Monday, 06 June 2005
Source: Off Limits
Off Limits celebrates its second birthday, so a very happy B to the rest of the crew. Two years ago the idea behind Off Limits and the decision to make a HL2 mod out of it were born in some random irc channel on Quakenet. Two years have passed, and I'm proud to say we've built a dedicated team, talented beyond what we've ever hoped and ever working to get this mod out there. To celebrate this, we're showing you some of the media we've been working on, and some screens of our internal alpha v0.3. Oh, and we've baked a cake, ofcourse.It's about time we showed off some of Coffeeman's work. With the impressive resumé he has as a character animator, our player animations are probably not much of a challenge for him. He did a great job creating fluid animations from scratch, so take a peek at some of the animations you'll soon be playing with: Anyone else curious as to what Coffeeman could to to our Alien? Onto some of our new models! First we got the Yamaha XJR-1300, almost the only proof that I actually *do* something for the mod (besides coding, but hey, that's hard to show off, ey kronos!. I modeled this sweet bike quite a while ago; getting one of those is still on my "things to do in life"-list, but in the meantime I'll settle for driving it in the mod. Yup, it'll be driveable. I was lucky to have simon skin it for me, as you can see it's becoming a real beauty (it's still WiP). Then we have two variants of a map prop simon modeled and skinned, a flatbed trailer carrying a broken komatsu, and a regular trailer. Of course, no media update without some new weapon renders. Reason skinned three versions of the Beretta Target, and we held a little poll on our forums; this is the winning skin: Jake has been "promoted" (read: we make him work harder), he's now organizing everything weapon-related. We're gonna have some changes, we're going to upgrade most of our weapons to higher-poly versions and do some balance changes as well wrt. the arsenal of both teams. We're also very busy developing internal alpha's. I have to mention kronos here, as he's a tremendous help in the coding department. Currently we're developing alpha v0.4 which should get released in the next week or two. We're gonna keep development internal until we have reached beta stage, then we'll see which way we go. Here are some screenshots of our alpha, showing off the maps and the minimap system (the thing in the top right... it's going to be similar to BF's minimap system, will also be used for spawn selection). The featured maps are ol_stack by simon, ol_damnation and ol_undersiege by purerage (the last one is absolutely *huge*): Well, that's about it for now. We're living up to a reputation as a crew that doesn't do PR all that much, but rest assured it's only because we're too busy working on the mod!. If you'd like to help us out with that and have some talent in gamedev, feel free to contact us at maarten@off-limits.be or simon.wt@pandora.be . Mappers are very welcome atm, but we value other help as well.
Source: Shadows of Winter
After last month's display of one of the many forms of armour combatants may don in our title, we thought we'd start displaying some of the additional protective equipment available in TLP: SoW.In this update, we present the smallest form of shield crafted from Sir Phoenixx's workshop: the Buckler. Please visit the Equipment section of this website to learn more about this tiny shield and other arms & armour or click on the image below for a detailed view of it.We've also updated our vast arsenal with two more swords. These two-handed weapons nearly complete the entirety of melee-based arms available within TLP: SoW. The Two-Handed Sword and the Flamberge have always been classical favorites of this genre and have been included to add even more variety and strategy to our innovative combat system. Click on the thumbnails below to see larger images of these beautiful instruments of death. To observe the myriad weapons already cooling from Sir Phoenixx's forge, visit the Equipment section of this website. We'd also like to welcome our newest member; TheKeyci, to our team. His amazing experience with previous Source-based maps are a greatly welcomed addition to this project. We are always looking for talented and dedicated members to participate in this project's development and appreciate the invaluable services these skilled volunteers render. If you believe you have what it takes to fulfill any of our currently high-demand positions, please don't hesitate to contact us.Lastly; more character concepts have been added to our Characters section. These images have been amassed throughout the early stages of pre-production and "in-game" imagery will soon follow. Minute changes throughout the course of development will allow viewers to compare and contrast the conceptual renderings with their final incarnations.
