Nali Weapons 3 - Preview 2 (includes Nuclear Explosion)

[Feralidragon]

I meant a beta of your mod so I can write a preview ....... ........... I can't wait to use the Flame-Tracker.

Well, actually, I was thinking in you getting it only when I officially release it lol
I mean, I would want you to write a review, but I want a fair one, if you try it now or in beta stages, your final review will be influenced "positivelly" (yes, I really mean "positivelly"), as you would see the pack improving during the beta and that would rise the final score on your impression of the pack at release.
Imho, a review should be mostly a "first real impression relative what you expected from the pack", as that says if the pack is actually good or bad.

What if you release the Pre-DR/DR/Pre-Alpha/Alpha/Pre-Beta/Beta version?

No, really bad things would happen if I did that.
There will be an internal beta release (internal means most people won't even be aware there was one), and the official full release only.

[UT Sniper (SJA94)]

What software did you use to make the models.

[Creavion]

He uses Milkshape 3D and LithUnwrap for Skinning.

[UT Sniper (SJA94)]

thanks .
wanted to make some decos for my map i am making.

[Feralidragon]

Well, I am making this post (only here at ut99.org for now) to let you know that NW3 development may be paused for a while.

It happens that the laptop where I spent nearlly 70% of the time developing has its screen pretty much f*cked up (it flickers as I am writing this, and there's a 15 pixels height horizontal flickering line at the bottom since August of last year, and it seems that the monitor is finally speeding up the "breaking apart" process).
It's still on warranty (almost over as well), but the company is so bad that the last time I stayed without it during 3 months, so I wonder how much time it will be there now (I heard they were faster now, but only time will tell).

I was thinking in buying a new "good" laptop within 3 months or so, when I had fully the money to do so, and I thought this laptop would still work good until then, I guess I was wrong.

I will try to go the store where I usually buy this kind of stuff to check if I can get a new one now paying it during 10 months or less. However I am an independent worker atm and they might not accept because of that, but on another hand I am working in a very stable and prestigious open-source software company, and I am also in their "white-list of trustfull customers" as I bought some house stuff like this as well and always payed all without a single fault, so perhaps I may have a shot.

If I succeed in getting a new laptop now, NW3 will continue its development as scheduled, if not, I won't be able to do anything for nearlly 2 months...

Wish me luck... (and it had to happen now 1 week before my mini-vacations... damn).

[Creavion]

I wish you luck. Enthusiastic modders without their computer are somehow helpless.

[FraGnBraG]

Please say you have all your dev stuff backup-up somewhere!

[GenMoKai]

Please say you have all your dev stuff backup-up somewhere!

I wish you luck. Enthusiastic modders without their computer are somehow helpless.

Oef... that's bad news... i wish you luck m8

[Feralidragon]

Please say you have all your dev stuff backup-up somewhere!

Worry not, I am smarter than that lol

Believe it or not, I have all my dev stuff backed up in several places:
- An external hardrive (updated in each milestone);
- My 4Gb Pen Drive (updated everyday);
- Dropbox (update once a week);
- In 2 HDDs in my desktop (yes, I have another computer, but using it would mean that there would be need to be "shifts" between me and my brother, and that breaks the development flow, so I prefer to not use it, but it's only updated when I test my stuff there, which is rarelly);
- At work in another laptop (updated once each 2 days or so, depending on the status of the pack in that week);
- And even at my 1Gb memory card in my cell-phone (updated when I feel like it lol).


In another note, 1 hour after I posted my previous post the screen stabilized, and today is still stable (still with that annoying 15 pixels high flickering lines at the bottom), so perhaps I may be able to keep up developing for a while with or without a new laptop, but that was a warning indeed that the screen won't last much longer: perhaps 1 month, 2 months at best until it completelly f*cks up. So either ways I will try my luck tomorrow and if succeed, will send this one to warranty and when it comes back (most likelly 2 months later at best) I shouldn't have this kind of problems as I should have this crappy one and a new better one, I like redundancy in this sort of thing (as you can see by the amount of backups I made, specially since as you see I don't have much luck in life ).

[papercoffee]

Let me guess ...your Laptop is a Fujitsu-Siemens?

[Feralidragon]

Let me guess ...your Laptop is a Fujitsu-Siemens?

Nope, for my shame the brand is portuguese, called Insys. I tried to play the good patriotic and buy national stuff thinking it would be faster (factory at my country), more reliable and would somehow contribute to the growth of my country... I couldn't be more wrong. They are very dumb people, and I won quite some arguments in their own forum, some of them my solution to a problem worked while theirs was simply misleading, and note they are professionals, which is very bad since they should be the ones giving the best solutions, not me.
It was the first and last thing I got from them, for sure. Their products aren't "that bad" at all, I must say, but their support is ridiculous..



Either ways, an update: I have been informing myself with an old man here who recently bought also a laptop and the way he did it (in the store I usually go, not Insys ofc lol, but another one where I bought DVDs, microwave, toners, a fridge, pen drives, etc, and it sounds good for me and it seems there's a bigger chance I can get something functional tomorrow. If I have some luck, perhaps from tomorrow on I will be able to keep developing NW3 with no worries and testing with a resolution bigger than 640x480 like I have been doing so far (yeah, the current laptop is that bad graphic card wise, I will try to buy one which is in promotion right now and has some nice specs, one of them is a nvidia G310M and will be an ASUS laptop).


Btw, I am developing now the Nuclear Launcher (a few people had the oportunity to see a small screenshot), and I am currently working in the altfire HUD (because it's a guided nuclear missile like the redeemer), and it's quite frustating pausing it since it's actually turning better than what I expected (the feeling of guiding this specific nuke is somehow better than the regular redeemer, specially because of the new HUD elements, like orientation system, altitude, lens "aparent" distortion, etc), so I am a bit anxious to finish it as soon as possible, and this was a really "cold bath" I got from the damn laptop.

[Hook]

I hope your computer situation improves fast with a speedy recovery!
Can't wait to see that new Nuke Launcher!

[Feralidragon]

Well, today I went to the store, and tried to get a special membership card which would let me bring the laptop and pay it in 10 months (since I can't buy one fully right now), however it was denied (perhaps since I am an independent worker, so my job situation is not "safe" in their eyes, and I understand that).

Therefore, I will only be able to get a "reasonable" laptop within 2 months or more depending on my situation and what I can save.

"For now" my current laptop screen is stable, therefore I will proceed with NW3 development as I can, however that time was a sign that the screen may either last 3 months or some days, so if it completelly f*cks up before I get to buy a new laptop, NW3 will sadly be paused during that time, so right now I am bound to either have some luck or not.

[Shadow]

Any news on this and your laptop dude?

[Feralidragon]

Any news on this and your laptop dude?

Well, I am still developing as the laptop keeps stable so far (my brother said that sudden flicker could be a "one time" thing, imo it's stable now because something in the matrix controller evolved during that hour, I mean, something regarding those lines inner transistors or some inner connection modified with the malfunction, this sort of thing happens frequently in electronic malfunctions, or it could be a bug in the graphical driver (not long ago I had to restart the laptop since the driver was bugging up in UT, Windows Vista sucks)), but the laptop is still not reliable and I am already saving some money to hopefully buy a new one in July or later.

Relative NW3 development, I will make a development update soon if everything goes fine. The mushroom like nuclear explosion is pretty much done, and there are only the other 4 explosions to be done so I can make an update (level 1 to 5, the one of the mushroom is level 4).
I think I will have to make a small clip of the nuclear explosion (just one, the mushroom one), as a plain screenshot doesn't show much (I already attempted all angles ...), as most of the nuclear fx are "felt" and are "alive", although I didn't want to make further videos until release, oh well... :\