Uplink's OST

Quick post, I just wanted to share an incredibly great soundtrack from the game Uplink. I regularly listen too it while working on maps or while writing, I'ts pretty decent work music.

(Also check out Uplink, it's a great game.)

Travelogue - Comps-R-Us

Hello everyone, and welcome to my very first travelogue post! In these post's I hope to try and chronicle some of my outings. I'll try and make it a monthly thing, so be sure to check back regularly to see more of my travels!


Since this is my first post, I decided to start off with somewhere that wasn't too far away, Comps-R-Us! It's a lovely little electronics store down the street from me.

Looks way bigger than it is on the outside

Stepping in, I took huge whiff of that plastic-y computer-tech smell that these stores tend to have. My eyes twitched a bit after and I lost all feeling on my left side for a second, but it was worth it. The store wasn't too busy today, which made it way easier for me to snap some pictures.

I saw a big group of employees talking and I noticed something a bit off about them. I guess I never really looked too closely at them before, but it kinda looks like they may be employing clones here. I'm not really read up on clone labor laws, so I'm not entirely sure of the legality of this.

Maybe they're all related...?

Around this point I'd been there for about 30 minutes or so, and really needed to make a pit stop. Opening the door to the restroom, I realized I wouldn't be able to make any business calls here any time soon.

Yeah no...

I went back to look for some possible upgrades to my computer, when suddenly I was approached by clone security. I guess I was tracking too much bathroom water through the store, or maybe they saw me taking pictures and thought I was some kind of federal investigator. Whatever it was, they did NOT look happy.

They escorted me out and told me that if I ever came back things would have to get 'ugly'. I guess I'll have to shop for computer parts somewhere else now...

PostED - Adding Coronas

Coronas are effects that you can apply to lights, things like lens flares or light rays. Here's an example of how a scene can look with and without the effects.

No coronas, each lamp has only one entity.

Has coronas, each lamp has three light entities. 

Setting up coronas is really easy to do. Open up a light entities properties and go to the Lighting tab, once there set the Corona bool to True. 

Corona = True

You also may want to set the light radius to 0. I can only think of a few instances where you would want the lights these effects attach to cast light.

Anyway, to set a texture to be used for the corona effect, go to the Display tab and add a skin.

Skin added

One you have a skin added you'll want to set it to a texture. Depending on the game you're modding for there should be a package that contains a bunch of lens flare effects. For Postal 2 this package is GenFX.

A lot of nice lens effects.

One you have the texture you want set your light entity should have a little effect around it like this. 

Nice bulb

And you're done, all you need to do now is position is somewhere in your level. It really is a pretty easy effect to add to lights, takes almost no time at all.