Comments - vals_evil_twin

After all these years it is finished. I suppose I made this mainly for my own enjoyment,so my taste may not suit everyone.
It's about exploring and collecting, I am not really into the mutants and a crazy lot of combat. If you want a long afternoon of gaming, and enjoy 70's music and a little bit of shooting, it may be for you.
It's not completely finished, these things never are. it could be made better, some of the weird stuff edited out, and there are always ideas for new things to add.
Time to call a halt. I hope someone enjoys playing it, I certainly enjoyed making it.
Cheers,
Beverley. =)

The music CDs disappear when you collect them. I wanted to have a treasure counter but this is a map and won't allow scripts like a mod.
It's about exploring and collecting, I am not really into the mutants and a crazy lot of combat. If you want a long afternoon of gaming, and enjoy 70's music and a little bit of combat, it may be for you.

All my current projects are complete now: Black Holiday, Gun Collection, and Fifth Anniversary. Time for a break.

The first minute of play.
I am unable to post a video of a music CD being collected because youtube blocks copyrighted material. Even though the music was from youtube. Go figure.

SKK's Pripyat crane, ported from STALKER to cryengine1. Unfortunately I have had to finish up the current map, so the crane is just sitting there. Preserved in case I ever do a fourth map and want to use it.

Bigass suspension bridge. and This is the new skybox and fog setting.
Skybox changes to night sky for the final party/celebration/fireworks.
If I get an Article done, I will put up the file tomorrow or Tuesday27NOV2018. It is too big. So I finish it now. I would like to do more, but the map is too big for my computer, and flakey errors are creeping in. I have a nice port of a crane from STALKER ported by SKK, but I can't use it without getting crashes.
So happy Fifth Anniversary to crymods.net, and happy tenth anniversary to come on 24th of May, 2019.

C++ is awesomely useful, wish I knew it. Just BASIC, Fortran. Too late for me to learn now.
I love the comments though, use them all the time in .lua. Even programs in BASIC, like a simple counter, without comments you would never know what it does.

Nice. Realistic!

What MightyL said.
Hope it's not dangerous, all that EM around us. Caus our bodies basically run on electricity.

You did a great video review, so thanks. Youtube blocked some of my music choices, but you did a nice job substituting ones youtube would accept.

If there aren't any baddies to shoot, you could have lots of destructible explosive objects instead. Boom! Pool chemicals make great fireworks.
I presume I am one of the two Australians you mention still with FC installed, who is the other one? 39Gamer?

On the home stretch now for this map. After the trees, soft cover and grass there is just final bug testing and then all finished. Hoping to be all done before Christmas 2018.
This is the final area of the map. Editor view is displaying solid shadows, but with high shadow and lighting settings, each leaf casts its own shadow.
At end of game, this area will have a night time sky box. You'll need the headlights switched for the buggy, it gets pretty dark.

I was tempted to split it into two or three maps because it is on the limit of my computer's capacity.
There are heaps of occluder areas inside the terrain which probably saves it.

Nice touch to give time-of-day.

You capture the Pripyat/Russian architecture nicely.

The fireworks display is finished. Damn Particle Editor!!#@!

Any comments or suggestions? Anyone I left out?

Many other modders and mappers participated at Crymods.net over the years. As a lowly mapping nobody for most of the ten years, I didn't get to know everyone.
I still remember many community friends from the old days at Slugsworth's FarCryCommunityMaps (FCCM), but this is not the place.

Finding the C4 that is armed and ready to use is the problem, they scattered over a wide area.

crymods back up on 30MAY2018 for another 3 years.
Old bookmark may not work.
Search on Google for crymods,news and create a new bookmark.

The NPCs are having problems getting the teleporter to work without fatalities. But Jack being a superior story character, gets it to work just fine.
Tnlgg might recognise the setting, I have re-used one of his interiors from an unpublished MOD, "Lost Paradise".
Matto fans might recognise the 'Danger' sign.

All the music files are able to be changed by players to suit their own choices. Only thing, .wav files must be in mono format. Stereo versions just play as static in cryengine1. Easy enough to convert you tunes with 'Audacity' though.

I'll leave the original loadscreen, as a monument to failed deadlines everywhere. Five years late is pretty sad. But at least, it will be finished eventually.

Crymods.net's ninth anniversary this May2018. No chance of meeting that deadline, but here's my gold plated guarantee it will be finished for the tenth anniversary in May2019. I need to complete it and get my life back from the editor prison.
FarCry5 is out, with an 'Arcade' style mapping editor, so that will be another nail in FarCry1's coffin. I expect to save a lot of time by not playing FC5 though.

With fourteen years of other modders' work to draw upon, there are plenty of non-vanilla objects to choose. Here are some I re-used in the Helicopter base.

CD cases by Purifier.
Telephone and photocopier by matto.
MI-17 helicopter and humvees by sniper_m4.

Thankyou sirs.

Most of the music for the Anniversary Celebration is in place. Every piece of music collected has a CD (can be picked up), CD Case, and usually a poster. As well as the song playing in the background.
The songs are not always marked by a radar point, so a bit of exploration is required.
A bit of nostalgia:I remember the first time I played an old FarCry sp-map called 'Road', and how cool it was to have a radio in the buggy. That's probably where the inspiration came from to have music playing in the game.
I hope players will like my selection of songs. Maybe something there for everyone. As long as you like disco, lol.

Thanks to Purifier for the CD case, at long last I get around to using them.

Thankyou changeroftheways, I spent a most enjoyable hour browsing these old images, and will be back for more. Thankyou for saving these, now they will never be lost.

I remember the first map where I saw a shark chase Jack onto land. Looked really funny, but next few times it happened, not so funny.
I know there are tagpoints for a shark to patrol in Campaign:Training, but crytek never put a shark in any of the levels. Probably because it won't behave. Forbidden areas mean nothing to a shark.
Thanks to Purifier, and a bit of mucking around, I have got this shark to keep off the land. :)

All the updates of STALKER mods I follow.
Been busy in cryengine1 for a year.

I thought I was bad.
Moddb.com

Happy New Year Admer. Well, it IS still January.

Will it run the original Tombraider? I want to buy it, lol.
Windows 98 machines are rare and expensive these days, I wish I still had mine.