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DaveW
New Vision
Joined: Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:03 am
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 Re: New Stuff Unfortunately all the chinese take aways near me are a bit rubbish. I used to live almost next door to an amazingly cheap take-away that made awesome mushroom chow mein (I'm vegetarian). The local ones just don't compare  I was playing around with the New York package adding some extra dirt to the textures and I accidentally made the crazy tiling skyscrapers look a bit better by enhancing one of the ledges:  
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Massaca
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Joined: Wed May 06, 2009 8:29 am
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Re: New Stuff Personally I would have voted no in that poll as it's not something that is necessary, nice that you tried though. It's great when accidents yield such results. They look great.
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Kaiza Killa
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Re: New Stuff My goodness, these textures look incredible.
Just a question, it is my understanding that the New Vision mod is available on Mod DB but that it isn't the final product. If I were to download it, would every new addition that you add to the project necessitate me having to download each addition individually? Or would I simply be able to do download one final download at the end of it all that overwrites the original incomplete mod?
Pardon my questions regarding this, I am just quite green in these matters.
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Renmazuo
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Re: New Stuff Veg here too! -fistbump- Shame we don't get superpowers like the vegans in Scott Pilgrim. Considering how veg-unfriendly most chain restaurants are having a decent Chinese place nearby tends to be like a shining oasis for the meat-disinclined. Yay Buddhism! Back on topic, mod looks nice too.  Thanks for putting in all the extra man hours to make it a quality release. Screenshots are just lovely. As for the signs, if the new ones end up saying things like Donkey Punch Ass Master or Lucky Golden Shower, WELL, that's just the price to be paid for excellence. 99% of the playerbase won't know or care anyway. Besides, for all we know the signs already say things like that. There is a VersaLife employee named M. Bates after all.
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bobby 55
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Re: New Stuff  After playing DX again very recently, I gotta say those lights are outstanding. It's really chalk and cheese.
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DaveW
New Vision
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Re: New Stuff Yes, the current release contains all the texture packages but only some of the textures in them are replaced. The new download will be all the texture packages again - so they'll overwrite the old ones, but this time contain more textures. Living in the UK has one advantage that all restaurants are (I think) legally obliged to provide some vegetarian food. Of course some of the crap ones will just say "The rice is vegetarian" and leave it at that, but most have decent vegetarian alternatives which is nice.
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justanotherfan
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Re: New Stuff Oh wow, I forgot about the Chinese well-endowed moose inflection, and house attacking lizards in chapter 3.
Like rebuilding the maps, accuracy in transcription/translation is ideal, but not worth delays. The chinesefood restaurant is a great idea though, "By the way, does this printout say anything?"
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Kaiza Killa
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Re: New Stuff Thank you Dave. I will download the new textures tonight. I wish there was more I could say to compliment you on your work as, from what I have seen, these textures are truly amazing. The Unified Texture Pack enhanced my experience of Deus Ex: Invisible War a great deal and I'm sure this mod will provide a similar, if not greater, experience, especially given which game it applies to.
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EER
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Joined: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:52 pm
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Re: New Stuff My "home" Chinese restaurant actually has some chinese symbols on their placemats. When I was little I once asked the owner 'what does it mean?'. She didn't know. *desillusioned*.
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justanotherfan
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Re: New Stuff I don't remember DX's lights being white. Looking at original screenshots, they're all yellow. I'm so used to Daylight (or "Cool White") bulbs now that it looks stupid. It looks 1970's. Thanks for correcting the colour temperature and generally improving the lights. The ledge is a big improvement. From a distance, DX's tiny tiles warp perspective in my eyes, and I can't tell what they represent. I wish I had a a game-development article I read a decade ago, complaining about contemporary 3D issues; it described exactly how 2.5D tricks break down, making up down and depth flat. Games would get trippy in the 3D 90's while I tried to keep my character from dying, but those big windows with the obvious ledge are unmistakable. DX's skyscraper textures look like tin ceiling tiles. --- I'm shocked at how ethnoculturally bland we all are. I have some acquaintances that can read Chinese. If I had an image I could print including specific questioned images, I'm sure I could have an awkward conversation to decypher them.
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DaveW
New Vision
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Re: New Stuff I'd like to get some more variety in them for the map pack, maybe make some variations of the windows so some could be slightly lit (although not the awful fullbright windows you get in Hong Kong or Paris, which themselves need fixing), or have floors with different window types etc. - something to break it up. Also I'd probably make some extra textures for skyscrapers and suggest making the non-playable area filled with buildings much bigger and add more 3d buildings, rather than the massive skyscrapers in the background (which also need to be scaled down considerably). For example, spot where the skybox starts:  Edit: Some new stuff in the 'Rocket' package, which covers a lot of stuff from Vandenburg to Area51. I mostly missed this package the first time round.  
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m3rc1l3ss
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Re: New Stuff Wow awesome work. I look forward to seeing how everything comes together. Is the skybox going to be recreated or are you just going to use the remapping project to add skyscrapers to fill in space between the map and skybox?
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Salk
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Re: New Stuff It's really great stuff! Are we close to wrapping up a new New Vision package, DaveW? 
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LTNObvious
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Re: New Stuff Those textures are beautiful Can't wait to play it!
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Albert
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Re: New Stuff Seconded. I was able to get Deus Ex playing in wine on linux the other day, and today I succesfully got the current new vision pack to install. Still looking good, but this stuff rocks even more.
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