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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Aug 8th at 5:03am 2008

Well, I don't know about anybody else, but it sure seems very quiet around here on snarkpit these days, there are cob webs all over the snarkpit logo, look closely and you will seem them too.

It seems that I am the oldest active snarkpit member and that's a scary thought, very scary.

It seems as though all the admins have died, I never see Gwil, Reno or Fishy ever, not even on steam any more, and all the awesome members have vanished, I would name them but there are too many to type out.

So, I think that we need to reunite as a community, here are some of my fresh new ideas to try and liven up the community:

- We start a chess competition again, but actually go through with it
- We have a really simile mapping competition that ANYBODY can easily enter, both source mappers and goldsource mappers
- We have other competitions such as drawing competitions or "make a desktop wallpaper in photoshop" competition
- I create another desktop pictures thread (jokes image)
- We have a thread where we post awesome youtube movies
- We create a snarkpit hamachi group
... and I'm all out of ideas for now..

However, the first thing I think we should do is take attendance, all the remaining members need to make a post (just a "yeah, I'm here" will do) so that we acknowledge the fact that you are still here, feel free to toss in some ideas on how to freshen up the snarkpit aswell or feel free to toss anything in actually image.

Oh... and when are we going to use the new snarkpit?

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Where have all the members gone?


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Posted by tnkqwe on Fri Aug 8th at 5:16am 2008

I'm going to the mountains for some time!Check the calendar for an aswer:I'ts the summer hollydays!Every body is going somewhere to get away from home,to have a rest...
SCHOOL SUX!
SCHOOL SUX!
SCHOOL SUX!
That's the second reazon everybody want's a rest.


Never think about bad things!
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Posted by Jinx on Fri Aug 8th at 4:38pm 2008

Since the place isn't being used as much, can we use the extra bandwidth to quit compressing map images to the point of artifacts and distortion?

I am wondering where people are as well, though. Yes, HL1 mapping is probably about dead. But what about Source mapping? And Unreal mapping? Is it that most of us were HL1 mappers, and either quit mapping or didn't move on to a new engine?

Where else are people going in terms of resources for Source mapping? Is HL2/Source mapping sort of dead already? I'm wondering if I should just skip it and move on to Unreal and Maya work now.


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Posted by tnkqwe on Fri Aug 8th at 4:48pm 2008

Agood question is WHERE THE HELL IS Leperous???The creator of The SnarkPit hasn't been visiting his site since Dec 8th 2007.
WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU Leperous???


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Posted by Le Chief on Sat Aug 9th at 1:29am 2008

? quoting Jinx
Where else are people going in terms of resources for Source mapping? Is HL2/Source mapping sort of dead already?


Well, I still know heaps of people that work in the source engine (I know I am working on something that I am going to present on snarkpit maybe later this month <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">), I think that source is still very strong but probably not as strong as I remember it, I know that the Unreal 3 engine is a big thing though, lots of people are working with it and there are lots of folks into modeling.

As far as Half-life 1 goes, TWHL is still an extremely strong Half-life 1 community and we have a few active members that are making stuff for Goldsource.

? quoting tnkqwe
Agood question is WHERE THE HELL IS Leperous???The creator of The SnarkPit hasn't been visiting his site since Dec 8th 2007.
WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU Leperous???


Ah yes, I have asked this question before as well, at first I was convinced that he secretly visits us every now and then, but now, I think he really never visits. And Dec 8th 2007 is his last post, he hasn't been an active member for years, I remember that the first ever thread I made on this website, leprous replied in and everybody was like "OMG, nice to see you again".


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Posted by Naklajat on Sat Aug 9th at 8:08am 2008

I think if anyone wants to make a competition they should go ahead and post it. Unless it's something completely absurd or inappropriate I don't think anyone will complain. I have no authority though so I could be wrong.

As for my inactivity on this site, I've been in college for game art/design for the past year, and this summer my concentration has been on on learning to paint. I am however tossing around the idea of resurrecting one of my maps this fall/winter, dm_ozone (if anyone remembers it image) with a new layout and more thorough plan for all the custom art assets.

I think many of the old members drop in from time to time (/me waves at Jinx) to see whats new, whether or not they make any posts.


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Posted by Jinx on Sat Aug 9th at 3:23pm 2008

Heya, Baron! Where are you going to school? Thinking about going myself some time in the next year or so. What game engines and modeling programs are they using?


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Posted by Gwil on Sat Aug 9th at 3:26pm 2008

? quote:

I never see Gwil


I was in Wales for a week! Back today! I'll give larchy a tap about when we go live, don't worry. Even the massively underworked like me have to take holidays every now and again!



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Posted by Andrei on Sat Aug 9th at 8:31pm 2008

Oh I'm just lurking around, I do visit every now and then but seldom bother posting. Plus I don't have as much free time as I used to... smiley



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Posted by Riven on Sun Aug 10th at 4:53am 2008

I'm still here! I check the Pit about every day or ever other day, but I can never think of anything worthy of posting about. I'm currently reworking my Portal map so that it runs on everyone's computer and have also been contemplating hosting a mini competition like we did a while back; something really small.



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Posted by sh4dowz on Sun Aug 10th at 5:49am 2008

Yea ummmm im here for anyone that knows who i am. Currently working on college as well and doing some mapping/3dsmax work. Just got my hands on the new 3dsmax 9 which is pretty handy for those down right crazy realistic vray renders ive been looking at. So yea im all for it get some stuff going m8 so Im a




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Posted by larchy on Sun Aug 10th at 10:14am 2008

The test site I just put up to weed out bugs... hopefully thats been prettymuch done as its been up a while and ppl have been using it fine, so I would assume there aren't any real issues with going live with it. Obviously I'm still here to sort out any issues that do come up... as for the future the way everything is written has been kept as simple as possible, and the different parts of the site are modular so it should be easy to modify/add to the site in the future if needed.

When is just up to Gwil really... just lemme know when <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

This site will be down for a while when it happens as I need to make some big changes to the database... most of it has been normalised as much as possible and it *should* be a bit more robust now. Hopefully thats the only thing that will need sorting though <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

Could you ask globat if they could get their arses round to upgrading to php5? It doesn't really matter as I've written the new site to work on php4 too, but since you're gonna be changing everything it would be an opportune time to do it and would be better if its possible.



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Posted by ReNo on Wed Aug 13th at 3:30am 2008

Yo guys, I'm still around, but real busy with work at the moment and not really doing the forums rounds in my spare time as much as I used to. Not planning on disappearing for good any time soon though smiley

Good to see there's still a fair few of old-guard waiting in the wings, even if we are awfully quiet about it :P

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Posted by larchy on Wed Aug 13th at 6:22am 2008

Et voila smiley



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Posted by $loth on Wed Aug 13th at 10:11am 2008

I'm still around, just getting drunk too much to be able to properly reply without it reading like a 3 year old thumped the keyboard.
I'm currently working on a remake of CS_MANSION, trying to get it to be 64 player.



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Posted by wil5on on Wed Aug 13th at 10:48am 2008

Ooh, new site looks alright.

I've been lurking for ages. Very busy with uni and such.



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Posted by **Dedi** on Wed Aug 13th at 11:25am 2008

Hey guys. I still visit very often and I'm happy that the site is getting reconstructed. I'm a bit lost but I guess I'll get used to it. A thing I also noticed.. I tried downloading about 5 HL1 maps and the links seem to be broken so they could be not working.

I've been rather busy too, but I think by the end of September I'll have time on my hands.



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Posted by larchy on Wed Aug 13th at 7:51pm 2008

There was a small error with the mirror links when changes were made to the database - this should now be corrected and the links working again.



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Posted by Captain P on Wed Aug 13th at 10:43pm 2008

Ah, the new layout and stuff. Looks pretty good, nice little touches here and there. Good job on the site larchy! smiley

I'm visiting now and then, just don\'t have a lot of time to do much mapping. Full-time game-programming, with some spare game-devving while I\'m not at work or in church.

I did find an awesome art program recently though. Art Rage 2. Pretty good for painting paint-esque textures or scenes. smiley

[ Edited by Captain P on Thu Aug 14th 2008 at 12:16am - total edits: 1]



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Posted by Le Chief on Thu Aug 14th at 5:44am 2008

Yeah, site is great, good job larchy!




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