Sunday, 31 October 2004
Source: Mech Mod
The new website for MechMod:Half-Life2 is now live @ mechmod.com - and is fully functional. Please note that some of the pages (example, the about page) are prepped up for MM:HL2 which will begin development after our primary Alpha 1.0 HL1 release. Hence those pages might be misleading, please do not ask for download links as the Alpha will not be released until it is posted on the news page itself.
Source: RE: SOF
Today we have a big update for you all :D We have new team members, new map shots from BiGToM and some great renders from our new modeller! First off i would like to invite ShadowFlare as a modeller and Commando as our new skinner! Now getting to the content, lets start off with the new map shots from BiGToM's multiplayer map.Next up is the renders from one of our newest members ShadowFlare some of the many items included in the renders are; Red, blue and green herbs, mixed herbs, the item box and a few other models (tables chairs etc) Now see for yourself! We also have some nice looking lockers that have been bashed about a bit.. Seems ShadowFlare has wasted no time in making RE SOF as many Models as possible ^^Now seeming as Snyper18 has disappeared i was unable to obtain the video you were promised but not to worry as i will post up the vid as soon as i am able to collect it off Snyper18. And that's about it for this news update, remember to join our forums so you can see the weekly polls that are still held every Sunday!
Source: The CPL
In response to requests from the DoD community to be included in a CPL event, the CPL announces the addition of a $10,000 BYOC Day of Defeat tournament for the Extreme Winter Championships, to be held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Dallas from December 15 - December 19, 2004. Registration (www.thecpl.com/register/) is already open for 24 teams (six competitors per team) to participate in this BYOC tournament. Competitors must be at least 16 years old or older to compete, and any player under 17 must submit a parental release (www.thecpl.com/releases/) form upon check-in at the event. Official rules, schedule and prize distribution for the DoD tournament will be announced Saturday, October 30, 2004.Players intending to compete in this tournament are encouraged to make their hotel reservations at the Hyatt Regency immediately. Information on making reservations with the discount provided to CPL attendees can be found at www.thecpl.com/winter2004/?p=venue. Room rates are $75 for single/double/triple or quadruple occupancy.
Source: modDBRelated: Digital Paintball
Hey, since I know you've all grown tired of waiting with *nothing* to keep you interested (except for our current release, of course ;)), I'm going to go ahead and give you a sneak peek at the player model from 2.2 in action. We're working furiously to get this guy into the game and finish up, so that you can be playing 2.2 in time for christmas (hopefully earlier).Without further ado:http://media.digitalpaintball.net/proning.avi (requires divx/xvid codec)Edit:Here's a version encoded with cinepak (you shouldn't have to do anything special to get this to play)http://media.digitalpaintball.net/player.avi
Here are the 7 Designs for the Digital Paintball T-Shirt Design Contest. As stated the winner will get 2 of their shirt if picked, as well as $50 cash. The shirts will be long sleeve. Here are the 7 Designs. 3 of them will be picked by the # of votes and added to the finals with one of our in house designs to do one more vote for the winner. If your design is one of the top 3 dont forget to send me the psd when I contact u.
Source: Water Wars
We have a working version of the Particle Engine. It can shoot water and bounce off the wall and drip down. Thanks to Omega for the help.CS is working on sprites for each gun. After that we test and play around. Baer and Darknight are working on code and gameplays.Sugahighman is working on animations and GFX for the menus.Mappers are mapping and if you hang in the forums you will some some screenshots in the mapping part of the Water Wars section.Thanks to the AVI developers. Again I only want you to email me if you are good at making AVI's for mods and games
Source: HalfLife2.netRelated: PericulumHalfLife2.net got some great looking pieces of media from the team of the mod Periculum. The concept art pieces show you the Baby Masher and you can view the three pieces here at HalfLife2.net.Besides the media the team also reports that the are looking to expand the the team with the following:
Though work comes with responsibility, we are now looking for some other skilled people. Here is a list of some needed areas of work. -2 Dedicated Model Skinners (Must know UVW mapping. If not, we can appoint a UWV mapper) -2 3d Modelers (Specifically someone who can model organics) -4 Texture Artists (Must know Photo-manipulation) Support the mod by checking out the Mod Profile. http://mods.moddb.com/1370/Contact ubersoldatgamer@msn.com if you are interested in the areas above.For more head on over to the site of Periculum.
Source: HL2Central.netRelated: Return to Mana: Legacy of the Eight ElementsGreat looking new media has been released by the team of Return to Mana: Legacy of the Eight Elements:
Another media update for you. 3 new monsters you should know from the original game near Potos village. There is a concept for a boss enemy and a magic system drawing as well. We hope you enjoy it.Check out the Return to Mana: Legacy of the Eight Elements site for more media and information.
Source: PlanetHalfLifePlanetHalfLife and Counter-Hack have teamed up to bring you a great Halloween Contest with great Half-Life 2 prizes. Here the details:
Here at PlanetHalflife.com we have decided to team up this weekend with friends over at Counter-Hack.net to bring you a Halloween spook-ta-cular Contest.Head on over to PlanetHalfLife and Counter-Hack for more details.The Contest will run from NOW up till this coming Thursday evening at Midnight EST. The point of this contest? We want to see the scariest screenshot you can get from Half-Life and it's mods.The rules are simple - submit (halflife_84@planethalflife.com) your scariest screenshot (along with a short sentence or two if needed to explain the screenshot) and we will choose the best 10 of all the possible submissions and post them on Planet-Halflife in a news post.What you can win:Grand Prize - Half-Life 2 T-shirtFirst Runner Up - Half-Life 2 HatSecond Runner up - Half-life 2 Hat as wellAll Others - 4 - 10 will get their submission posted on Planet-Halflife.Contest Rules:The contest is open to continental US and Canada only. Two submissions max per person. Please try and keep file sizes down. No submissions larger than 1.2Mb in size (no zip or rar files please).What are you waiting for? Start those submissions and send them to ME (halflife_84@planethalflife.com) - with the subject Scary Contest.Don't forget as well to visit Counter-Hack.net as they are going to be helping us in this contest.
Source: CS-Nationm4dp1x3l has put online his Counter-Strike: Source re-skin site. There you can find a lot of great looking re colored skins for the current player and weapon models. There only recolor's and not new models or completely new skins, since the Half-Life 2 SDK has not yet been released, but that does not take away that the once being offered on the site are not great looking. You can check it all out over at m4dp1x3l's Counter-Strike: RE-Source.