That VHLT really gives me hard time!
10 FPS on a Radeon HD!!



BTW, that's the first map in the single-plyer campaign. If you can call it that way :)

Госдума предварительно согласовала законопроект о роуминге в России
[ http://citforum.ru/news/29987/ ]

Давно пора. Продвинутые дюди уже давно пересаживаются на VoIP за рубежом. А платить в 10 раз больше при выезде в соседнюю область - это возмутительно.
Хотя... голос ведь не нужен, текст forever! :)

(XDM LAN party imminent)

Recently I was wondering what fonts do people use for programming? The main thing about coding-font is to be monospace (all characters/symbols are of the same width), have good readability, clear distinction between letters (i,I,l,L) and numbers (o,O,0), fast rendering (depends on system).
So, I usually use Courier and Courier New along with Lucida Console. But what do other people suggest?

Anonymous Pro

Inconsolata

Source Code Pro

i3project

Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts

Microsoft Consolas Font (pay!)

But for the time being I'll stick with ye olde Courier :)

Recently I had a great opportunity to hold a LAN party! XDM server worked almost flawlessly for a few hours!


And to my surprise, the Co-Operative level-play mode worked!!! Global entities were kept during level change, which means that we were able to turn on the generator and successfully finish the "POWER UP" episode, open the storm hatch @c2a5w and everything worked! Yeah, sometimes I get pleasant surprises too :)

For everyone who wants sources: they're currently under thorough inspection and will be released here ASAP.

Thanks a lot! Your interest is what keeps me doing things.

At least it works.
Oh, and there are new maps too.

HDR and bloom - these two shitty "real life" effects that effectively waste your GPU power also effective destroy the gameplay. I wanted to disable HDR/bloom in Skyrim since I played for the first time. My patience came to an end when some buggen tomb has made my screen go almost completely dark! First, I thought that was a game feature like a curse, spell, etc. But really... Why the hell?!

There's a SetHDRParameters command:
SHP <Eye Adapt Speed, float> <Eye Adapt Strength, float> <Bloom Radius, float> <Bloom Threshold, float> <Bloom Scale, float> <Target Luminance, float> <Target Luminance, float> <Sunlight Scale, float> <Sky Scale, float>

Intuitively I tried SHP wil all 0s which just made things worse :) Then I came up with simple:
"SHP 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1"

Some people suggest:
"SHP 35 7 7 0.7 3 1 1 1 0.05"

You can also save this line to a short-named text file and run it as batch from the console ("bat mybat");

Why do game developers keep doing really useless, if not annoying things? Mystery.

Just wanted to share some screenshots of an awesome single-player map I updated this summer. I was testing new multi_manager code, some cool effects and new compiler.

The result looks very nice to my opinion. But right now it's far from being a playable map - no storyline, quests or puzzles.