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New Competition! TWHL Synthesis!

monster_urby • 3 days ago2025-03-23 02:11:57 UTC • 3 comments

That's right. We have a new competition on our hands. Go check it out and get to planning.

TWHL Synthesis

A blast from the past

For this, the 44th competition here on TWHL, we are asking you to look back at our long and varied history of mapping competitions. With a wide selection of challenges spanning over two decades, there's no shortage of themes to chose from. That is what we are asking of you. To create an entry to one of our previous competitions!

Well... it's not quite as simple as that.

Artist's impression of two neutron stars colliding. ©Elizabeth Wheatley / Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) - (Edited by monster_urby)

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What's New

Enter our newest competition, TWHL Synthesis!
Say hello to wico., our newest member!

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VERC: Accessing the Half-Life Console

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My .map file was broken?

GoldSrcFreeman • 1 day ago2025-03-25 15:06:01 UTC • 3 replies

You have to many wad files. Go to JACK settings, remove unused wads and compile the map again. Also don't open .map use JACK original .jmf format.

Rules for level transition?

GibsonGM • 1 day ago2025-03-24 19:13:44 UTC • 4 replies

Thanks to both of you. I never made it to having to transition to another map in the past; this one was getting big. I have it working now, after sorting out some logic issues. Much to consider!...

5th Anniversary of Half-life: Alyx!

Combiner 1P • 2 days ago2025-03-24 13:54:04 UTC • 3 replies

> 5 YEARS!? God that feels so... SO wrong lmao!

Same by me. It is difficult to realize that the music video from The Chalkeaters - Count to Three came out almost 4 years ago!

Competition 44: TWHL Synthesis

monster_urby • 2 days ago2025-03-24 11:04:22 UTC • 2 replies

Nice!

.qc file troubles. [help needed]

DaSalba • 2 days ago2025-03-23 20:49:35 UTC • 14 replies

In case it's of any interest to anybody, I have this GIMP script that I use for automatically converting images to GoldSrc instead of going through all the steps every time:

[https://gist.github.co...