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Looks awesome. The texture useage looks like open wad file -> hhdeath -> select all wads. Most (98% ish) aren't made by the hhdeath guys, but a few are, and thats more than ok with me. So long as the map look good

As a matter of fact the chairs are models, but they are just extremely plain ones that I only retextured. I don't really like them but I'm not a modeler and they can't be really that complicated since there are six of them and two more sofa models in the background.

Each one of those chairs are only 36 polies, at most, * 6 = 216 polies. The cost it takes in memory and space is more than the render time. You can afford much higher, talking thousands higher, even for hl, and a crappy machine. Each one of those chairs could be 150-250 without a problem even in multiplayer. So lets say those two sofa's are 800 polies total + 250 * 6 chairs = 2300. Let's assume the average player model is 1200 polies. 1200 * (10 players) = 14300 polies. In reality it would probably end up being much lower because I doubt the player models are that high, and sofas. In any case it would be well within the hl limits. You can also group those six chairs into a single model to save even more on speed, maybe .5 frames faster but still :X

I'm pretty much maxed as far as brush based entities are concerned. A few more them and HL would crash.

This is when I would start grouping as much as possible! Doesn't look like a big map, you have near 400 brush based entities?

Yes, model lights would be a nice touch but I would like to see the actual source of the light, as in a bright spot in the model. This would require two models with different settings yadayada... and since I can't use more brush based entities it's out of the question. I just hate the HL1 engine and all its lame restrictions.

Yes model lights would be nice. One thing I do, seen others do, rather than having two models, make the bulb transparent (in the model) and add a env_glow in the center. Looks really good. I've seen transparent glass, with chrome inside which does a really cool fake lighting effect.

I'm not talking about brush based models, I'm talking about actual models. ie .mdl files. .mdl aren't brush based. They don't count towards the 400 brush based entity limit.

These are just suggestions, that could take your map from awesome to super awesome.

Very good~! Not much to say. Try getting models for those chairs and even your lights. The placement of the lights are good but I mean the actual source of the light. Those big chunky square bsp pieces are kinda the ug. One cool thing to do is make the light source a func_wall or illusionary, make it invisible but you can still use rad lighting, then you can place a model there, a good one with transparency on it. Oh also try some random lights upward against the walls, etc.

Is that actually a pepsi ad? Can't read the first letter. Yay for product placement if $o.

Looks pretty nice, but there were a few things that annoyed me:

When the first fight started, one of the guys STOOD behind a tree through the whole fight. That is something you should never do. Lying is what one should do.

And later when one of the guys got killed in the middle of the road, the medic (or whatever he was) didn't drag him to shelter before doing a checkup. He totally exposed himself by just sitting there in the open...

So much for the totally authentic tactics... or were they just stupid during WWII.

The player ordered his squad across the street without good cover. It was a bad move and his squad members died for it. It's not bad game design, its a bad player. Also nobody said totally authentic, just very

Duffy you're wrong. Again. Vietnam is a stand alone title.

I think you mean funk'ay!

Those model & skins look good, DarkNemesis sounds familiar. Do you know his first and/or last name?

I bet they built a grid of explosion points, so just as you jump you trigger by volume an explosion at that specific point. RD wins.

I would have 5 years ago too. Quake had one of the best rendering, physics, entity/logic systems, and pretty good AI for its time. Building all that from scratch would have caused HL1 to be 2 or 3 years longer. Oh and HL2 isn't based off quake, but HL1, you could say its based off quake but very little is there, so really no.

Would be nice if I could find track samples on their website...

band of brothers the game?

it looks.....ok....but like already said, what can this game offer that the numerous other great WW2 games havent brought to the table? COD, MOH, DOD.....meh....prove me wrong for it will make me happy

While COD, MOH, and DOD are all fun games, they all fail to be authentic. Call of duty looks great and its fun, but there is no way one man could defeat the entire German army, or at least it appeared so. MOH is a pile of crap with neat sequences. DOD is a cool multiplayer ONLY game which come close to being authentic, but theres obvious cuts and adds to what was and what wasn't real for fun.

BiA takes a step forward by actually being more authentic, but not at the cost of the fun. Like whats been said on many websites, BiA is a squad game. This doesn't mean you watch your squad sequence through a game, you're in control. You need your squad and your squad needs you! You need to use tactics like fire and movement using our awesome one button squad command system! I've already said enough, if you want to know more, read/watch interviews, previews, etc.

...which doesn't live from rendered video sequences.

That's all in-game footage.

Erik Johnson is not the "STEAM GUY." He does PR, which probably includes PR for steam.

Zaph you shouldn't be racist towards black folk.

I would bash you fken idiots for even thinking in the slightest possible way that the graphics compares to hl1, but... oh wait. I guess normal maps, shaders, 1287391823719 of on screen polies, high detail l.o.d npc's, real time dynamic reflecting water looks like hl1.

Photoshop is in a league of its own in my opinion...

i have 2 free boxes sitting at my house that i got from (work) adobe however i aint selling them for that low price HAHAHAHA

If you want, i can talk to you when i get home, i also have a CS 7 that i'd be willing to get rid of for a small price, then you could go out and get CS upgrade which is only $169...

but like fletch said, your best bet would be try a community college/university.

I would buy it from you but it ruins the whole point.

I've been putting off purchasing an actual retail box of Adobe Photoshop for too long... does anyone know a good place to buy CS 8? Everywhere I look averages $289. And yes I know I could download CS 8 on bittorrents, mail groups, various warez sites, and probably through irc, but I don't want to.

Those crates give me orgasms.

"When women are choosing mates -- except for very attractive women -- they're facing a tradeoff of choosing a guy who's very sexy or one who will stick around and treat them well," he added.

If someone can find a picture of pei mei smiling, pulling his beard back, and zoomed in you win 15 pts. I spent about 5 mins searching but failed.

rofl df

What about the gbx d00ds dd, mojo, mike, no photos of them posted yet

I'll try to rally everyone together one day with my digitial.

You can fake rain in almost any hl engine mod. It doesn't need a special particle engine. env_blood works well, or giant well made textures that scroll. Try http://collective.valve-erc.com/ and search for rain. Some mods have special entities or properties for weather, like cs.

plz zillas skies pwn even though there were render problems on them forever and fixed and broke and fixed... I've said too much! now I must die

YOSH!!!!11~! BEST!