heart ✓ [*] Feeling weak, faint, or dizzy X [*] Tingling or numbness in the hands and fingers X [*] Sense of terror, or impending doom or death ✓ (not really death, more like fear in general) [*] Feeling sweaty or having chills X [*] Chest pains ✓ (this has happened once) [*] Breathing difficulties ✓ (this also happened that same day as the chest pains) [*] Feeling a loss of control X [/list]

    This is indeed panic anxiety. "Fight or flight" mode, a natural defence mechanism that triggers when facing life threatening danger, such as standing face to face with a dangerous animal. Your pupils widen, adrenaline shoots out making your heart race, your muscles contract causing chest pain, blood rushes to your larger muscle groups causing tingling in your hands, your mind races etc. This is harmless in itself, but can be very traumatizing, especially when experienced outside of a dangerous situation, many even think that they're about to die. This in turn can lead to health anxiety, which by the sounds of it, happened to you.

    The health anxiety will make you more susceptible to noticing harmless, natural things happening in your body, such as skipped heartbeats (which happens to everyone, though most won't notice it), which in turn will trigger you to get even more anxious. It's a vicious cycle, but it can be broken.

    What helps? CBT. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, excercise, sleep and a good diet. Read up on it online and talk to your parents about it. That is the best advice I can give you.

  • What's going on with your life?

    One thing often leads to another, for me it was work related stress. I was having some serious impostor syndrome and way too much to do at work. This led to psychosomatic symptoms such as insomnia, which in turn makes things worse. I managed to break free from it and turned my life on the right path. Sleep, excersice and talking to someone. You're young, you'll meet plenty of like minded people along the way. You also don't have to go to the gym, buy a pair of dumbells, look up bodyweight excercises. Think rope skipping is for little girls? Try doing it for 30 minutes straight, exhaust yourself and you will sleep.

    I still feel anxiety every now and then, we all do. Right now it's about making a career switch at 31, with two kids and a full time job. Holy shit is it rough, but I'll manage. You will too man.

  • Post interesting talks / presentations / conferences

    The death and rebirth of FFXIV, with dev interviews:

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  • The Steam Sale Thread

    Quote from text_fish

    40 minutes ago, text_fish said: I don't really understand why this is a thing. Or are they planning on releasing a new installment every 12 months, so they won't be updating old ones anyway? Or are they just milking us? Either way, think I'll wait and see if it drops down any further in the next sale, I can't currently justify spending the best part of a hundred quid on something that might be irrelevant in 12 months.

    They release new features every now and then. You get a decent upgrade discount (I got 50% off to upgrade from SD5 to SD6). The software you pay for now is very powerful and won't be irrelevant 12 months from now, you might not even want the new features they come up with. It's kind of/almost like Photoshop, some people are sitting on really old versions because they don't need the 2017 festures.

    With the proper skills you will be able to create amazing stuff in SD6 for a long time, I mean it supports 8k bakes :)

  • The Steam Sale Thread

    Quote from AlexM

    4 hours ago, AlexM said: A couple questions about substance designer

    This 1 year license thing. This really just means that you stop getting updates after 1 year right? It's not like features in the software get disabled do they?

    You own the software forever, you just stop receiving updates after 12 months from purchasing.