I'm finally back from my Thanksgiving holiday at my parents' house, and I can hardly believe it's already December! Where has this year gone?
Anyway, I had a couple of things I wanted to post today.
A recent episode of The Simpsons took Apple down a peg, as Springfield mall got its first "Mapple" store. It was quite enjoyable. Of course, all the YouTube links are gone now, so you'll have to find the episode yourself.
The next thing I wanted to post, also a video, is a new trailer released yesterday for the Black Mesa mod - a Half-Life 2 mod that is looking to recreate the original Half-Life with the Source engine, but with more content, higher resolution textures and models, and environments that take better advantage of the engine than Valve's original port of the game. Normally I don't get too excited over Source engine mods, since they rarely make good on their promises, or even get finished for that matter, but the amount of polish that has gone into this trailer makes me hope otherwise for Black Mesa. You can view the trailer below and find out more about the mod at the official site.
I played through a huge chunk of Half-Life 2 this holiday weekend, so I guess I'm a little bit excited about Half-Life in general again.
I'm glad to see that people found my recent set of examples interesting too, and I hope to get a fixed GM6 version of the 3D Rain example up sometime tonight. Sorry about the slow rain example, I'll play with it and see if I can get something up that's a little easier on the older machines soon as well!
That's all for now - thanks for reading, and I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving (or just a good weekend if you're not from the U.S.)!
Update: I've made a new GM6 file that should run better than the previous rain example, and which should load correctly in GM6. The area that the rain covers is a bit smaller than the original example, and the rain is a bit more sparse, but you should get the idea.
You can download the new example at the link above!
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10 years on and the Source engine is still going strong. I’ve been keeping an eye on Black Mesa for awhile now and it has simply got better and better over time, I can’t wait to play it.
Ten Years???
The source engine was finished in 2004, you must be thinking of the GoldSrc engine that powered half life 1. Now THATS been going ten years, but is discontinued.
The Simpson’s clips are already gone!
Boo, too bad… it was hilarious!
You should be able to find them on hulu.com
And have another contest while your at it.
Yeah, I want to win the next contest. Have another contest where I win.
Another contest is coming soon… post 100 is looming.
You can watch the Simpson’s clip here:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/shivi2004/videos/3/
Nevermind. I just saw Fred’s new link to Hulu.
Watch that one instead. It comes with an advertisement so you don’t have to feel guilty about ripping off the Fox Network.
Feeling guilty about ripping off the Fox Network? Nevah! Rupert Murdoch deserves it.
Way excited about the Black Mesa mod. This is what I was hoping for when Valve first talked about Half-Life Source. Caught the Simpsons. Nice to see some biting satire on there again. And I agree with Yourself — “Have another contest where I win.”
See? Even xot wants me to win!
Yeah. Contest would be nice. :)
Also, how come xot’s comment two above this one is dated after Yourself’s yet comes before it? Hmm…
Because 12 AM is the first hour of a day, not the last. ;)
But yeah, I’ll have another contest, or raffle, or something soon.
“Because 12 AM is the first hour of a day, not the last. ”
Oh, yeah, forgot about that. Boy that’s embarrassing…
Nah, don’t be embarrassed. When you first mentioned it, it took me a few moments of thought to figure out what was going on with it, so I wouldn’t say it was an obvious mistake. I thought there was a problem with it for a few minutes as well!