what is it> 

Seriously? 

Ah the DNF of mods is still around eh :) 

yes. I went to the page but they dont have any screenies or info, well none that I could find. 

http://www.blackmesasource.com/404.php

Every time you refresh the 404 page it gives you a different picture, mostly just jokes, including the 'goatse grub'.

Random 

i think it's the thing with the original hl maps for hl2? 

It is Half-Life remade in the source engine. Appears to be very high quality from the trailers and screenshots they have put out over the years.

As others already mentioned, it is the DNF of game mods, they originally posted a release date back in 2009 (heh) but after that came and went the team went quiet and the jokes started pouring in :)

Anyway, it looks very nice. I'll probably do a video series on it for the you of tubes. 

http://www.blackmesasource.com/soundtrack.html

Listened to a few tracks, pretty good stuff actually. 

Please post a 10 second video review of Black Mesa Source saying "This thing plays like a game from 1998 - thumbs down" thanks bye. 

will definitely check it out. 

preach 

This thing plays like a game from 1998

In the case of DNF that would have been preferable to what we got :p 

Care to code some simple brushwork <-> mdl converter? Cool, thanks! 

you might be able to do that with noesis, maybe through an intermediate format.

why not just embed bsp files though? what weird stuff are you building again. 

I've been thinking about that, actually, but the way brushes are defined just doesn't make sense to me. But yeah, it'd be really cool to be able to do that.

Are you trying to convert from brushes into a model or a model into brushes? 

Can convert .map files to .obj model files. It copes with detail ok, anything smaller than 1 grid brush scale is broken but otherwise it is perfect for working out the scale of things. The obj file format can be read by most modelling packages. 

Model to brushwork actually. Would that even work? Some trisoup mess, and what about the skin?
Map to model is easier - I once successfully converted my SM spaceship to a model in some awkward procedure. But it was a poor job, because the touching faces were included as well.

It was just a random thought I had while playing Madfox's map, seeing the Gargoyle. Could make for some nice map objects, and help keep a map proper if Drew runs it with Quoth. 

mdl2map, it definitely existed - see #3884 above. Unfortunately, I cannot find it now. Madfox? 

#3884 in Mapping Help... 

I was thinking primarily model -> map but only as a means of creating planar stuff like tri-souped terrain, not sealed shapes. You'd basically be making the bsp program over again except in reverse. 

proudly announcing a new retexturing project. I have hired a re-owned artist to implement a faithful high resolution wizard.wad texture set. you have probably seen some of her art recently.

as you can see this is nothing like the usual fan made replacements but a careful work based on the originals. not only upping the resolution but also adding details you could only guess earlier. 

this is awesome..... :P 

re-owned? 

Finally we can settle the question of whether Jesus has eyes.