Dunedain19

Use the 460 for Physx processing? Or for Bitcoin mining?

I'd send you my 580 man. It's still a good kicker in most respects. Considering it's age I didn't, "need" to upgrade for how it was performing.

@Epifire. That would be so incredible. I'm so blown away, I don't even know what to say! Let's PM on the subject.

That's definitely it. Good old door_open_creaky01...

Its a cookie thats keeping you logged in.

Another visitor! Stay a while; stay forever!

We´re like a Shalebridge Cradle: what comes in must never leave

According to the roadmap page 2.05 is schedule for release on the 26th of December... last year. http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/roadmap_page.php?version_id=73

Looking at that though they're about 1/3 through the list so i'm guessing it's still a while off.

Long time lol.

Roadmap release dates have always been bogus. No date for 2.05 yet.

Fantastic news! Hopefully now that summer is slowly starting to fade out we will see a rise in people mapping again

The Master Builder smiles upon thee!

It's a good feeling, especially when you're really busy on a regular basis.

Awesome news, hope to see something soon

Hope you get settled in soon

Welcome to the capital of schmooze.

Good luck in the States, Dunedain.

Keep em coming!

Grand.

Keep up the good fight!

My guess is its people coming in from random google searches

They might be spiders, bots scrounging for data or readying themselves to spam threads with commercial shlock.

Sounds a bit scary to me o_O

It's even worse when you want to make patch models for everything instead of using stock resources x)

@Dragofer: Exactly!

@Anderson: Thanks!

Modules can help a lot. Build a single detailed wall piece and clone it everywhere. Try to build so that you can easily re-use everything you build. This mentality expedites things greatly.

I'm working on some for my WIP. Progress is slow. Depends on the required complexity.

Layers come in handy

Most certainly. In the process of rebuilding one room, and it is so nice to be able to clear the map completely and work just on it.

Grats, glad you're back up and running!

If your stomach's upset, shave some ginger into your favorite soup. Shit's rad!

Aye! Get well soon!

Why the 19 btw?

Toni, in that particular case I changed it from threelettersyndrom to 161803398874989. Very different.

I like threelettersyndrom more

Moreover, one of the core aspects of academics is the proper use of citations/referencing, which should ideally never be single-source.

The 2nd video does a good job (even if the tone could appear more reasonable) of highlighting where Lars is "cherry-picking" information to support his claims.

Regardless of whether he has truly re-discovered a lost aspect of archery or simply cobbled together a variety of styles still used today, Lars' mastery of the bow is well worth appreciating.

I used to call bs on legolas' archery stunts n the hobbit, but after seeing that video i had to stop.

Nice! Do you have a release date in mind yet?

I never even got that far with my one mapping attempt :-/ I kept restarting the plan as if I'd only ever make one map... and so made none. Stick with it!

@Goldwell. Not yet!

@Steve:. Thanks for the encouragement, this is my fourth attempt at making a map, and it's the furthest I've gone! So really want to make this one a reality for all of you to enjoy.

Thanks, Goldwell. It's been a while since I looked at the Wiki...I suppose I'll need to download GIMP in order to get the ball rolling?

I use gimp to convert the textures to tga and a program called njob to create the normal maps & notepad++ to edit the material file. All of them are free and work great!

Tools like njob work extremely well for almost flat and/or noisy structures like wood. For more complex textures like a wall of bones for instance, you'd have to generate a heightmap semi-manually in order to get decent results. It's all explained in the wiki, however!

I do not at present, Sir Taffsalot. There are so many elements that have to come together before I even reach the Beta. Brainstorming this weekend has given me even more rooms to build, which all make perfect sense for the narrative. If anything, I'm hoping to finish up the primary architecture within the next two weeks. But even that estimate is a stretch, because I do not want to burn out on TDM (which happened last year).

If like me you had no mapping experience before making your first TDM FM then it does feel like learning everything that's involved in making a working FM is an awful lot. I found that once I got my first FM completed making others became a lot easier. Saying that though, there is still an awful lot I can learn.

And even after several missions it still takes an awful amount of time.

Whenever I get that I play through some Thief/TDM FM's and I find the inspiration starts comes back rather quickly

You could always decide what kind of room you want to build and then just go for it. It may take more tidying up but it'll most likely be more innovative than it would have been if you bogged yourself down with planning every inch out before you started. It's kinda like when drawing: don't focus on the overall drawing of the room, focus on its constituent parts one by one and accommodate any flare you pick up along the way. That's how you develop a style!

What I do in that case is to stop mapping until the itching in my fingers becomes unbearable.

If you still want to increase your skills during such phases, I suggest trying to get into other TDM related tasks. Shaders, scripting, etc...

There is much to learn.

WS3 is fantastic and every bit worth the wait!

+3

you need to unsubscribe from said thread dude.