teh netherlands x3

Beyond the Withered Heath?

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if you mean ocean or something, yes :3

^.^

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*raises paw!*

WooHoo!

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i dont know if im one of your dragons or not... im more of a lurker... im in canada though

America's northern neighbor.

Canada has a strange reputation in the US, but I often get the mental image of Canada looking down on us with hands on it's hips and shaking it's head as the US runs around like a naked, drunken frat-boy.

And don't worry, this was a curiosity call on "all" Dragons who may be watching me, although there are a few in paticular I'd like to hear from.

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ahahahha i love that description of canada. im in the best part of canada too, west coast

heh yet another lurker here, but i hail from the land of entrap . . . enchantment :D

Then you must not be too far from me...I live in the "huge-hole-in-the-ground" state.

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hmm huge hole in the ground . . . oh yew mean heat central O.o lol

if thats the case then yus, i live in the middle ish of this lovely, *sic* state lol, so f yew live in the lowest state in the us then yep, were close lmto

I own a dragon fursuit and multiple dragon partials.

You can be an honorary Dragon.

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I'm yet another lurker....but I'm here....

Lurk as much as you'd like! I don't think there's a participation grade on FA...

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Like the fourth/fiveth lurker, but I be a dragon.

You're a Dragon, and that's the important part.

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Aye, and since the others are doing it. This dragon be holding his horde in California.

*hides*

YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME!

...you're just too far away to chase...

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I'm here too

And you're more then welcome!

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I am in Rome New York

All roads lead to Rome, but only have go to Rome New York. :-P

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*Chuckles* Nice one *Hugs*

>hugs<

Would have been funnier (maybe) if I had used the correct spelling of "half"

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I knew what ya meant

Germany. :O

Someday I want to visit Germany.

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*paw up* yo

>high-fives<

Woohoo!

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I'm down here in TeXaS, doing dragon things and such.

I've only ever been through Texas, and really didn't see much.

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Come by my lair and I can show you much.

Come up here, I have a lot to show as well. Although if I had a choice, I'd be somewhere else. Some nice forested valley, with a blue lake gathered between the hills, and a river running through it.
This desert landscape doesn't suit me.

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I live in a split-level cave 20 miles below the surface of the earth.

So I've heard. Must be stuffy down there...

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I have stolen Keden. Permanently.

:3

>glares<

I'll never forgive you... He was my little brother.

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And he's the cutest thing with wings isn't he?

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Azusis is! :D

No, you are!

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I is not here. Wait.
<..<
>..>
Uh. Been designing a level for L4D.

L4D and I aren't speaking anymore... You can tell L4D that it and it's zombies can get lost.
>cold shoulder<

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Aw. Poor dwaggie. I admit that I'm not playing the game any more, but level design is fun.

I'm learning fast, though optimizing visleafs still escape me. Seems that no matter what I do I end up with too many or with too many interconnections. Or something that's completely worthless for cutting rendering costs (i.e. all brushes are being rendered all the time).

I think though that if I can design the level I'm working on right I could maybe use the same idea for a Team Fortress 2 map. The part that would make it truly interesting I haven't tried to model yet, but only because the basic geometry is giving me such hell with the visleafs.

I've been tinkering around with skinning objects in TF2 and HL2. I couldn't get the grasp of modeling, but I'd love to try designing a level sometime. It would be a fantastic challenge.

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Modeling is "constructive solid geometry." That is you add and subtract solids from each other. You can only use "convex" shapes and you can mess with verts directly.

So it's not hard. But optimizing things is a bitch; I have a 2 to 3 hour compile time...

I tried to do some item/character modeling in Maya, and it was a heck of challenge. I didn't get a sing useful thing, other then the realization that maybe Maya wasn't the best tool to be learning on.

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Pssh, now you're making me think of the days when I was designing levels for Marathon back on my Mac 800 series.

I made quite a few levels for "Tomb Raider Chronicles", but that was a really simple engine - basically a point and click sort of thing.

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Marathon was suprising complex for its time. Variable water levels, invisible switches, altho one of the fun things was that liquids were confined to shapes. so you could in fact have a tower of water in the middle of the map that you could jump into the side of, swim across, and jump back out of.

I've seen "water towers" like that in a bunch of different games, and they never cease to be fun.
There was a TF2 map recently that used one as a kind of staircase to swim up to a higher level.

Once we master force-field technology, floating, open pools like that will be all the rage.

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Yeah. Maya -> Source is not exactly the easiest thing. And the "suggested" tool (XSI or something like that) is a bitch.

And model making isn't really something that's worthwhile.

Dragons Rule!! *clears throat and raises claw* i mean.. im here..

>raises a clawed fist<

My Draconic brethren!

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-paws the back of your neck- Psst!

Indiana btw

>purr...< huh, wha? Oh...heh, sensitive neck...

I might have been through Indiana at one point, but if I did, I don't remember anything of it.

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Now I feel bad, You dragons have such a strong community feel running throughout. I'm a fox and we don't really have any connection to each other. BTW, shouting out from the "holy crap its hot state".

Don't feel bad - the whole fandom is a community. "Birds of a feather" may be true in some way with a selection of species, but that comradeship is not limited to species. We're all Furries (or at least I think we are).

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i'm here!

And you're welcome to be here!

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Washington State represent!

A beautiful state, but probubly a little too chilly for my tastes; especially after living in one of the hottest states in the US.

Still, all those beautiful trees...

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Can I speak on behalf of Merissa? :P

Heh, that's close enough for me. She certainly counts as a Dragoness.

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Hollah! From Texas!

Maryland representer here...

Maryland was a pretty nice looking state - at least from what I saw. So many beautiful trees!

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Apparently at "Here". Look for mostly bare portions on maps.

Yeah, a lot of times it really feels like all we are is "here" - without any idea where "here" is.

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I'm right here...or maby over here...or here...


.............where am I

Where ever you go, there you are.

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