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confirmed april 6th release

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confirmed april 6th release

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April 7th where I'm at.

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Perhaps it should be released on the day CMT came together and became official.


If that's 9 months from now then screw it.

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wasnt that in November

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Alright there must be a date which coincides with us in this month.

CMT's first tag?
Edited by SS Flanker on Feb 7, 2015 at 12:11 PM

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Hello, Halo friends. An update from the TSC:E team:

The Silent Cartographer: Evolved will release on August 29, 2014.

"August 29th?"
yes
"Wait! You said it was coming in July!"
yes
"That's not July!"
yes
"Why isn't it coming in July?"

funny you should ask

TSC:E was planned to launch alongside a headlining new Open Sauce feature. The usual problems with hacking one's way through a now-13-year-old zombie engine have not been kind to the OS team; and so, getting this feature out in time for TSC:E's release became very unlikely. While we did promise July, giving ourselves an extra month to polish and improve the rest of the map -- allowing the OS guys the time they need work things out -- was something all of the TSC:E team were happy to take advantage of.

The feature is Directional Lightmaps.

http://i.imgur.com/1vo9bSc.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/gArkS5o.jpg

These add directional information to Halo's lightmaps. Part of that means "just better" lighting, with light bouncing and accumulating more and more accurately; but the big deal is that they allow lightmaps to bring out normal maps on BSP textures.

This is a seemingly small addition with practically enormous consequences. You already know what normal mapping does with directional lighting on game objects -- allowing for the same detail on BSPs means we can bring the environents to a level of fidelity that was simply not feasible until now, at very little cost to your computer and almost no cost to our lighting process.

(For the technically minded, here's further information on what exactly is involved with this kind of tech)

We just got DLMs online in TSC:E's BSP -- we've been waiting on that to accompany this announcement; the above test pictures are less than an hour old, and there's still a lot of debugging and testing to do before they're fully ready -- but we've developed a number of other cool new things since we last checked in, including:

-switching seamlessly between an underbarrel grenade launcher and regular grenades with a GL-weapon equipped
-a new two-piece Shade turret that you can knock off its base with a well-placed Warthog ram
-a checkpoint warning system that lets you know when the game wants to save, but can't because you need to take cover
-a new system that allows you to use the two healthpacks inside Warthogs

...and this is all happening alongside a constant process of asset optimization, through which we've trimmed literal dozens of megabytes and literal hundreds of tagslots -- giving us even more space to use for things like the new Grunt.

TSC:E will be absent from the upcoming CE3 presentation -- Masterz has plenty of SPV3 content to fill that space -- but be assured that this latest release date is the real deal. Expect to hear a lot more as that day approaches.
Edited by Ifafudafi on Jul 12, 2014 at 01:34 AM

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Yeah, we screwed up badly on that one. Nobody knew how long lightmaps would take to render, and shortly after that date all four (now three) members of the Evolved team went from enjoying their summer vacations to being employed full-time. It's funny how much more productivity you can get out of 8-12 hours a day / 7 days a week.

I assure you that as annoying as it may be to wait, we on the team are even more eager to get on with our lives which we were supposed to have back 6 months ago.
Edited by teh lag on Feb 7, 2015 at 01:17 PM

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Yeah, we screwed up badly on that one. Nobody knew how long lightmaps would take to render, and shortly after that date all four (now three) members of the Evolved team went from enjoying their summer vacations to being employed full-time. It's funny how much more productivity you can get out of 8-12 hours a day / 7 days a week.

I assure you that as annoying as it may be to wait, we on the team are even more eager to get on with our lives which we were supposed to have back 6 months ago.
Edited by teh lag on Feb 7, 2015 at 01:17 PM

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all four (now three) members of the Evolved team

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wait a minute, who dropped?

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well dennis drops it like its hot, so maybe him

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The active development team has been three for a while now. Bob has (wisely) been devoting time to his actual life, as there aren't any outstanding tasks or issues requiring his skills and there haven't been since like November.
Edited by teh lag on Feb 7, 2015 at 09:39 PM

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My two cents say Iffy and slashrat, but that's my two cents.

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Double check your sayings before you quote them. You might bring an autistic vibe to threads.

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Yeah, we screwed up badly on that one. Nobody knew how long lightmaps would take to render, and shortly after that date all four (now three) members of the Evolved team went from enjoying their summer vacations to being employed full-time. It's funny how much more productivity you can get out of 8-12 hours a day / 7 days a week.

I assure you that as annoying as it may be to wait, we on the team are even more eager to get on with our lives which we were supposed to have back 6 months ago.
Edited by teh lag on Feb 7, 2015 at 01:17 PM

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And there was a download link, and i clicked it and another post st came up and said JUST KIDDING! and showed this huge list of like, 400 things to do before the actual release. I woke up crying.....

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I'm sure I only speak for my self when I say this but I would sleep safe in the knowledge that you weren't all bleeding every day to put a carton of milk on the table.

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If it makes you feel better, we're not that mean, and my personal list is down to 5 or 6 minor lighting items and one skybox glitch.



I'll put it this way: My girlfriend and family will be very very happy this project is over.

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I'll put it this way: My girlfriend and family will be very very happy this project is over.

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So I had a dream last night, or maybe you'd call it a nightmare, i dont know. But anyway, it was comprised of a lot of junk, like always, but the most clearest part i remember is that i went on to my computer, came to this site to check the status of TSC:E, and the final lightmap had finished rendering and there was a big post saying about how its finally being released. And there was a download link, and i clicked it and another post came up and said JUST KIDDING! and showed this huge list of like, 400 things to do before the actual release. I woke up crying.....

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I had a dream where halomaps was a good community.

Quote: --- Original message by: darkrider400
So I had a dream last night, or maybe you'd call it a nightmare, i dont know. But anyway, it was comprised of a lot of junk, like always, but the most clearest part i remember is that i went on to my computer, came to this site to check the status of TSC:E, and the final lightmap had finished rendering and there was a big post saying about how its finally being released. And there was a download link, and i clicked it and another post came up and said JUST KIDDING! and showed this huge list of like, 400 things to do before the actual release. I woke up crying.....

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I sorta feel bad thinking CMT members are distancing themselves at there most crucial point in there young and developing lives just for us ingrates.

I'm sure I only speak for my self when I say this but I would sleep safe in the knowledge that you weren't all bleeding every day to put a carton of milk on the table.

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It may be a bit immature but overall it is a good community. Look at all the maps, tags, tutorials and assets that have been generated and shared by the community. Perspective and context is everything so don't draw conclusions on a limited view-port.