02-25-2003, 10:01 PM
Alright, I figured that this was the best location to place my first post, and since I'm pretty anti-social, I will try to keep it short.
I saw somebody was wondering about what Valve's plans were. I asked them ages ago, and the answer I got was they were NOT going to work on it further at present, instead were going to put the full source code in the HLSDK. I downloaded it recently to verify, and they did. So if any of the new rico community (the ones who began after the hl patch) want to do anything with it, you know how to go about it. I'm not sure if www.ricochet-mod.de.vu is still activley modding rico, so maybe dropping Koani a line would be helpful.
To aleviate the discomfort induced by the bleak visage of Ricochet's future, I will announce the 60% mark has been passed on rc_arena3 (damn the fool who made 2) and v1.0 will be distributed to rUsh, who seems to be a good judge of the maps I make. Should the feedback be good, and my own insecurity not overwhelming, I will look for a server to test it on. Based on my experiences on both dm and arena maps (custom and not), I will NEVER stray from the classic rico style, changing only a couple things from the valve maps:
- The original rc mappers were fools, leaving the top and bottom of maps without trigger_discreturns, allowing a disc to fly into the void and bounce off the walls for an irritating amount of time. Needless to say, I fixed this.
- This one isn't very important, but the teleporters in rc_arena looked really bad, so I fixed the textures around to make them a little less interesting :P
Alright, the smiley didn't remove the grim feel of this post, nor did my efforts cut the word count down, so I shall end it here and apologize; I'm usually happier sounding than this.
*sigh* I hope rc_arena3 turns out.
I saw somebody was wondering about what Valve's plans were. I asked them ages ago, and the answer I got was they were NOT going to work on it further at present, instead were going to put the full source code in the HLSDK. I downloaded it recently to verify, and they did. So if any of the new rico community (the ones who began after the hl patch) want to do anything with it, you know how to go about it. I'm not sure if www.ricochet-mod.de.vu is still activley modding rico, so maybe dropping Koani a line would be helpful.
To aleviate the discomfort induced by the bleak visage of Ricochet's future, I will announce the 60% mark has been passed on rc_arena3 (damn the fool who made 2) and v1.0 will be distributed to rUsh, who seems to be a good judge of the maps I make. Should the feedback be good, and my own insecurity not overwhelming, I will look for a server to test it on. Based on my experiences on both dm and arena maps (custom and not), I will NEVER stray from the classic rico style, changing only a couple things from the valve maps:
- The original rc mappers were fools, leaving the top and bottom of maps without trigger_discreturns, allowing a disc to fly into the void and bounce off the walls for an irritating amount of time. Needless to say, I fixed this.
- This one isn't very important, but the teleporters in rc_arena looked really bad, so I fixed the textures around to make them a little less interesting :P
Alright, the smiley didn't remove the grim feel of this post, nor did my efforts cut the word count down, so I shall end it here and apologize; I'm usually happier sounding than this.
*sigh* I hope rc_arena3 turns out.