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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QMYfkOtYYlg 

wasn't too bad. But as you said it's unfinished and personally I thought it threw cheap tricks at the player.

I'm working on it a bit now. I'm sure it won't take as long as my first map since it will be half as detailed. It wont be throwing ridiculous traps at the player either, very much vanilla style. The other thing is that I'm a bit concerned that I have deviated from the theme a little since the textures are properly aligned on my base map (unlike Romero's misaligned texture horror-shows). 

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Thanks! 

This realtime raytracing stuff continues to amaze me, if you have a recent enough nvidia GPU you should be able to run it.

http://raytracey.blogspot.be/2013/11/new-real-time-path-tracer-arauna-2.html

Imagine all those elaborate hacky rasterization schemes that just go away with realtime pathtracing. 

http://youtu.be/HfiHOpv6HtI 

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http://www.bluesnews.com/a/2594/rip-hudson-the-wonder-dog 

That would have gone right by me. 

Have any of you guys heard or seen this mod? It was just released on steam for free, unusual delivery IMO and I'm surprised that it's still being worked on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SppLbw9uoxA 

Looks cool man. U tried it? 

Need to get HL reinstalled I think and have a go of this badboy. 

I played it like, over a year ago. It's pretty nice but REALLY short, unless they've added stuff beyond the map shown in the video.

That being said, there are plenty of other reasons to reinstall HL. 

this is either awesome or completely retarded, and I can't decide which:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/finnmorgan/sprite-lamp-dynamic-lighting-for-2d-art 

 

A QExpo. 

 

It looks cool, I hope it works out.

However, I've done that in the past by... drumroll... handpainting the normals. :P And this software does it by... handpainting the normals? :/

It's easy enough, just do 4 direcions, combine vertical in X, horizontal in Y and run it through a normalizer.

Problem I have with these tools is there's a lot of half baked ones around. Crazybump was most useful untill development just stopped. And now there's things like nDo for PS which have good features but are slow as hell and still have messy integration.

Still, more and better tools never hurt. 

would it not be possible to do only two directions (north-east and south-west) instead of four? 4 extra frames is a big jump in work. 

There's also Knald (https://www.knaldtech.com/) which is sort of a CrazyBump replacement, but is actively being developed. 

Using 4 frames is much more verbose and averages out any error. You can also do 2 drawings, simply the horizontal and vertical but use 3 tones per channel (dark, light, midtone). The downside is you'll need to manage the transitions carefully or it might be easy to end up with pillow shading. I think it's easier for a lot of people to break it down into 2 seperate lights per channel mentally -- addition is more how light is supposed to work. If you're an experienced painter you can simply do the X/Y axis. I think using only 2 channels in a opposite diagonal way means the artist needs to manage his midtone very carefully and the program's heuristic might screw up.

Anyway, this is a bit of a chicken egg problem also. I did try the handpainting normal sprites once, but the issue was there were no easy 2.5D engines available I could test it with. And I'm too stupid to program something myself. 

http://zarria.net/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html 

Nowadays one could just take some more photos and generate a 3D model instead. 

but you need much more sophisticated software for that 

http://insight3d.sourceforge.net/

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/bundler/

http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ 

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