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Re: Idea
Posted by Gollum on Mon Sep 1st at 10:12am 2003


? posted by KoRnFlakes
meh, well I spus if we had a jumbot forum before, We can support a 2Dart forum.

I thought the Jumbot, Map Reviews and Help Wanted forums were all a waste of space.  I'm glad they have been removed.

I'd love to see more texture art on this site, but to be honest I don't think there is nearly enough to justify a whole forum.





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Re: Idea
Posted by Orpheus on Mon Sep 1st at 10:19am 2003


IMO, waste of space is in the eye of the beholder..

if we have 5 megs worth of texture questions scattered all over the general topic, or localized within a texture artist one, its still 5 megs..

i say, if cass is willing to commit himself to it whole heartedly.. he should have it..

it is a given, HL2 will rely on textures far more than HL1 did, why not have an area dedicated to it.

plus, even tho few used the jumbot forum, it still had users, should they have been punished for being few in numbers..??

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Re: Idea
Posted by KoRnFlakes on Mon Sep 1st at 11:41am 2003


since were on the subject of 2Dart, any idea of a plug-in or somesuch for photoshop to view .pct files? [addsig]



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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Sep 1st at 3:00pm 2003


my 2 cents.....personaly, the texture art area of mapping is where i need the most help......imho....  i could use a good resource for my s**tty little questions....i too get tired of not having the skillz to produce my own good looking work, and being limited to using everyone elses  stuff, as it rarely fits my needs, and makes me settle for something not quite what i wanted-ish.....how 'bout it Leper, ole dude??

...../me leaves popcorn trail towards the yes column....

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Sep 1st at 3:05pm 2003


i am betting, when grimlock gets here he will have a 1/2 page document on the pro's/con's of this idea.. wanna lay odds the "PRO" side will be a might bigger ..

 

/me uses brassmans dodgy smile cause he can't figure out how..

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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Sep 1st at 3:07pm 2003


grrr....me waves stick at bud Orpheus......grrrr

Dr Brasso...smiley

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Re: Idea
Posted by Cassius on Mon Sep 1st at 3:08pm 2003


"since were on the subject of 2Dart, any idea of a plug-in or somesuch for photoshop to view .pct files?"

Never heard of a PCT, what is it?





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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Mon Sep 1st at 3:10pm 2003


afaik "PICT" its some sort of image or batch of images I guess. Its what most of the files in Will Rocks texture folder are called & im interested in seeing what the actuall file type is myself.

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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Sep 1st at 3:12pm 2003


? posted by Cassius

"since were on the subject of 2Dart, any idea of a plug-in or somesuch for photoshop to view .pct files?"

Never heard of a PCT, what is it?

seems to be a macintosh photo according to me PSP..

my advice korn, use PSP to convert it to a .jpg

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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Sep 1st at 3:12pm 2003


actually, the "pct" extension is , i believe. for mac files...and as such are supported in PS7 and PSP 7

Dr Brasso...WHERES MY DAMN SMILEY??

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Posted by Cassius on Mon Sep 1st at 3:14pm 2003


Did a little research, and I found out that they're Mac's version of the BMP. A little more research and I found out what you can use to open them in Windows:

http://www.cerious.com/download.shtml

Thumbsplus version 6. Tell me if it doesn't work.

(Cough PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A SUCCESSFUL USE OF POTENTIAL TEXTURE ART FORUM Cough)





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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Mon Sep 1st at 3:14pm 2003


open with>psp - "Bitmap or PICT is too big to import"

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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Sep 1st at 3:15pm 2003


how damn big are the textures yer trying to open??

Dr B

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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Sep 1st at 3:26pm 2003


? posted by KoRnFlakes

open with>psp - "Bitmap or PICT is too big to import"

what version of PSP?

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Re: Idea
Posted by KoRnFlakes on Mon Sep 1st at 3:26pm 2003


dunno m8, but Will Rock has some of the nicest ancient style level design ive ever seen. The textures are v good so no doubt enormous.

+ orph v old version, 4/5 I dont use psp uc.

+cass, ta m8. dl it now, gonna take an hour though :/

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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Sep 1st at 3:32pm 2003


? posted by KoRnFlakes

dunno m8, but Will Rock has some of the nicest ancient style level design ive ever seen. The textures are v good so no doubt enormous.

+ orph v old version, 4/5 I dont use psp uc.

+cass, ta m8. dl it now, gonna take an hour though :/

mine is version 7, and maybe i could convert them for you, but have you tryed the link cass provided?

if all else fails, we can get them to me via my suitcase smiley

they cannot be over 15 meg pictures..

lemme know and i will help if i can..

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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Mon Sep 1st at 3:34pm 2003


nah, thas alright orph m8. There are loads and loads of em in there & itd be nice to have something to open/save them with in future. I do plan to map a little when they eventually release a level editor for WR.

im dl that proggy that cass linked to now.

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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Sep 1st at 3:39pm 2003


id love to mess with the textures korny....feel like giving up a link so maybe i can figure a solution?

Dr Brasso...

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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Mon Sep 1st at 3:41pm 2003


cant m8, im just looking at the textures that came in the Will Rock engine. http://www.will-rock.com/ I bought the game recently, Just wanted to look at the texture files so if I map for it later il understand the texture file type.

Theres probably a better proggy for them out, prolly for serious sam since its much the same engine. Great game for 20 quid.

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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Sep 1st at 3:44pm 2003


ahhhhhh....well, thanx anyway m8....might have to loosen up the ole wallet....

Doc B.....

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