User:Vaarscha

Christoph "Vaarscha" Neijenhuis Contact: vaarscha ( at ) clan-fear.de Age: 20 Location: Germany Modding career I began mapping with Q3, stayed there for several years. Started HEAT for HL2 as a leader and during development I taught myself various techniques, including texturing, modeling, animating, skinning and scripting for source. However I still enjoy mapping most of all modding activities (well, except playtesting, maybe :) ). Since I've learned a lot reading tutorials here, I thought it's a good idea to give something back and share my knowledge with you. Major contributions World Models Viewmodel Creating Normal Maps - The GIMP part and some additional info on normal maps LOD Models Fog tutorial - Custom skybox and general overhaul

Current Projects HEAT Leader and founder of the HL2 modification HEAT. I'm basically working on every part of the modding except code. My main focus is, apart from organization and PR, mapping. Yet I have to help my team members to bring their models, sounds etc. into the game. I'm the one doing all the compiling and script-stuff for the content. It's my main project and what I spend most of my (free-)time with. Check www.heatmod.com for more info (we're also recruiting!). More writing on my work can be found in my .plan updates. Half-Drive A recreational / just-for-fun project. After playing around with the sdk_vehicle map, I decided to built some maps with stunts. I got 4 maps nearly finished. They're really difficult, I'm not sure if someone will enjoy them... ...something undisclosed More info soon... I'm only going to say it's SP and it's cool :) Releases Snowking for AKG contest A HL2:DM map for this mapping contest, my first public release on the source engine. Features both DM and TDM while the latter one has a King Of The Hill-style mission. Feel free to check Snowking out, along with the other maps of the contest! Download here