I was browsing the comments over at Nem’s Tools and had to laugh at the comments to some of his news posts. Ever since Valve released CS:CZ with its “pay to download” requirement and encrypted GCF file, the attempts and speculation on how to get the game for free has been rife.
Seeing as how Nem wrote GFCScape, which allows you to exctract non-encrypted GCF files, people have been pounding away at the CS:CZ file which obviously isn’t working.
Some of the idea’s posted on how to “crack” the file are just plain hilarious, for example:
“Looking @ the encryption valve did i notice tht these text files are in CHINESE…. unfortunately i cant read chinese but if ur chinses u mite be able 2 “decypt” it by translating.” [sic]
O.K. I know a lot of people think the Steam team are a bit retarded because of some of the ways they’ve implemented some things but using a foreign language as an encryption algorithm?
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I tried Softimage|XSI for Half-Life 2 for the first time yesterday. It was a lot like banging you head against a brick wall – most pleasurable when over.
Needless to say its more crippled than Stephen Hawkins and I was mighty annoyed that it supports bugger all import formats.
Anyhew in an attempt to make it a little easier to save and reuse all those models I made for the original Half-Life engine I knocked up an XSI 3.0 export plug-in for Milkshape3D.
Its a beta. Please break it and tell me how you did it. It helps me fix things.
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I’ve made a few updates to my version of the Half-Life Model Viewer. It’s nothing major, just a few tweaks and some addition features that people asked me to add. Oh and it actually has a proper installer this time.
Hmm, so like yeah. I haven’t been around much on-line.
Apart from feeling really bloody depressed of late I kind of accidentally stumbled into a freelance job. I offered to do a 3D modelling job for a map in the game Day of Defeat and got taken up on it. Was quite surprised how well the model was received considering I seriously screwed up with the texture when I accidentally saved my source PSD flattened. Doh!
Still, the model Waco glider is being used in the next release of DoD and apparently I’m even being paid for it!
Now after the excitement of making aircraft it’s back down to earth as I’ve got to make a load of model of trees. W00t!
So yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to. Oh and I’ve updated HLMV but more on that later.
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Current state of functioning Internet communications…
ICQ – Broken, disconnects after every 10 seconds.
MSN – Won’t log in.
AIM – Won’t log in.
IRC – Refuses connection to servers (can’t resolve host) and/or ping timeouts.
E-mail – 40% of mails sent appear to never arrive yet don’t bounce and report no error.
Excuse my tin-foil hat but its enough to make you think that someone is out to destroy all my forms of communication via the Internet.
It also seems that since my ISP increased the bandwidth allowance for our pool that everything has slowed down to a crawl. I’m about to go next door and batter an old lady for leeching my bandwidth to download horse pr0n and upload codez.
