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So yeah, these are fun. Quick little image I threw together aside, nice work. Some of the ragdolls take a bit of angling to pose, but they're really fun once you get the hang of it. Haven't checked out the SFM versions yet, but the Gmod ports are working really nicely.

Here's a simple console application I made for decrypting all those .bin files in your LDDIncludes directory after using LDD2POVRay The Instructions: Breathe. Open up LDD2PovRay and set the quality settings as you'd like Import master.lxf into LDD2PovRay. This LXF contains all the pieces that are currently available in LDD. LDD2PovRay will extract all the data from the LDD database and create the necessary .bin files in your LDDIncludes directory for those bricks. It is not a valid LXF file (it only shows one 1x1 brick if you load it into LDD). Ignore this as LDD2POVRay doesn't care about it not being a valid LXF and will just pull out all the brick data it finds inside the LXFML file. This processing will take a while (an hour or so), so go buy some overpriced coffee and drink it. Finished? Good. If you don't have one already, create a .pov and .ini file of one of your models. Close LDD as we don't need it any more. Copy blowfishdecrypter.exe to your LDDInlcudes directory. Run blowfishdecrypter.exe. This will decode all the .bin files in your directory, and save them with the same filename. It will ask for the extension (the default is *.bin). If you want the default, just press enter, it will then ask if you want to make backups of the encrypted files. Backups are optional and up to you. It will then commence decrypting all the .bin files in the directory showing all the files that it's done. When it's finished, press any key to exit. Now, let's render something. Fire up POVRay, and open your .ini file. Before you can start rendering, you need to change the includes directory in your ini file from "/./LDDIncludes" to the full path to your LDDIncludes directory. E.G., it may be "C:\POVRay\LDDIncludes" or whereever you created it. With the ini file selected, press render and wait! as usual! Notes: When creating pov / ini files in the future inside LDD2POVRay ensure that the option / check box "create includes" is deactivated, otherwise it will overwrite all the encrypted files. And having a mixture of encrypted / decrypted files is not good. If this happens. Delete all the bin files in your LDDIncludes directory re-process that model file, then run blowfish decrypter to decrypt all the bin files. The majority of the bin files are text files. Open them with your favourite text editor to read them. The material files are PNG files that are renamed to .bin files. There's a line in the main include bin that tells povray to get materialxxx.bin instead of materialxxx.png. It's possible to rename all the files to png and remove this line in the main include which is perhaps something I'll do in the future. Warning: BlowfishDecrypter doesn't check to see if the file is already decrypted, so if you were to run the file again on unencrypted files, you'd end up with junk. You'd then have to re-run LDD2POVRay to create all the encoded bin files for decrypting. BlowfishDecrypter.exe master.lxf

Roles have been sent out. The game will begin as soon as I have received the selections of non-generic players. An epidemic. You never thought you would have to deal with this. Yet here you are, on your first day in the lab no less. You work for a pharmaceutical manufacturer- that's what you were told at least. The diseases, held in glass tubes lining the walls- they're just specimens meant for study. We're developing medicine to protect people from them, of course. No evil ulterior motives at all. But you're beginning to suspect that's not the case. Something went wrong- or right, depending on your outlook- and some of the diseases escaped. The entire facility is on lockdown, and you find yourself quarantined in a room with 5 other people you don't know, almost all of them new recruits. One of is one of the doctors of the facility, sent to train the newbies- but you don't know which one. And one of them might have other plans besides finding a job... An accident, they called it. But you know better. Someone did this. You don't just put all of the world's deadliest microorganisms in the same place and not expect someone to come looking to cash in on that. Steal the virus, sell it to the highest bidder- you've seen this plot in many a film before. You know what happens next. The thief will want to cover their tracks.

It is that time once again, to welcome a new track to the show. Please welcome "Soar", featuring lovely cover art by Fushi! Hope you all enjoy!

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