Thursday, August 6, 2009

HEY YOU MAGGOTS

SOME PERSON WHO IS MORE OF A MAN THAN YOU WILL EVER BE HAS RECENTLY RELEASED A TF2 THEME, THE SWAMP SET. NOW GO AND MAKE ME PROUD, BOYS.

  • No Swimming Sign "No Swimming" Sign In case you need to warn people to stay out of the water.
  • Reeds and Cattails Reeds and Cattails Swamp shrubbery.
  • Mushrooms Mushrooms We don't recommend eating them.
  • Crocodile Cutout Crocodile Cutout Good for scaring off people who can't tell it is wooden.
  • Lightpost Lightpost We don't recommend eating this either.
  • Intelligence Sign Intelligence Sign For alerting your enemies as to where you're keeping it.
  • Buoy Buoy For keeping boaters in line.
  • Buttress Tree Buttress Tree It's a big tree. Really big.
  • Jetty Jetty It's like a dock, but smaller.
  • Buttress Stump Buttress Stump It used to be a big tree. Really big.
  • Oar Oar Being in a swamp without a paddle is just as bad a situation.
  • Cracky Crate Cracky Crate Once proudly used for shipping Cracky Pop, this crate now rots away slowly.
  • Rowboat Rowboat Because some people like floating on top of murky, alligator infested water.
  • Swamp Tree Swamp Tree Some scraggly foliage.
  • Chainsaw Chainsaw More rubble, less trouble!
  • Mounted Deer Bust Mounted Deer Bust All you friends will know how big that stag was.
  • Railings Railings If you're a nice person and want to keep people from falling into the water.

Materials

  • Swamp Rockwall Swamp Rockwall A rockwall for swamps.
  • Swamp Mud Swamp Mud A swamp wouldn't be a swamp without it.
  • Swamp Grass Swamp Grass For less muddy places where grass would grow.
  • Swamp Mud 2 Swamp Mud #2 If you didn't have enough already.
  • Dirt to Grass Blend Dirt to Grass Blend For that transition from dirt to grass.
  • Swamp Mud Blend Swamp Mud Blend For going from one mud to another.
  • Dirt to Grass Blend 2 Dirt to Grass Blend #2 For that other transition from dirt to grass.
  • Swampy Concrete Swampy Concrete It's not very pretty.
  • Swamp Water Swamp Water Definately not for drinking. Or swimming. Or anything, really.
  • Vine Vine No swinging.

Overlays

  • Algae Algae All ponds need critters.
  • Wade Canoes Sign Wade Canoes Sign In case you happen to sell canoes and be named Wade.
  • Water Level Marker Water Level Marker For determining the height of the water.
  • No Swimming Sign "No Swimming" Sign Didn't we cover this already?
  • Bayou Shipping Sign Bayou Shipping Sign For shipping on a bayou.
  • Hazardous Environments Sign Hazardous Environments Sign To warn people that the environment is hazardous. Of course it is.
  • Do not Feed the Gator Sign "Do not Feed the Gator" Sign Because some people think feeding the gator is a good idea.
  • Freeman Airboat Tours Sign Freeman Airboat Tours Sign We hear it's dangerous.
  • Watch Your Step Sign "Watch Your Step" Sign Who knew there would be slippery stuff in a swamp?
  • TF2Maps Sign TF2Maps Sign Uh, how'd this get here?
  • Out of Order Sign "Out of Order" Sign When things aren't in order, you can tell everyone.
  • Area Prone to Leaks Sign "Area Prone to Leaks" Sign For maps which have leaks.
  • Spawn-N-Go Sign Spawn-N-Go Sign Did you know that fish "spawn"? Neat, huh?

Skyboxes

  • Starry Night Skybox Starry Night Skybox A starry sky for a swampy night.
  • Cloudy Night Skybox Cloudy Night Skybox A cloudy sky for a swampy night.
  • Hazy Daytime Skybox Hazy Daytime Skybox A hazy sky for a not-so-clear day.
  • Hurricane Daytime Skybox Hurricane Daytime Skybox A cloudy sky for a stormy day.

Detail Sprites

  • Swamp Detail Sprites Swamp Detail Sprites To give swampy grass some dimension.

Particles

  • Bug Swarm Bug Swarm They bite.
  • Buoy Flash Buoy Flash Alert!
  • Water Drip Water Drip If you want your map to have a leak.
  • Goo Bubble Goo Bubble It's a sticky situation.
  • Swampy Smoke Swampy Smoke To add to the fresh aroma of the swamp.
  • Lightning Lightning If a storm is rolling in.

Scripts

  • Swamp Soundscape Swamp Soundscape To add ambience to this horrid environment.

Source Files

  • Swamp Theme Zoo Swamp Theme Zoo A VMF library of everything in this pack.
  • Website Vignette Website Vignette The VMF and BSP for the swamp vignette at the top of this page.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Oh Hai

As you know, I have not posted in a long time. Why, you may ask? I am lazy. So to make up for it, I will post two vids today.

"DO WANT" is the only way to describe my emotions about this:



A good U.N. Owen YTPMV I discovered the other day.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Trust Me, it's Worth It



In an interview with G4, Tatsunoko vs Capcom producer Ryota Niitsuma talked about the licensing issues facing them with bringing it to the US.

While at Comic Con, I spoke to one of the Capcom representatives about that. To paraphrase him, "It was a pain in the ass, but we got through it". Then later, at the Capcom Fighting Games panel I went to, I believe it was Ryota that said that they had so many things to deal with. Not only did they have to get the licences for the characters, but also their theme songs and their catchphrases.


However, he did love my Dan costume: