The armoured synth soldier will be on par with the hunters in HL2:EP2 in that you will fight them in small groups rather than in large squads. Alternatives for the Combine GI, as it were, are in progress.
Oh, and the time lapse is perfectly logical, I assure you. Will update soon!
Looks pretty much exactly like that little bit where you, some rebels and Alyx hold out in HL2... do you come back to it or something?
You'll be adding a bump map thing right? The new one will look rather shiny without it... also it'll lok bloody sweet :D
Hmm. Well if you're looking for level designers I *might* be up for it. PM me if you are. I like the look of this. Quite different.
But the original games were strategy based... they were 2D... but they were freakin' awesome! They weren't cartoony either, that was a nice touch. They were just like regular plastic soldiers. I hate the newer stuff where Sarge is some twat with an enormous chin...
He's gonna get a bit of a shock when he fires his rifle. They didn't tell him which way to hold it in basic training :P
Hm. Kinda reminds me of Vampire Slayer... especially consdering you've used that same Latin hymn thing when he uses the cross... but hey...
Looks interesting. Thumbs up from JB
Always with the shoulder pads... You should remove the shoulder pads, there's just no reason for them to exist. What could they possibly protect against? :P
Aw shoot... oh well. I suppose this means that it'll be even more brilliant when it is finally... finally released. Feel sorry for the poor bastard who has to eat his shoe though.
Nah, I like it. Gives it a sense of abandonment, like this used to be a happy town but what the hell happened?
Besides, it's clearly autumn/winter! And it's night! Of course the place is cold :P
Some lovely, lovely stuff. I suggest you lower your standards for recruitment though.
Mapper:
Excellent knowledge about the Valve Hammer Editor software. Must know how to create realistic environments which both look stunning and horrifying. Must be able to create textures from excisting images with bump maps and specularity maps.
That's asking rather a lot. As a level designer who's been working with Hammer for a good 4 years, I've only just started making custom textures, and these amount to simple signs and posters.
But I must say that your level design skills are... spectacular. Possibly the best work I've ever seen. Maybe you could tell us how you did it eh? *hint hint* :D
Woo! A new Seven Hour War mod! Competition is good :D
No it isn't. Those are props and textures from Episode 2.
Mod founder and level designer here :D
Been a little hectic, but I say down with those naysayers who think the mod is dead! Yeah! We'll be releasing an update soon, and the mod will once again be fully back on track.
You'll love it
...You're comparing the Black Mesa team to the Nazis?
Interesting.
Yeah I figured it was dead. Still working though I hope. I'm still trying to get it to work and hopefully set up a LAN game. That'd be great.
I'm having no luck. I open consoleserver.exe but it just has that little black screen. I dunno what to do with it. It's telling me I need serversettings.ini. What do I do?
Another thing, can this be played over LAN?
place env_cubemaps throughout your maps (check out a tutorial or something for their placement if you don't already know) and then go into console and run buildcubemaps. That should fix the zombies' blue shiny heads. Not bad work so far :)
Yeh I do find it disappointing that Valve didn't use Source to its fullest potential, but Bushman is right that HL2 was designed to be accessible to low end machines. Maybe the Black Mesa team should work on renovating HL2 next? :P
Absolutely fantastic. I love how you take a simple image of, say, a catwalk and add things that other people wouldn't even think of. Amazing work.
I remember this bit, kept dying from the tank. I don't think the plane was a good choice though, because although it looks nice I don't think it would be flying that low to drop bombs (assuming that's what it's doing) or for any other reason.
Though that looks awesome, I can't help but get the impression that he's too cute. He looks like this really freaky warrior guy, up till the face where you go "awwh" so maybe make him look a little more threatening? good work though
I think its called the cremator, but no we don't have plans to incorporate it
remind me again why you dont work for valve... or do you? ;) kickass work, possibly the best work with source ive seen.
Thats true, but this is all out of date stuff now... granted when the message was posted it wasnt, but just so people know, ive given up my obsession with the industrial area for now :D
J.B.
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When It comes to real life, I'm brilliant. All I need to do is form a band and I'm done. When it comes to modding, I'm a Source Level Designer. Been in the business since 2005, and was doing some level design for Half-Life 1 before that. I'm pretty passionate when it comes to my work. I founded the mod Seven. I am no longer team leader, as I relinquished that responsibility, but I am still a level designer which is good enough for me.