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Inside a Video Game ...

4 comments July 24th, 2008 4 comments

Diving in the disk of my machine (for god, quilombo I have! 600GB, I have 4 free!), Looking for info for the next post, I found something interesting that I had almost forgotten, and I can not post it :) Of this makes it easy 6 years, hell, as time passes!

I got in a Video Game!

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Project: Map of Plaza de Mayo for Counter Strike

13 comments July 18th, 2008 13 comments

(Post a retroactive 3 years)
At some point in my life also made maps for video games, I started with the well-known Counter Strike / Half Life, then XIII, Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, and others.

The truth, love, is something I will definitely do it again.
In learning of the tool ( Valve Hammer Editor ), replicate several locations, two houses, a kitchen, and the last thing I did was an office where laburar ( Gameloft ) of this work I left and never finished, buuuh : (

Version 2 came out Half-Life (HL) and could not test the new engine Teresita, loved it, and then I joined a group / forum that monkeys also made ​​maps, I wrote some tutorials like this , and so ( www.mapland.com.ar, there is no more : ( ).

An ordinary day I ... "I have to do something that is not done!" ... (Go ​​... I said it many times : P )
And I thought about doing something ... something that represents Argentina, something that is easily recognizable, and especially taking advantage of new technology HL2 (Much more polygons than one).
I thought about the obelisk, but it seemed too simple and not very conducive to a conflict "war" (basically putting obstacles cover from enemy fire).

Then it occurred to me to represent the square of May! (The green roof above the plaza)



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On April 2, 2005 (after I tell them because they are present) went to the plaza with my wife and my daughters and Continue reading "Project: Map of Plaza de Mayo for Counter Strike" »

Tutorial: Textures from photographs (for games and other uses)

No comments June 26th, 2008 No comments

The idea of ​​this tutorial is to show the steps from a picture showing how to make use as texture maps games and other applications (written two years or more, when I went to create a map with the Plaza de Mayo for counter strike 2).

Requirements: Photoshop 7 or higher.

Photos

First we have the photographs of the building in question, for example I chose the nation's bank (the one in front of the Casa Rosada in Plaza de Mayo) (to download images click here )

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