Second Texture tutorial is out and deals with the best topic of all, lighting, its beautiful isn't it. Hopefully I can start seeing some of this in action over the next few weeks in the newest maps section.


Using Tool Textures - Prt 2

The third tutorial is already being created, the outline is complete, just need to detail each step and create the pictures, the 4th has a basic outline but no content/examples to build from yet. They are going to be dealing with toolsoccluder and toolshint respectively. I'm going to be placing all the clips into the final tutorial of the series since they are all related but with different properties, fairly basic use as well.

Stay Tuned :P by the weekend number three shall be out.
Lost,

Heh, as you can see, went with a brighter color, was going to make my own but got lazy and asked to use the Rebel Fed studio if I could use theirs ( LOOK I ask, so don't go stealing other peoples styles, ask then :P ) It was made by

Its a good color and went well with some good photos that I have from a night that was an amazing amount of fun and worth every moment.
Lost

Well, its been quite an emotional day here, The last of my short vacation is over, The entire week spent with my lovely girl is now over, and she got on the plane today to head out to her job in Alberta just like last summer. Quite simply, even though the time apart does get testing for both of us, it is necessary for us to get through the last of our schooling and stay together rather than resort to residence.

I do hate to see her go, and letting her go at the end was difficult as always, At least I'll be going straight back to work tonight so I'll have my mind distracted for a bit, even still, I may break down later on when it really hits me, Till then my fantasy world that everything is fine will suffice and get me through work tonight. Does seem odd to work one midnight shift then have the next 2 days off before going back full time, weird scheduling.

some slightly mood improving news is that I finally got my computer fixed and the Ram is back to a full 3 gigs. Sadly this will be the last time in a few years that I am going to be able to upgrade my computer or fix it....Starving student budget will kinda get in the way of that.

well, off to work.
Lost,

Yup, I think this is how I'm going to spend my entire birthday, sleeping from now till I have to head out to work again....I'm a friggen cat and everyone knows it but hey, who doesn't want to sleep for a whole 18 hours, its fun and everyone gets something out of it :D

side note, I'll start reworking on that cell shaded map again, think I may redo all the base textures I have....thinking about it....hmm, have to see if any styles come to me in my dreams, its where everything comes from if I write them down fast enough during the night/day that I have.

ah, midnights are fun. My sense of time is completely destroyed. It even took me a few hours to realize that it was my birthday and even then I wasn't 100% sure.
Lost,

Well, now I'm happy to say that development on the next series of Cell Shaded maps is restarted due to the release of Modderfreaks players that I've been waiting on heh


Comic-Style Shaped Playermodels

For the moment these will suit my needs and I can completly ignore the consitency errors, these truly are not an issue for me and my maps will work on all servers even with consistency being enforced. When you think about the simple logic of it, sv_consistency 1 enforces that the servers files are the only ones acceptable for the player to be using, resulting in being kicked if you have your own gear, but replaceing the servers source of the files :P to, lets say, those of a bsp with embeded files including players and materials, Makes it so that the server is now running with those files, and those are the only ones that players will be able to see now.

So any other mappers that want to have some fun, go ahead and make a cave map where you are all in loincloths and carry knives that have been remodeled into clubs. Big hit heh in the ol KA community :P
Lost,