Mete Ciragan has just released Milkshape 1.7.2 which now includes my POV-Ray and dotXSI export plugins.
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This is a cautionary tale…
The pre-pubescent massed moaned and raged over at the DoD forums, bitching and begging for pictures of the forthcoming port of Day of Defeat to the Source engine. Time and time they were told, “when we have something to show you”, but that wasn’t good enough for their teenage angst.
Tim “Waldo” Holt teased them, telling them of a presentation he had given in Washington that contained two pictures of DoD:Source that may, or may not, be on the Internet somewhere.
At once there was a flurry of frantic Googling but, having known Tim for a while through being involved with the last two DoD releases, I had a slight advantage and proclaimed after about 10 minutes how nice the new Anzio church was looking. Tim wasn’t suprised I’d found it and soon the pictures from the presentation circulated around the ‘net and various DoD community forums.
Yet still they bleated and oorgled like good little llamas, uncontent with that pictures they had. They were dismayed, distraught and filled with more angst that the new DoD:Source wasn’t the nearest thing to graphic reality on their PC. You cannot win against the minds of the DoD community. The concept of “Work in progress” means nothing to them. They proclaimed that “teh pictars suX0rs”.
However, there was a secret underground movement planning revenge on them…
Using the latest in computer technology* a fake screenshot was created of DoD:Source and surreptitiously leaked upon the net. Some of us played along, replying nervously that the image was not supposed to be released and, in response, the picture was quietly withdrawn.
But the hounds had already smelt the scent. And the chase was on…
Over the next two or three days, DoD community sites were posting copies of the picture, claiming it was an accidentally leaked by the dev team and was a genuine picture from DoD:Source. It appeared on IRC channels, heck it was even re-posted five times on the DoD forums themselves with feverish excitement.
Ironically, no matter how many times we proclaimed it as fake, a minority refused to believe us. It was a cover-up conspiracy! Valve is just trying to disown the leak to protect it! Disinformation!
Yeah right. Your excitement is blocking you ability spot an obvious Photoshop fake.
It was fun, we had a good laugh and it just goes to show – people will believe anything on the Internet and comminuty sites will lap up anything for the chance of an exclusive.
Well, just to nail the coffin shut, if you still don’t belive its a fake maybe you need a little more convincing.
So long, suckers! :p
* 100% non-fact
Im still someone amazed at the amount of traffic my website generates but recently I’ve been getting robbed by “leeches”.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am happy and appreciate that when I relase stuff here you want to mention it on your DoD Clan or website forum, but its really not very polite to direct link to screenshots and content on my server from yours.
Yesterday I checked my logs and realised that I have generated 1Gb if traffic in just 24hrs and after checking my logs, all of this was caused by other sites direct linking to content here. It only takes a couple of thousand sites pulling a 250kb file before my bandwidth useage goes skywards.
Please, if your going to link to a download or content on my site make a local copy on your server. If my bandwidth useage continues to go this high, I’m going to be forced to close my site.
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Finally got the new Airborne models uploaded. Sorry for the delay. Pictures and download on this page.
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Apologies for a lack of updates for a while. I’ve not been feeling too great of late and a bit disillusioned with the whole Day of Defeat modding/community thing.
It’ll probably pass – Im just sick of servers being full of CounterStrike players acting like arseholes and the demise of people actually playing as a team. That and the modding community seems to of lost anyone with talent and its just full of talentless hackjobbers.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand everyone has to start somewhere, as I did years ago (and some of my early work was rubbish!) but at the moment its as if people aren’t even trying, their peers are brown-nosing and boosting their egos and any constructive critisism makes them throw their toys out of their cradle.
I don’t mind helping those with talent develop and those that are willing to put in the effort but when someone makes something which is truely shit and can’t accept constructive pointers as to why, well frankly, fsck ’em.
Anyway, rant over…
On the plus side, the re-worked Airborne models I was making for the Arnhem anniversary are done, however my erstwhile associate in charge of the download server is AWOL at the moment so until he’s back I can’t upload them. But by way of compensation, heres a quick render of British Glider Pilot Regiment Staff Sergeant. Basically these models are a re-working of my existing ones but I’ve added more detail in the faces and hands and re-done a lot of the textures.
I’ve also been writing some plug-ins for AMX/AMXMODX for shits-and-giggles which will probably get released fairly soon. Quick hacks include a “No Scope Sniper” plug-in which notifies admins if a person is making un-scoped sniper skills, something most servers consider a no-no. Theres also the Smoke Grenade plug-in which seems to be causing a bit of contraversy. Seems people thing its going to ruin DoD and cause all sorts of problems. Trust me, it doesnt – its nothing like grenades in CS and its use is limited. Its really there for the purpose of providing cover for those difficult breakouts. Lastly, theres the Missing Sounds plug-in which re-instates all the missing voice commands that got lost from 3.1->1.3 plus a few others I found. So now you can yell “Medic!” and “Drop your weapons!” to your hearts content…
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