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Can't open chateau.wad Isnt this for HL? why do I need that old counterstrike WAD file??
Please use -wadinclude for those custom textures, some people dont have cs 1.6 installed...
By the way, it looks good!!

Link for the full version--with songs--is no longer available. Sorry!

Yeah, I have the same problem with my "battlefront turret" map. I wanted the laser beams to "cycle" downrange, not appear in one beam.
I used a different sprite make it look like "- - -" instead of "---", but it still doesn't "move" as it should.

Might be able to fix it with a custom scrollin sprite, but I'm not sure. <rowleybob PMs Rimrook to ask> You could also use a env_shooter, but you wouldn't be able to rotate the turret

Hello
You have set the light_environment brightness to 255 255 255 2
Set the brightness to 0 0 128 20 it can be nice.
Tlax

turn the light down then! derrrr

and delete one of your maps... double posted

this what i looking for long time..good monkey

actually i had to make it in a sprites1 folder because the error i got was

sprites1/fire.spr not found.

No I don't, and thats a pretty stupid offer as the decompiled and recompiled map will be completely different. So thats a definate NO!

Simple but a neat and useful effect just the same! I would have never thought of this!!!

Great job!

Simple, but well done and potentially useful all the same. The room and especially the broken blocks looked sexy too.

Also, I had no idea you could use chargers/medkits in CS!

Welcome back Tlax!

boo hoo

Oh and you're right, traversing the stairs downward is perilous at best!

<rowleybob prays to the TWHL god for edit on map comments

I tried all the differen't hull size values, in the shape of a ladder and stairs, but to no avail. It seems whatever shape you build the pushable in, it sort of puts an invisible "bounding box" around it, so you can't ascend/decend normally.

Pushing is also a problem. Of course you have to put up some sort of "rails" to keep it from pushing wildly accross the room. You also have to make the space really large, otherwise the pushable won't move.

If you have some more insight about this, please let me know

Bratteh said he did it another way besisdes using pushables and door/ladders. I can't wait to see it

Maybe a dumb question, but how did ya get that nice lightning that way?

It looks nice, but going down such steep stairs might be difficult.
What's next? A func_pushable that you can move around and then climb on it? It might be possible...

Yes! Finally I found this again. I just reinstalled my computer, and I remembered this lil' example map and how it was one of my favorites! Glad I found it again! :-D! This is one of my favorite creations that you made Habboi :-P!

alex911
"also, i think the map was a bit short, and lacked excitment. I was wating to be scared by zombies, although this never arose."
Now you have the lovely zombies in Empty_hev_v2
I put it in Completed Maps
Tlax

or any kind of ideas for the windows? Cos u obviously are so intelligent.

Um, if you bothered to read, you'd have noticed I did leave suggestions for your windows. "a ledge, a border, some godamn thing :"

Um, I did play it, just not with other people on as server, you asshole.

If you're unwilling to take criticism, you will never improve...youour loss.

And to give nothing but harsh sarcasm, to someone who bothers to take time to play and comment on your map?! Well don't worry, because it won't happen again.

As I said before, 2 stars.

I forgot to add to the gameplay that this map has doors. Doors slow the flow of the game. Since this is sepposed to be a realistic map of a villige then I think that it wouldn't look nice and realistic without the doors. They're ok in this case, as long they don't reclose... I hate non electrical doors that reclose. What makes them move? Spirits?

lol you're right

thank you for your comments guys

Nice train, texturing is a bit bad thought..

Meh, I didn't really liked the map.

I did like the hl1 textures in hl2 thought, makes it feel like classic HLDM!

The weapon placements, lightning and texturing were very good.

But the lay-out and gameplay, mmmmm, I don't know..

The map is pretty big and the lay-out confuses me a bit.

Also, I don't think the flares fit this map like they did in your other map, rusty..

I had a fast run true the map and it was a nice map, I really really liked the illusion to get the awp, honestly, that retard button is some fun!!

The looks of the map on the other hand are pretty bad :

+ Retard Button!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ AWP Illusion.

+ Explosive barrels

+/- Gameplay, with the retard button I think this can be something interesting.

- Texturing, honestly, awfull, to grey and to repeating.

- Architecture, all hail blockyness!!

- Layout, meh, standerd aim eh'

- Ambience, to bad you didn't had any custom ambience shit, this would really add some fun since this is well.. a pretty strange map.

Ugly map, yet, really fun.

But in the end, the fun factor beats the look factor

3.5 Stars > 4 stars.

Hunter make it easier and with a bigger ledgh. Look on what they did in crossfire. It's quite fun and easy to jump from window to window.

+ Artitecture was great, I liked it very much. The room with the water falls had neat artitecture, also the room with the rings and that button that explodes something was cool, a bit weird though.

+ Texturing was great too. I liked the costum textures and they were well aglained.

+ Lighting was good. Not too bright and not too dark, there is contrast too, between darkness and bright mostly but also a bit between colors.

+ Terrain work a bit strange but I liked it, it fits well with the theme of the map.

+ Layout is great. Easy to learn, although it's complex, lots of vertical fights which is great. A bit big so it's a bit hard to find enemies, but it's not so bad.

+ Gameplay is great. It's was so fun to play it. Lots of space, but few cover... It's also great cause of the great layout.

+ Not too many ambience!(can get annoying sometimes in deathmatch) You used it only when it's truly needed

+/- Weapon placement was ok. The ammo isn't too close to the weapons ,but do you think you should place a long jump model right on the brige thats in the middle of the way?

- Why did you add the glows to the water below that brige? They are complitly useless and out of place. And the glows below the water fall are too bright, they destroy the whole atmosphire of that room. I liked that room, but those glows ruin it. Try the ballsmoke.spr instead.

Over all it's a great map. I really like rimrooks maps. I think your modification is great.

As I said before. This is just a test map.

welli figured that out i used jedi's hl model viewer to extract the fire sprite and i made a sprites1 folder in my ctstrike folder and added teh fire sprite there.

and hence i solved the problem.

but overall nice map
i dont care to do those long reviews on brushwork and what not. It's very impressive i must say. I still love it when you hear footsteps.

I really, really agree with daubster on this one..

+/- Architecture, the outside looked alright.

+/- Lightning, I liked the dark style outside, inside lightning was just to fucking bright!!

- Ambience, I missed it.

- Layout, way too complex indeed, erm, to many vents!!

I really couldn't find my way around the damn map.

- Gameplay, Bomb Placements, wtf, at the fucking ct spawn?

I smell camping then since the vents are very easy to get lost in

- Texturing, badly aligned at some places and way to repeating in the whole map.

Honestly, this needs work, 2 stars!

Agreed, a nice map with some nice touches but a little too small.

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I found the architecture very nice with all the arches, the map was very smooth, the map had a sort of quakish style, wich I personaly like a lot.

The lay-out was also nicely done and easy to understand and learn.

I'd think the gameplay would be very fast with even 6 poeple because the map is very small and there aren't big open spaces in the map.

The texturing was very nice, they matched correctly, but the stripe texture kinda busts out of the rest imo.

Weapon placements was well... good placed

Lightning was also very nice, some yellowish here, some white spots there..

The Atmosphere was very nice with the lightning and flares.

I must say, that you also did a great job on the ambience, lovely!

I really like the part were you could get the overwatch gun, it remembered me of some classic hldm map..

Anyway, i'm giving this map a well deserved 5 stars!

Fire.spr comes with Half Life.

By the way the only prefabs I used were the chair and bookcase in the living room. Everything else was all me, not sure what you mean by "default prefab texture on the beds" but if that means means you think I used a prefab on it, no, it was my own brushwork.
Thanks for the input, very much appreciated!

Just some pointers you might wanna fix

Meh, I'm to lazy to play but the screenshot tells a lot actually :

The lightning doesn't fit in with the skybox texture.
The buildings have repeating textures.
It also seems kinda blocky and you really need cubemaps!!

Yay, a assault remake for christmas! hohohoho! XD

+ Ambience, lovely, let it snow let it snow! Could have been louder thought, still, love it!

+ Architecture, I liked your custom additions, they were nicely build.

+/- Custom Xmas Stuff, the lights all around the map were a nice addition, still, it was missing falling snow, presents and other random christmas shit.

+/- Texturing, it was fairly nice but I thought some textures were used to many.

- Snow Hills, outside there were some snow hill but they were very ugly and anoying.

- No sneaky camaras @ t/ct spawn

Gameplay and Layout were pretty much the same in assault..

3 stars.

Nice map!

+ Artitecture was fine. Nice houses, gives a feeling of a quite little villige.
+ Texturing was neat. It adds lots to the atmosphire of the villige. Really great costum textures.
+ Good weapon placment. The weaponry and the ammo aren't too close to each other. And it's not to easy to get to the strong weaponry.
+ Gameplay was fine, mostly because of the layout. There is enough room but there is also very little cover.
+ Lighting is sometimes bland but mostly interesting. Try adding more colored lights, change the light from the sky to orange.(since it's in the dusk) Or atlist change the sky.

+/- Neat layout, easy to learn. To bad about the dead end.

- Add some more detail. This map is empty.
- It lacks of ambience.

Don't use breakables in HLDM. For the windows I advice you to use illuosnaries and over them place a clip brush, so the player can't pass them but can shoot through.

Ow, Ow, very nicely done.

Thought, this is basic npc stuff, yet, it's helpfull

Like I said over at facepunch, you really need to put some walls around the map and improve the lightning because it's so standerd..

The displacements could have used some blending.

You really need to step it up to make this more interesting.

3 stars.

Indeed, don't go al defensive!

Sjeesh, I don't care if that jumping thingy got ruined by a error, it still sucks..

i keep getting a fire.spr error. its like

sprite1/fire.spr not found. Im trying to fix it but yea....

This stil needs work..
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+/- Arhchitecture. It's blocky inside and you used prefabs a bit too much, although the cliffs outside looked quite ok. Good job.
The whole map had a very big cramped feeling. The stairs were way too small, the ducts could have been bigger too.
+/- Texturing. Twasn't bad, although some textures were badly aligned (lightswitches). And the textures were quite too repetative inside the building.
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- Ambience. some wind sounds, along with other ambience would have been good.
- Layout. It's quite simple, but the whole ducts are just WAY TOO COMPLEX! It's a damn labyrinth there! One could get lost way too easily.
- Gameplay. Theres only 1 bombsite, which is a big drawback, coz the CT's could just campthere all the time and kill the T's easily. The layout isn't perfect either, so that also makes the gameplay worse.
- Lighting. Dull. Just... dull.
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Well the map still needs work.. Lots of it. Perhaps make it bigger, expand it? Your choice.
3* in advance.

lol

You forgot to comment on the intense emptyness of the chargers, alex..

Woah..
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+ Architecture. When you said that the brushwork is amazing - I expected to see more than just awesome detail and curved corridors ;)The architecture wasn't very amazing, but it was quite good for a CS map. I loved the detail throughout the map. The DIE sign, the kitchen, the fireplace.. Lovely detail.. ^^ ALthough I hated the default HL prefabs. Please remove them or at least re-texture them.. The default bed textures also sucked donkey balls.

+ Atmosphere. To be honest - I haven't seen a map with such pwnage atmosphere for a VERY long time. The dull lighting, the sounds, the blood, the trap in the bathtub
All those corridors with the wind sounds.. Aaah.. Lovely, just lovely.
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+/- Lighting. The only problem is that it's way too dark for the map to play right. I'd suggest making the corridors brighter, even if that would make the atmosphere less creepy.

+/- Gameplay. Lots and lots and LOTS of routes to the goal. The gameplay would be ok, although the complex layout and the hostage placement make this map very T friendly. I'd suggest placing the hostages somewhere near the T spawn. You could place them in pairs in 2 rooms, or perhaps place one pair near the T spawn and the other near the furnance in the basement.. (I loved tht place)
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- Layout. Sorry, but this is the only thing that doesn't work in this map. It's way too complex, so if you wanna keep it that way, you should make some signs, pointing the player to the goals. (they really help) You should also alter the hostage placement.

- Texturing. Some of the textures were alright, but I'd say that this map is begging of more custom, creepy textures. The outside of the house could use some re-texturing, so could the hallways. I also hated the default prefab textures on the beds, sofas, bookcases...
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Overall - a truly spooky map. I loved the way you did the bathroom trap. Really creative..
The rooms look a bit empty, tho.. I'd love to see some tall bookcases, large windows, old-ish curtains and old-ish armchairs that would make thie house look more like a spooky mansion, dig? ;P
There could be some bloody knifes or other scary stuff in the kitchen, like blood leaking from the sink.
Anyways - great map! 4* for the atmosphere..

Stop trying to defend it with "it's not supposed" (it's spelled supposed y'know)

So you're saying that your house has no shadows whatsoever? It's just the same light everywhere with the same nuance and intensity? yeah right.

ffs stop getting so cranky and upset when you get critisism, you obviously didn't think anyone would say something bad about it just because you won a contest that had like 4 entries. grow up

Already been done, enter www.fpsbanana.com.

Good map but the textures just don't do it for me. HL1 textures just don't fit with HL2 style lighting or light effects. Maybe consider retexturing it with something that fits the lighting a little more.

Ha Ha that Was a god one ; )

Thanks!
Shame ragdolls doesn't collide with entities.
Physic engine,, hmpf..

i didn't really enjoy playing this map.

although the gameplay was good, it was greatly let down by the lighting and blocky architeture.

the HEV chargers were rather impressive though, i really like the way they are empty!!!

also, i think the map was a bit short, and lacked excitment. I was wating to be scared by zombies, although this never arose.

overall though, rather dissapointing!

and no, im not in the map commenting compotetion, i was just bored!!