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Are we going to discuss again about monsters that have eyes or not !!!??? Come on !! You should open a thread about this "issue" :P
why is it important whether they have eyes or not?...main thing is they rip you apart quickly and ruthlessly and leave you a dead pile of rotting meat. (!!)
Dunno if this is old, as I remember a papercraft Shambler from a while ago, but check this out:
http://home.clara.net/rogerpattenden/html/quake_marine.html His face and armour colour is a bit off, but the rest is pretty faithful. yes, they do have eyes. http://negative.net.tc/fiend.jpg
would be better if they hadn't, like shamblers and vores. underworldfan, it's because monsters appear much more frightening if they don't have eyes, but are still that unerring and aggressive - if they sense your presence rather than have to rely on fallible physical means such as eyes. ;) Of course, I'm the silly bugger who spent a full minute in Morrowind walking around a freshly dead alit trying to figure out where the eyes were. And realising that, during battle, I had been looking the beast straight in the nostril.
Quake2Evolved: http://www.quake2evolved.com/files.htm
Make sure to also get Open AL Audio Files which are downloadable from that same page as they are required for sound. Covered in blood? Situated just above their mouth?
Ah - no. Those are "stabby things", not "listeny things". 3 year old PCs suck. So here's what I'm planning on getting, without overclocking anything. I'm on a budget,around $1,000.00 ~ $1,200.00.
ANY advice/comments that could help me out tweaking parts and stuff is appreciated! It's possible to drop the HDD, I have an 80GB Ultra ATA-100 already, but getting low on space right now, and just wanted more. It might also be possible to drop the monitor, I'm not sure. Once I have the following built, I'm planning on donating my current one to my mom/sister. OK, here's what I'm checking out for my PC so far: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice - $154.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103535 MOBO: ASUS A8N5X Socket 939 - $79.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569 MEMORY: Corsair XMS 1GB(2x 512MB) DDR SDRAM - $95.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145449 CASE: Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Black, 450 Watts - $89.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129155 GPU: Sapphire X1800XT 512 MB PCI-Express x16 - $309.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102697 HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200 200GB IDE ULTRA ATA-100 - $119.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148036 SOUND: Cannibalize my current sound card. MONITOR: SONY WHITE 17" (16" VIEWABLE) 1600x1200 CRT - $120.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824006007 Total: $967.97 (Unless I suck at math) Any sagely advice? Looks pretty good, however I have a few questions:
1) Why are you going with ATI over NVIDIA? I am pretty sure most in #tf would argue that overall, NVIDIA is the better choice. 2) Why IDE and not SATA? 3) You don't specifically mention CPU cooling, are you going with stock AMD HSF? If so, spend 6$ on a Zalman Fanmate (for manually adjusting CPU fan speed) and it have have a great impact on your sanity. 1.) I actually prefer ATI over NVIDIA. Besides, X1900XTX's, from what I read, are the best cards out now, and X1800XTs aren't too bad either. Does NVIDIA's cards still come with that huge fan that takes up an extra slot?
2.) You may have noticed the mobo is $79.99. That has something to do with it. I could up the mobo to something that supports SATA, but it'd prolly cost more. 3.) Yeah my current CPU-fan has a dial to adjust the speed, it's really nifty. I'll look into it. As your estimated spend is less than your budget, and everyone knows that you should never, ever come in under budget(!), I would recommend looking at the latest LCD screens. The recent improvements are dramatic and the CRT over LCD argument is losing ground fast.
I have a 4ms response 19" 4:3 LCD and have no problems with games when I play at the default resolution of 1280 x 1024. I could have bought a 2ms response screen for an extra $50 but I am just too tight fisted. The extra screen size is such an advantage whether you are using spreadsheets, mapping, surfin' the net or whatever. And the extra desktop space means more room for coffee, beer, books, magazines, DVDs etc; in fact the extra room means space for a dual monitor system using the old CRT as a second screen :-). So I have Maya open on the LCD and Maya tutorials open on the CRT. Nice. But I am still useless at modelling. Monitor size: whether you do CRT or LCD, 17" is really small. consider getting a 19" or 20". the extra viewing area is really awesome when you're mapping or really doing anything where you need to have tools open and such. it makes using 1280x1024 or 16x12 a lot easier on the eyes too in windows because text and such will be bigger (although you *can* up the font size manually).
Ram: Consider getting 2GB? i have 1gb, and i run out of ram *all* the time. :\ having tons of ram really helps when you're working on a project where you need many different applications open at once. getting 2 1gb sticks could be expensive though, so if you can't get the ram and monitor, get the monitor. I agree with necros. My 4:3 19" LCD gives a 15" x 12" viewing screen. My 17" 4:3 CRT gives a 11" x 8.25" viewing screen.
In practical terms that means the Func_MsgBoard Forum page shows down to the Quake Anniversary thread on the 17" CRT (@ 1024)but down to Event Horizonon the 19" CRT (@ 1280); with text set to 'normal' scale. Being able to get more tools on screen for applications is a real boon. This screen dump taken a couple of minutes ago may give an indication (on the other hand it might not!) http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/646/19lcd0fo.jpg I guess I'm saying, go 19", you will appreciate the difference.
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