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Woohoo, gonna try the new Demo first thing when I return from uni. I don't know how the new redesigned entityeditor looks now, but if you find an entity to be missing and can't remember which one you put there, a look into the entityeditor *should* help.

So it's basically just what I said: A Mac is a fashion product, giving the user the illusion he was somehow special and cooler than normal PC-users, like it's indirectly suggested by Apple's marketing and the UBER-design of their products. Sure they mostly look really nice, but is there really more to it than the looks at high costs? I doubt it!! Most people probably know criticising Apple and the US-Government. But for those who don't, have fun learning the dark truth about Apple!

Maybe it's just unreasonable prejudice on my side because so many Macusers face you in arrogance, hence my ignorance. Also, I just hate the company with it's marketing. You must think now, I never sat in front of a Mac before, which I can asure you is not the case. I just don't get in what way it's handling is superior to normal PCs and since I upgrade my PC like once every half year, a Mac isn't an opportunity for me anyway. So please do explain to me, why a professional artist would prefer a Mac over a PC under the assumption that the subject knows how to setup both correctly. Don't take this offensive, I'd just like to hear another point of view and maybe some solid facts.

Oh nice to hear it finally worked. grats!

If you want to be able to do anything with your computer, buy a PC. Period! I've never understood why one would buy a nearly non-upgradeable expensive computer with supposedly enhanced usability, on which you can only run applications "specifically designed" for that computer. You could just go ahead and buy a XBOX360 then. Aside from that, you can get eye-candy under Linux and Windows too. Is there even any serious programmer/designer/musician who is using a mac these days? Sure, 10 years ago MacOS was a reference for music products, but I think those times are over. Today, Apple is a brand delivering mainstream consume products, instead of tools for the advanced user and I absolutely cannot stand to support that. In this regard, I am glad none of the team has a Mac! Cheers...

I really had to think about this sentence for a while to understand it right. I was trying to figure out how to hide a body by shouldering him somehow and I guess you'd rather want to say something like "giving players two options for transporting unconciuos guards".

This problem has been fixed long ago. There are many trickjumpers playing on comparatively low fps.

There should also be a command like "com_maxfps" for altering the framelimiter. At least this command existed in very many other ID titles.

I have used Zonealarm too, but when I found that it made Thief 3 Ed crash or not load up I never touched it again. I use Bitdefender now, which is pretty much the same as ZA, but less annoying. I use Service Pack 3 since today too, because of a reformating due to a hdd crash. I was a little bit confused at first when the windows update didn't start after reinstalling, as I was used to. You have to go to a website instead and run an update from there, because the new update system doesn't (somehow) work the same way as the old one. The Advantage of all this is that you don't have to bear that mass of windowsupdate-restarts anymore.

Any news on the youtube upload? If it's too much of a hassle, you could also just show some screens, or we'll just wait 'till the team releases official one. What ever...

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Is it worth the hassle? How are the graphics? SCREENS!

On that thought, would a chair under the doorhandle block the door too, without stoppers on the floor? I guess not, but it'd surely work with a script. Man this cries for a new ingame feature: Make the thief capable of blocking a door with chairs/tables/cupboards, which of course should create suspicion, when enemies discover it. Just Like in Call of Cthulhu... Hehe, I am just dreaming again. Nevermind!

I am just a very little hobbymodeler, but I am very interested in 3D graphics. I recently saw oDDity's award wining Portrait of a girl over at cgsociety and a couple of his other works (while most pictures are no longer hosted aparently). I must say that I am pretty amazed about those works and also a litte amused to see him talking there just like he does here in his special way. Very nice work, man! You've got what it takes... What about the others? There must be a couple of other nice 3D-Artists around this forum. Show us some of your works. I for myself are really rather lowskilled and mainly just experimenting as a hobby. I guess I can say that I am ok in lowpoly modeling (static meshes) and rendering static, very simple scenes, but I absolutely suck at supreme disciplines like organic- and carmodeling. It's really just rather getting to know the general techniques for me than trying to create real art! Here are two of my (ashaming) works: The vase emerged when I found out about caustics and wanted to try it. The room when I learned about Global Illumination, like the trained eye will directly realize. Both have big flaws like a couple of artifacts, but I just wanted to get the posting started. The shader of the vase also got way too much specular, but at least the refraction idices are physically correct.

There was something in the darkest corner of my brain about nightblade, but I didn't know they were using the unreal engine 3, which has a damn lot of potential, that I hope they will put to use. Is anyone here, who has a copy of UT3? You can download an alpha version on the homepage and I'd like to see some screenshots...

Man, they could've released more than one screenshot...

A friend of mine has the 9600 GTX, which I would've bought too, if it wasn't too big for my case. He has the same case as me and had to take out his power supply unit, to get that card into his pc. But don't worry, we've got an Arctic Cooling case with "special air circulation" like this. Total Crap! So with a normal case, you woun't have any probs. Maybe there'll be a smaller version some day or I'll have to get me a new case. Apart from that, the performance is great with that card and btw: ATI sucks... :P

The idea is nice, but the visualisation is crap! The slowmo effects blur the screen way too much, so that you don't see anything. And they are also used way too often. But I guess you can disable that from the optionsmenu, on which I just had a very quick peak.

No offense shotgun, I really like your textures but a logo like that can be done in less than 5 minutes with cinema 4d or other tools. Also, its colors don't connect to TDM. But since this team already has a logo, this discussion is pointless anyway.

Hehe assface. Working on two 1680:1050 (probably 22'') Screens, huh?

Well, you can do a lot of tweaking with crazybump and then you can still enhance the nmap with some modeled stuff. You can get damn fine results this way... Not always correct of course, but acceptably wrong.

Just on a sidenote: The 10 Dimensions of String theory explained. (Very interesting and not too hard to follow actually)

You can also try to use photos as a basis and work a nice texture out of that. It's a lot less time consuming and highres is no problem either, but there is always the risk, that the normal looks like crap in the end and then the hard work starts...

Well I've got Vista only installed for games and in Crysis I got half the fps I get under XP on maxed out details (cfg editing). Same with many other games (Bioshock, Lost Planet). Maybe you should install XP once again and you'll realize how much of an performance push you get.

GIs make lightning very realistic and that is especially in dark places, so every sneaker would do very well with them. But yeah, how do you want to implement it without access to the sourcecode?