Gravity is holding us down

We seem to think now that the gravity is holding us down, so, we went a head and set it to 650, I am pretty sure we'll adjust that to default rates soon enough. It looks like this is going to be slow going, we're pretty much in line wit how everyone else went, we just need to get a good player base.

Go Team!

Still nothing

There isn't a public reply to Maxta's email from Alpha, Arcanus' is on top of that.

We're over at http://www.teaminterro.com/ now some come check us out.

Maxta's Email

This is Maxta's email to me on the ban:

Hey.

Just spoke to Alpha.

This is what led to your ban. Apparently 4 or 5 people or so people complained that you were going around saying you were the new leader of the 352nd since people werent around. Since Alpha was playing Pirates, Big_B was never around, and the others were away, and i guess since i started playing Company of Heroes. I know i havent played TF2 for 4 or 5 days now, but i havent play COH either much, iv been out.

And apparently telling people that i was your bitch and i was wrapped around your finger.

Your blog says you have no idea about why you were banned, but Alpha says that you know why you were, and Big_B spoke to you.

I wasnt on and i havent heard anything from anyone, but spoke to Alpha about it, since i wasnt on and i dont know what happened and whether this is true or not, but either way.....even if it was (which im not saying it is), i dont see how that is so because iv never favoured you nor anyone in this clan, i treat everyone the same.

Also another thing that contributed to your ban was your association with Andrew, we all heard the rumours Andrew spread and had people complain and sent some people ino panic about it with Alpha not being around.

Hope this explains anything you were curious about.

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I do not have a public reply as of yet, however, most of you have heard a private one and sent kind words.

Clan Exit

I seem to have been tossed from the clan by Alpha for what reason I do not know; however as I have grown tired of typing what went down this is what happened:

23 March, 2008 2100 Hours Est. I watched part 3 of John Adams which ran til 2210, I started talking to Andrew when he told me I should get on Texas, at around 2220 I checked the TS to learn I had been kicked by Alpha at 2121, upon trying to log back in I found that my IP had been banned, sometime around 2140 Andrew asked me to check the TF2 servers, which I did, only to find I had been banned from them as well.

I had played for only an hour at most during the day it was pretty unremarkable, I took no admin action at that time, I played as sniper for about 1/2 hour, that was the last time I logged in.

I do not know what Alpha's reasons were, nor do i hope for much of one from him.

We will see what happens moving forward.

Maxta's TS Guide

Maxta has done a TS guide, I thought I would post it here. This is pretty accurate for registering with the server.

The Spray Guide

So I said I was going to do a post on how to do a spray, there are a few ways to do it, if you have a 256x256 jpeg you can import that from within the game. However if you want some transparency you're going to need to do a bit of work.

You'll need either GIMP or Photoshop and VTFEdit.

So fire up your image editor of choice(but what follows is for Photoshop) and do the following:

1. Create an image w/ a backround color made up of R 128 G 128 B 128

2. Create a new layer on top of this and put whatever you want on this layer erase anything you do not want from this layer as well.

3. You'll want to select only what you've drawn on the top layer to do this locate the layers pallete in the lower right hand side, press CTRL and click the top layer;

4. Then on the channels tab click the button to “Create Alpha channel from selection”

5. Then Flatten the image so you have only one layer.

6. Now Save the image as a TGA file; making sure the Alpha Channels is checked.

Now open VTFEdit and do the Following:

1. Goto File>Import and import your TGA file

2. In the dialog box that opens uncheck Generate Mipmaps, leave everything else as is, but make sure Alpha Format reads DXT5; hit OK

3. Confirm that the transparency works by going to View>Mask which will show you the Alpha map preview.

4. Save the File and remember where you saved it, we'll need to place it in two spots.

Place the File in the following locations

• \Steam\SteamApps\igor72982\team fortress 2\tf\materials\VGUI\logos\

• \Steam\SteamApps\igor72982\team fortress 2\tf\materials\VGUI\logos\UI\

That means you place the VTF file in the logos folder and the UI folder which is a sub of the logos folder.

Once that is done you'll fireup TF2 and go into the options, once there goto the Advanced tab and select your spray, now just press T when in game and presto.

Custom Spray

Even though the 352nd servers have custom sprays turned off currently I went a head and made a custom spray seen here on the right, this is from the 2fort classic map, I'll toss up a guide on how to do custom TF2 sprays later on.

Welcome to Apollo's 352nd/TF2 Blog

I've created this blog to keep a log of the stuff that is going on related to me, the 352nd clan, and Team Fortress 2. I'll more then likely post other stuff and might use this space for the 352nd Podcast as well.

I hope to update this often and not trail off as I have been known to do. So check back for some updates.

P.S. Yeah the 352nd site is still down, it is being worked on(I think.)