Lot of work on gm_boxedcommunity, TF2 map got shelved (again), and nothing's been done for the website.

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Gonna throw out a quick one because I'm starting to get tired of just gathering every single screenshot I sent and uploading them all to filegarden. Also, probably should ease up on the screenshots in general so I'm not over-sharing lmao

Just gonna share enough to give a gist of what I've been up to:

ignore the messed up geometry, i have since fixed that

I finally finished the belt area (second image) and now I'm just going back and improving the map geometry so it's more fun to play in. It was really cramped before, trust me :(

Also, I decided to add a new mechanic to give the respawn rooms more utility

I literally just made TF2 ahh resupply cabinets for the map lmfao. They're completely functional too! Well, almost. There's still some stuff I need to add and tweak such as sounds and ammo :P

I achieved this through GLua with a simple script that just sets your health and armor to their max values when you enter the resupply trigger. I might have to do more testing and tweaks to the script (e.g. seeing how it interacts with entities with more health/armor than their max values and writing extra code for those situations since ik some mfs gonna have 100k hp lmfao). I also have been tweaking the nodegraph to solve issues with NPCs clumping up at tight hallways and really to just improve the quality of the navigation. I still need to update the navmesh as well tho with the geometry changes I might just redo the whole mesh lmao.

Oh yeah. If you're not aware, GMod's maintainter, Rubat has packed CS:S assets directly in the game, which eliminates any need to buy or install CS:S for the textures. This is actually massive since I now have the freedom to use CS:S assets in my map without having to make people pay more money just to play the map. I'll have to edit my Hammer++ mount stuff to include CS:S (assuming it's not already mounted for me with the inclusion of said content in the base game itself) but this means that some areas where I have a CS:S model in mind but can't use it due to not everyone owning the game, I can now use that model. I also have more shit that I can use freely which will greatly diversify my model choices and put less work on me to figure out an alternative when the base HL2 assets don't have the thing that I need.

Yeah that's pretty much all I got regarding June stuff. Artfight is going on in July as many of you are aware, and while I'll be doing some stuff for it, I'm not gonna be as invested because I'm just not feeling it as much as I did the previous years. Gonna be taking it easier and just draw art when I can rather than trying to make attack ratio go up. What I mean is that Artfight might not impact the dev stuff that I do as much.

Also the PC parts I mentioned in the last devlog are here now so that's cool. The new rig will be using Debian 12 KDE for the OS so I might have to spend extra time setting my Source stuff up in Linux, esp since some of them are native Windows applications which means extra work is needed to get them installed.

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