Comments - Nicadeamas

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Indeed it is.
But I'm doping my best to be just like valve.... so, just like valve I'm taking forever to do anything and releasing virtually no updates.
But yes... There is work going on in the background as often as I have time to put into it..... That's the hard thing about being a solo modder.

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The core ball, (300 year old technology)is just for powering the ships computer and the most important doors. Everything ells is powered by the latest piece of technology called a Bloomer. Which isn't ever explained to the player, although he does walk past it.

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Ohh not that much, being 350 years old the technology is considered antique and in today's galaxy they are only useful to collectors and powering the latest Ipods.

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haha, unfortunately the monk is holding a shotgun in all of his animations, makeing Choreography really hard. So (seeing as how I cant get my own model) we're switching over to ------ and re skinning him. Cant keep the cool coat, but given enough time I think I can make it look cool enough. :-P

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ooo, comments, okay, I'll see if I can get a little update out purely for showing off the Zentech computer. As I have a made a huge amount of progress on it sense the last update.

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Unfortunately I hardly know anything about makeing extra effects for textures. I know what a Normal is, but what good would it be for that? mmm, well I suppose if the letters looked like they were sticking out that would be awesome, I think I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion.

But what is a specular?

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Looks cooler if it is outside.

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Actually that picture was taken in the ep1 engine.
The skybox was mad by a fella named piclit... I think. Something like that anyway.
I made the textures for the ground, and the towers are a peice of the hl2 citadel explosion scene.
All wrapped up in a env_fog with close to the right settings. That map still has a lot of work left on it though. That picture is about half as good as what I'm shooting for.

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Thanks. :-D

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Well the player is in a Trigger look, when he is in there and he looks at "blah" then clicks, Game_UI detects the click and sends an output to a few hundred entities, however due to what the player is looking at the output from the game_ui is filtered down to about 10 entities, after it gets to those 10 entities they check with each other to see which one the player is looking at. Once it finds out what the player is looking at it fires an output that tells "whatever" to come up. And then it fires a bunch of outputs to reset its self, the 10 entities and the game_ui........
Yeahhhh.... that's how 1 button works.... there are about 80 buttons, and then a super button. :-D
It's crazy to attempt something like this unless your a programmer. To bad I'm crazy.

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He is a crazy alien/human that is the main bad guy for the first release. There is a chance he will end up the 2nd hand bad guy in the 2nd release.

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COOL!

1. Sigh, Well only ever got to play Halo 1. I guess there is a small change in the storyline then. "The year is 3333, And Crazy commander blah blah blah---" Problem solved. :-D
I think the reason I first wanted it to be 257 years is because I was thinking of what 64*2*2+5-4 would be.
2. Well for this storyline I'm thinking there are only a few alien races in each galaxy. But the main reason is that it sounds cooler if you say "Known throughout the galexies." Or at least it sounds better then "Known throughout the multiple solar systems in one or mor galexies."
3. :-D
4. Well we know that ep3 is the end of the story arch. So we can assume that the combine either win or loss in ep3. And we know Gordon will live through it becuase there is a hint of a HL4 (Which I would call HL3) So we can assume Gordon lives. Now Godron liveing and Combine wining just dontt seem to fit togeather So I am asumeing Gordon gets rid of the combine or makes it so the rest of earth can finish the job. Either way it's not really a huge detail in the Zentech Storyline.
5. o, wait, there isn't a 5. heh heh.

Cool, I'm gonna add you right now.

Falleen9,
Heh heh, your right it's pretty hard to understand with what I typed. I'll re-type the thing later tonight and have my buddy throw it up on here.
But to answer your questions;

1. This is 257 years after the HL2 storyline. And because of the way I'm building the mod it's funny if I say Commander Andrews owns a peice of the Halo, from Halo. It doesn't really have anything to do with the storyline, but may if there are more episodes of this mod.
2. The world in which this mod storyline is set is a world where there are several aliens liveing in diferant solar systems throughout the galexies, and the hero of our story 'Commander Andrews' has a reputation throughout those galexies as a crazy earth man who has to much money and spends all his time shipping cargo from one solar system to another colecting rare items for his personal library.
3. His name is Andrews, and thats all. Due to his reputation his title is 'Crazy Commander', So I call him Crazy Commander Andrews.
4. After Gordon freeman wipes out the combine from earth in the hl2 storyline more aliens fight over earth for the next 250 years, then Commander Andrews comes along and saves earth from the race of Zentech aliens who were currantly ruleing over earth. And thats where he got the name Crazy Commander Andrews.

Constructive criticism is always wellcome, same are ideas. :-D

TannerBondy, This is 6 maps, wound togeather with a storyline, bad guys, crazy A.I. computer, and a reputation.

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Sorry, I threw away my life in Grammer for a life of Hammer. ;-}
I'll get all that spelling and grammer worked out ASAP.

For the first half of the mod the player will be solveing a few puzzles, and navigateing his way around. He will also be driveing things and playing on a fake computer.

For the 2nd half of the mod the player will be invadeing the bad guys base and killing anyone in his way on his way to the roof.

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Ohh, and the referance to the other maps on www.type3studios.com

I have a few maps on there, each has a small storyline of it's own you can read. And they are slightly connected to the mod as they are the starting history for when the Zentech peopls, for which this mod is named, got their name. :-D

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>Mod Leader
Greetings,
I dont nessesarily want to give the storyline away but, You are a crazy commander of a custom built cargo ship. You trade rare materials such as wood and dirt between glaexys. And you being a crazy and >rich< commander, like to buy rare items from accross the galexy. Such as the Gordon collection from the days of the Combien wars on earth 257 years ago. Or a peice of a Halo blown up by some guy in a cool suit. Perhaps the legondary chain saw its self. Some of these strange things have things to do with the story and gameplay, others are just because we thought it would be funny.