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Ahh yes... I think I got a bit carried away there anyway... I have a tendency to fight fire with fire when I should just ignore things... Plus I have been very bored lately, and I tend to vent on forums when that happens... Now, back to Sin 2 - anyone think it will be any good?

I can't find the other thread.* So, a new specialized one for just this topic. (sorry) Has there been any consensus on texture compression? Even if it was "for now" and / or high res versions were kept / offered / etc. I'm wondering because I'm trying to sync up to the new CVS and I'm downloading 20 minute texture files (3, 4 Mb for each piece). I don't remember the previous discussion details, but I remember that I was able to take one of our TGAs and save it to JPG with 10% compression (high quality) and the size was reduced from 4Mb to 180kb (!) with no noticeable quality reduction - at least to my eyes. So I'm wondering if there has been any decision made on this yet? It was also mentioned 'better sooner than later.' I'd happily redownload all of our textures (before a slew of new ones come) at 180kb each, as opposed to doing another dozen 4Mb ones. Just wondrin'. *Search really, really hates me. I do a search for my name, exact, all time, all forums, for "+56k +texture +jpg" and I get two pages of matches. Give me a break. I don't think I wank about 56k and textures and jpgs in 30+ threads, do I?

I read on the Eidos forums that their server is down and requires a manual reboot. As long as they're not hosted by Servepath (american company I did support for last year), they should be up soon.

Already on ftp. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=2111

It's an old thread: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showt...1&st=&p=entry

I'll update the list of what needs to be done shortly, but one thing is here -- http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=1554&st=150 You could even reuse the books from the shelves you already did.

I recently posted some animation references: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=2245 (but for some reason the image links are now broken??) Like I said in a different 'what am I up to' thread, I am working on an audio piece. Haven't touched it for a couple weeks, but will get back to it. From a 'drawing' standpoint, I don't have anything to do. Do we need any concept drawings for anything? It seems like they're normally not very helpful. It seems the modelers are artistic enough that they crank out their own stuff. Which is fine, but just an observation. Even your thief concept wasn't really used, SH. Lemme know if I should work on something from a concept art standpoint. Otherwise, I'll be trying to finish up the audio file soon.

Dunno if any of you frequent the CG talk forums, it's basically thre premier hangout for CG professionals. Anyway, they have a CG challenge several times a year and the winners this time and really amazing. This challenge was called 'Master and Servant' Here's the 2D winner (done in Painter) And the 3D runner up ( which I think is better than the winner) and the 3D winner

Well, I was going to vote for you anyway, but if you've impressed Oddity, that's quite an achievement. I've gone ahead and made you a contributor. Hopefully you now have access to the modeling forum, but we've just updated our board software, so I'm not sure what's working. If you can't see the art forums, let me know. Take some time to get acquainted, and we'll come up with some jobs for you.

Don't worry Mike, CVS has confused just about all of us at one time or another. There are a good set of instructions and screenshots here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=359

Yeah because it's a real nerds interface Well ask on the Wings forums about exporting to a format that retains the UV info, they would surely know.

Yep, Gmail is using AJAX (to my knowledge). vBulletin has this built-in to their 3.5 version aswell, I'm just waiting for it to go gold before I upgrade the Black Cat Forums.

That's mostly for hosting companies and other firms that can't/won't link to a competiting business on their forums.

Here is the main problem with licensing the Reality Engine: Epic Games has bought it out, and is no longer licensing it! I guess we will see the good bit incorporated into Unreal Engine X... Oh well... http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/to...topic_id=319114

Been discussed here --> http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=2150

See this thread:http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=2164 I think it is a fantastic engine... I can't believe games are getting this sweet to look at... It will require pretty substantial hardware to run, but man that game is gonna be good to mod with (and i imagine a pretty fun game to play as well)

Denigneth and Teaser are both for non-gameplay times, the Teaser one is from our early teaser trailer- http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=754

Some excellent ideas Maximius, I think there is a lot of good stuff in there... The Dark Mod would certainly look very nice for this kind of thing, but I don't think that Doom 3's multiplayer code would be up to it (although Quake 4 might do the job nicely - I wonder if the Dark Mod would work with Q4 with a little tweaking?).... The UT2K4/Nightblade project would be the easiest project to do this, since most of those gameplay elements are already there or planned for in NB... UT2k4 is good because it has excellent multiplayer code, excellent bot AI, and a very easy to use scripting system for making mods etc... While D3 looks graphically better than UT2K4 for a dark Thief style game, Unreal does multiplayer much better than most other engines out there, IMO. I'd definately have a look at the Nightblade forums, and post your ideas there as well. Man that was one brave grandfather... me personally, I would have used the Machete... there isn't much a leapard could do about that if you had your wits about you

Oh... I was kinda under the impression that more maps were required for paralax mapping, but I might have misread the forums (or fora for the latin purists) on the subject... There are static meshes in UT2K4 that have as much apparent detail as some of the normal maps in Doom 3, I suppose there may be some diferences in the engines in terms of whether they are biased towards large poly counts over lots of texture maps. In UT2K4 the majority of the textures are a diffuse map with sometimes a detail texture that breaks up the pixellation when viewed up close, so it is using much less multitexturing than D3 uses. UT I guess is more optimised for higher poly counts.. Of course, Unreal Engine 3 uses parallax mapping and extensive multitexturing AND collossal poly counts - have a look at some of the wireframe screenies at the Unreal Technology website http://www.unrealtechnology.com/screens/EmbryWire.jpg This beast of a game will need the new nVidia GeForce 7800 GFX at least I would say... I suspect that the Doom 3 engine can probably cope with more polys than Doom 3 has, I think the reason D3 has lower polys has something to do with it being quicker for mappers to make simple geometry with complex textures, rather than a limitation of the engine, but I could be wrong. Regardless, I think parallax/steep parallax/relief mapping is a good thing, and should be included in The Dark Mod if at all possible : Edit: I forgot about UT2K4's lightmaps and specular maps - hey there is a fair bit of multitexturing afterall.... Oops

Yep, go here to download our first OST release. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=1975

I didn't mean that there is a technical problem with Steam. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=886

That's the email I got, so if you have any more doubts as to his origins, let them rest. He is just some random script guy who targeted random forums. I don't even think he probably expected to get any money - just kicks, I expect. I'm just confused as to who this 'PETE' he mentions is.

First off I'm back. I've been over-medicated the last month or so that has caused me to be unable to work on texturing at all, and now I have forgotten most of everything I had learned about texturing. For those that don't remember me, you can check out this post here http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=1996 On that note I would like to say that I am having my medications brought down to the FDA guidlines. When this happens I think i'm going to work on coding for the doom 3 engine instead of texturing. Now that I have gotten that out of the way, I would like to wish you all the best of luck on your project. I hope that your deal with being able to use hundreds of new textures goes well. Last thing I want to say is, thank you, for everybody who has helped and complimented me on my brick texture, and that I look forward to using your tools in the future. Outlaw

Wings is purely a modeller, so by exporting to .LWO instead of something generic like .DXF, you dont' really gain anything. Except vertex painting, but I've never used that side of it. But go to the wings3d forums, they will help you out in that area. Lots of people use it in conjunction with other apps, importing and exporting stuff all the time.

Ok, here is the list of prop models needed for the next Model Milestone (Sept 1st). update: July 11th CITY ****Done-- Store Signposts (generic symbols/names would be more useful than specific ones) http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_...ard__round_.jpg http://www.ncsigns.com/shop%20sign.jpg Cart/Wagon http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/246734 http://www.rusticlogfurniture.net/images/r...que_cart_th.jpg http://www.geh.org/ar/strip59/m198700480004.jpg http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/250309 ****On FTP -- Well http://www.cmcsb.com/images/ourhouse/well.jpg http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/simplyflo...Well%20Yard.jpg In Progress -- Fountain http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=985 *** WIP Lamp-post http://www.mylittleworld.co.uk/acatalog/Bl...treet_Light.jpg http://www.mindplaces.com/darkmod/modellamp.jpg CATHEDRAL Pulpit http://www.carvingonline.net/images/orname...ulpit%20lg2.jpg ****On FTP -- Pew http://www.dakotachurchfurniture.com/Pew70C-CE.htm Standing Candelabra http://www.cowboyindian.com/waai1540.jpg http://www.aoweb.com/images/2622600-R1-043-20.jpg ****Done -- Holy Water Font http://www.sjbnewburgh.org/parish/tour/xfont.jpg Holy Relics (loot items--golden hammer, chalice, small statues, etc)