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lol... looks like i wont have to buy anything new for awhile

oooooooo lookin good

Wow, thats looking really sweet already. Looking forward to seeing the final product.

Okay here is the thing. I am on HL: Nightwatch, and if you haven't heard of it, it is a HL1 SP and on that mod I was privlaged to work with some of the most talented mappers and modelers and coders. But because of the projects extreme length and what still needed to be done over the certain about of time we had worked on it. We decided it was way to much and alot of people just left.... I have seen more personal projects of SP episodes finish before a SP mod finished. And why not make it 2 chapters instead of 13? why does it need to be 13? and why does it need to be longer than HL2?!.. you'll never get it finished if its that big.. thats way to big and people arent getting paid....

You know I find it to be quite ridicolous that you are saying that you by yourself would take ages to complete the C-17 based SP mod.... Here is an idea, how about you make it a smaller a project and more reasonable for you and just you to complete. That solves a bunch of your problems, you wont need a team or to wait on somebody to complete something, you'll be done before Half-Life 3!!!! You wont need more of a crew.. and you can be the professional !!~ I have rarely scene a full team of mappers complete an SP. rarely. good luck though.

Some concept work done for my next little something something

Looks amazing, can't wait till it comes out... only problem i see if mods (if any at all) are going to have a hard time keeping up with those standards.

No chance... no day is exactly the same day and im sure mapcore will be long gone by 3005.....

Congrats to everyone who is graduating this year Class of '05 :D

Very cool pics, just recently have i gotten into taking photo's hopefully one day ill be able to afford a camera like that.

In case somebody needed a good laugh:) And to show that every mapper started out as a n00b. Aha, I had not noticed that thread. Well not all of us.... /me looks to Strat

Bottom it is fkn freezing up there. Like when the snot in your noes freezes up as you come back from the bars... you know your in a place where it is really really cold.

lol

hahahaha thats awesome man!! nice going.

OMAI! Gunman Chronicles is your bossss!

Yes, in the textures folder (what ever that window is called) type in "tools" and you will see a green texture that is called" block light. Simply put some brushes around the window to block the light. BUT! that wont work because that means its blocking all the light and it would look really wierd. SO! what you can do is: the brushes you just put around the window.. take those and skew them to a larger size so that its maybe twice the size of the window now... then place those brushes on the wall and have the light_spot inside right by the window... and if it works it should look exactly how you want it too.. just make sure there are no other lights in the hall that would make it look wierd. AND! if that doesnt work.... experiment with other things.. maybe make the inner angle small and same with the outer angle... Hope this helps.

Having been on some mods... and having the first release... Its really hard. Cause for the next week or two you get complaints about everything... and then everyone hates it. So you release a little patch that changes some code issues, sounds, animations but nothing that needs to be tested heavily... and you do this to try to keep your fans entertained.. then you release a heavily contented/tested patch that will fix most if not all the complaints that were given. And that takes alot of time. And the two hardest things about this process is: 1: keeping people motivated to do make really quality...especially after being bombared by complaints and 2: Organizing a good play test... and by good playtest i mean like 15 people in one server... sometimes its hard to get at least 4 people in for a play test time So you got to give these guys credit for releasing something works and taking the time to make it better for everyone. Though their theme needs a lot of work, I say keep it up to the PoA guys

Anyone know anything about the HDRR implementation.. and how they are going to do it? Will we have to change are maps? Will mods have to adopt to the new code? Whats the deal?

Much agreed. This kind of work potential and quality put into a new age engine would produce excellent quality works that will be played by thousands... sinse Fileplanet uploads every good looking map they can find and ramps about it.

Looks to be a lot of fun, you did capture the suberbia style. But it needs more life, and more realism. And instead of the crates that you can hop on.. why not have a huge dumpster that has a displacement map of trash that leads to a ledge that will give you a boost to the top of the huge dumpster ... Also in that corridor with lights above the garage doors... turn them off if they are day time. Also try to think of some better way to bound of the area than just brick walls... but keep it up.. im sure this will turn out good

I dont like the music I listen to just because of the vocals... I listen to it because of the band and the melodies they produce... Have you heard David Guilmore's guitar solo's... there nothing like his solo's...

I want to know why... oh why, wise d3.... why are all the famous metal bands shit?... Is it because once they got good and people liked them and the word spread about them that they magically become shit? To all who believe Heavy Metal is underground hard core shit.... please tell me why And I took the time to listen to a little bit of a sample from my dying bride.. and I have no clue why you would want to listen to something "singing" (if you can call it that) to you that sounded like the devil.... and the music sounds like phantom of the opera with a guitar

No........ Italian girls deff win the gold!

Well they got me to do a little something something for them... Zazi really can make you do anything when he is naked...