Weekly Update - January 9th, 2010
January 9th, 2010 by Dman757 IntroductionGreetings NMRiH fans it feels like its been a whole year since I did an update last. Bad puns aside its time for me to pull my weight and do the weekly update! We have a new weapon model by Maxx and a prop model by Surfa to show this week. Quite a bit of news if you didn't notice the wall of text below, as well as a community contest so check all of that out below! Moddb voting has started and thanks to your support we are in the running for best upcoming Half-Life 2 mod of the year so please continue your support!
Some team news for the week:
We recently acquired another texture artist this past week, some of you forum regulars may know him. Nonetheless give a big old welcome to Bucky! He applied back in September then took some time to work on his artwork and well here he is new and improved. Maxx has been slacking off again, finally going back to work at Rockstar. He also finished making a Winchester Super X3 Flanigun model but whatever, you know what they say once a slacker always a slacker. CrazyMatt had been working on getting an awesome system for dynamic cloth movement on characters clothing as well as free moving ragdoll guts for the zombies. Ssba has been hard at work completely rewriting the zombie spawning code. After a few developer tests we decided to revamp our spawning system to make it more organic and effective. The new system is a large improvement on our old system even though it still needs more testing to fully gauge its effectiveness. While ssba was at it he also implemented punching and head movements to character actions to give a more realistic feeling of weight and movement. Surfa has created a great looking billboard in which we are having a contest for content to fill it up. (see below for a link with details)
Shotgun
Winchester Super X3 Flanigun model by Maxx.
"Community Creativity Contest and Prizes" for Posters & Billboards!
As mentioned earlier we are having a contest for fake advertisements/movie posters and or posters to fill up the game with. Check this thread for information, the grandprize winner get a corpse model designed after themselves and a free $10 game on steam. So be sure to check out he rules and specifications!
Moddb, Mod of the Year Awards!
Also I would like to give a big thanks to all of you who nominated us for Moddbs mod of the year awards! We have now moved into the running and the voting process has begun! Please continue that support and vote NMRiH for this years "Best Upcoming Half-Life 2 Mod of the Year" on Moddb! Just click the moddb image (or right here) to go to the voting site!
Links and stuff you need to know:
Moddb Voting Page
Billboard/Poster Contest
NMRiH Moddb Page
NMRIH Ventrilo Information
NMRIH IRC Information
NMRIH Steam Community Information
