My First Map - IckyLab

from the screen it looks better than most of the stuff in the vault.

Very slight detailing changes made to map. Uploaded. August 7th, 2006.

Superb for a first map!

+fun gameplay
+Nice detail--ammo boxes ftw!!
+generally nice mapping all around
-ending unclear.

-wadinclude your custom textures
-provide the proper directory stucture for your content in a folder called VALVE. This way, somebody playing your map needs only copy/paste one folder to get your map up and running.

I'll try to play later to give more detailed comments, but keep up the work!...you seem to be doing fine on your own

Spiced up the storage area. Uploaded.

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Rowleybob:

Thanks for the comments. I cut an ammo box in half, moved the top half up and copy pasted the thing lol. -wadinclude crashes hammer for some reason Right now there's no ending.

Just for now i'll type out the rest of my concept. I'm planning to have the explosives blow a hole in the rock wall to continue to the rest of the map.The player will go through the hole, see a large drawbridge. It'll have broken down, blown up cars strewn across its road surface. I'm thinking about a wheel to turn to lower the drawbridge. Across it, there will be a grunt vs. vortigaunt battle. The player will kill the winners. A few broken teleport machines will there, but one will still be operational. There will have a big red button linked by cable to all the machines broken or not. (to tempt the player heh heh). Once it's presssed, a votigaunt will spawn in, the doors to the booth will swing open it'll charge up an attack. After that, the player will enter Area 51, the sector of Black Mesa that manufactures explosive crates and barrels.

But I don't have any skills or know-how to do any of that But until I then, don't steal my ideas

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Status Update!

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Changes:

-Lightswitches!
-Tweaked vending machine exterior
-Fixed plunger!
-Added bookshelves, with bookends that tip over when you destroy the books
-Added frame for skylight
-Some texture alignment tweaking
-Added new hallway and spawn area
-Added spiral staircase
-Added lots of barrels
-Texture lighting in the new hallway
-Tripmine decided to compile yay!

Bugs:

-Lightswitches won't control texture lighting
-hgrunt still has grenades even thought I set weapons value to 1(MP5 only) he keep blowing himself up
-office chair and compute refuse to move when pushed even when func_pushable(d)
-will need to make gman walk away when leaning againist window
-VIS takes 30 minutes!!!

Ideas:

-barney will operate scanner letting player into building.
-add hint brushes to lower r_speeds and compile time (lows around 40-100, busy and more roomier areas balloon to 650)
-Gman in scene talking with soldier, looks at player when playr leans againist locked door

Sorry need to compile that stuff, haven't uploaded those changes yet.

i love this guy ^_^

Obviously has a real passion for mapping

Compile log from RAD-less map.

hlcsg v3.4 Final (Feb 25 2006)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (amckern@yahoo.com)
-----  BEGIN  hlcsg -----
Command line: C:\PROGRA~1\VALVEH~1\tools\hlcsg.exe "C:\Program Files\Valve Hammer Editor\maps\Fight"
Entering C:\Program Files\Valve Hammer Editor\maps\Fight.map

Current hlcsg Settings
Name                 |  Setting  |  Default
---------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads               [       1 ] [  Varies ]
verbose               [     off ] [     off ]
log                   [      on ] [      on ]
developer             [       0 ] [       0 ]
chart                 [     off ] [     off ]
estimate              [     off ] [     off ]
max texture memory    [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
max lighting memory   [ 6291456 ] [ 6291456 ]
priority              [  Normal ] [  Normal ]

noclip                [     off ] [     off ]
null texture stripping[      on ] [      on ]
clipnode economy mode [      on ] [      on ]
clip hull type        [  legacy ] [  legacy ]
onlyents              [     off ] [     off ]
wadtextures           [      on ] [      on ]
skyclip               [      on ] [      on ]
hullfile              [    None ] [    None ]
nullfile              [    None ] [    None ]
min surface area      [   0.500 ] [   0.500 ]
brush union threshold [   0.000 ] [   0.000 ]

Using mapfile wad configuration
Wadinclude list :
[zhlt.wad]

1 brushes (totalling 6 sides) discarded from clipping hulls
CreateBrush:
 (0.80 seconds)
SetModelCenters:
 (0.02 seconds)
CSGBrush:
 (0.34 seconds)

Using Wadfile: \documents and settings\owner\desktop\game making\map making\valve\xeno.wad
 - Contains 5 used textures, 4.20 percent of map (264 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \documents and settings\owner\desktop\game making\map making\valve\decals.wad
 - Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (222 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \documents and settings\owner\desktop\game making\map making\valve\halflife.wad
 - Contains 112 used textures, 94.12 percent of map (3116 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \documents and settings\owner\desktop\game making\map making\valve\liquids.wad
 - Contains 1 used texture, 0.84 percent of map (32 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \documents and settings\owner\desktop\game making\map making\ickylab.wad
 - Contains 1 used texture, 0.84 percent of map (1 textures in wad)

added 13 additional animating textures.
Texture usage is at 1.26 mb (of 4.00 mb MAX)
2.23 seconds elapsed

-----   END   hlcsg -----



hlbsp v3.4 Final (Feb 25 2006)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (amckern@yahoo.com)
-----  BEGIN  hlbsp -----
Command line: C:\PROGRA~1\VALVEH~1\tools\hlbsp.exe "C:\Program Files\Valve Hammer Editor\maps\Fight"

Current hlbsp Settings
Name               |  Setting  |  Default
-------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads             [       1 ] [  Varies ]
verbose             [     off ] [     off ]
log                 [      on ] [      on ]
developer           [       0 ] [       0 ]
chart               [     off ] [     off ]
estimate            [     off ] [     off ]
max texture memory  [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority            [  Normal ] [  Normal ]

noclip              [     off ] [     off ]
nofill              [     off ] [     off ]
noopt               [     off ] [     off ]
null tex. stripping [      on ] [      on ]
notjunc             [     off ] [     off ]
subdivide size      [     240 ] [     240 ] (Min 64) (Max 512)
max node size       [    1024 ] [    1024 ] (Min 64) (Max 8192)


SolidBSP [hull 0] 500...544 (0.03 seconds)
BSP generation successful, writing portal file 'C:\Program Files\Valve Hammer Editor\maps\Fight.prt'
SolidBSP [hull 1] 500...519 (0.03 seconds)
SolidBSP [hull 2] 475 (0.03 seconds)
SolidBSP [hull 3] 500...540 (0.05 seconds)
1.42 seconds elapsed

-----   END   hlbsp -----



hlvis v3.4 Final (Feb 25 2006)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (amckern@yahoo.com)
-----  BEGIN  hlvis -----
Command line: C:\PROGRA~1\VALVEH~1\tools\hlvis.exe "C:\Program Files\Valve Hammer Editor\maps\Fight"
 183 portalleafs
 425 numportals

-= Current hlvis Settings =-
Name               |  Setting  |  Default
-------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads             [       1 ] [  Varies ]
verbose             [     off ] [     off ]
log                 [      on ] [      on ]
developer           [       0 ] [       0 ]
chart               [     off ] [     off ]
estimate            [     off ] [     off ]
max texture memory  [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
max vis distance    [       0 ] [       0 ]
priority            [  Normal ] [  Normal ]

fast vis            [     off ] [     off ]
full vis            [     off ] [     off ]


BasePortalVis:
 (0.03 seconds)
LeafThread:
 (0.34 seconds)
average leafs visible: 41
g_visdatasize:3091  compressed from 4209
0.41 seconds elapsed

-----   END   hlvis -----

I always made IckyCages then went on to spooky maps...