Giving it that British feel

Okay, so over the last few days I’ve been working on a few props for the levels in Ana-Kata, also I’ve decided to rename the mod from Anakata to Ana-Kata. Not sure why but meh, anyway to the point I’ve been working on some models that will give the streets and roads of the mod a more Britain-ey look, not Brittany, it aint France. So basically I’ve got myself the font that is used on the roadsigns in the UK, and started to mess around with it. So far I’ve made a bollard, like one of those things you see on the Islands in the middle of the road, with a light up thier ass. My plan is to have them removable with the gravity gun, and then you can see the spotlight shining up from underneath it. Anyways, here is a picture of it.

Over the next week I hope to do a few more models such as this one, including signs for places I’ve yet to name that will feature in the mod, and signs to put on the motorway with a name like the M7 that doesn’t actually exist. Though the M7 would be situated in Scotland If it did exist. Hmmm, or it would need to start there. Ok, I’ve got to finish this quick because lightning is coming up and I can see all of this post going down the drain, just like the rain isn’t. Also some other things to be modeled will be traffic lights and English post boxes and bus stops. More pictures of models soon.

Unfinished Business

Ok, so I went to my mates to teach him the basics of using Max, and while I was there I went and modeled this gun. Well I can’t be bothered to do a skin for it, at least at the moment, I’ve got a lot of other things to be doing right now. But anyway I think I’ll post the unskinned render of the USP anyway. Also I should mention that the model is not actually finished off, it still needs a few bits here and there, like making the shell eject hole, and some other little things. Hope you likes, and would someone please just comment on my blog, it’s depressing, even a nasty comment would be nice….anything.

New Gun Models Ingame

 

Ok, so I finally got the gun models in game and all are working now. Took me long enough to figure it all out, and the coding took the most amount of time. So glad I don’t have to do any more coding on the mod.

Me hopes.

As you can see it has a shiny scope, that reflects and stuff.

I think I’ll get started on the mapping now as that is what I am really interested in. Seeing how all my ideas over the last few months are going to come together into the maps for the mod.

Well I think I’ll play through episode one again with the developers coments on….again. Always puts me in a mapping mood.

First look

Right just jumping straight into things, I’m Stewart Parry, 19 years old from Ross-on-Wye, in southern England. I study computer games design at Staffordshire University, and I’ve working on a couple of projects during the Summer. These are two single player Half-Life 2 modifications called HL2:Subvertus, a team created mod, based on the frozen wastelands of Europe, and another single player mod, which I am working on as a solo project dubbed HL2: Anakata.

A link to the website for Subvertus can be found here.

Currently I am concentrating on my solo project while more jobs can be found for me at Subvertus ^_^

Ok, so to explain my mod a bit. HL2 : Anakata

Firstly I will explain the name in due time. The mod is based in the Half-Life 2 universe, but it is set in a city of England, and borrows architecture and scenery from all over the country. Like Half-Life 2 there looms a massive structure overhead, instead of the single tower of the citadel in City 17, there is a double towered massive teleport, that the Combine War effort is using to bring in aircraft, vehicles and troops from the combine homeworld. Joining forces with the British resistance fighters and reinforcements from the liberated city 17, you must destroy this menacing structure to stop the combine from bringing any more reinforcements themselves.

The name

Because of the large amounts of teleport technology in the game, I decided to name it something to do with teleportation and other dimensions. Looking through Wikipedea, I found two words Ana, and Kata, which are essentially like up and down, left and right, or forward and back, but in the fourth dimension.

Ok well that is it for the story and stuff, I will be adding two weapons to the mod, and keeping every weapon apart from the crowbar, as that is only to be used by Gordon Freeman, and no other. So the new meleé weapon will be a large adjustable spanner, and the other weapon to be added will be a Silenced G36C, used by the Brittish army at the moment, or in the near future, which explains it’s presence in Britain.

Well that’s it pretty much for the first post and intro into my silly little existance. Next post will have some pictures, I promise.