The Official Rant Thread

[Click16]

3ds max isn't hard. I never took a class or w/e and I am pretty good at it. I'm not going to say I'm the best, but yeah.

[Dragonfire]

If you want help learning how to work with 3ds max, go onto youtube and search for the group/company called "3dBuzz", they are very good, they have a tutorial online for 3ds max. Think its http://www.3dbuzz.com, i learned quite a bit from them

[DemonicSandwich]

Photoshop is a great tool but it has absolutely shit memory management. It doesn't clear off the used memory when you close shit.
I mean really, 650MB RAM and 1GB VM?.....with nothing open?

I hope they fixed the memory leaks in CS4

[Gary]

Burnt my fucking pizza, nothing seems to piss me off more then this.

[Dragonfire]

Burnt my fucking pizza, nothing seems to piss me off more then this.

Hmm, burnt or overcooked? to me thats a big difference

[Gary]

Overcooked. I am very picky when it comes to food.

[Dragonfire]

Overcooked.

Thats the best way to have it

[xxpenguinxx]

OMG I hate Microsoft's update checks in various applications, it causes my system to go bonkers I thought my hard drive was dieing but it was msn messenger trying to tell me I had an update...

[Grimdoomer]

I've had the most un fucking believable day. I don't even know where to begin.

So I woke up, get dressed, realized I had forgotten to do my math hw. So I pull it out and start doing it. Look at the clock and realize if I don't haul some ass I'm gunna be late for the bus. So I get to the bus stop, get on, get all the way to school, and realize I had forgotten my schedual (we need it to get into lunch), my keys, and my phone. w/e. So I get to third period, and realize I had two math sheets, and my teacher collected the one I didn't do. So I don't have my schedual, so I had to go to guidence to get it. I notice this kid I fucking hate with all the passion in the world walks in. I just ignored him. The lady asked me for my student id number. So I gave it to her. This is where everything went to hell. The kid I hate, started chanting it, after like 3 or 4 times, he said "I'll use that for lunch". Right there, so much stuff was racing through my head. I clenched my fist as hard as I could. I turned around, and open my mouth as I was about to say "I'm gunna fuck you up right now you fucking faggot". But some tiny impulse in the back of my head made me turn around. There was so much anger flowing through me, and everything happened so fast. I was ready to throw his monkey looking bitch ass into the file cabinet and beat the fucking shit out of him. I wasen't even able to comprehend why that impulse went off. Now I realize that I have to give a presentation for my after school club on Thursday. We have monday off. I would have been suspended that whole week. I believe this is why that impulse went off.

I had my mom pick me up after lunch because I was literally ready to fucking flip out, I was never so pissed in my life. I should have ask how much I had in my account. But the picture of the person appears on the screen when you type in your id number. So I should be fine. But I sware to god, if this kid did take any money, or the next time he pulls this shit. I'm fuck this kid up so fuckig badly it's not even funny.

[DemonicSandwich]

I'd personally wouldn't have held back on that. Although that wouldn't be good for me, as I usually kept a padded Master lock in my pocket.
(Place the loop around your middle finder and now you have a makeshift brass knuckle.)

Rant: Whoever was the project lead for the Firefight portion of ODST should be executed.
Spawning in the same room after death, a room with which has one exit, while AI swarm around it is not fucking cool.
I played one of the maps that included vehicles, it's fun for like 10 minutes until you're killed and spawn in that room again.
They all swarm your spawn room, and when you die near that room, they spawn camp you.

[Zieon Eslador]

Rant: Whoever was the project lead for the Firefight portion of ODST should be executed.
Spawning in the same room after death, a room with which has one exit, while AI swarm around it is not fucking cool.
I played one of the maps that included vehicles, it's fun for like 10 minutes until you're killed and spawn in that room again.
They all swarm your spawn room, and when you die near that room, they spawn camp you.

Lost Platoon... It's great until you die.

[DemonicSandwich]

Lost Platoon... It's great until you die.

That's actually the map I played last night. I had a chopper and got flame naded and died. It was the final wave of round 1 where you have to fight off the three hammer Brutes. One hammer brute came into my spawn, killed me, and then camped that spawn killing me as I spawned.

And was health pack spawns an oversight on that map or something? I never found any.

[Zieon Eslador]

That's actually the map I played last night. I had a chopper and got flame naded and died. It was the final wave of round 1 where you have to fight off the three hammer Brutes. One hammer brute came into my spawn, killed me, and then camped that spawn killing me as I spawned.

And was health pack spawns an oversight on that map or something? I never found any.

There's two behind the tree in the main building, and also two upstairs in the same building, I believe those are the only ones. Me and three friends all had choppers at one point on Legendary, the bonus round is so much fun in a chopper...

[DemonicSandwich]

Ugh, I played through the ODST storyline twice and a few Firefight levels. Then found that there is no matchmaking what-so-ever.
I knew they wouldn't have multiplayer in the game but no player search for Firefight?

ODST truly feels like a user mod.(because it is) Like someone literally just pulled the marine bipd and placed it over the the Spartan and Elite.
Even true to the mod were you can't dual wield. The animations that the marines didn't have(vehicle boarding), they literally copied from the MC, frame for frame.

The storyline takes way too long to build up and it's climax is hardly noticeable. And just like a mod, it's only fun for a short time.

[JacksonCougar]

You should get maps compiling before getting into useless details

I would get less done in a longer period of time if I did.

Sounds like it doesn't make sense, but I get where you're coming from. If you're learning something new and interesting you'll work more and harder on it.

Well that, and I need xbox7887's help for debugging map compiling code. Only he can tell me where the game crashes, and that narrows it down from any possible point in the map, to within a range of "it's these 3 tags". Another problem is Bsp padding. The fucking padding in that tag has been setting me back for a while.

O, do you mean those unmapped reflexives? Other than that I never saw a single padding issue that was strange.

[Grimdoomer]

You should get maps compiling before getting into useless details

I would get less done in a longer period of time if I did.

Sounds like it doesn't make sense, but I get where you're coming from. If you're learning something new and interesting you'll work more and harder on it.

Well that, and I need xbox7887's help for debugging map compiling code. Only he can tell me where the game crashes, and that narrows it down from any possible point in the map, to within a range of "it's these 3 tags". Another problem is Bsp padding. The fucking padding in that tag has been setting me back for a while.

O, do you mean those unmapped reflexives? Other than that I never saw a single padding issue that was strange.

I should have all the reflexives in bsp mapped, when you get a chance give me those plugins you generated and ill take a look. But there was a reflexive that was padded, but not to a proper alignment. Infact, I tried every alignment from 1 to 512, and never found one that got that padded to that alignment.

I'm pretty sure I can get these maps fixed. But being the only one reversing and debugging code, it's gunna take some time.

[troymac1ure]

I should have all the reflexives in bsp mapped, when you get a chance give me those plugins you generated and ill take a look. But there was a reflexive that was padded, but not to a proper alignment. Infact, I tried every alignment from 1 to 512, and never found one that got that padded to that alignment.

I'm pretty sure I can get these maps fixed. But being the only one reversing and debugging code, it's gunna take some time.

You'd have to teach me the basics of how you're debugging xbe code, but I know assembly and multiple languages. I'm willing to help out if it means be able to compile maps and more!

[JacksonCougar]

Holy tits, today was rough. Got up at 6:00 AM as usual and got to work at 7:30 out of town a ways to do some log grinding, which I did until 12:00 noon without any breaks. Then because I had said I would the night before, I went out wood cutting with my boss, my dad and two other fellows at noon, until midnight. We would have been done earlier but the trailer with the wood on it got stuck in the snow so we had to pull it out. On top of all this we got pulled over by the cops on the way home after dropping off the wood at our bosses place. I am so fucking cold.

[Dragonfire]

...snow?

[DemonicSandwich]

Hows the winter season castration doin' for ya Cougar?

[Grimdoomer]

Holy tits, today was rough. Got up at 6:00 AM as usual and got to work at 7:30 out of town a ways to do some log grinding, which I did until 12:00 noon without any breaks. Then because I had said I would the night before, I went out wood cutting with my boss, my dad and two other fellows at noon, until midnight. We would have been done earlier but the trailer with the wood on it got stuck in the snow so we had to pull it out. On top of all this we got pulled over by the cops on the way home after dropping off the wood at our bosses place. I am so fucking cold.

You live in the artic circle, what do ya expect? Say hi to the penquins for me

Also troymac1ure if you have a xbox running debug bios that you can use with Visual Studio 2003, I can show you how to debug maps and I'll post what I've reversed so far.

[DemonicSandwich]

I hate the XBL arcade games who's trials last 15 seconds. Seriously, how the fuck am I supposed to try out the game if it's trial lasts 15 seconds?

[Dragonfire]

Maybe to make sure u dont beat it?

[DemonicSandwich]

Maybe to make sure u dont beat it?

You mean so that I don't buy it then ya.

[Ogrish]

Why the fuck can i not decompile main menu. I did it b4, but i just tried both versions of h2core, and neither worked.