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Posted August 9th, 2003
Azz
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So long time no anything from me then. I've been around, but not been doing much to the site (busy with work and my new house and so on and so on :) ). But the reviewers have been doing a good job of keeping things turning over.

Anyway, I finally got around to writing that Normals tutorial for GTA3/Vice City. Hopefully it'll be some help, it's certainly not definitive and the theory is probably a little skewed. But it's how I've started doing it and the normals on my Delta are looking pretty good at the moment.

Just a quick note that most of the GTA3 tutorials apply equally to Vice City, so if the VC section is looking a little empty, check out the GTA3 one. I'll modify the nav menus to reflect this at some point. Honest.

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Posted August 9th, 2003
Meklo
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Reviewers... this site still reviews cars?! :D

seriously, when are you going to update.. my car has been in the list for well over a week, if not two. Please say soon.. come on, you have three or so reviewers, surely one of you can get out of the sun for ten minutes.

I know you have lives, but well.... DO YOUR DANG JOB!  :))

 :Y  Yes... thats the rant over.

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Posted August 9th, 2003
Azz
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well if you're offering to pay the site staff then that's a different matter...

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Posted August 9th, 2003
Mademan
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lol I won't pay, but I'll switch to GTA1 reviewing for a bit if you need, Azz. The GTA2 section's getting a bit dried up.
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Posted August 9th, 2003
Meklo
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yay... someone willing...

will your staff accept eggs as payment? :)

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Posted August 10th, 2003
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Azz maybe you should include something about only using the calculate normals on the whole car when its 1 object and hasn't been detached. If you calulate normals after its detached the normals along the shut lines will be wrong eg. the edges of the doors and bonnet. Hope that makes sense. Good tute btw :)

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Posted August 13th, 2003
maverickllama
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Could we have a thing where every car review says what it replaces, and GTA1 and 2 cars show the crashies? I want to know what car I'm overwriting before I put it in my game.

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Posted August 13th, 2003
Azz
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sure if you want to go through the thousands (literally) of cars on this site and send me an email telling me which car they replace I'll look at integrating it into the database. Otherwise, erm, no sorry.

The crash deltas thing is entirely up to the authors. I had a bloody war on my hands just to get people to send me zip files and gifs (as opposed to rars, aces, or bloody bmps), so I'm damned if I'm going to try and teach them how to animate gifs too.

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Posted August 13th, 2003
Meklo
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I agree.. what the hell do you need that for... havent you ever tried looking in the readme.. a lot of authors put those sort of details in there... and its simple enough to open a .bmp.... if youre too lazy to d/l 10kb.. then why bother at all?

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Posted September 3rd, 2003
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I have submitted some of my GTA2 cars that i found lurking in the dark corners of my drive, so im doing my bit to help the lack-of-gta2 cars situation. i may even try some new ones...

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Posted September 5th, 2003
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Azz On 13/08/2003 @ 14:48:43 wrote:
sure if you want to go through the thousands (literally) of cars on this site and send me an email telling me which car they replace I'll look at integrating it into the database. Otherwise, erm, no sorry.

The crash deltas thing is entirely up to the authors. I had a bloody war on my hands just to get people to send me zip files and gifs (as opposed to rars, aces, or bloody bmps), so I'm damned if I'm going to try and teach them how to animate gifs too.


I are a idiot.

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