Espionage Wars V5: Sadder than Prey 2 getting canceled. - Garry's Mod

[QUOTE=johau;50219054]Why am I unable to edit my wiki page?.[/QUOTE] Same goes for me. [I]even though my faction isi'nt in the wiki yet. [/I]

Let's ask our wikia sysop what today's problem might be

Who edits the Wiki again?

We all do but Lucky9Two is the sysop with almost all the control options

So. I'll have to make my faction bio on the wiki Tbone?

You can make an introduction post here and then I'm sure Lucky will eventually add it to the wiki

So since i'm done with tests and exams and all that, I am now 100% free and can update the OP again. Since a lot has changed since I last updated it, just shoot me a PM so I can add you since I haven't been keeping good track what with other stuff taking up my time. [editline]28th April 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=jugerbro;50217430]BTW. i'm not gonna turn up my quality again. it seems like a pain for it to wait and render forever.[/QUOTE] You really should. At least when you're about to take a screenshot. It's alright if you leave it on low when you're doing the actual posing, but when it's time to take a picture, you really ought to put it on high just for that.

Europe New Ukraine Kovel [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/y1kzvCb.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Baltian White army deployed troops via airdrop to secure railway in Kovel outskirts to allow quickly transport heavy equipment. Strategy is to bomb the streets to slow mobilization of eastern legion giving time for main Baltian army to deploy heavy equipment and troops to siege the city.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LwgUtE8.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Baltian soldier currently sucessfully captured rail station but facing small firefights with local law enforcemnt and local enemy soldiers.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/o0KmFUB.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]So baltian soldiers currently just sit and defend until main force is ready.[/QUOTE] Sorry if it looks lazy didnt really had much ideas today and exited to start poing more serious engagedements

I won't be posting for a couple of days. I'm going to a remote place "A.K.A no internet" and its very far away where i live.

The Eastern Legion is currently deploying troops to major towns and cities in New Ukraine. [thumb]http://imageshack.com/a/img922/1928/Ow5url.jpg[/thumb] [QUOTE]Military base close to Lviv is deploying so called Legionaries to Kovel where the First Baltian Republic has attacked.[/QUOTE] [thumb]http://imageshack.com/a/img922/4102/kygyVm.jpg[/thumb] [QUOTE]Meanwhile, conscripts and few legionaries is defending Kovel. Civilians is also caught in the firefights, more than 30 civilians has been killed and many more injured..[/QUOTE] Oh boy! I really messed up the wheels on the trucks.

[QUOTE]The Perimeter set up by the South African Government and Kraaivuur Forces was broken today by a Car Bomb that exploded by the main gate, major Rioting and looting has followed in the District and the surrounding areas, 12 Kraaivuur Contractors died when the car bomb hit, 7 died when they were overwhelmed by a mob escaping the District.[/QUOTE] [URL=http://s1053.photobucket.com/user/Redcoat893/media/20160429053239_1_zpspkg3unmf.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s463/Redcoat893/20160429053239_1_zpspkg3unmf.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [QUOTE]District Gate[/QUOTE] [URL=http://s1053.photobucket.com/user/Redcoat893/media/20160429054613_1_zpsdcohdijb.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s463/Redcoat893/20160429054613_1_zpsdcohdijb.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [QUOTE]The Car Bomb Hits[/QUOTE] Sorry for the bad quality, I've had a rough couple of days.

Would it be breaking the rules if my country were to accept contracts to house other nations' worst criminals in a private prison?

Ugh I'm trying to use the advanced particle tool to make a nice laser effect and nothing is the color I need or looks realistic enough

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/255920778/ESP/tboniatrench.jpg[/img] [quote]A Tbonian platoon commander inspects a nearby Boliverian trench on the Tbonia-Tunguska border.[/quote]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QnFJNjO.png[/IMG] [QUOTE]0-1, the Smokkelaars' first and only cyborg, has begun active service in the organisation. After a few days orientation to his new cybernetically enchanced body, not to mention getting used to the partially completed necrotic breakdown of his body's organs and the loss of his vocal chords, 0-1 is believed to either be ready to be shipped out to either Ash Shaddadi as an effective [I]'tank'[/I] of sorts, or as an enforcer in Eastern Europe, where the majority of the smugglers exports are slipping in across the mediterannean. Many of the regulars in the Alliansie, however, [I]resent[/I] the presence of a cyborg; mostly out of a fear of losing out on a paycheck and partly out of blind, hateful bigotry for synthetic organisms of any kind, especially one's attached to someone who would seemingly so willingly throw away his humanity.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=McTbone;50219305]You can make an introduction post here and then I'm sure Lucky will eventually add it to the wiki[/QUOTE] I'm not in charge of adding every single faction to the wiki. If you want a wiki page, either make it yourself or PM me about making you one. There's been like 20 different factions pop up in the last bunch of pages and I've got a life that requires a lot of my attention right now since I'm under contract to make a game for Steam Greenlight for college since it's my senior year. I'm also not the only sysop, as I gave FT sysop and a bunch of the old timers moderator powers, so don't even lay the blame for outdated info on your own factions at my feet. Your faction is your own responsibility, not mine. All I do is fix typos and formatting problems. I was going to add FT to be able to edit the map but I don't know his GMail address so I can't add him as an editor without it. I don't trust anyone besides the game master to edit the map because what he says is what goes and I don't want everyone just vandalizing the map to spite me. The wiki is a community effort. It's not my responsibility to catalog everything as much as I would like to because I just don't have time right now.

I've always wanted to do EW but never had the capability of skinning my own stuff. Is there a really good guide out there that anybody knows of that could help me make a skin for my faction?

[QUOTE=ScienceGuy44;50225320]-mygod-[/QUOTE] Jesus Christ. When you were making a cyborg, I thought you were going to make some dude with chunks of metal attached to him or a prosthetic or something. Not [I]this[/I].

[QUOTE=Skyguy113;50226285]I've always wanted to do EW but never had the capability of skinning my own stuff. Is there a really good guide out there that anybody knows of that could help me make a skin for my faction?[/QUOTE] 1. Get GIMP or Photoshop, as well as the relevant VTF plugin for either program. 2. Take the model(s) of your choice and start reskinning. For the purposes of this guide, let's assume you're focused on reskinning the uniform and/or gear (Webbing, MOLLE/PALS etc.) of a generic soldier model. If so, then read these points: 2a. Try to find a drab version of a uniform/gear texture if the model you're reskinning doesn't have one, either from a model with similar/identical components, or from a specular map or bumpmap/normal map layer mask (though the latter may not produce satisfactory results). You could also use the bumpmap itself as a drab texture, but that's more or less a last resort. None is really necessary if for example you only intend to slap on a logo, but for either of the next two steps having a flat-coloured texture is essentially required. 2b. If you want to give your soldier a flat-coloured uniform, then you don't need to do much more than mess around with the colour tools of your chosen image editor. 2c. If on the other hand you intend to have a camouflaged uniform, then you need to: a)Desaturate the texture (N.B. - You should isolate any elements you don't want reskinned); b)Mess around with brightness and contrast until the texture is white (or at least light gray), but take care not to obliterate details such as clothing creases etc. in the process (again, you should isolate any elements you don't want reskinned); c)Take your chosen camo, make it a separate layer, resize it (if needed) and then tile it (again, if needed) d)And finally set the camo layer to multiply or overlay/soft light/hard light before merging with the base uniform/gear texture (Most of the time, I've personally found that setting the camo layer to mutliply gives the best result, though sometimes setting it to overlay or soft light or hard light can give a similar or even a superior result) Now, there's nothing wrong with just throwing on a camo texture and leaving it at that as long as you follow the steps above. However, if you're going for realism you should aim to replicate any 'seams' that may be present on the model (pocket flaps, sleeves, trouser/pant legs etc.), in which case isolate those particular parts of the uniform/gear texture BEFORE applying the camo texture, make a copy of the camo texture for the isolated elements and either move it to a different position on the 'canvas' or rotate it, and then apply the camo layers as normal. 3. Once you're done reskinning, I'd advise that you hex whatever models you've reskinned. Here's a guide to that process from the previous EW thread: [QUOTE=Taggart;46982827]I don't think I've ever made a hexing guide at all, but I can literally cook one up in 5 seconds. 1. Download [url=http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm]XVI32[/url]. 2. Find your model of choice, copy the files, put them somewhere else, and open the copied .mdl in XVI32. 3. Either rename the model, folder, or both, at the top of the file (USE THE SAME AMOUNT OF LETTERS YOU GOOF) 4. Scroll to the very bottom, and find the materials folder - change this too (same amount of letters), or change specific material names if you want to keep the same folder. 5. Save the .mdl, and then rename all related folders/files/vmt lines as you have just modified the .mdl to direct to. Bam, you can now hex.[/QUOTE] This is quite a basic guide that isn't necessarily complete, but hopefully it'll suffice.

[QUOTE=F T;50226618]Jesus Christ. When you were making a cyborg, I thought you were going to make some dude with chunks of metal attached to him or a prosthetic or something. Not [I]this[/I].[/QUOTE] Er... [I]do I get a cookie then?[/I] Sadly, I couldn't find a fairly good looking cyborg-esque figure; that looked as good as it was gonna get. I would have rathered something a little more rough-looking, but again, that was as good as it got in my search.

[B]Europe Kovel, New Ukraine[/B] [video=youtube;ABdsXyNHSNk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABdsXyNHSNk[/video] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bfDLswZ.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]White army's "32nd Curonian rifles brigade" and equipment has been deployed. Many soldier are prepared to fight to avenge ,some exited to see action and some are afraid many soldiers came here to avenge their people and build new better goverment and life for the people of ukraine as they suffered a lot recently. White army started to move in from town outskirts to main town[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mnxoqKc.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Currently eastern legion haven't deployed main forces to Kovel ,yet local forces are as dangerous as few casualties been taken on unexpecting soldiers from sniper fire. [/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/1R70u9u.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Baltian White army soldiers dont have good relations with civilians either as some soldier been attacked by angry civilian mob as they see Baltians as invaders and those on their land killing their family and friends causing nothing more but death and destruction to people of ukraine. Mostly civilians just angrily shout at soldiers and aren't dangerous to soldiers that stay groups.[/QUOTE]

What map is that in the middle picture? It looks awesome

[QUOTE=ScienceGuy44;50226673]Er... [I]do I get a cookie then?[/I] Sadly, I couldn't find a fairly good looking cyborg-esque figure; that looked as good as it was gonna get. I would have rathered something a little more rough-looking, but again, that was as good as it got in my search.[/QUOTE] I find the best way to do cyborgs, is to take the facemap and the eye textures of just your normal soldiers, and edit them a bit. For instance, edit the eye to a different color and use photoshop or gimp, the brush tool(Most likely on the smallest size) to smooth in multiple iris's and or break or datastreams. Like so: [url]https://media.giphy.com/media/xDtYvw21JWl9u/giphy.gif[/url] That alone shows that they're cybernetic. And if you want to go further, you can again use basic brush tool and/or import bits of cybernetics to layover and integrate into the facemap, to make something similar to this: [url]http://f742a291acf7f6ce2375-d87d8e7b51bb281f7a964c4a606459da.r10.cf1.rackcdn.com/doctor_who_nightmare_in_silver_11.jpg[/url] And when all else fails, go to youtube and watch a tutorial on how to make scars on a face (Or a tutorial on any of the above) And instead of the red blood and muscle that is revealed in the base layer of an open scar, replace the color with black or grey to insinuate metal. Easy peasy, not going SUPER crazy, and it obviously still shows that you have a cybernetically enhanced soldier.

its css map cs_KVARTAL. you can get it here [url]http://css.gamebanana.com/maps/159511[/url]

[QUOTE=Sir_Leaf;50226910]I find the best way to do cyborgs, is to take the facemap and the eye textures of just your normal soldiers, and edit them a bit. For instance, edit the eye to a different color and use photoshop or gimp, the brush tool(Most likely on the smallest size) to smooth in multiple iris's and or break or datastreams. Like so: [url]https://media.giphy.com/media/xDtYvw21JWl9u/giphy.gif[/url] That alone shows that they're cybernetic. And if you want to go further, you can again use basic brush tool and/or import bits of cybernetics to layover and integrate into the facemap, to make something similar to this: [url]http://f742a291acf7f6ce2375-d87d8e7b51bb281f7a964c4a606459da.r10.cf1.rackcdn.com/doctor_who_nightmare_in_silver_11.jpg[/url] And when all else fails, go to youtube and watch a tutorial on how to make scars on a face (Or a tutorial on any of the above) And instead of the red blood and muscle that is revealed in the base layer of an open scar, replace the color with black or grey to insinuate metal. Easy peasy, not going SUPER crazy, and it obviously still shows that you have a cybernetically enhanced soldier.[/QUOTE] I've been trying pretty hard to edit skins as it is; still can't really wrap my head around it. It would ultimately take me quite a while to manage that sort of thing; hopefully, I'll eventually get the hang of it.

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But I thought Daraa is a nerve gassed hellhole now?

i'm sure he's expecting 3/4ths casualties it's all good bru

They're not even wearing any form of NBC gear. This is literally sending your men to die.

[QUOTE=F T;50227129]But I thought Daraa is a nerve gassed hellhole now?[/QUOTE] [I]Pfft.[/I] They brought the paper bags and plastic nozzles; they know what they're doing.