It's still nice to know you continue thinking about the project form time to time and do want to make updates to it. I always understood everything, but now it's all clarified even further.

Family comes first, dude, always… priorities. Your fiance of 3 years (and you must've known her even longer than that) must be very loving, understandable, supportive, as well as patient to have stuck with you for so long. Take care of her first.

You'll find a job/career soon, don't give up! I don't doubt you have a solid enough portfolio. Keep being persistent as always, you'll find something.

Sounds cool, I would love to check out an updated Cold Case!!!

what is something i was talking about news ago , i dropped because you wrote all is finished . i ll be glad to help the mod .
what is missing is some models and humans that can easily come from hl2 eps and others dods , css or even sin episodes .
have a play with my hl mod opposing life2life http://www.moddb.com/mods/opposing-life2life .

i recently bought a dual xeon motherboard , i can use it to compile in hdr
i posted some picture of it :
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=462977383&albumId=1322400

for your friend and need of money …….. you are an Artist , so may be you ll be millionaire in one week .

there are some more models that could come from l4d2 and this mod about star trek : E:TCW
http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-trek-enterprise-tcw
this mod has all files availables for others . may be with the soldiers from sin-episode that can make a cool sci-fi place .

to create this vpk was very crashy with vpk.exe , i looked to find other program especially in 64 bit but no one seems to do the creation of file .
so i used a software to edit the vpk.exe and make it able to use more than two Go of memory : The LaaTiDo utility that is at http://www.musikbanken.se/TechLaaTiDo.aspx
a more complex software that can do the same and more , is there http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php
with a patched by LaaTiDo vpk , the limit i found is somewhere around 2.430.000 ko http://a.imagehost.org/0435/2430Mo_max.jpg
by the way i tested again and again , removing some big size files in the map folder after each crash and finaly made a vpk of 2.096.911 ko with few missing files from the original archive :
l4d_cc2.bsp l4d_cc2.nav l4d_cc5.bsp l4d_cc5.nav l4d_cctf4.bsp l4d_cctf5.bsp l4d_vs_cctf4.bsp l4d_vs_cctf5.bsp and crap.zip plus four tmp files . that is about 380 Mo . http://i.imagehost.org/0542/vpk_done.jpg
i removed maps because that can not cause a file missing error , i saw some folders : editor 2 Mo or temp 73 Mo that should be deletable .
i tested the resulting vpk with l4d2 but crash occurs in a few minutes after players are spawneds . i have a new pc that only have l4d2 , l4d is on a hd of the 24 Go ram pc but motherboard is on its way to be exchanged by a new one .
i uploaded coldcase.7z 834.13 MB according to Megaupload that has the cc.vpk made with option -M at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HFMTHYCK .
have fun finding the right files to keep , for it to be correctly handled by l4d , that should open a path for a " Coldcase Light Edition " using vpk and the " Redux Coldcase " that will be extracted if there is no update to the l4ds to correct the "too big size of vpk" bug .