Recent content by Vino

I'm working on Double Action, a multiplayer action game in the vein of The Specialists and Action: Half-Life. Here's a video: We need some artists! Like, badly. Weapon models, player models, model models. I'd appreciate it if you know anybody who played TS or AHL back in the day and might...

SMAK version 1.0 is a multi-purpose 3d modeling utility. It can: * Bake hi-res models down to lo-res with diffuse, AO and normal maps * Bake AO maps for standalone meshes * Load and save multiple file formats among other things. The advantage of SMAK is that it's very fast and easy...

It's been a while since I've posted here. I'm surprised my avatar is still in place. So, I'm writing to announce a new tool I've written that generates ambient occlusion maps quickly and easy. It's called SMAK, the Super Model Army Knife and it uses a special hardware-accelerated technique to...

I should make some notes, as a representative of this game. * It's just a beta :) We know it doesn't look awesome yet and has a few bugs, we'd rather people who are interested play the game, and everybody else can sit out while we improve it. * Two servers are up now. We're planning a play...

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8601/board1.jpg A quick scan of the forums revealed that nobody else realized this: Some of the words on that whiteboard are encoded with ROT-13. The clue is the words "ROT-13" written on the whiteboard, and anyways, I recognize ROT-13 instantly when I see...

I'll probably be burned by bringing this up, but maybe it's true? Here's my reasoning: - I don't think the guys over at HLS and HLR have a brain capacity of zero, they can discern over whether a fact is true or false depending on it's source and context. - Gabe has lied to us before. He's...

I talked with my good friend mew, who is rather popular in circles of people who play The Specialists, and he related to me an email conversation he had with Yahn Bernier about mouse sensitivity. These are all his emails, spelling and all! (Don't hold it against him, English is his second...

From: Gabe Newell <[email protected]> To: Jorge Rodriguez <[email protected]> Yes, we are fans as well, and Ken was out here for a couple of months. No, that isn't our skeleton as far as I know. -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Rodriguez...

I'm not worried. I think you're looking at it all wrong. Mod-making is not, as it's known in game theory, a zero-sum game. It's not like mods are incompetition with each other (something most mods don't realize.) In reality, the more mod teams help each other, the better the resulting mod will...

Heh, thanks for the info. Well the offer is still open to him, as he said before, nothing wrong with being on two teams.

Ah, I found a completed picture of that UMP: http://tempyst.leperszone.co.uk/flakk/kisslerender.jpg Full info on it here: http://www.tempmodels.cjb.net/flakk (yarg, beware of popups! www.mozilla.com/products/firebird) Notice the byline, everyone but Quad is on our team. Looks nice don't it?

Well here's my pitch: http://www.vinoisnotouzo.com/1973 This is a mod about three bounty hunters, Jack Max and Isabella in 1973. (Not about Vietnam ;) ) They are hired by a guy named "Stegman" to kill a notorious mob boss, Vincent Porter and his flunkies. Of course, everything goes wrong...

This is a great idea, you're doing a great job in becoming the "definitive hl2 source" as your title graphic describes! And now for a (hopefully) useful suggestion; instead of posting only one news article in one week about one modification that had interesting news? Why not post about more...

Heh, well most computer users who have problems don't understand that the slowness of the start menu is not their fault, and that it could be faster if Microsoft didn't have their ulterior motives. BTW, sorry about the harangue :P

Not to get into a piss fight, but it seems really stupid that there be a registry value to delay how long it takes to open the start menu. What is it's purpose? Why isn't it set to something low on default? After all, 99% of computer users want their software to be fast and responsive, nobody...