Blogs - OrdinaryMagician

Hey so if anyone still can see this, lemme give you some info.

I have abandoned UT modding a couple years ago (around December 2017 to be specific). I only focus on GZDoom now. You can find all my stuff on the ZDoom forums now, I have no interest in putting my content on the site that houses the bulk of the zealous Brutal Doom fanbase.

See you again, have a nice day.

— Marisa

I'm back, sort of. Most of my newest mods in progress are on my GitHub now.

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Expect cool stuff like:

• Guns.u : You bleed guns. When you die, you burst into guns. Pretty straightforward, right?
• Clones.u : As a twist on the previous mod, when you die, you burst into tiny little Malcom clones that run around screaming until they explode.
• MBAG 7.0 (More Blood And Gore) : Ludicrous Gibs and other stuff.
• SWWM Z : SWWM and Znv_us merged into one single clusterfuck of overkill weaponry. TWENTY-EIGHT absurdly overpowered weapons, the usual extra pickups... and on a crazy twist... a new fullscreen HUD. Also some vague inspiration from Dark Souls (among others) because I liked it a lot.
• DOM-Metalic-Rebuild : This is where I curse at GameFront (damn bastards) again for deleting DOM-Metalic]I[EDR and attempt to rebuild the map with the highest polycount I've ever made.
• UnSX Monster Pack : Small resource pack of neat little creatures. Can be used for Monster Hunt and such.

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I might attempt to do a full rewrite of a certain old Doom "jokewad" (Total Madness) that isn't completely fucking retarded, also sequel to Instant Action 3 confirmed. Special thanks to the nice people who dared do a Let's Play of them, your criticism was extremely valuable.

So what have I been up to?

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• OS development: Working on a slightly UNIX-like full operating system (AOS) for i486, x86_64, ARMv6h and MIPSr32.
• OpenPONIKO 3.0: 2.0 became abandonware a long time ago and I started working on the full C multiplatform rewrite. It uses BSD sockets, curl, sqlite and many other things, and is designed mostly with Linux as its first target platform.
• NASU Engine: The first generation that would soon lead to Uboa Engine, and afterwards, to UnSX Engine. Written completely in C, using SDL, and with Linux, OSX and Windows as primary platforms.
• Attempting to go back to UT and Doom modding, with projects like the UnSX Resurrection Mod and a complete rewrite of the It Always Gets Better jokewad.
• Soon to finish studying and become a qualified "multiplatform software developer", not like it'll help much but it's an actual requirement if I want to get a job as programmer here in Spain.
• Writing the "UnSX Encyclopedia", bit by bit, classifying the almost 500 named characters, writing bios, doing sketches, organizing locations, items, family trees, timelines, etc.

So slow...

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Here come the updates:

- ZWeapon system is almost finished. I'm doing a full test of its power with an upcoming mod (explained below).

- The UBX Resurrection Mod. Bringing back the best stuff from UB1 to UBX 3 V2. With some extra additions to fill up empty spaces. Some of the models are brand new, others are modified UT and Unreal I ones with different animations. Textures are fully recreated in high resolution. There's a total of 12 weapons for the first release, but maybe I'll add more just like I did with that Ultra Suite thingy.

- A remake of DOM-Metalic]I[EDR (one of my best maps IMO, that got deleted from FileFront all of a sudden, with me not having any backups). It doesn't look much like it, and it's even bigger. It has a very high poly count and relies a lot on the use of Quake 3 textures.

- UBXWeather system. Something I made as a scripting experiment. It lets you add rain, snow, fog and other things to maps. It's highly optimized even if it relies on actor-based particles.

- HFB UT99. Still needs some optimization. From what you can see in that video I uploaded, it is indeed too heavy on the CPU and causes immense amounts of slowdown.

- WS8. This is an alternative to the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library made all on my own.

- OpenPONIKO 2.0. Currently on pre-release beta 2. The source code is currently closed and the program unavailable for anyone other than myself, but the bot is being tested on various IRC networks and users can suggest changes and new features.

- Uboa Engine. Still slowly being made. I'm starting to believe this won't be released before the end of this year as I had planned.

- Gaming news: I finished Duke Nukem Forever. It's pretty decent, actually (unlike all of these CoD-like pieces of crap that are being made now). I tried RAGE, but then I raged (lol) at the horribly awful texture streaming. Right now I'm trying to do a full play of all the official Touhou games in existence. I couldn't get past a certain point of Highly Responsive to Prayers, but at least I had infinite continues.

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I don't really have much free time now since I'm kinda busy doing a degree in software design, but I try to do all I can.

Well derp, I'm a bit late.

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Currently, I've been enjoying the summer holidays. Which means I haven't worked on anything during all that time.

Well, actually, I've been in the hospital for a while so that pretty much explains part of my idleness. It's no big deal, just some lung problems that are already fixed.

During the last days of August, I've been working a bit more on my IRC bot. She is perfectly functional now!

I didn't have much time to watch animes or read mangas. And... on the subject of video games, all I've been playing lately was Minecraft. :P

nyan~

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In the works:

UT99:

ZInventory: ZWeapon system 'finished' (someone pls help me with native coding ;-;). Gonna make an example weapon to show the features of this system, based on my original Gravity Gun.
Zanaveth Ultra Suite 2: On hold.
ZPawn: STILL planned.

UDK:

Hellbound 1: On hold.
Hollow 1: On hold.
Scripts for Hellbound and Empty 'tetralogies': On hold.

ZDoom:

All projects on indefinite hold.

Standalone:

IRC bot: Reconstructing.
Weirdstuff 8: On indefinite hold.
Tiny Info Server: Adding more plugins.
Uboa Engine: Constructing base classes.

Laziness:

Animu and Mango: Animes side: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Ichigo Mashimaro, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Mangas side: None yet.
Vidya gaems: Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter. In other news... I just bought Minecraft!

Life stuff:

FOREVER A CONE.
"Enjoying" summer holidays.
I'll be doing a degree in software design. I start by the end of this summer.

:3

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In the works:

UT99: ZInventory: ZWeapon system 'finished' (I HATE EPIC GAMES AND I HATE THESE STUPID PUBLIC HEADERS).
Zanaveth Ultra Suite 2: On hold.
ZPawn: STILL planned.

UDK:

Hellbound 1: On hold.
Hollow 1: On hold.
Scripts for Hellbound and Empty 'tetralogies': On hold.

ZDoom:

All projects on indefinite hold.

Standalone:

IRC bot: Trying to revive her.
Weirdstuff 8: Abandoned.
Tiny Info Server: VEEEEEERY SLOOOOOOWLY in progress.
Uboa Engine: about to start making things for real here.

Laziness:

Animu and Mango: Animes side: Ichigo Mashimaro, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Mangas side: None yet.
Vidya gaems: None.

Life stuff:

FOREVER ALONE.
Finished my university entrance exams. Now to wait for the results.

uguu~

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In the works:

UT99:

ZInventory: ZWeapon system 'finished' (the UT public headers are giving me a headache with all this skeletal mesh nonsense).
Zanaveth Ultra Suite 2: Modeling (One weapon done already, another one being textured).
ZPawn: Still planned.

UDK:

Hellbound 1: Modeling.
Hollow 1: Modeling.
Scripts for Hellbound and Empty 'tetralogies': Been doing some sketches for Empty.

ZDoom:

All projects on indefinite hold.

Standalone:

IRC bot: cancelled (contact me if you're interested in it).
Weirdstuff 8: slowly in progress (not surrendering even after finding out about gmplib).
Tiny Info Server: slowly in progress too.
Uboa Engine: sloooooooowly in progress. (formerly known as Yume Nikki HD)

Laziness:

Animu and Mango: Animes side: Ichigo Mashimaro, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Mangas side: None yet.
Vidya gaems: Bulletstorm.

Life stuff:

FOREVER ALONE.
Finished school with good marks! FUCK YEAH!

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Ohai~

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In the works:

UT99:

ZInventory: ZWeapon system 'finished' (Waiting for help with these damn skeletal mesh attachments).
Zanaveth Ultra Suite 2: Modeling (One weapon done already, another one being textured).
ZPawn: Still planned.
Zanaveth Ultra Suite 1.5.1: Total bugfixing and optimization. Now compatible with Galaxy audio. No net support (I still fail at writing replication code -_-').

UDK:

Hellbound 1: Modeling.
Hollow 1: Modeling.
Scripts for Hellbound and Empty 'tetralogies': Been doing some sketches for Empty.

ZDoom:

All projects on indefinite hold.

Standalone:

IRC bot: cancelled (contact me if you're interested in it).
Weirdstuff 8: slowly in progress (not surrendering even after finding out about gmplib).
Tiny Info Server: slowly in progress too.

Laziness:

Animu and Mango: Animes side: Kanon and Ika Musume. Mangas side: None yet.
Vidya gaems: Crysis 2.
Chat.
Surf tha internets.
Keeping the title of active member of a lot of communities.

Life stuff:

LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Enjoying my 6mbps.
Enjoying new computer (with no problems anymore).
DO WHAT YOU WANT 'CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE, YOU ARE A PIRATE!
School stuff.

*sigh* hi

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In the works:

UT99:

ZInventory: ZWeapon system 'finished' (Waiting for help with these damn skeletal mesh attachments)
Zanaveth Ultra Suite 2: Modeling (One weapon done already, another one being textured)
ZPawn: Still planned

UDK:

Hellbound 1: Modeling.
Hollow 1: Modeling.
Scripts for Hellbound and Empty 'tetralogies'. Been doing some sketches for Empty.

ZDoom:

All projects on indefinite hold

Standalone:

IRC bot: cancelled (contact me if you're interested in it)
Weirdstuff 8: slowly in progress (not surrendering even after finding out about gmplib)

Laziness:

Animu and Mango: Animes side: Kanon. Mangas side: None yet.
Vidya gaems: Almost finished Silent Hill Homecoming
Chat
Surf tha internets
Keeping the title of active member of a lot of communities

Life stuff:

Forever alone.
Enjoying my 6mbps.
Enjoying new computer (with some few little problems)
DO WHAT YOU WANT 'CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE, YOU ARE A PIRATE!
School stuff.
Some slight depression here and there.