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Holy crap, 39 comments? That's got to be a record.

Nobody wants to make this a thread?

done.

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18924-securing-assets

Never said I'd get in the way of good time!

Let's celebrate with a parade, shall we?

Trump didn't come out of nowhere. He has a life long record of being a blundering idiot. Sorry to burst that bubble for you. I had kind of hoped was that since he is so disgustingly rich that he wouldn't be so easily bought by corporations. No such luck... At this point it seems the most well thought out plan he had was to give himself and his 1% buddies a massive tax break.

With the recent peaceful deposing of his South African mirror image Jacob Zuma we can only hope that the Reps grow some balls and actually stop brown-nosing Trump and come up with a different candidate that isn't going to start a nuclear war over twitter. Either that or they deserve to lose every seat possible in the midterms (wouldn't that be nice?).

@Xarg, regarding the Steam Group, I along with 2 others have admin access- https://steamcommunity.com/groups/thedarkmod

Hmm I thought I had the right setting. Though we may want to carry this over to a handy dandy thread for easier reading.

I can do that, what do I need to cpy over, just a link and how to join with download links etc..?

That is offensive. Also the site isn't nerdy. Hit me with a stone, gauge out my eyes, strangle me and hang me upside down if there are more then 5 gothic games around still developed. GOOD ONES.

Look at you, being all passionately nerdy about nerd things.

How rude of you. I hope you're happy now that my week was ruined by your tasteless humour.

We seriously need a pinned page with all this info crammed in there or something. I didn't realize anyone actually ran with the whole chatroom thing after we talked about it.

Do you have a link to this, "Biker-room"?

For anyone else curious, https://discord.gg/0pXtSX7AX7mBRin6 should be valid for 24 hours from now.

Google photos suck at sharing, posting image in the forum is a right PITA. Like Sotha I use imgr.

Tumblr is pretty good for this.

It always makes me laugh when a company gets so big and then decides that the way the Internet works, (which got them where they are) is no longer convenient for them. They then try to break standard functionality, in the hopes of driving up profits or gaining subscriptions, but in reality they just push people, even existing happy users, away.

@MonroseTroll. I actually have been working a lot with Unreal 4 and doing some side projects with it. Great toolset and it's what has defined my current, "model everything" workflow. I have a buddy who worked on Wolf(2009) who kinda gave me a rundown on the studio. I'm not a CoD fan but it would be a way to get my foot in the door basically.

@VanishedOne. I feel this pain a lot, and I did for my whole time when I was trying to learn Hammer back in my Half-Life 2 mod...

.. Gotta love the page limit xD

Carry on !

What would it take for nV to release an OpenGL extension that apparently does not need to limit to RTX hardware only?

Personally? No idea. I was just curious what everyone thought of that kind of rendering power somehow laced into our dated/beloved engine.

I'm still certain that parallax corrected cubemaps with updated material implementation (considering RTX is Nvidia exclusive) would be our safest bet for good reflections. Not real time but the usage would be a tremendous upgrade from stock cubemaps.

People created a tdm topic to discuss this. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19968-ray-tracing

I've got a solution for you. Make a func_static out of a small brush. Select the "model" key/value pair. Now deselect everything and select the models you want to extract position data from. In the entity inspector you should still have the model key/value pair queued up. Apply it to everything selected by clicking the green checkmark. Now all the models will be replaced with the brush you created. Export this selection of brushes as an obj.

Scratch that. Exporting as obj doesn't work and I can't revert the brushes back to worldspawn either.

You know now that I think about it. If I can use the world 0 0 0 set the same as Softimage, I might just be able to copy and paste the values out manually. Most of the big things I'm needing are rotation snapped anyways so that makes it easy.

Ah yeah I do vaguely remember the Strombine technique. I think my other method I was thinking of (going off the modeler deep end) is vertex painting darkness into obscure portions of the map.

Even if it was just for brushwork it would be a tremendous leap to have lightmaps or be able to flag lightmaps on select pieces.

BTW, the decal method I suggested: https://web.archive.org/web/20090106143119/http://www.fuzzpopfx.com/tutorials/doom3/

In case you're concerned about upcoming mission titles being spoilered: the topic list on the right is permission-trimmed, it's only showing what you're allowed to see. At least it was like this the last time I checked.

Ok but everyone (logged in) has permission to see every topic in the TDM Mission Beta Testing  section afaik. But it's good that it's filtered for non forum members at least.

Oh, I wasn't aware that every member can see that forum. It used to be per invitation only in the past, I obviously missed that this has changed.

I didn't expect this to be possible, but there's in fact an option to select the forums that should show up in that block. I adjusted this to not show the Beta Testing forum now.

More epic furniture ahead !

There are http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Model_Wishlist and http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/7366-master-models-needed-list-post-requests-here/ but I don't think anyone's edited them in ages to remove items that now exist.

Well that's a start! I'd be happy to lend a hand somewhere so I'll probably just pop the question there. Looking to try and use Substance Painter on something other than a PBR based model. Though D3's mesh lighting helps a lot.

Pretty cool, maybe he will be interested in doing more of his own work here as well.

bzzt

Good to hear. I just ripped mine off from YouTube. They came from bzzts happening on public streets, so going to be in the public domain. But the recordings weren't the best quality.

Yay !

Ive seen some of his models in a map Springheel is working on - they look bloody awesome

Awww yea! Looking forward to it

Are the GFX in NV much better than FO3 though..?

It's the same engine with (i guess) a little bit more detail, so it probably won't make much of a difference. Not much of a graphics freak though i must confess, so i don't really mind. Looks pretty good, but it's not Skyrim or any newer game. But gameplay wise it's "formidable" really.

I just pissed my self LOL hahahaha.Awesome:)

There are some pretty HD texture packs for Fall out NV around that make it look more HD.

the majority of material names use slashes. What program has a problem with that?

Maybe it helps to use Notepad++ and its auto replace feature in files? I don't know for sure though

Since I don't have the luxury of using Lightwave for native lwo format, Softimage has some strange tendencies like replacing unknown symbols (and spaces) with underscores. Ordinarily that's fine because I never actually list names as file paths. I already have to re-export lwo files to correct smoothing with Blender but it just adds another unneeded step when I have to correct the materials too. This time it's really not an issue with TDM as much as it is with my software and prop...

Sorry about the job status but I am glad to hear that you will be doing some TDM things to sharpen your prospects Good luck!

Thanks fellas!

@NeonsStyleYeah I see CA's listings pretty frequently on ArtStation. Certainly making some cool stuff, however I just wish they had a branch state-side. 

@nbohr1moreHonestly the job situation is what makes this possible for me. If I'm living within my means, unemployment benefits will keep me afloat while I make this a full-time endeavor.

Money or the lack thereof sucks balls. Hope you guys find a solution. @Epi, you can work online, that's a

big thing today, n offers so many opportunities, but the work isolation is tough.

Pardon my accidental status botch I somehow deleted the last post by mistake. Otherwise that's what I figured. Probably not any good way of retrieving those either.

A good reason to upload and embed the images, perhaps, rather than merely link.

Imageshack may still have the files - they can be requested: https://imageshack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200841220-Can-I-restore-images-

Nope, it was created by New Horizon as I recall?

NSA

Twitter gets some good press on it's own if managed right. It's a shame ours has been neglected.

As long as you enjoy the work its all cool.

Not a bad thing to have a job, though. Is it game-related?

It's a seasonal job that guarantees the Winter off. But the job itself sucks. xD

Just claim pagan sorceries are involved...

Was it just me or did TDS (by far) have the most glowing effects in any Thief game? Cause I swear I reference it in my head each time I make something like that.

Inventor's guild experiment goes awry! Radiation fallout in Bridgeport! Click to see video!

good man :-)

Neat!

Welcome back!

Nice to hear! Good luck!

Agreed, only option atm is to PM them unless they are subscribed to said thread - calling Taaaki...

It could probably piggyback off the notification that pops when someone quotes you on the forums. Without the big ole heading for a quote.

Nice.

SSD next