Its a pity you dont care enough about being a complete tosser. Like i said, twat, if you'd have read the whole email you'd have answered your own fucking question.
Nice to see your still plumbing the depths of your own stupidity. Looks like your still coming up with fresh ways to show everyone what a prick you are. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:59 PM, msleeper <mslee...@cyberwurx.com> wrote: > If I cared about the hlmappers list I'd subscribe there. > > > On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 21:47 +0100, Patrick Shelley wrote: > > Get a grip you twat - read the whole fucking email and you would have > found > > out why it ended up on the hlds. > > > > This is hlmappers email and someone decided to post it on hlds - but if > > you'd have spared 1 ounze of common sense you'd have read what happened. > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM, msleeper <mslee...@cyberwurx.com> > wrote: > > > > > Cool article but this has what to do with server administration? > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:47 +0100, Philip Bembridge wrote: > > > > Interesting post on the HLmappers mailing list :-) > > > > > > > > Phil > > > > > > > > 2009/4/5 Nathan Voge <hl2fr...@msn.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just thought I would throw up this quote from a Gamasutra article > on > > > The > > > > > Cabal: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life found at > > > > > http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991210/birdwell_01.htm > > > > > > > > > > [ > > > > > No Good Deed Goes Unpunished > > > > > > > > > > Until the Cabal process got underway, technology was added to > Half-Life > > > > > freely. It was assumed that "if we build it, they will come," > meaning > > > that > > > > > any new technology would just naturally find a creative use by the > > > content > > > > > creation folks. A prime example of this fallacy was our "beam" > effect, > > > > > basically a technique for doing highly tunable squiggly glowing > lines > > > > > between two points; stuff like lightning, lasers, and mysterious > > > glowing > > > > > beams of energy. It was added to the engine, the parameters were > > > exposed, > > > > > and an e-mail was sent out explaining it. The result was … nothing. > > > After > > > > > two months only one level designer had put it in a map. Engineering > was > > > > > baffled. > > > > > > > > > > During the Cabal process, we realized that although the level > designers > > > > > knew of the feature, they really had no clear idea of what it was > for. > > > The > > > > > parameters were all very cryptic, and the wrong combinations would > > > cause the > > > > > beams to have very ugly-looking effects. There were no decent > textures > > > to > > > > > apply to them, and setting them up was a bit of a mystery. It > became > > > very > > > > > clear the technology itself was only a small part of the work and > > > > > integration, training, and follow-through were absolutely necessary > to > > > make > > > > > the technology useful to the game. Writing the code was typically > less > > > than > > > > > half the problem. > > > > > ] > > > > > > > > > > It still seems that this problem is still around Source modding, > > > > > mapping,... The technology is there to do almost anything we want, > but > > > we > > > > > still have to search and trial and error for hours to achieve it. > I'm > > > > > speaking as someone who has left and returned to many of my maps > over > > > and > > > > > over again because I don't have the time for another full time job > - > > > and > > > > > that is what it currently takes to make sense of it all. I'm only > > > posting > > > > > this because the L4D SDK is on the horizon and I'd love to get my > ideas > > > into > > > > > maps without having to reverse engineer maps (I talk here about the > > > complex > > > > > example maps that are sometimes included in the SDKs and not > decompiled > > > > > maps), or trial and error (guess) what entities work together, or > have > > > to > > > > > wait/search for community tutorials. Please improve this > drastically > > > with > > > > > the next SDK release. I know I and the rest of the community would > > > thank you > > > > > Valve. > > > > > > > > > > ~Nate > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > > > please visit: > > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
