Great mod, but does anyone else get super mega lag when putting it in a scene? My framerate seems to just about half when I drop one in.

(Tried turning off PostProcessing, same deal)

Game typically runs fine otherwise.

you're right. i don't sprite pixel-by-pixel in paint. that's actually done very rarely in the industry. i paint it in about triple resolution in photoshop with a wacom tablet and then downscale it. afterwards, i try to clean up scaling artifacts and then add fine detail with a 1-pixel brush.

then i use various tools to conform it to the CC palette.

i don't use any 3d software in this case, but sometimes that's a fun technique. i get this funny feeling that it's looked down upon to do it any other way than the pixel-by-pixel manner, as if it's 'cheating.' i think it's quite the contrary. if there are other tools in your arsenal, then the only crime is to not use them.

Any Total CC Conversion in mind?

Hm. I see what you did there. No, I don't look down upon it. Makes sense. BUT I don't know if what you say about things being done pixel-by-pixel being "done very rarely" is true or not. I've seen a lot of sprites in my day - particularly in Japanese games - and I have to say they don't look like something that was scaled down. I've been to spriting communities too, which produce beautiful work, typically with pixel-by-pixel techniques. Yeah, thats not an industry, but I figure there's plenty of games that feature that kind of sprite art.

I agree with chao to a degree, they don't fit in, but I like them anyway.
Maybe you should give them an outline, that'd help a lot.

At any rate, fantastic sprite yadiyada...

So then make a total overhaul of the game in these sprites.

For example, the heavy doesn't fit in the HL2: DM

I never said I didn't like them, I just said they didn't fit.
And I'm still using them >_>

The cannon is good for an MPAM

I didn't suggest you didn't like it.
Also what's MPAM?

The giant mech that Numgun made.


There's a beta version, but I can't find the thread.
It probably got deleted by Thor and didn't get reposted.

Oh, NICE!

I Tested the gun out yesterday... it's awsome! It reminds me of this military cannon video I saw on youtube. great for killing those guys behind cover! I also liked those bunker modules (The giant base that the cannons were defending) so much that I made them placable.

Can I post the .rte in this thread for other people?



I hope so! Great idea! I can imagine clones with this style of armor.

Where did you get those bunker moduals

it's in the scene file. I just copied them into a bunker template and renamed the instant names so I can place it in any level that doesn't have a pre-placed brain.

Would you ind posting it
Edit: Also the cannon when it fires could you make the explosion bigger I would just expect that from a bigg ass cannon

Dejavu, just like the previous huge ass turret mod. : /