Development Blog!

Might as well start this one with its been a long time since I wrote something here, and a lot happened since last time – that seems to getting a bit classic around here. Might as well make this clear. Missing Information is not dead and version 1.6 isn’t released (a few users and moderators at HLFallout thinks this is the case, for some reason).

There’s been much kiddy drama since last time, something I promised myself not to bother commenting on. Said kids wouldn’t listen anyway because… Well I guess because they ARE kids. It’s not my job to parent them so let them be.

We had some down time at Gabe’s Love Tub back in July because our old host Snakez (administrator of legendary HL2World & Flamehaus.com) couldn’t afford the hosting anymore. Long story short, Andy got a copy of the Tub including the database and domain for free which means he’s now hosting it for us. Shortly after this incident we had a team meeting where we agreed it was time for the Tub to grow up. So basically there’s a new friendly attitude in the Tub

Missing Information is progressing. I finally took the time to finish the pages on our main site (honestly this didn’t have that high priority). We’ll be doing a media release, and announcing some change in a, hopefully, not so distant future! Look forward to this!

While we’re at it. Some of you might have noticed we updated the GabeN Wiki with more information about the old story line, and somewhat the progress of our project.

And finally let me mention The Axel Project while I’m already talking about leak related projects. I got a rather rude message from one of their members calling himself Ben (he used to be on GabeN) about one month ago. See for yourself here. What I now find very – well not really sure whether this is hilarious or sad, but I’m quoting

we got v18-v20 bsp support
shared model support
full v37 model support
bloom
and a bunch of other shit
so fuck you and your gay gaben team
…
youll see in 2 or 3 weeks

Let me now, for hilarity refer to the latest post on their website/blog.

As you can see in this image there is no such thing as working bloom nor proper shader support on nVidia GPUs.

Not really sure why I’m bother pointing this out. Especially not when there’s other interesting news such as we’ve disabled hotlinking from our sites (includes the Tub) which have resulted in hilarities! This is all for now, I admit this isn’t the best post I’ve ever made but I wanted to test the script Andy <3 wrote for me

As all of you probably heard Michael Jackson died. Certainly not something I expected, but then again. Oh well. He was a great man, that’s for sure.

I kinda feel I’m repeating myself in every post I make here. So lets just get it over. Missing Information is not dead! And neither is GabeN (we got our forums back up recently, in case you’ve got any questions) and Andy is still working on GabeNet. It’s temporary shut down, which explains why you can’t connect.

I myself have been working on tracking down a lame ass bug, regarding the Citizen models in the leak, I most likely have introduced myself ages ago, and didn’t really investigate until now. The weird thing is it only happens when Citizens are spawned in a certain way. Something I haven’t done anything to.

I’m leaving for a while since I’m going somewhere. If you want to know, just take a look at my previous blog entries, one of them explains it. I’ll have turned 21 when I return. The girls I’m currently living with will have moved out (they graduated three days ago – so congratulations to them), and new ones might have moved in. How about that?

Not entirely sure I’ve said everything I said. Who knows, I might return in the middle of the week to say hello. I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten something but I have to go.

Finally I’m just gonna leave this link here. Not really sure why seeing how it’s thing of the past.

Gabe’s Love Tub might be gone when I’m back, but who knows. I’d rather not talk about that before I’m certain. If it is gone though, doesn’t mean Missing Information is dead!

What’s up vanilla face? It’s been pretty gay around here lately. I’m going to make a blog post soon about what’s going on. In the meanwhile enjoy this shitty leaked version of “Lambda Core 21″‘s Air Exchange. It’s quite hideous.

I haven’t touched it myself, I’m only hosting this for shits and giggles. So I don’t have any screen shots for you.
I did take the liberty of decompiling the map for you, though

DOWNLOAD LINK LOL – VMF File

Check out his Steam Community Group, it’ll give you a cheap laugh for sure!

Anyway, Junk posted more images of what we’ve been doing lately. I can’t really think of anything interesting to say right now. Good bye!

Let me start with getting this out of the way. I’m guessing everybody that reads this blog knows it anyway. The Love Tub is back, along with Missing Information, so drop by if you haven’t already.

In my last real update I mentioned I was using an old Geforce 7900GT. Well that’s gone now, and have been replaced with an awesome Asus Geforce GTX260 that basically runs everything perfectly so far.

Since last time a lot have happened. I recently started over on my decompiler. The current QC output (comparing with Cannonfodders decompiler output) looks like this. I reimplemented the highlighting of vertices assigned to a specific bone (uncommented the code basically, it was THAT hard!) which is going to be quite helpful eventually when I need it.

Blake decided to update his blog with a somewhat interesting update, and changed his template. Junk posted a recent staff photo on his blog, worth a look.

It seems I once again have to make this clear. We (GabeN) aren’t doing what we do to satisfy anyone, we’re only doing it for our own sake and experience, so we really don’t care if you aren’t going to download our game when we release (we know you are going to do it anyway). Raynorpat and those guys decided to start their project called “The Axel Project“. Good luck to them.

If you haven’t heard this already, Microsoft released a public beta of Windows 7 (build 7000) in January, which I decided to check out. Let me just say I haven’t used Windows Vista once since I installed this back in January. I recently updated to build 7048 which is really awesome. Three screens from build 7000 here. Might upload more later.

I think that’s pretty much it, I don’t recall anything interesting happen besides what’s been said so far – well some shizzle in my personal life but I’m not going to mention it here. Maybe later for laughs.

Oh, I mentioned in my last blog post that Pawnstick didn’t hijack that YouTube account. Guess what. I didn’t do it either, the guy who did it just decided to share the account info with us.

So who did it ?

This is just something I’m posting to clarify a few things people got wrong.

First of all, Junk didn’t leave GabeN. It was a joke post we did for more lulz, and it worked quite nicely. Thanks for the team players from this Steam Group, you helped us with more laughs!

Secondly Pawnstick didn’t hijack any YouTube accounts, especially not this one. To prove it, check this out.
http://scart.slkandy.com/images/e-drama/poisonYouTube.png

Go figure who did, by looking at that image. And when you do please post it in the comments and you’ll get a spot on the GabeN beta, once that goes live.

Stuff not related to this dumb drama. I’ve been really busy lately, and I do plan on updating this blog soon. Expect a big update!

Alot have happened since last time I posted anything here, and at the same time nothing have really happened. I bought myself a new system. Specifications are

Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2032BW

CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz

Motherboard: ASUS P5K SE/EPU

Memory: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition Dual Channel – 4 GB (2×2 GB) – 1066 MHz / PC2-8500

GPU: MSI nVidia Geforce 7900GTO

OS: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate (SP1) 64-Bit

The reason for using such an outdated GPU right now, is the lack of money. I’m planning on buying a nVidia Geforce 260GTX. The 7900 is an old one my dad used to have, but his powersupply crashed and damanged the GPU. Which gives me awesome glitches in games. Laugh out loud. Downclocking it a bit helps a little.

When I ordered parts of my system I ordered my memory from some Swedish online shop. Which turned out to be a big waste of time, and money apparently. I cancelled the order, but I just found out today they still withdrew the money. Fuckers. So now I have to deal with that retarded shit.

I decided to go with Windows Vista 64-bit. I heard a shitload of dumb stuff about 64-bit operating systems and Vista from a bunch of idiots that don’t know shit nor have tried it themselves. I wanted to experience it for myself, which I certainly don’t regret. Everything is just so much faster.

We’ve made some progress in Team GabeN last month. Nothing big and exciting but I guess it’s worth mentioning. Using 64-bit Vista broke the leak since it doesn’t support 64-bit, we fixed that (turned out to be alot simpler than first anticipated). A bunch of other, minor bugs, were fixed too. On the mapping part, Junk have posted some awesome stuff from our Terminal map.

I, of course, have to mention my decompiler as usual. I’ve done some work mostly with animations. Current output it gives (well June 16th) can be seen here. Unfortunately only a few modelling applications support these messed up animations (3ds max 7 will).

Other than that nothing’s really happening. Only alot of personal shit I don’t feel like blabbering about here, and some internal GabeN stuff we aren’t talking about (yet?). Last but not least I predict this week will be shitty. I actually were going to mention shit about the leaking of Half-Life 2 (as most people know GabeN have been in touch with Axel G., and therefor knows a bit more about all of it )

Let me just say these last words for now “September 30th. Worldwide”

Warning: Long post a head. Too long to read edition below!

Woah.! The previous weekend has got to be the most awesome in a long time! The party friday was just perfect. Probably because I was drunk more or less all day and night. There was this big party in the city I live in. We started out right when I got home from work, watching some people play sports etc. went home got ready. There was a couple of weird situations though, when I arrived at the party again, this girl came up to me.

Apparently she knew me, but I didn’t know too much about her, I’d only talked to her twice. Sadly she disappeared. So a mate and I went to another city. Met some friends which went home relatively fast, and my friend disappeared with some girl. To be honest I’m not sure how it happened but I found myself talking to some other girl, long story short I spend the rest of the night with her and lost my last tie (lost my red tie a few weeks ago to some other girls, those bitches!).

We planned going to McDonalds when we woke up, but we somehow ended up playing minigolf while getting drunk again, which I sucked at (minigolf that is).

Last personal thing. I had some trouble with my phone about two weeks ago, I couldn’t do shit. I didn’t feel like sending it to Nokia so they could take care of it, instead I spend saturday fixing it. Works perfect now, due to my awesome talents. Lost one number, but who cares?

Enough personal shit.
I just opened Visual Studio and I’m getting ready to work on LogThatShit, which is a note tool I’ve been needing for a while. Furthermore it’s my delving into C# and the .NET Framework. Originally LogThatShit was supposed to be a small tool GabeN could use for creating changelogs easily, but I’ve been coming up with a shit load of awesome ideas and things I want to try out. Turns out I forgot a shit load too. I used to write notes in Notepad, but I lost everything to a Blue Screen of Death (I didn’t save it ).

Things related to my work with the Source engine. I decided I wanted to update the VGUI panels, fixing a few memory leaks, and getting those smooth corners like retail have. Progress images can be found here. I’m looking into doing some alpha stuff like retail (too!) but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around that right now.

I mentioned my decompiler in the last post, but I forgot to mention what I had really done. Guess I was way too focussed on embedding that YouTube video!? Anyway. I’ve figured out why it looks like this. The decompiler doesn’t parent the vertices to the correct bone. I know what to do, I just need to write the code which I can’t wrap my head around either The mesh isn’t really that important, since Bob The Builder released his 3DS Max importer before he got a bunch of legal threats from Valve (I doubt you’re reading this Bob, but contact me if you are). What we really need is the animations and QC file. My decompiler already generates the QC file more or less perfectly (old QC examples can be found here).

Some of you might already know, but I still think it’s worth mentioning. Pawnstick and I opened our own forum, since we’re just awesome at everything we do. So why the hell not? Which brings me to this. This time it isn’t GabeN that’s getting blamed for shit, but actually Odessa’s Leaky World.
Of course we aren’t taking threats from a 15 year old kid who can’t manage his own shitty phpBB2 forum. It actually made me laugh so much my stomach hurt

I think that was all for now, I think this is the longest post so far, but I was waiting for the train at the time, so I didn’t really know what to do.

Nigger please! Too long to read!
Drunken stories in the first paragraphs, programming, GabeN, decompiler and Odessa’s Leaky World in the last paragraphs.

Woah.! This post have been written loads of times in my head, mostly at work when there’s not really much to think about. It’s going to sound like some generic American movie, like American Pie: – Well I can’t think of any smart title so you’re going to have to come up with that yourself.

Things I could write in this post could be how I nearly died, how I passed out and didn’t know where I was when I woke, how I lost my tie or some of the other crazy stuff that happened since last post (only 19 days ago!) but it’s not going to be about any of those things.

Travis Q (Travis Quentin Carrey) died about two months ago, I realised that a few days ago when I needed some advice on something, that isn’t really important now. Travis Q died due to drowning 11th april 2008. His dinghy capsized off the coast of British Columbia near Kitamaat Village. Some people actually thought this was some sick joke. How you could be that fucked up to think GabeN would joke with something as serious as death? Enough about that.

Yet another paragraph starting with I. I was going to write something about the girl I mentioned in this post – I messed up. Dead harddrive. Things going wrong. but turns out I simply don’t know what to write. So I’m embedding a video from YouTube with London Beat. I heard it on the radio, I already knew the song, but it simply overwelmed me so I stopped working without noticing. The lyrics more or less says everything.

I was bored like any other day, and figured it was time to work on my decompiler again. Kyle made some stuff that would make us able to get the newly introduced jigglebones QC parameters.

Finally No More Room in Hell was leaked last friday by our awesome Rapidshare supplier BosmouZ. Props to him for mentioning GabeN in the NFO – Surprisingly haven’t we been blamed for this one, yet. Everything except the latest (binaries) source code was leaked. Which means the original source for models, maps and some materials are out there.

Protip for people with access to important stuff like that: Don’t use “4554″ as your password.

Rounding up this post I’ll just mention these things quickly. I’m not going to be drunk once this weekend (which is almost over, really). Woah.! Huh? I did some work on Kleiners lab a few days ago, and I’m about to do some more. Blake’s power supply died, so I’m buying a new one for him next week. That’s right. I’m buying a new power supply to a somewhat stranger. That’s what GabeN do!

This has got to be the weirdest post ever, seeing it mostly involves real life stuff. Something I never imagined I’d use this blog for. Who cares.

I bought a Xbox 360 the day after my previous post. A mate was selling his, including two controllers, two games (Gears of War, Poker Championship), and a wireless network adapter. $290 and it was mine. Bought Call of Duty 4 on an online auction yesterday, so I’m expecting to have that tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll have my new phone back tomorrow too.

Haven’t really done anything coding, or modding wise for a long time which is kinda annoying. Spend all weekend drinking which means laying off the drinking isn’t going quite as planned. At least I know how to be nice to people while I’m drunk, instead of acting like an idiot all the time.

Now that I’ve got my external harddrive, I’m starting to think (oh shit!) about getting my data back from my desktop. Which is something I’ll look at tomorrow, if I have the time. Which I probably won’t have.

Last but not least. I realized today, there’s exactly two months today til I turn 20, which is a weird thought. I don’t feel that old at all.

God, this was a shitty post. Oh, forgot to mention in my previous post.

Junk jumped the blog bandwaggon! Check it out.

It’s the end of the month. I promissed myself at the start of the month I’d see if I could write more frequently, well that’s not going very well. Anyway, here’s the monthly update.

I’ll start writing more on this blog, seeing that I might have more time now, for reasons I really don’t see. One of my harddrives died in my desktop, about a week ago, which means I lost loads of data. Krunchy hooked me up with a program called “SpinRite” which supposedly should be able to help me. Haven’t tried yet, since I wanted to wait till I received the external harddrive I ordered.

I’m currently at my parents house, to pick up my external harddrive (Western Digital My Book 500 GB) so I’ll probably be taking a look at that shit when I get back to my own place. No idea when that’ll be though.

I think this paragraph is supposed to say something smart, or wise. I got a new phone (Nokia 5310 XpressMusic) about four weeks ago. Broke it after three weeks because I messed up. It’s fixed though, think I’ll have it back tuesday if I’m lucky.

Last part of this post now. Which is going to suck. Hard. I don’t know whether I want to write about it or not, but I’ll do it anyway, since other GabeN members keeps telling me to blog about it instead of blabbering in IRC all the time.

Not sure where to start. I was drunk, and I was supposed to meet this girl later that night. Turns out I acted like an idiot towards her, again. I still feel bad about it. Something I don’t really do about anything.
Long story short, she slapped me and went home, I broke the screen on my new phone and with the power of magic managed to call her three times.

I’m sure I learned my lesson this time, I’ve decided to stop partying (read: drinking) as much as I’ve done in the past (well till about a week ago).

Well that was it. Now I feel like some emo fag. Think I’ll go write some poetry, cut myself while I listen to . Oh, I did some coding while on the train to my parents house, more about that later (soon)