It's been a while, almost nearly a year. How are you all? Feeling well? That's good.
So basically here's what I'm doing:
- I've emigrated from all this tornado map-making stuff I've done to Goldsource and Source modding. I've found bigger ideas in doing those rather than working with Garry's Mod.

To sum it up, Garry's Mod is a pile of ♥♥♥♥. It's years worth of work and mistakes slapped onto one another, and the single fact that I can go out and buy a GTX 1080 and still have the game run like I'm playing on a 10 year old graphics card is saying something big.
I don't have plans at the current time to make a tornado map. You have to bear with me to imagine how hard it actually can be. Tornado County was a test of my abilities after 6 months of trial and error mapping (I've been mapping since November of 2015) to see if I can actually make a product. I succeeded, and spent all of May 2016 working on it. The developmental timeline of Tornado Plains went from December 10th 2016 to June 16th 2017. There were inbetweens of weeks or a month or two where I was dormant on working on it cause I merely didn't have the time.

Tornado Plains was my improvement on past mistakes made in Tornado County, and my showing of the ideas that had cultivated in my mind over the 6 months I wasn't doing tornado map-making work. I collaborated with 3 different people to get 3 different sets of particles that would go into the map, and as a result adding up to 9 different tornadoes you can see.

I've never announced why I stepped up to the plate to make something like Tornado County, because it was mostly my own frustrations with how Tornado Valley was treated as a product and Rhapid's absence on the project due to his own life taking over which is what built my motivation to actually make the map. To put it simply, Rhapid has a life and things to attend to that are insanely more valuable and worth his time than our nook of a community is. I don't blame him either cause everyone has to move on someday.

Saber/XenonFrame has dealt the damage that was necessary enough to kill off the community. In my time of talking to him all I had gotten was snarky input and the conversations from one who simply did not care or have any passion into the projects. He saw the numbers and that's all he liked about it. Popularity gets to people's heads, yada yada you know what I mean. Either way he's a major ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and he's the reason you never saw wall-clouds in any of the maps. Stuff gets a lot different once you take the reigns and make the ones controlling the show effectively useless, rendering them stupid because you finally did what they kept falsely promising over and over again.

I've spent nearly 5 years of my life on playing these maps, running servers for them, and even making my own. It's not really my thing anymore.

I would personally like to thank Rhapid Fyre, Business Cat, and Tempest, and Fuel Dixon, Ben Stewart, and anyone else I had spent my time with throughout making the stuff I've made. It's been fun.

Go ahead and ask questions if you like.

- maxx

GO GET IT
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=692898316

here we go boi

my computer ended up shutting off while i was sleeping for whatever reason causing the final compile to stop, i may have to run it through again and get it released tonight

sorry about that

so right now its 6am my time, i've been working on finishing the map all night
im gonna go to sleep and compile the map on its final compile
everything is in order it seems so i'll end up waking up and (hopefully) it'll be done compiling
and then i'll update it to the addon, privatize the addon, test the addon
and if it works it works if it doesnt i figure out whats wrong and delay the release

everything seems to be setup properly, i have a folder for the files of the addon that looks proper
anyway, gnight, i'll be awake in the next 8 hours or so from this post to upload the map

posted on: 6/16/2017 6:02 am