DeTeEff

Love your work so looking forward to whatever you got coming next whenever and wherever that may be!

Good luck!

Yes please, I remember playing your maps and they were amazing.

+1

This really makes me wish models had their own filter! xD

You can filter FS already, but if you want to hide .LWO, use the info provided by Obs - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19355-how-to-create-a-filter-to-hide-a-specific-model-type/

nice.

What's that? starting a new project while you have a lot of unfinished ones? Nope, never done that before.

When you finish every started project and paint all your unfinished models you will die

On second though... maybe I leave some unfinished FMs lying around my HDD. Cheap life insurance!

It's a better use of time than my Roller Coaster Tycoon binges in my 20's. (Worked the overnights too)

I value sleep a lot nowadays. You value the most those things you have lost. Supply and demand, demand and supply.

Sleep is for the weak!

Please do! TDM accent-o-galore, for great justice!

Serves them native english speakers right...

Not gonna happen with mapping, but I might stream some TDM missions and use a phat swedish accent, littered with finnish curse words though!

I look forward to it! For that purpose, I should make you a special mission full of unfair insta-kill traps, teleporting flaming (area damage effect) revenants, deadly jumping puzzles and a save functions disabled. "Pärkkele, finne!"

You can export brush and patchwork using the DR ASE exporter. But you can't combine worldspawn and models.

Okay, but is it an easy task to (in Blender) to import the same model, say several bottles and then arrange them to look like a bunch of bottles, on the same z-plane and then save it as a unique model? Instead of using up several entities in DR...

Yeah, you can totally do that with Blender easily. Though it can be slightly problematic to get smoothing right on a prop with a lot of hard edges. I've found you really just have to split edges manually for it to translate over correctly. Which can be kinda a pain if you don't use Blender often.

Open up good city sections in DR and study them.

They're often angled skybox walls (making the area squashed polygonal) with portaled kiss points out, a surrounding layer of tall buildings, and on an angled z-axis ground. Those features alone will get it started off looking natural and lead to interesting architecture.

I don't understand this: "making the area squashed polygonal"

And "angled z-axis ground" Do you mean different heights of the ground?

Sorry. For "squashed polygon", I mean if you're looking down at the street in DR, there are like 6-10 skybox "walls" of different lengths so it looks squashed into an oval. It instantly gets away from 4-wall boxy. And by the ground, yes I mean different heights, but mostly I mean the ground is sloped with patches & stairs. That's what I learned from looking at great city missions.

Niice!

Patches don't seal so even if you create a leak somehow, it would've leaked anyway. The only issue is shadows. If the patch casts shadows the leak would make shadow silhouette calculations more complex.

The only downside, minor, I've seen is that the polygon normals get a little glitchy (darkened) towards the fusion point. In terms of texturing, you'd need to paste from a brush to avoid massive distortion.

Have you tried enabling transparency AA and playing a mission with lots of foliage?

I have the same card as you and if you want the best performance (as I also get a little lag in certain TDM missions for some reason) I enable AA in the nvidia control panel and just have the game without AA.

It runs really well and you still get the AA

I haven't tried any real maps. Just stacked some thirty lights and fire particles in one room. Have ramped up as much res my monitor can handle and full antialiasing and technical mumbo jumbo and not a single framdrop below 55-60. But further testing will occur

really you've never used manual subdivisions? Makes it so easy to just set your patch subdivisions to 6x6 and be done

No, I just cursed silently and tried to adjust my arch to get a non leaking one

Yep. For me the contest was interesting in the sense that what can be done in really small timeframe. Now we know.

Winning is secondary.

What I would like to see is more votes to get a more reliable conclusion for the contest.

Presently, there are something like 10 people who have cast their votes.

Eh, again, nah. It's out there and I'm happy with it, and so are other people. That's enough, really, don't have to be winners and losers as far as I'm concerned.

How old are your kids now?

5 and 2. There were also other kids present. Ages: 7, 5, 5, 4, 3. They are so fast and energetic...

Oooohhh, sounds like a high ambient sound level...!

Thanks. It's nice to see all the new things that's been added.

Wait till you see the clutter models. You know, cups with spoons, premade food dishes, prefilled wine racks... That stuff saves a lot of time. Also, Merry made a pile of new container prefabs. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17089-magnanimous-merrys-miscellanea/

Rejoin usssss! Rejoin usssss NOW!

With the size of "Not an Ordinary Guest" you've earned a little break from editing. That thing is massive! Enjoy playing some of your colleagues missions with the new updates.

NICE!!

Saltomortale? Why so italian (I'm italian)?

I felt my nice backflip required a more sofisticated touch

From what I read they don't have a 50% majority and are unwilling to partner with the far-right party. Your gold pieces are safe.

Yes, the political standings are quite unstable as is...

Yep, we finns are looking at our Swedish f®iends very closely. What happens in Sweden often happens later in Finland, so please make sure you do some really good decisions over there, you hear!

Judging by how long the last contest went on for, are we talking about Halloween 2015?

Nope. I need halloween missions this year. I'm gonna start nagging !

My birthday is 4 days from Halloween so...YES! Give me presents!

Yeah love that feature. Orbweaver or Greebo added the ability to select multiple patches at once and change all their subdivisions at once. Very nice.

Awesome!

Congratulations for your FM, FM!

Congrats- yay for us!

Congrats! Look forward to playing it tonight!

Performed a tandem jump yesterday and got totally hooked. It's like noclip (Too bad you cannot noclip through the ground )

Basejumping or airplane? I've done the later and it is an experience not to be missed. Very addictive!

Airplane.