boxorz

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Mapping - this is where it all starts for most people, right?  Anyone remember the free copy of worldcraft 1.3 that came with the original Half-Life CD? :) ... or was it 1.6 hmm... anyway I started mapping for Team Fortress Classic. Then I got all ambitious and started a mod called Black Ops, another romp through Black Mesa.  Over time the name changed to Critical Mass, and the Black Mesa thing was dropped in favor of a whole new story, not Half-Life related at all. I got into modeling a little, bought a copy of Milkshape.  I learned some C++, bought Visual Studio 6, and had some significant changes finished. Picked up Terragen ability for custom skies along the way.
   During these Goldsource years I lost all my work on the mod, twice, so I just racked it up as experience gained.   Half-Life 2 came out, so I finished up the work in progress TFC map I was working on and made the switch. Eventually started Critical Mass back up, it can be found here on ModDB, but it's currently dormant.  I realized that working by myself, nothing would ever get released so I joined the Mastersword: Source team.  Being a fan of RPGs, and having skills with the Source engine, this was a perfect fit. Later, I stepped away from  MasterSword: Source for ahwile, worked on another fantasy RPG source mod of my own, and sharpened up on some coding skills. In October of 2009, I was offered the leadership role for MasterSword: Source, and I returned to the team happily.
   So what do I do on MSS?  Basically everything.

-Current project lead
-Coding (C++ and scriptage)
-Mapping  (Hammer - everything)
-Materials (PhotoImpact & Gimp -Albedos, bumpmaps, alpha channels, vmt files, shaders)
-Skies (Terragen registered copy, Terragen 2 soon)
-Models (XSI Mod Tool - mesh, skin, rig, animate, export)
-Sounds (Goldwave for sound effects and voice files, soundscape scripting)
-Faceposer (phenome setting, scene creation)
-Particle Editor
-Video creation (SourceRecorder, VirtualDub)