Robin Walker on the New Payload HUD, Ambidextrous Weapons, and the New Tree Models

[Void]

After a 7-8 email conversation with Robin on Fearlezz's little mindgames with Sourcemod, I sent him these questions, two of which were asked by other people in the chat.

From: Aeon Bollig
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 3:30 PM

To: Robin Walker
Subject: Re: Unlockable Exploit found using Sourcemod

Alright, thanks for clearing that up.

Just got some other questions from fellow mappers before I'll leave you alone.

Will/Can the one-way Payload HUD be changed to look like the current Payload Race HUD?

Can the Huntsman viewmodel be mirrored?

Can you personally hug the modeler who made the pine trees with collision models and trunks?

That's all... I guess.

- Aeon

And Robin's reply that I just saw today (haven't had good internet luck),

Robin Walker Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:05 PM
To: Aeon Bollig

Hi Aeon.

We’re not planning on changing the normal payload hud element. The race version doesn’t really contain any new features that are useful to the base payload. We’re going to let you choose left/right handedness for all weapons. I informed Jakob of my intention to hug him, and he ran away. He’s about 8 foot tall, so he can run pretty fast, unfortunately.



Robin.

There you have it folks. TL;DR: No changes to One-way Payload HUD, Weapons will have options for both sides of your screen, and Valve hires tall, fast modelers.

 

[Engineer]

I lol'd, but thanks for the info.

 

[Fearlezz]

Wait my little mindgames? You do relies that this exploit has developed so much that you can now do it without sourcemod?

 

[Ceiling Man]

The whole hands thing sounds... interesting.

 

[Zmathue]

Wait my little mindgames? You do relies that this exploit has developed so much that you can now do it without sourcemod?

First its not an exploit of any kind and second the other way has been around since the medic update.

 

[YM]

Jakobs a pretty cool guy, he made me a prop for hoodoo

 

[StoneFrog]

Jakob? I thought he was FIRED.

 

[DaFatCat]

Jakob? I thought he was FIRED.

Lol.

 

[Zmathue]

Jakobs a pretty cool guy, he made me a prop for hoodoo

what one?

 

[YM]

I'll let you work that one out

 

[StoneFrog]

The dented garage door?

 

[Void]

Jakob? I thought he was FIRED.

He was. He just finished his work on the SvS update, then was fired.

Robin went out looking for him on the street, was told he would be given a hug, and ran in fear.

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

Who would be afraid of a guy who rides a horse around the office and fires BB guns at people?

 

[grazr]

The dented garage door?

It's a displacement.

 

[YM]

It's a displacement.

Its a model

It dissapears between round 1 and 2, or did you not notice that??

 

[grazr]

No i didn't. But then when/what version was it turned into a model? Or was it always a model? I had always assumed it was a displacement.

 

[YM]

It started life as a displacement, then was turned into a model originaly by someone else using XSI, but that has an iffy user agreement so valve opted to remake it themselves to negate hunting down XSI and getting a special agreement with them. This is why hoodoo wasnt with the scout update.

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

Wait...you mean it took valve from the time of the scout update to the spy and sniper update to make a model of a door? Damn, they really do work slowly

 

[JoshuaC]

It started life as a displacement, then was turned into a model originaly by someone else using XSI, but that has an iffy user agreement so valve opted to remake it themselves to negate hunting down XSI and getting a special agreement with them. This is why hoodoo wasnt with the scout update.

Ah, now I see what you were talking about in the other thread. Now I've got to find a new modeling program to learn..

 

[Shmitz]

I highly recommend blender.