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Use Irfan view (If it worked) or PSP. It should work with photoshop though...I don't know if it does, but it does with any decent graphics program. Paint screws it up like hell.

Sweet...and also, I think Anonymous means the first map (Not necessarily finished, mine wasn't).

Hmm...texture? Let's see...it must be 256 colours for a start...can't think of any other probs, size only applies when importing textures with crappy HLMV/Jed's decent HLMV.

Can't remember the name...but it was three rooms which were far too big, and the walls were made of water, so it didn't run
The entity setup was crap as well...I think it was a turret, a player start, a couple of sentries, and a couple of grunts. There were also buttons and a ladder. And some cool pillars!

So what? They're good, right?

For the texture...get Jed's HLMV. There's a link somewhere on
http://hl-improvement.com. It allows you to export and import textures.

I like the "New map" tool as well. Without that, we wouldn't be able to START mapping. Hmm, I really should get back into mapping and stop editing models

I'm more into modelling though, which I do for roughly the same amount of time.

Ooops...sorry about the link. Anyway, nice you like 'em.

2-3 hours.

http://vassyhl.tk...go there! It has screenies of my hacks of Ambient.Impact's hgrunt/hgrunt_opfor models, plus a few extras I made by mixing the submodels around a bit
More coming soon! Feedback would be nice. Downloads will be available (With proper credits included) as soon as Ambient.Impact allows hacks of his opfor grunt to be released, which should be soon.

Next week? Seventh, you have saved my life
/me cries with happiness.

I know it's boring, but I just thought I'd mention that something like that is quite possible.

Nah. Too busy with my own top secret mod.

Hmm....ask on the HIT forums about it (http://hl-improvement.com/forums), if it's just a model edit you want, then I think it would be quite possible.

I think you'll find it is. In Sven Co-op, there's a map called stadium3. That allows you to put most monsters (Including apaches and new Sven monsters/monsters nicked from opfor), but there's a limit to how many you can have at a time...and Sven's monstermakers have more options than HL ones. It also has an airstrike table, a flooding button, a light switch, and a massive airstrike that will destroy everything. The map doesn't have stands, it's just one massive box with a sky, an arena, and teleports which allow you into the arena.

Umm, doesn't this contradict itself? You can do it but it's crap?

On Ten Four maps (See above), get Smart Decoy. That's an amazing mod.

Clip tool.

Same applies to me...I hardly ever dream in fact...

-When you've logged in more than 1000 times (Ooops)
-When you've logged in more than 2000 times (Seventh?)
-When you've logged in more than 3000 times (Have you actually reached 3000 yet?)
-When you've logged in more than atom has
-When you've logged in
-When you've visited TWHL
-When you intend to visit TWHL
-When you start mapping (IE: Mapping at all is mapping too much)
-When you've got 9 or more different ways of proving you map too much (But of course, THIS one doesn't count...so I have 8... : ...Oh alright, it counts; I have 9 )

If I can, I'll post up screens of all of my family's desktops (3 in total) tomorrow.

No. I was already booked into the "Bath Mental Institute Which Doesn't Exist Yet".

OK, in that case, when you monkeys take over, I'll become The Vass-Monkey.

Lol. No problem.

BTW, 7th, who's Louisa?

I never use my work area, I use my mum's 'cos it has the internet, and the others don't. Also, I need to reinstall everything, so currently it's unimpressive. I used to have a 007: Nightfire wallpaper (Which The Scruncher loved: the only people there were women...so I was mean, and made sure they were covered up by windows media player being full screen ), I then changed it to the HL BDay pic from VERC, but I couldn't read the text on the icons, so I changed it to the cool "crystal" wallpaper which came with XP, also, my windows XP theme is a silver version of pepper's.

I'll enter...maybe. Can the map have anything to do with lasers, as long as it's unrealistic?

Wrong place. They shouldn't be in any mod's folder (valve counts as a mod folder). Those are in the valve folder. C:SierraHalf-Life is where they go, not C:SierraHalf-Lifevalve. I said that right at the start...

Use this thread to discuss SD models, recommend certain SD models, give download links, give your opinions on them, what you think of them compared to the normal HL models/Blue-Shift high definition pack, stuff like that. Anything related to SD models basically. I'll start this off:

Favourite SD model: Ambient.Impact's HEV barney (See my av)

Second favourite: Ambient.Impact's HGrunt (You can get this on just about any SD model site)

Compared to Low definition models: Well, considering these SD models are better than the models in Perfect Dark, which are basically low def, these are outstanding compared to them.

Compared to Blue-Shift high definition pack: Still far superior to it, although the BS pack had some good things in it, like the new shotgun, and the M4A1 replacing the MP5.

Most recommended: Either the HEV barney, or the riot shield barney, since the riot shield actually works.

Vital links:

Half-Life Improvement Team
http://hl-improvement.com
This site has links to things like Jed's HLMV, transparency dlls etc. in the forums. You can also make requests there, post modelling problems etc.

Sven Co-op
http://svencoop.com
This mod came with some optional SD models. While they aren't as good as some of the ones on the HIT forums, they are still pretty good. You can make requests in the forums.

Art of War
http://planetquake.com/aow
Just about every kind of SD model you can think of, with only a couple of things missing...check the Sven Co-op section for HL models. For the missing models, just ask in HIT's forum (See above).

Bmoore's SD model site
http://sdmodels.cjb.net
Almost like an unfinished version of Art of War (See above), it has a large variety, but not all of the links are up yet. It's still worth looking at though, since you can get unique models such as an HEV suit scientist, and an HEV Barney that wears a helmet. Also has probably the largest collection of hacked SD HGrunts I've ever seen (20 last time I looked).

I wonder if my obsession is starting to worry people yet...

Hey...what's wrong with recreating videogames? That's the original reason I decided to map...now I don't do that much...

Some sequences just can't be used for things like that EG: "Run" will make him run a couple of steps on the spot, then stop. Some of them are regular idle/walking/running/dying etc. animations. Also, get Jed's HLMV, it's better than the normal one. There's a link somewhere on http://hl-improvement.com/forums

Use Xeno.wad as well. And, if you REALLY want, spraypaint.wad. Nothing else, unless you're mapping for CS, which I believe you are, in which case you can use any wads that came with CS...just make sure you ask about some of them, because not everyone who has CS owns them...like chateau.wad, which I don't have. Also, never use more than 8 wads at a time, and please DON'T use as many textures as possible...it looks really tacky. I usually limit myself to about 30 textures per map, but I sometimes hit 40.

And Tlax has the difficult but brilliant Timefall.

Seventh:

If they do nothing, you put them in the wrong folder. They go in your HL directory, in my case C:SierraHalf-Life
They should overwrite two of the old dlls with the same name.

ALSO:

If you want to test transparency in models without playing HL, download Jed's HLMV (There's a link somewhere in the HIT forums)

EITHER:

Download the transparency dlls and save them over the original dlls which didn't have transparency coded in

OR

Use steam, which already supports transparency

Can't think of any way that would be possible...

Well, give the scripted sequence a throwing animation, and get it to target a trigger_relay which will trigger an env_explosion in 5 seconds.

No, don't call me V. That just sounds stupid.

When you're looking for laptops on PC world, and realise the guy who is helping you decide looks almost exactly like Otis (TRUE!)

Light_environment emits light from the sky. Light_spot can either emit light from the sky, or create a light that only lights up the area below it. Light produces a kinda crap lighting effect. Texlights produce a much more realistic lighting effect.

Hmm...they tend to throw grenades when there's no-one apart from their target(s) in their line of vision...I don't think the script will make them throw a grenade...the mp5 scripts don't do any damage...they just flash and make a noise. Also, to everyone: get Jed's HLMV (There's a link somewhere on http://hl-improvement.com). It's an improved version of the original, which supports transparency, and it has a greenish background instead of black, so you don't have to change the BG colour to make the model easier to see if it has black areas.

I don't know what it means!!!!!!!!!!!! TELL ME!!!! I know EVERYTHING (Except what flaming is)!!!!!!!

OK, back to sanity...

Of course I know what flaming is. And spamming...

Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Well I'm going to marry my HEV Barney, so there!

Well, my nick is based on my name: Seb Vass...although I thought of it because that's what almost all of the sports staff at my school call me, as does one of the Science teachers. But to my friends (And most other teachers), I'm Seb, not Vassy. Call me either on TWHL, I don't mind.

Yep, same applies to me.

Hmm...reskinning is cool, but remodelling is even better. I'm going to edit some SD models and create a REALLY cool HGrunt, based on the already excellent version by Ambient.Impact.

Just call it desert, not desert (large scale). Spaces and punctuation all cause problems.

-When you start answering threads like this

-When you join a Half-Life community