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Stormy Cabin

WOW this is the best home i have seen

I love this! It's such a pleasant area to chill out in. One thing that bugs me is that the clouds are very bright. I wish they were darker to fit the night time setting. Regardless, this is my favorite environment. I can't bring myself to set anything else as my home. Nice work!

love the peaceful atmosphere, i come here only for questing but recently just visiting

I like hammer also. On the whole it is quite good. A few things however I find arduous. Like animation, sound, and dynamic lighting. It is performant, has a pretty good property based renderer, good scripting capabilities and physics, powerful particle system. Lots to like. A few hangups which probably won't get fixed any time soon if ever. It would be nice if there were some tools to handle sounds (compiling and defining), some sort of in editor model and animation capabilities. Working in 3rd party tools and importing is miserable. It is understandable. Never meant to be a one stop game development platform. It would be cool however if the handful of weak points could be enhanced to make them easier to work with. Probably take a skilled developer a week to write a tool to fix the sound workflow.

It sucks that they're not making a game or uploading it as an open source engine, they could make that one game, which has a number beginning with "th" but yeh, I love hammer world editor, I find it really easy to use and it has potential since it has features other engines don't have.

They do, you just have to place files in game and content folders, modify some compiling files, specially format the sound itself, define coordinates (I think), etc. When I used to fool with unreal engine back in the day it was much simpler. Seems like parts of this engine are slick and simple. Other parts? Pffft. Sadly I don't think they have any plans to update the editor because there are no games being developed using the engine as far as I know. Never really meant to be an end user product.

Do they not have trigger and sound thingy wingy magigy anymore?

Gotta figure out how to get point sound sources working. It's on my to do list. They don't make anything easy in engine. Lots of adding files here and there, compiling this, writing little scripts. Even for seemingly simple tasks. Documentation is a bit fractured to say the least.

Well erm you sir... need... erm... to... keep making cool things! Not drinking, please don't. Btw where's the fireplace crackling? I need that sound! Most important thing ever!

@Linkz That's what everyone tells me. I don't think I have ever been totally satisfied with any creative endeavor. It could always be a bit better and all that. I suppose that can drive us to create greater things. Could also cause us to quit. I think successful artists find a balance between motivation to excel, and depression fueled alcoholism. I'm on whisky number 3 and it is 4 o'clock. Rut Ro. :)