Blogs

It’s a big night for IPX tonight. The boys have their first official GameArena ETQW ladder game!…But for a bit of side news, I thought I’d let you all know about the upcoming plans Splash Damage have in store for us. Here’s a snippet of badman’s latest blog update regarding news on the new modification:

If you’re not familiar with it, the main purpose of the mod is allow tournament organizers to easily implement and enforce specific rulesets. To that extent, we’ve stuffed quite a lot of cvar customization options in there and creating a new ruleset is as simple as putting the values you’d like to adjust in a config file on your server.
Barring any major international incidents, the beta will be released to the community at large within the coming days. We are hoping to squash any remaining stability issues and major bugs you might come across, so that the final version of the competition mod is in as a good a shape as it can be. To help out mod makers, we are also releasing the full competition mod source code at the same time as the beta – that way you can use bits and pieces of it in your own project, or add your own features to it.

And that wasn’t all, along with a fairly long list of features that the mod will include (no doubt as soon as this goes live we can expect major competitions like GameArena to start using it) badman also communicated what was in store with patch 1.5

Well its been about 9 months till my last haircut. No I didn’t follow the trend, yet again this season, the trend followed me. Ive got curls at the back again. I had nearly forgotten all these years of having short hair that mine gets curly when it gets to a length.

Soo last night I seen the ad on telly. Thought it was a good idea and so ill jump on the bandwagon too, and get a little money raised for charity =)

http://www.worldsgreatestshave.com/

If anyone is in too that would be AWESOME! I would just like to humbly ask that when we start to collect donations, those of you who are not going to join along and get cropped, that you guys could hopefully, funds permitting, throw abit of coin to those of us who are game enough to make the cut! Bad pun I know I know..

Just think about the people who we could help.. Hey we might not get leukaemia cured this year, but it WILL bring us a step closer!

Thanks guys!

Hashy.

So this is like the lighter side of Star Wars and while I don’t want to fill this place up like a linky link place on steroids these are probably the best thing to come out of youtube I’ve seen in ages. Probably more because of the genera than any thing else – comedy sci-fi but defiantly a hoot….

Ok to start off with ill post some resources ive found to help get people started on the SDK, instead of just having to jump in there and spend hours finding everything =p

Ill hold off on pages and pages of mod ideas for now.. Firstly we’ve gotta be grounded in the SDK.. Cant bring any of those ideas to life without the know how to back it up =p

The wiki seems a good place to start:

http://wiki.splashdamage.com/index.php/Main_Page

On that page if you scroll/look down a little you will see the Featured Content section, which has a few nice looking articles to get started with yer mapping!

http://wiki.splashdamage.com/index.php/A_Simple_First_Map

http://wiki.splashdamage.com/index.php/A_Simple_First_Terrain

http://wiki.splashdamage.com/index.php/A_Simple_First_Megatexture

and starts getting abit more advanced when you get to here..

http://wiki.splashdamage.com/index.php/Introduction_and_goals_of_the_tut...

For all you map and mod makers out there…

http://community.enemyterritory.com/index.php?q=node/222