Tune 'Prototstar' Katerungroch Devblog

Vanguard Progress

2011-10-17T10:08:00.001-07:00

2011-10-10T01:50:00.000-07:00

Progress on Avant-Garde for Men of War: Vanguard. It's going slowly but steadily. Still trying to decide how to transit from the beach to the mainland.

An Update

2011-09-18T00:25:00.000-07:00

Result with the map so far. Sorry for lack of update lately, college and work has been keeping me away from the project. It's still progressing slowly though.

A Fortunate Update and Personal Life

2011-08-16T15:52:00.000-07:00

First off, I would like to apologizes for the lack of updates and news from me. Due to the recent personal problem at home and with the Verizon, and with college time taking up most of my spare times I was unable to have any time to bother to write any.
Secondly, college has started for me and I won't have any time to work on my game project except over the weekends until I get my driver license.

But, expect a screenshot of the Avant-Garde map from me sometimes this week.

[WIP]Avant-Garde beach

2011-08-06T15:59:00.000-07:00

Storming the Beachhead

2011-08-06T03:46:00.000-07:00

"Vanguard is a singleplayer and multiplayer modification for original Men of War series, set during World War 2 in a fictional war-torn European environments."

First News, and Progress on Vanguard
Finally the first official Moddb news from us (well, more like 'me'). For those that are interested, I've been quite busy working churning out contents in Photoshop for past weeks, putting countless of hours and efforts to create high quality art and so far the results are showing, which can be seen in the Media Gallery. You can also check out the outdated media from the the first month of production here to see how much Men of War: Vanguard has changed.

Simple and Short Media Release
Here are the two media for August. It's not much, but they're something to show that it's being worked on.

For those that knew nothing about the early production of Vanguard, Avant-Garde originally began as myfirst map for Men of War, inspired by the "Saving Private Bryan" mission from the classic Sudden Strike game that I played many years ago. Infact, much of the mod concepts were inspired by Sudden Strike series, Blitzkrieg and World War III: Black Gold.

Despite the fact that the Avant-Garde map was completed a while back, I took another re-run with it and was dissatisfied and disappointed with the quality and lack of consistency in the map. In the end I decided to reconstruct the entire map again, making sure to avoid repeating the same problems this time.

The Team & Recruitment
I've been asked by several viewers about the team and who is working on it. Fallen Angels Entertainment Studio was established way back in January by me. However at the moment I'm currently the only one working on the mod.

Though, it would be nice to have a helping hand from another individual. Right now I'm looking for a dedicated, and talented music composer who would like to join the team to compose ambient music and soundtrack for the mod. I'm also looking for an additional 2D texture artist that can re-skin the models (mainly vehicles, weapons, and buildings) to give it a much more realistic appearance. Experience with 3DS Max and producing 3d assets is a plus. If you're interested, please contact me through studio email or private message, thanks!

Please be sure to provide a portfolio and show past work. If you have none your application for the position will be declined.

Conclusion
Vanguard is coming along well, and hopefully it can be released by second quarter of next year or so. The standards for Vanguard I've set is quite high, so that players and modders alike can enjoy the custom assets the team has created for everyone to play with.

Grab your gears and board the LCVP! We're storming the coastline!

FAE Official Site | Contact Us | Personal Devblog | FAE Facebook Page

Vanguard Menu

2011-08-05T02:14:00.001-07:00

The menu has been completed!

Vanguard Briefing

2011-07-30T13:28:00.000-07:00

The progress for Men of War: Vanguard is coming along nicely. Since I'm the only one working on the mod I have to jump back and forth between the roles to accomplish the tasks.

Currently Working On:
- Creating a brand new UI skin
- Working on Hunting Preys map
- Revamping the menu
- Overhauling the environment textures

My Workstation

2011-07-24T03:17:00.001-07:00

Vanguard Update

2011-07-19T02:58:00.001-07:00

Screenshot demonstrates graphical updates on Hunting Preys mission.

Another Major News

The project has been renamed to Vanguard.

Hunting Preys

2011-07-11T03:52:00.000-07:00

The actual first mission for the Soviet campaign that I'm working on for Avante-Garde mod. The mission highlights the Soviet pilots trying to make their way across the harsh Russian winter from their downed flight inside the enemy territory to find a refuge before making radio contact with the Soviet armies.

Allied Campaign - "Behind Enemy Lines" Media

2011-06-23T23:05:00.000-07:00

Avante-Garde Menu

2011-06-20T02:05:00.000-07:00

Avante-Garde Mod Media Release #1

2011-06-07T01:19:00.000-07:00

Fallen Angels Entertainment & Avante-Garde Graphics

2011-06-06T09:57:00.000-07:00

FA Team (As of 1/5/11)

2011-01-05T16:41:00.000-08:00

Tune 'Prototstar' Katerungroch - Game Designer/Project Lead

Andres Martinez-Hernandez - Music Composer

Men of War: Assault Squad Unlocks and New Open Beta

2011-01-04T14:07:00.001-08:00

Dear Beta tester,

Men of War: Assault Squad has improved significantly over the last couple months, thanks in no small part to the help that you've given us. However, the open beta has now run it's course and we will be closing it down during the day.

None the less, while we occupy ourselves with preparing the final version of the game, we'd still like to present you an opportunity for continued play in the near future.

Our Steam group is one of the largest official game groups available and we'd like to see it continue to grow. That said, if our official Men of War: Assault Squad steam group reaches the 20,000 member count, we'll reactivate the open beta and add the Soviet Union as a playable faction as appropriate thanks.

That gives us the necessary time to focus on the Gold master, while also providing us an opportunity to fulfill the demand for a continued and up to date beta.

The Red Army is waiting for you!

If you are already a member of our group and invited all your friends. You might also be interested in checking out our DMS Facebook page:
DMS on Facebook

Your Digitalmindsoft Community Management

Progress on Avante-Garde

2011-01-03T16:53:00.001-08:00

GEM Editor Video Tutorial Published

2011-01-03T12:45:00.001-08:00

Avante-Garde Mod Announced

2011-01-02T23:56:00.001-08:00

Publish Post

Devblog | Forum Thread | Youtube

Avante-Garde is entirely fictional, but its timeline is on the same line as the Normandy landings. It began with Allied troops crossing the English channel to storm the beachhead along northern France coastline. The troops will land at the six sectors, and among the six sectors is the one Avante-Garde will focus on- a sector codenamed Avante-Garde, a strong coastal fortification that laids between Omaha and Gold beach. The divisions assigned to Avante-Garde were given objectives to take out the coastal artillery and secure the beach.

- Fallen Angels Team

Hey!

2010-04-05T11:09:00.003-07:00

Just to you guys out there, I'm still alive and kicking. I'm just working on a secret projects, that's all. :)

2009-08-31T22:36:00.000-07:00

Inferno raging near my home several dozen miles away from me. The fire is located in Oakland I think. Mother Nature is showing her mighty fury!

“And where two waging fires meet together

They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Though little fire grows great with little wind,

Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.” ~ William Shakespeare

Messing around, or was I?

2009-08-22T15:04:00.000-07:00

Went for a different approach to designing a metal texture from scratch. Made a hi-polies plane and baked it on to a low-poly plane. Then I went and did the typical method: painted the A.O map. The result was this. I'm still trying to get a hang of 3ds Max.

Hey!

2009-08-15T22:30:00.001-07:00

Anyone want to learn how to creating texture from baking hi-polies model? Here are some good tutorials you can follow.

Making A Texture Set - Team Blur Wiki
Baking AO Maps - Game-Artist.net

Lost and confused. School is approaching as well.

2009-08-08T22:23:00.000-07:00

School is just around the corner and I'm getting ready. My prediction of how my first day of school will be like:
1. Wake up and might be late for school, probably will miss out my 1st period class.
2. Have to help my sister, who is now a freshmen, to find her class.
3. Sleepy and unable to concentrate.
4. Fail the tests.
5. Might accidentally make a fool of myself.
6. Will probably be hate by classmates and teachers.
7. Massive long lunch line!
8. Dropout of AP classes. I'm already losing confidence.

Nothing positive as you can see. I guess it's part of my nature to always look at the bad side as the 'best' part of the day.

Few days of being M.I.A (Probably one or two days so far?) from PC to finish three of my summer works had already got me lost on what had happened at H.A.G.S while I was away. Apparently alot had happened while I was off.

The BlackSector team are discussing about regarding the teams, races, gameplay, top-priority features, and many interesting good shits. Some of the posts posted by members from the team are, if copied and pasted on to the document file, would be at least a page and 3/4 long on default setting, that is nearly 2 pages! Daamn. Many interesting suggestions are exchanging between each developers. Surprisingly, we got couple of talents who recently joined the team. Ghost, a music composer, Punky, amateur level designer and texture artist.

Braedn, our programmer, recently came back after being M.I.A for about a week or two. Phew! The production shall go forward now!

It's really a shame that I can't be active to work with the team!

Recent Moddb article posted by Unreal1ty.

Just a short update on our primary project BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. We are working constantly to bring up a stable alpha version of the game and to start playtesting and bug tracking.

Posted by Unreal1ty on Aug 8th, 2009 digg this super bookmark

BLACKSECTOR - Fear The Future

Just a short update on our primary project BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. We are working constantly to bring up a stable alpha version of the game and to start playtesting and bug tracking. In the last days we talked a lot about the game mechanics and the upcoming gametype BLACKSECTOR is featuring. I just can tell everybody, it is going to be really interesting and unique. We have lots of stuff coming up in the next days and so i am full of hope to keep you up to date here on ModDB. Check out this amazing concept art above from Leevitron, who provides us with great soldier designs to work on.

And now, i am very proud to announce that LowPings.net is supporting our development with a free game server to get on with the first alpha built of BLACKSECTOR. They will offer us a free game server during the development phase, so that we can make BLACKSECTOR even more better and more badass. Thank you so much, LowPings.net!

THEBLACKSECTOR.COM - Our official website

BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. - Enlist to the officially Steam Group
BlackSectorTC - The new official YouTube channel
BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. on Twitter

BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N - Behind the Scenes

2009-08-02T15:00:00.000-07:00

BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N - Behind the Scenes
Blacksector media release #9 came out yesterday. So far we have received a lot of positive feedbacks from the fans and over 500 visits yesterday and 200 visits today. Quite amazing, the media release was clean , prepared and well-organized. Only troubling was a very long wait for the media article to be authorized. It was worth the wait though.

Human Armor Game Studios is working hard to push a stable public beta out the door as soon as possible for players to play. This decision was made to allows the developers to make further improvements and to enhance gameplays accordingly. The developers are following the 'milestone system' to ensure that they are doing the works one level at a time. Or to explains it simpler:

The first milestone is to get all the basis functions working.
Second milestone is to finish a couple of basic maps.
Third milestone is to focus on what is the most important features that will enhance gameplay.
Lastly, the fourth milestone is to add in additional features that would improve the gameplay or graphic but not essential to the core.

Because we're following this system it permits us to progress fast toward our first beta release which might be toward the end of 2009 or the first quarter of 2010 if we're fortunate enough. From that point we can make changes or add-on to the foundation of the game.

Sander2 of Liberty Studio did an excellent job at designing BlackSector website. The design capture a feeling of a dark apcoalypse in futuristic era. Big thanks to him for contributing to the mod. Speaking of website, we're in the process of moving server because the current webhost provider the forum is hosted on sucks really bad. Terrible downtime, too much nodes error especially at 0000 hour or 12:00AM PST. Hopefully those issues will be resolve once we move.

At the time I'm writing out the current blog article, Paws, and [O] recently joins Human Armor Game Studios to work on BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. An additional member, Pizzadox from 7even mod decided to help us as well.

Below is the list of active Human Armor Game Studio members (copied from Contact page):

Unreal1ty
Braeden
N3WMAN
Nightwolf63
Prototstar
Tobie
SandeR2
Pizzadox
Paws
[O]

Below is a media article #9 copied from Moddb.

BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N.

Update #9

We have worked pretty hard on BLACKSECTOR to present you some new impressions of our project. Today I am really proud in a way to show the first actual ingame footage of the mod. And not just one map or a small preview, you can see about three different maps we are currently working on.

A few weeks ago, Dayonic from a great website about modding called GamesModding.com, asked me if I could write an Guest Article about our project and the development. This was quite difficult for me, because I didn't have just to answer questions, I had to write something about our work on my own. What came out can be read HERE. I think it is interesting, because I talked about the beginning of the mod, from the entire idea and the uneasy development until today.

We want to give you the first ingame impressions from BLACKSECTOR. Always have in mind that these images are still hardly work in progress without textures and models, there are even a lot of placeholders. We are currently working on the Head-Up-Display, too, but maybe there will be not as much as you know from other games or from the original Half-Life. The screen will be pretty clean, clean to give you the best sight across the battelfield.

Work In Progress - Ingame Screenshots

And here we go with two new weapon renders. I can tell you, that we almost finished the texturing of the weapons and maybe on next time we can show you some heavy weaponry in the game already. And if you guys are interested in joining our team, then please give me a call (via PM, forum or whatever). Because we are in a definitely need of 3D Artists, especially for our character design. But at first, just enjoy the new rifles:

M3 & M19

And as I promised before, we have finally a full featured BLACKSECTOR website up and running just for you. By the way I want to thank the man of the hour: Sander. You did a great job. So if you have any further questions or interest on the BLACKSECTOR universe, go to theblacksector.com and discover the future war.

Discover the BlackSector Universe

THEBLACKSECTOR.COM - Check out our new website@ Twitter

BlackSector: Subject H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. on Twitter
BlackSector: Subject HORIZON on GAMESMODDING.COM

Choose your faction,
Unreal1ty

Let's Go

2009-07-22T13:17:00.000-07:00

I spent around 3 hours last night revamping the portfolio and managed to finish it by today early morning at 8AM. The site should be much more easy to navigate and the style blend well with its surrounding unlike the Version 4.0 template. I eliminated the Highslide JS thumbnails, removed google ads, altered the width of the page, and revamped the navigation.

You can check the legacy versions by clicking the links below:
Version 4.0
Version 3.0
Version 2.0
Version 1.0

There are three maps I'm currently working on at the moment. Two are currently in active production. Unfortunately DM_Processing will be put on hiatus because it is on my least priority list. To see the picture of them you can go visit my portfolio and click on Work in Progress.

Free-stylin' with Arts for Fun.

2009-07-14T00:50:00.000-07:00

For past several nights I've been awfully busy at work with mixing up many Photoshop techniques and experimenting with each one of them to obtains the results I want for the futuristic metals. I'll probably write up some guides on designing textures using variety of methods. For now here is the picture explaining how I make a texture from multiple photos.

Several more textures using mixtures of Photoshop filters, custom brushes, heavy effects, image adjustment, and photographs.

... I wish I have a Wacom tablet. :3

Anyway, I made an update to my portfolio. Some changes are: Removed several amateur works, added in my latest creations, and made some changes to the javascript.

And some of the maps I've been working on:
These two pictures are two different maps for two of the mods I'm working on: Construction: Future Sites and Opposing Force 2. They are both deathmatch and the setting will be set in dark futuristic industrial environment similar to Prey, FEAR and DOOM 3. It is currently in its early development stage hence the blank look to it.

Version 8 coming soon near you.

2009-07-01T03:18:00.000-07:00

Clicky click!

New version *might* come out tomorrow.

2009-06-27T09:31:00.000-07:00

Name:

gg_vacant_cod4_beta

Version:

7.5 (FINAL)

Requirements:

Counter Strike Source

Mirror 1:

http://prototstar.com/maps/dm_vacant_cod4.rar

Mirror 2:

http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/100003

FPSBanana thread:

http://www.fpsbanana.com/wips/21889

Interlopers thread:

http://www.interlopers.net/forum/vie...hp?f=4&t=25266

Description:

A CoD4 Vacant map remake for CSS!

Direction: Extract to cstrike/maps folder or to the Garry's Mod maps folder.

Credits: Thanks to my friends, Interlopers.net, FPSBanana.com, Half-LifeCreations.com, Nican132.net, and the fans for their support, tips, suggestions, comments, and inspiration.

I'm aware the map isn't close to the scale of CoD4 but it might be the scale of the two engines are different.

==========
CHANGELOG FOR FINAL (v7.5)
==========
(Possibly Final Version)

- Cubemaps for LDR and HDR players
- Decreased lightmaps in certain area to 2
- The ceiling windows now casts proper shadow
- Ts now spawn inside the building. CT now spawn outside the building.
- Fixed the windows in the CT spawn where players are able to jump through the windows
- Warehouse section is done
- Truss in the warehouse now cast shadow
- Added rope from warehouse to the electric pole.
- Majority of physic props are now unmovable.
- Hole in the bathroom wall are now easier to move across without crouching
- 3d skybox ground now properly merges with the ingame ground
- Map compile w/ -final -both -staticpropslighting command.

Server

Name: Official iBreakRules.com CSS Custom Maps 24/7
IP : 64.27.16.66:27025
Password: ibreakrules
Map: dm_vacant_cod4
Players : 12 max

- NO RADAR
- NO NAV

I tried making each of them but in the end it didn't work, if somebody can make it I will appreciates it. You will be given credits.

Vacant Beta 5 released!

2009-06-25T00:49:00.001-07:00

Name:

gg_vacant_cod4_beta

Version:

Beta 5

Requirements:

Counter Strike Source

Mirror 1:

http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/99823

Mirror 2:

http://prototstar.com/maps/gg_vacant_cod4_beta.rar

FPSBanana thread:

http://www.fpsbanana.com/wips/21889

Interlopres thread:

http://www.interlopers.net/forum/vie...hp?f=4&t=25266

Description:

Screenshots

Portfolio updated.

2009-06-22T15:35:00.000-07:00

Website is done! YAAAAH! http://prototstar.com/ My goal was to keep it simple and have the focus points on ads and the pictures. :3

Source SDK Update: Normal2SSBump

2009-06-21T22:46:00.001-07:00

Normal2SSBump

The latest SDK update features a new useful tool called 'Normal2SSbump' which is basically a tool that converts normalmap to SSBump. This is useful because the unofficial Normal2SSBump tool by The_Best_Flash won't work on Window XP 64-bits Edition.

It is a simple drag-and-drop step but I'm sure there are more advanced settings out there through use of BAT and command line. You basically drag the normalmap file from Folder X over to Normal2SSBump.exe and the converter will save the SSbump in the same folder as the normal you converted from.

2009-05-29T06:42:00.000-07:00

I’ve made a lot of progress so far, from the engine perspective.
- Finished setting up most of the necessary files for the modification to function properly.
- Finished setting up the online wiki.
- Coded in sprint effect.
- Coded in several new Russian weapons: AK-47, Klin, Makarov, RPK, Dragnov.
- Fixed missing sounds and sprites, which were not showing up when called upon.
- Forced most weapons to use particle effects instead of sprites.
- Mounted Episode 2 contents.
For map:
- Fixed ambient lighting. Shadow is no longer pitch black like it was.
- Expanded the map to make player more aware of his surrounding.
- Optimized map, thus decreasing the compiling time and improving performance.
- Increased the SunSpread Angle, thus making the lighting more diffuse.
- Added in info_nodes for AI to move from spot to spot more easily.
- Reduced HDR bloomscale from 2 to 0.8.
- Increased FogEnd to 3000, decreased FogStart to 100.

My todo list at the moment for the Source Engine:
- Add in weapon recoil system.
- Add in ironsight system.
- Add in a bullet spread effect, determined by the posture player is in.
- Add in Viewpunch effect for walking and sprinting.
- Add in toggle-able HUD.

My todo list at the moment for Chapter 1 – The Compound:
- Finalize the layout.
- Finalize color correction

Hivac Release Candidate 1 released!

2009-05-10T13:22:00.001-07:00

The development of Hivac map is now updated to Release Candidate status!

Production Date: April 25, 2009-May 10, 2009.

==============================================================================
Name: Deathmatch Hivac
==============================================================================
Gamemode: Deathmatch
Release Date:
Version: RC 1
Author: Prototstar
Homepage http://www.prototstar.com
==============================================================================
Description: Hivac a medium size map suitable for an intense 12 players DEATHMATCH.
==============================================================================
Instruction:

1. Extract it to your Counter Strike Source/cstrike/maps folder.
2. Start up Counter Strike Source.
3. Start server and select map.
4. Play!

2009-05-03T00:12:00.000-07:00

Sweet mercy. I was able to finally put together my new rig on Friday of last week. The performance was a biggest improvement and I'm loving every bits of it.

MSI K9N Platinum SLI Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.8GHz Dual Cores AM2
4x1GB Crucial DDR2 800mhz PC 6400
Nvidia 8600GT 512MB PCI-Express x16
Thermaltake 600W 24pins ATX PSU

Anyway, currently working on a Counter Strike Source map, Hivac Industrial. It is about 85%. Things to do left:

Finish texturing.
Add in ropes.
Add in special effects.
More testing.

Very short but hell. The process of texturing is lengthy.

Pssh.

2009-04-25T02:26:00.000-07:00

2009-01-07T21:47:00.001-08:00

Winter break is nearing the end. My fellow mates in other states and countries are already going back to school while us so-Cals still stuck with few more days of warm vacation. Such a wonderful treatment. I get to poke fun at them. Sadly I'll eventually have to return to school to and they'll have their pleasant revenge. All thing must come to the end. Ah well.

Operation Black Mesa is becoming more active than I recalled two years ago. Several new members that got accepted into the team are:

Craziestdan - Environment Texture Artist
PSJ - Environment Texture Artist
Chumchum - Props Model Designer

Pending applications:

Ravage - Level Designer
Bono_Estente - Level Designer
Nicadeamas - Level Designer
Abyss 25 - Model Designer & Texture Artist
Gravewrecker - Texture Artist

Congratulation to the accepted applicants. May the creative power guide them to produce quality works! To the pending applicants, good luck on your assignment.
The team is growing larger which mean we will be able to progress at faster speed. That also mean each members will be able to work cooperatively and to give larger feedback.

Anyhow, I'll begin writing short article of texture-related each time I post a new blog.

Textures - Beginner

What is texture?
In art definition there are two 'terms.'
Describes how third-dimension works feel when come in contact (Or preferably touched).
In two-dimension it describes visually how an object would feel.
Such example can be a real life concrete wall. Its surface is rough and hard. In 2-D, an artist would create a type of effects or illusions to give it an appearance of rough surface by use of color, line, shape, etc.

How are textures used in game?
Textures can be use for many purposes in the virtual world. It give an identity of a location. It alters how the player feel, react, and think in the environment. Such image can change the atmosphere of the world, too. Take Portal, a FPS-puzzle game developed by Valve, for example. The majority of the test chambers look and feel clean. Why? The textures and lighting. The clean wall, floor, and ceiling combined with a cold-blue lighting give out a peaceful and calm mood.

Operation Christmas

2008-12-23T00:45:00.000-08:00

Splendid news everyone...

I'm getting a laptop! Finally an item I've been wanting for the past several years. Hopefully I hope I can get HP Pavilion HDX since it specification seem to match what I wants. With this new laptop I will be able to pull out a much better quality release.

Christmas arrived, school is out, my time can be focused on working alongside with Operation Black Mesa team and their mod. Since the Vayne incident, progress began to picks up and we're releasing a Christmas MR pretty soon. I'm praying for a success release so we can get many new applicants. ESpecially Animator, texture artist, and another programmer. Level designers would be a plus but not really needed at the moment...

I lost my favorite Canon SD500 digital camera. Haven't been able to find it ANYWHERE. My suspects are my two younger sisters. Damn them to hell. Damn them. Why can't God invents a SEARCH button when we, us human, needs them the most? Help the poor goddamnit! That was a really decent camera with 7.1 MegaPixel and excellent quality photos. What's worse is that it has pictures of my friends and reference photos I took; none of them have been upload on to my HDD yet.

I'm not enjoying my winter break. It's too long, too boring, and it's unpleasant to sit around house listening to my dad's lectures. Biking every day for two and a half hours alone is boring when one doesn't have a friend to tag along. (They're out of state/country or doesn't know where I live or they doesn't bike.)

What to do? I was hoping to use my digital camera to take picture of flowers.

Looking forward to second semester of school. I will try harder this time to achieve straight A's. (Yeah right, I'm a lazy snob who lacks motivation to do works at home but prefer to do them at school.)

Long time no see

2008-09-14T16:05:00.000-07:00

It've been a while since my last post. Reason why I haven't make any lately was due to my lack of interest and because of school. Anyway, on about Mobile Infantry. I've taken up co-leader position, webmaster, texture artist, and level design position. The mod have been moving smoothly along and we actually got ourselves a nice .COM domain. You can visit us here.

I've been thinking of continuing my singleplayer mod codename RADON.
Short summary: Set in Half Life 2 universe before the arrival of Gordon Freeman and the uprising of City 17 resistances there was once a successful resistance movement that has occurred in California, United States. The Cal-citizens were deeply unrest and tension between the Combine and the people of the state were reaching an all time high level. Unknown numbers of riot and protest as well as organized crime have broken out over time against the Combine. However these movement were quickly and brutally suppressed
Player assumes the role of a protagonist, Bruce Weyberk, citizen of California and former member of a Hellhound Resistance group.

New PC build. :)

2008-08-05T15:26:00.000-07:00

I bought all the necessary hardware for my new PC rig.

Crucial 2GB 2x1GB DDR800 PC 6400
Pioneer 18x DVD+/-RW DL SATA Drive (Silver) CD Burner
nVidia 512MB 8600GT GDDR3 PCI-E x16
Window Vista Ultimate 32-Bits Operating System
Black 600W SATA ATX 20+4Pins 12V 4 pins

Can't wait to assemble it. :)

Vacant map remake on Counter strike!?

2008-07-29T01:43:00.000-07:00

Yes, there was a recent release of a CoD4 map remake for Counter Strike. The released version is over here. There happen to be another Vacant map being work in progress as well. Check the WIP of it over here. And then finally I am also remaking Vacant for Counter Strike. It's close to release. Here are some of the progress I've made.

My Orange Box games are pretty much screwed up right now so I can't test any OB maps at the moment. Including my map battle for Interloper Competition #26.

Starship Trooper mod

2008-07-25T08:52:00.000-07:00

I have lack of interest in typing out articles because I don't have much to speak. I guess I'll have this article talk about Starship Trooper.

While working on , I stumbled across a Starship Trooper mod page on Moddb. The idea of bringing back the Outpost battle in which the first movie was famous for intrigue me.

Sadly it was abandoned long time ago just like the Mobile Infantry Total Conversion mod I discovered several years ago. Now, I have only saw the first Starship Trooper movie but that was nearly a decade ago. The movie was pretty awesome and I can't recall how many time I have seen it rerun on TV. Even then I'm surpised by the fact that I am still interested in it. Starship Trooper is the least thing people would take interest in but once it's started the result would be ripe.

I contacted the leader of Starship Trooper Outpost (The project was abandoned) to see if he is interest in resurrecting the mod again. Unexpectingly, he say yes and told me why he left the project. Anyway, I was glad he accepted. I'm looking forward to working in a mod with him.

THere are couple of features I would like to see in SST mod.

Singleplayer and Multiplayer Co-Op version
Starship Trooper weapons from the movie
Remake of famous Outpost Whiskey
New missions while still remaining true to the SST
Utilizing the Episode 2 engine.

While I am not certainly sure the project will lift off or not but I do wants it to worth while.

Anyway, that's enough for today. I'll go and work on my project.

Going for artistic

2008-07-15T12:24:00.000-07:00

I've always want to earn money by myself because I'm a firm believer of 'if you wants something, earn it.' There are not many stuff I wants to buy but those items that is in my list are:

High performance computer
Mid-Performance laptop
Car
Dedicated Servers
3 24" Widescreen LCD monitors

Now if I were to break it down into technical stuff, it would be a heap load of hardware to buy for computer, laptop, and servers. Car is in my list because I would like to be able to go to stores to get what I needs. (Foods, hardware, sport equipments. etc etc.) rather than waiting and listening to my parents' complains. Dedicated servers are there so I can host my own servers for games or private servers such as World of Warcraft, Runescape, Counter Strike, Garry Mod, or web hosting.

I have decided to start making money by putting up Adsense on my blog, and websites that I have hosted. I'll also be writing some online articles as well for some extra income. Lastly I am able to do 2D/3D graphic design and website programming (HTML, CSS) so those are some huge advantages- that is if I could find the customers.

First blog up.

2008-07-13T09:26:00.000-07:00

My first blogging of this blog. Yay. :)