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Drama / Forum Games

« on: July 28, 2009, 05:49:55 PM »

Jesus they are coming left and right, wasn't there a rule at one stage about no forum games? Honestly we have one or 2 really popular ones, I really think any more stuffty forum games should be a bannable offence. All they're doing is promoting more people to post more stuff and spam up threads.

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Games / Zelda World, because I can.

« on: July 19, 2009, 06:27:51 AM »

I think I remember this :O

RECENTLY I announced Zelda World on Moddb.com and got ether "OMFG THATS AWESOME" and/or "NINTENDO WILL SUE". Though Zelda World did top the "Popular Games" (Insert bragging here) for 2 days (Beating HL2), anyway the hole point was to get some team member and now I have a possible 3 candidates :3. As for ZW development itself, its been interesting. Hyrule field is nearing completion (loving finally), so starting on some new area could be soon or otherwise finishing the stores in Clock Town.

Moddb.com link http://www.moddb.com/games/zelda-world/

If interested in joining the team yourself
Apply here: http://packersremakes.com/forum/index.php?board=8.0
(Rule 9, but I'm not telling people to join the forums)

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Drama / Poly Count out the Window

« on: July 17, 2009, 10:09:30 AM »

Ehhh.... so for the past year or so I bitch and cry at people all the time about there 3D models and get nothing but "I LIKE TO SEE YOU DO BETTER" and/or people defending absolute stuff. People aren't considering the poly count for Blockland what so ever any more, people complain about add-on's being laggy and all people do is tell them to get a better computer because they aren't being effected. If a user is using your Add-on and its lagging but not lagging on the default models then you should really consider What The Hell you are doing. I've seen the lowest detailed models with about 2000-4000 polys and the modeller has no idea what they're doing and yet the add-on still get approved (Yes you RTB MODS).

The most polys you want to use on a Torque Game Engine Character is 2500, thats a CHARACTER model not a weapon model.

Examples of utilising polys, my limit was 500 on both:
http://www.moddb.com/games/tsluecke/images/hunting-rifle2
Poly Count: 485

http://www.moddb.com/games/tsluecke/images/tank-wip#imagebox
Poly Count 452.

Example of a clueless Modeller: (No personal offence to him)

Poly Count: 1738

Compared to my Block Wars Version:

Poly Count: 586

While I was at my 3D course at the end of the last year, I was talking to my teacher about poly counts etc, he had 2 images of a desk that was around 200 polys and the same desk but 100 polys, I said wouldn't you be better off using the 200 one seeing as it looks better the the 100 and because you don't see many of them. He said yes but then said but if I was to use the 100 poly one I could have twice as many if I used it instead of the 200 one. This also applies to weapons, if you have 4 2000 poly weapons, that = 8000 polys, where if I was to use 4 500 poly weapons it'd only be 2000 polys total, thus saving a stuff load of lag. I could have up to 16 of the 500 poly weapons out at a time equivalent to 4 2000 poly ones. Every god damn poly counts, classic example of this in Blockland would be the bricks, hides unseen faces. I mean if a brick uses say 6 faces (12 polys) and my weapon uses 1000 faces (2000 polys) I could have an extra couple of hundred bricks out instead of a weapon.

3D art to me is ether, making a fantastic model out of a limit you have, for example 2000 polys for a character and 1024x1024 for the texture. Or a model that has a limitless poly count but its textured so well it looks realistic. Those are the only things I expect as true works of 3D art, its what the best you can make out of what you have.

Badspot used to tell me how my models sucked, and I finally woke up and improved on that, I wonder when the hell everyone else will to.

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Off Topic / What Happens After They Grab the Pills?

« on: July 14, 2009, 07:43:03 AM »

I nearly crapped my pants, I don't care if its old its still the greatest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Q9OCdwA8Y&fmt=18

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Off Topic / Its a band and its made of metal!?

« on: July 13, 2009, 06:17:47 PM »

Youtube Message:

"this is not crappy spam its a collaboration attempt for you and us"

we're just looking to collaborate with other working artists doing what they love to do, which is to make videos! can you animate our band, or make an animation with our music in the background, or something like this? Make us a music video?

as far as ideas asocietyred.com has the direct download mp3s, the lyrics, and the meanings all on one page, i made it just for you to help make the video.

whatever your specialty bring it to the table and lets see what we can do if we all work together.

you can download our music for free since you are an artist at asocietyred.com this can only legally be distributed if you are collaborating with us (making a video) we do give our permission to use it creatively.

JUST DO IT AND UPLOAD IT, THERE ARE NO RULES, JUST LET US KNOW BECAUSE WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE VIDEOS FROM YOU SPECIFICALLY keep up the GREAT WORK!

this is a free project, we donate our art you donate yours and then we seek sponsors for future paid videos with what we have made. we are a metal band so make something awesome ok?

we are making music, you are making videos lets join them together and see what happens it's all about creation and thats what youtube is really about.

also we recorded a new song if you don't care go check it out its called gutterbrain just messing around let us know if it sucks and we should redo it or to keep it. we did alot of overdubbing, it's on our myspace.com/asocietyred add us as a friend leave a cool comment we'll return the favor. Also we recorded a new video its featured on our channel feel free to mess with it for your project, if thats what you want, it's called chasing fear. It was fun to make tell us what you think.

What we do is get together and play music and watch youtube vids each day and we mark the people we like on a list. Then we go back and send each person individually this message. I do answer back if you have a question. Generally people are asking for ideas I tell them to make a monster that eats the sun and poops out the stars into our logo 'asocietyred' all one word with shooting stars behind us as we play an animation of the band. Also others are asking about the deadline there is no deadline. Some people are busy, and I say there is no minimum amount of time, if you want to do a 5 second video that is ok.

The more people get involved the better, we see who really likes making videos for the fun of it. Also I do promote these videos and they are doing pretty well.

If I accidentally message you twice that means I liked 2 of your videos so I'm not a machine I'm a human and I make mistakes with that being said if you are illiterate obviously you are disqualified because you can't read the instructions which say there are no instructions just make a video.

thanks good luck and make sure and keep in touch.

If you have any problems I don' t cover here feel free to message me back give me at least 2 days max to get back with you. Or you can ask the drummer at the myspace page and he will get with you myspace.com/asocietyred

If you really like our music we are getting ready to come out with a full length album just leave a comment now and then on the myspace or here and we'll let you know.

Hmmmmm, I didn't realise I was just that awesome[/sarcasm], what I don't understand is what video this person supposedly likes of mine, I only have one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIw1koZzkLs

Discuss.

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Off Topic / German government bans LAN party over 'killer' games

« on: July 12, 2009, 07:22:25 PM »

http://games.on.net/article/6429/German_government_bans_LAN_party_over_killer_games

Discuss :O

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Games / 3001 threads

« on: July 12, 2009, 05:15:40 AM »

Because we missed 3000 and didn't notice.

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Off Topic / Hello Stranger, To Paintball or not to paintball

« on: July 05, 2009, 11:30:50 AM »

Well my friend needs me to fill in a spot for Paintball and I don't mind except one thing, he wants me to get into a car/van full of people I don't know, which I have to sit in there for 45mins to get to the place (The richard head who set this up wanted to go 45mins out of my city rather then the 5 minute bike ride from my house one).

Vote what I should do (Though I'm going in less then 6 hours), I'm not so worried about the trip back though because I'll have meet everyone. Also from what I heard there will be chicks at this paintball party thing, OHHHH YEEEAARRRHHHHH. I'm totally hoping they're psycho aussie gaming chicks, yes they do bite.

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Games / L4D Add-ons?

« on: June 29, 2009, 05:14:28 AM »

Has anyone found any sites that are hosting such things yet? Post some links if at all possible and I'll chuck them in this post.

List:

• http://l4dmaps.com/
• http://l4dmods.com

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Off Topic / Australian Censorship MY ASS.

« on: June 28, 2009, 06:26:26 AM »

WELL, thanks to the government I could loose my Steam access as well as epic games >:| Not to mention the lag we'll get online.

http://palgn.com.au/14765/oz-internet-filter-to-block-sites-selling-mature-games/

http://everyoneplays.org.au/

I always hear about this "Stop our children from seeing bad things on the net" but never expected for this to go overboard.

Edit: ANY GAME over the 15+ rating is instantly banned from Australia, includes digital access to it as well. To explain slightly better.

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Maps / Pack Islands (3 Floating Islands)

« on: June 09, 2009, 06:15:04 AM »

Pack Islands
Just something I whipped up in half an hour


Download here

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Games / Demigod

« on: June 04, 2009, 10:22:45 PM »

Apparently its like Dota.

I bought this game as a type of (How my friend put it) "reject game" along with Sims 3 and Infamous, turns out I want to play it more then both of those. You choose your character which has certain ability's, for example the Rook is good at destroying Towers and AOE damage, Sedna is good at healing her team mates etc. So far I've only done conquest which is trying to destroy the enemy's Citadel, you also capture Control points on the Arena to gain small bonuses. Some Dota *coughcigarettes seem to rate this game very low, I personally haven't played Dota and I don't really plan to, I haven't tried this game online though so i can't say much about the players online, I'd imagine them rushing you all at once in 1 direction and beating you in the first 5 mins. Also Regulus is very over powered, I had him as an easy AI and he was rapping everyone, hopefully they'll fix that.

Overall I was very surprised and very happy with this game, cost me $90 AUD which is decent for a new game seeing as PS3 games are $120 and PC is $100.

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Drama / Some one Registering with my Email?

« on: June 04, 2009, 02:33:50 AM »

From: Blockland Forums [forums@blockland.us]

Your registration request at Blockland Forum has been received, Packrere.

The username you registered with was Packrere and the password was [deleted].

Before you can login and start using the forum, your request will be reviewed and approved. When this happens, you will receive another email from this address.

Regards,
The Blockland Forum Team.

What da forget.

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Off Topic / E3 Broadcast/Stream?

« on: June 02, 2009, 02:41:04 AM »

Since I always miss this loving thing I can never find a place I could just watch it without having to watch it mid show. Does anyone know where I could download the entire thing from? I want to watch it myself and not having some one fail to explain things to me.

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Off Topic / Justin TV: Twilight Princess

« on: May 30, 2009, 06:25:18 PM »

Once again I'm broadcasting myself playing Twilight Princess, this is my first time playing through so no spoilers.
http://www.justin.tv/fbipacker