The CPL just posted this;

“The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) announced today that it has signed an agreement with DreamCatcher Interactive, in which the CPL has obtained exclusive worldwide rights for multiplayer use of Painkiller in any tournament live or online that offers cash or merchandise prizes. Organizations interested in hosting Painkiller pro-tournaments are encouraged to contact the CPL to obtain the necessary approval.

In a related announcement, the CPL also disclosed that game developer Ritual Entertainment has agreed to create three new Deathmatch maps for Painkiller. The new maps, designed by Todd Rose (Mr.CleaN), Richard Heath (Charon) and Russel Meakim (castle), are expected to be released on or before Monday, November 29.”

@ http://www.thecpl.com/league/

Also see http://www.gotfrag.com/pk/news/2759/

Methods of converting wireframe geometries into Maya.

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1. Convert BSP into MAP using BSP2MAP tool. Open PAKs using Pak Explorer/Quark, or look in ID1\Maps\

2. Open MAP using Right Hemispheres – Deep Exploration (2.0 or higher). Save as .obj

3. Import OBJ into Maya.

4. Set View|Camera Settings| Perspective off. Press 6. Use View|Camera Tools|Zoom Tool.

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5. Set scale 1.2 1.2 1.2 , rotation 90 0 0

6. (Assuming youve loaded the plugin by now) File|Export All, and save the MPK file to data\maps\

7. Open Paineditor with a New Level… under templates add at least one Gameplay|playerrespawnpoint.

8. Make sure you Save All as DM_* … it needs to be DM_ for PK to recognise it as an MP map.

One of the key factors in improving your FPS on your maps is breaking the map up into zones which can be rendered separately. If this is not done, the engine will render the whole map at once, while will take much more processing time.

Zones work like virtual rooms; while you are standing within one room, only that room will be rendered. Ignoring for a second what you can see through the door (into other rooms), it is easy to see that only rendering the room you are in will dramatically improve FPS.

A zone actually consists of an invisible box which sits around your room, and fully encompasses as much of it as possible. It is, to all intents and purposes, the rooms bounding box. Zones much be undistorted, unskewed cuboids, with zone somewhere once in the mesh name within Maya.

The view through the doors is covered by portals. A portal is a single plane object, which MUST lie on one of the faces of two adjacent zones.

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Part 2 of The Team Dignitas Painkiller interviews:

This week Stermy http://www.team-dignitas.com/news.php?newsid=742

stermy: The hardest opponent will always be Vo0. It is quite obvious – he always been in shape in every single tournament for PK, including ESWC and CPL Summer. I’m very lucky to practice with him because not only is he an excellent player but also a good friend of mine.

www.team-dignitas.com

Across the pond in the USA, Clan Check Six, (which gained limited notoriety with activities in the CPLs online amateur sister organisation, the CAL, through Counterstrike) has seen more player movements ahead of the Winter CPL.

ESLive reports that Destrukt, arguably the best gamer in North America, has joined x6.pk. Brian DKT Flanders joins the existing PK lineup of Bio, Gimix, and elpajuo and Lexer (of Q3 fame).

The existance of clans in a game where the existing netcode has limited online play to duelling only, would have to call into question the real meaning of clans here. The most obvious incentive for the clans for PK thus far is purely financial in terms of collective sponsorship. Lets hope this has reason to change soon.

Source: http://www.eslive.com/