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Month: February 2012

Unclamped Faceposer

By default faces (or ‘flexes’) in the Source engine are clamped to sane levels. This makes sense in the real world, but makes slightly less sense in GMod where we don’t always want people’s faces to..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 29th February 2012

The Lottery

I play the lottery twice a week. I spend £8 a week on lottery tickets. That’s over £400 a year. And I’ve never won anything more than £10. So I decide that’s gone on long enough. I’m cancelling my d..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 28th February 2012

Poster Screenshots

I had a play around with making poster screenshots today. These are screenshots that are bigger than your screen’s resolution. You’re only really limited by memory. Instead of rendering a screenshot..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 25th February 2012

Trade Off Game Dev

We started a Trade Off Game Dev caper in the Programming section of the forums a few days ago and now it’s under way. It works like this. Someone codes something for a day and pass it to the next gu..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 25th February 2012

Version 49 Models

Today I got version 49 models working in GMod 13. It involved a bit of hacking around. The problem is I don’t have the source code to the Portal 2 engine so I couldn’t really see what was going on i..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 16th February 2012

Improved Shadows

I tweaked some of the flashlight code a week ago – and didn’t really realise how much it improved the rendering until I fired up GMod 12 today. Here’s some comparisons.. I was only trying to change..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 12th February 2012

quick tool: bundler

I made a quick tool yesterday to convert a program with a bunch of other required files into a single exe. I did some searching for a similar tool but everything I found was either shareware (the ph..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 12th February 2012

Weight Loss

I’ve been trying to lose weight over the last month. And it’s been going well, I think I’ve got it under control. Here’s my weight loss tips. Don’t go crazy Diets are a temporary thing. You’ll never..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 10th February 2012

Workshopping

This week I’ve been working on a tool to upload workshop addons for GMod. It’s a pretty simple task but I decide to do it using GWEN.. just to make things a bit more challenging.  Why? Well, it make..

Garry Newman Uncategorized Leave a comment 9th February 2012
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My Tesla Is Fixed

Quick follow up to My Tesla Broke. It’s now fixed and back at home, so about a month and a half in the end. They changed the HV and the 12v battery. Spotify A funny thing is that I knew they had started fixing it. My spotify kept stopping, and when I looked into it, … Continue reading My Tesla Is Fixed →

by Garry Newman 13th May 2022

My Tesla Broke

I’ve had my Model 3 for less than 6 months, and I’ve put about 500 miles on it. When I came off holiday I got in it at the airport and it had a buttload of errors.. I googled the errors and the common theme seemed to be the whole battery pack replaced.. not something … Continue reading My Tesla Broke →

by Garry Newman 25th April 2022

What sucks about Steam

Having used Steam nearly every day for 19 years, both as a developer and a gamer, there are a few things that annoy me. These things have become more apparent since I’ve had kids and other game launchers have come out. Friend Requests I’m sure normal people don’t have this problem, but people add me … Continue reading What sucks about Steam →

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