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One more important sound we wanted you to hear

ViciouZ — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:06:24 +0000

I pretty much ran out of posts when the local shop ran out of energy drinks. Now, the last exams of my school career and exodus to university lay on the horizon. In the next couple of weeks though, I’ll hopefully have enough time to get back into a routine of posting stuff. I’ve been working on a load of things recently.

First of all: new programming project. Trench Breakthrough: Ypres is coming back once again, and I’m rolling my own engine in Javascript, using the new features which HTML5 and related specs (basically WebGL) have made possible. I’ve been working on this for a few months now – hopefully this’ll be big enough to have some posts of its own soon

Secondly, banterous.co.uk expansion, including the new domain “bantero.us“, thanks to webhead. So far it’s been a site for sharing demos, but soon it will be a general DP:PB2 utility site, hosting demos in addition to a map database and other tools which were once provided by sk89q’s Digital Paint Resource site. The reference sections of that site will be replaced by the wiki which webhead is currently developing on the banterous hosting. f3l1x, the author of some awesome server tools is also helping out. And another developer called Payl has developed a banterous demo downloader

I’ve also been trying to finish Cold War City for release, having done another 3 betas or so.

Hell, maybe I’ll even put some content up here that is actually useful for once instead of just a brain dump. You never know

Cold War City Won!

ViciouZ — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:07:07 +0000

Rudloe: Cold War City won the xMapCom contest, with a total 85% score!

I would post a link to the thread, but the dplogin.com server appears to be crapped atm.

edit: http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=18628.0

Cold War City: Update

ViciouZ — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:58:57 +0000

After a plea for help on the Digital Paint forums, fellow mapper Cusoman is going to help finish the Cold War City paintball map. His previous work includes propaint3, which was immediately used as a match map before even leaving beta. He’s also part of the Flawless Mapping team, having worked on flaw_mines and flaw_fbasin, and another upcoming map. Hopefully his experience at the more gameplay related elements of mapping will really improve the map’s playability, which is one of its current failings.

On another topic, I’ve also started getting into a more regular habit of coding for the ioquake3-mod Trench Breakthrough: Ypres, which will hopefully be released in a year or five, and then standaloned after that. The current gamecode is effectively that of quake 3 but with a few subtle changes – quite a few redundant features have been removed and there is a simple class system in the works. Earlier today I did some work on the game and clientgame modules to create a vapour trail effect for shells based on the current railtrail effect, and also added a screen shake effect for nearby shell explosions. The project is looking for any experienced openGL programmers, modelers, mappers and graphic or sound artists to help out, so if you fit any of those, are interested in helping out and just somehow happen to be reading this blog, please check out the site at www.trenchbreakthrough.com and email me, using the address viciouz@.

Map preview: Cold War City

ViciouZ — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:36:05 +0000

I just finished one half of a paintball map I’ve been working on for a Digital Paint: Paintball mapping contest, details of which can be found here. The theme of the contest is underground, and I tried to give the map a lot of atmosphere. I’ve even made some custom textures and sounds with the help of a friend. I doubt it will place highly in the contest knowing the skills of the other competitors, but I am proud of it. So proud, in fact, that I took some screenshots.

The map’s title comes from a song, a 2 minute clip of which can be found on YouTube here.