[page=The Basics]
Wavelength, for those of you who have been living under a rock for the past 5 years, used to be the ultimate resource centre for Half-Life. If it wasn't on Wavelength, then you couldn't do it.
Then Wavelength disappeared from PHL, leaving several duff links and some confused modders behind, who without their favourite tutorial source were stranded on the metaphorical rocks of client.dll.
So when the countdown began for the re-release I cleared my schedule and sat down with pen, paper and precicely 637mg of caffine.
Thewavelength.net wrote: 5 years ago Red Knight had a dream, an idea, a moment of divine providence. Call it what you will, but in that moment Wavelength was born.
5 Years later, Wavelength as you knew it has been reborn.
Wavelength 2.0 has arrived.
[page=The Tutorials]
Wavelength's strength is in it's tutorials, paving the way for others to make clever mod things. In v1 the only way to have a tutorial published was to email it around, clearly not the best method. Fortunately v2 lets anybody write something up, and it is a matter of moments for an admin to authorise it (similar to modDB's mod and news authing).
So, in this bright new world of free tutorial writing, is anything new around? Not really. This is where Wavelength's latest additions come into it, namely articles and forums for each game allowing the more organic help you may see elsewhere. I strongly suspect there will be more tutorials up soon, but for now don't expect major stuff.
Unlike the original Wavelength, v2 has tutorials for Half-Life, Unreal, Quake 3 and the upcoming Half-Life 2. So, if you can't find a more focused site for your latest Q3 mod give Wavelength a go.
[page=The Design & Conclusion]
The new design is a very swish blue, replacing the old black quite nicely. Although looking initially very PHPnukeish, I have been informed by semi-reliable sources that our good friend Megasaxon has designed it. Check at the bottom however and it appears InvisionBoard has been behind the site...
So, not the 100% custom built site I was expecting, the crew opting instead for hacking up an IB installation. Done quite nicely for a rebuild though, so I'm reasonably impressed.
To finish off with, Wavelength v2 is quite nice looking, fast efficient, but ultimately nothing new. Still, you can't have everything can you?
this isn't a tutorial but was interesting to read.