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The new ZHLT (http://www.zhlt.tk allow you to add a style to any brush based entity with a texture light on any side(s)

Here's how it works:

Set a style of lighting for the texlight. Can be applied to any brush based entity.

Available styles are:

0 : "Normal"
-3 : "Grouped"
10 : "Fluorescent flicker"
2 : "Slow, strong pulse"
11 : "Slow pulse, noblack"
5 : "Gentle pulse"
1 : "Flicker A"
6 : "Flicker B"
3 : "Candle A"
7 : "Candle B"
8 : "Candle C"
4 : "Fast strobe"
9 : "Slow strobe"
12 : "Underwater"
The Grouped setting is essentially a hack to allow your texlights to be switchable. To use it, create a brush entity with texlights on it, and set its style to Grouped; then create a light entity with the same name as the brush entity. Hlrad will now pretend that the light emitted by the texlight is "really" being emitted by your light entity. In other words, turning the light on and off will now turn the texlights on and off, too.

You'll probably want to set the brightness of the light entity to 0.01, so that it emits no light of its own (this trick is unnecessary if you're using Spirit of Half-Life, which supports switchable texlights directly).

<quote>:/ i stay far away from spirit. it scares me</quote>

Yay, im glad you said that.
So ill switch back to my original source code for the mod, with NO spirit, and ill see what i can make of it.

As for the bumpmapping, you people might want to see it with your own eyes first before i decide whether or not to include it in the mod.

Download and install this in your Half-Life folder, to see bump mapping in action: http://collective.valve-erc.com/data/docs/1091469531-97736200/files/HLbump.zip

Lol, nevermind bumpmapping, its a stupid idea.
And so it my idea of using spirit code, that was a big mistake!

The Spirit code is somehow bugged, im getting lots of errors!!! Shit! Don't know whats wrong!

Btw, is there anyone of the HL:HS team who's interested in having real time Bump Mapping in there maps?

Uhm, before you W00T to loud, note that it will not look like Half-Life 2's Dynamic Lighting. The only DL im adding is world lighting during an alien attack. For example, when a alien grunts attacks, you see a purple sprite flash coming out of his hive hand weapon. Im going to add a little bit: the world around the alien grunt will now light up with a purple color.

Another example are the orange energy balls from the alien controller. These will light up the world with an orange color.

I hope i don't dissapoint you with this...

Yes, together with some extra stuff.

I will write the code for the mode this week, probably tomorrow.
With it, our mod will have Spirit of Half-Life support, and some extra new features like dynamic world lighting.

You want the Blue Shift High Def pack? I got it for ya...

OMFG ROFL @ Pepper's av.

Hahaha.

Ontopic:
Are you using texture lights? Do not use light entities for world lighting. And you lights are floating. They also should be thinner.
The rest looks nice, it really has a Black Mesa Office Complex feeling. :

@ Unbreakable: I use MSVC++6.0 to compile the SDK.

Why do you want the spirit.dll?
My geuss it that you want the spirit.dll because of the "move with" option for most entities.
I can try adding that part of the spirit code in my code for the mod, and you might be able to use the "move with" option on many entities, with just our mod dll.

Note that i never tried that before, and there might be a chance that i won't get it done...

So tell me what you would like.

No wait, i got a better idea:

Ill take the spirit source code, and im gonna add all those features in there, without adding one spirit feature into the existing code.

Uhm... yeah.

Argh. Crappy quality.

Also, I GOT A CUSTOM DLL READY FOR YOU GUYS! I'll upload it soon, so it can be used in the mod. With the dll i made, we have:

AI for Otis from OppFor. (he behaves like barney and interacts with other NPC's like randomly talking)

• Dynamically Resizing Models. (I needed that for my Chapter.) (not anymore...)
• Customizable HUD color. (Has nothing to do with the mod, its just a funny extra.)

-Shake effect on explosions.
-Picking up a tripmine/grenade will add one tripmine/grenade to your inventory, not 5 of em.
-Decreased mp5 current ammo capacity in clip form 50 to 30.

Thats all.

You don't a tmodel. A tmodel is actualy not a model but it contain textures for the real model. But you can simply unclude textures in the real model.

Other players are required to have OppFor installed, so they can play the map, since Opfor uses new content and entities.

When adding -console and -dev to OppFor's shortcut, the OppFor CD is not required to play.

Sorry, no steam please, lets keep it non steam HL.

As for your idea of making a custom splash screen and choose the best, im in!

models/loader.mdl

Would you finally stop whining about steam? Jeezz...

@ Half-Lifer:

You can validate your Half-Life 2 cache files by clicking one of these links:

Half-Life 2: steam://validate/220

Counter-Strike: Source: steam://validate/240

If you can't click it, copy and paste into your browser.
From my experience with that error, i can tell you this'll fix it.

Lazy dudes yer all are!

M_garg: here is the new FGD for model support in Hammer: http://collective.valve-erc.com/data/docs/1050662008-07225900/files/halflife_fgd_02.zip
Link seems to be working.

I don't have the time to fix your map, but i pointed out the leak for you. Check the screenshot:
http://wdevries.demon.nl/MarkH/Atom_zooi/wc_dude_leak.PNG

Im not sure if there are more leaks, you have to find them, make use of the pointfile but don't use the .pts file, use the .lin file to locate the leak. Follow the line from blue to red. The red part of the line should end near your leak, or near the entity that is close by.

Wtf i posted a reply on Saco's post!

GAH!

What i said was that those are not trees but wall climbing plants. I might mix em a little.

Is this a competition? Pffff... c'mon...

As for the signs: You're right, there is a small dark area underneath the signs, i need to func_wall them.

Finally some new screens from me:

http://wdevries.demon.nl/MarkH/Atom_zooi/hs1a0000.JPG
http://wdevries.demon.nl/MarkH/Atom_zooi/hs1a0001.JPG

Note: These are still beta, things might change.

Hey, you don't need the map, i do.

Hmmm, no crash this time except an error message: Invalid file or something.

Ok, today ive made some serious prrogress. Screens soon...

Hmmmm, both methods crash hammer. Can't you just zip/rar the rmf and email me? Or put the rmf online where no one can get it, and send me the download url?

Got it.

So, i gotta download that txt file and rename it to .map so i can open it in Hammer?

Where's that map?

Argh.

Im ill.

It does work, i've done something similar before. Ill put you through it.
Here ya go:

First, make a door.
Name it door1 (Or anything else).
Set the doors attributes to your needs.

Place a trigger_once in front of the door.
Let it target the door (door1).
Go to the master field and enter ms_door1.

Place a second trigger_once in front of the door.
Name it trigg_no_access (It needs a name so we can kill it if your first pic up the key).
Let it target no_access.

Now place a game_text somewhere.
Name it no_access.
Set its attributes to your needs. Don't forget to the actual text you want it to display ingame.

Now, place a multisource.
Name it ms_door1

---

Now the key. Build your key and make it func_wall.
Name it key.

Place a trigger_once in front of the key.
Let it target key_mm

Place a multi_manager.
Name it key_mm

Open up the multi_managers properties and switch off smart edit mode.
Now you need to add 4 keyvalues. Here they are:

kill_key (to kill the key when you "pick it up")
key_txt (to display the "You got the key" message)
ms_door1 (to make the trigger_once for the door to work)
kill_trigg_no_access (this kills the trigger_once that displayes "You need a key" if you first pick up the key and not go to the door first.

Now, place a trigger_relay.
Name it kill_key
Enter key in the KillTarget field.
Set Trigger State to off.

Place a second trigger_relay.
Name it kill_trigg_no_access
Enter trigg_no_access in the KillTarget field.
Set Trigger State to off.

Now, place a game_text.
Name it key_txt
Set its attributes to your needs.
Don't forget to enter "You got the key" in the message field!

Ok, thats it. All should work now. If you're interested in an example map, just ask, and ill post it in the example maps vault.

Good luck!

This might come in handy:

Use -chart on all tools to see the limits. It'l point out how many entities you got in your map, what the limits is, how many models you have, etc, all in detail. It looks like this:

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
---------- ------------- ------------- ------
models 1/400 64/25600 ( 0.3%)
planes 21/32768 420/655360 ( 0.1%)
vertexes 67/65535 804/786420 ( 0.1%)
nodes 7/32767 168/786408 ( 0.0%)
texinfos 12/32767 480/1310680 ( 0.0%)
faces 55/65535 1100/1310700 ( 0.1%)
clipnodes 18/32767 144/262136 ( 0.1%)
leaves 3/8192 84/229376 ( 0.0%)
marksurfaces 55/65535 110/131070 ( 0.1%)
surfedges 268/512000 1072/2048000 ( 0.1%)
edges 135/256000 540/1024000 ( 0.1%)
texdata [variable] 180/4194304 ( 0.0%)
lightdata [variable] 19344/6291456 ( 0.3%)
visdata [variable] 6/2097152 ( 0.0%)
entdata [variable] 2737/524288 ( 0.5%)

Or am i just talking old news?

Yep.

Ghehehe:

http://wdevries.demon.nl/MarkH/Atom_zooi/HL2DM%20Screens/dm_runoff0000.jpg

http://wdevries.demon.nl/MarkH/Atom_zooi/HL2DM%20Screens/dm_runoff0003.jpg

http://wdevries.demon.nl/MarkH/Atom_zooi/HL2DM%20Screens/dm_runoff0004.jpg

http://wdevries.demon.nl/MarkH/Atom_zooi/HL2DM%20Screens/dm_runoff0005.jpg

http://wdevries.demon.nl/MarkH/Atom_zooi/HL2DM%20Screens/dm_runoff0007.jpg

Ah, another Dutchie.

If i may:

Ik heb samen met nog een paar andere een kleine Nederlandse Half-Life mapping community. We hebben eigenlijk alleen een forum waar we onze dingen doen. Misschien wil je je bij ons aansluiten?
Forums is hier: http://www.chatbear.com/board.plm?b=4304&v=flatold

Je bent altijd welkom.

Nope, dll files cannot be decompiled into usable source code.

Uhm, Gearbox never released the OppFor source code.

Get HLCC. Best and most userfriendly front end compiler.

Ah ok.

No problem then.

It should be:

-wadinclude "hsads.wad"

With wad extenstion, and with quotation marks.

Why don't you just focus on HL:HS first, and when thats done, start this. I think your idea is nice, but at this moment, HL:HS should be your "primary focus."

Ok. And it is a exact replica of the original grunt, only with a different skin?

Ok, and do you have that different grunt model?

Yep. Under /gfx/env

Uuh, right. Well, just send me your rmf asap. Im mapping the inside of Gordons appartment now, which is going smooth.

And yeah, my part ends in an ally and there will be a changelevel to your city part.

Btw, i was browsing the HL:HS site and all of a sudden i hear somekind of weird jabbering:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/darchibald/hostagesituation/mendfureh4.wav

The hunter, whats the meaning of that? Is that you talking/jabbering?
If so, then WHAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Unbreakable, i still don't have the rmf. I need it as a reference for my city part.

Also, i made small mistake. Let me quote myself:

"As you might know, my whole part will be cinematic sequence, meaning you'll see this map through a trigger_camera."

Not true. Only the last part of the map will be playable. After Gordon has left his room to get armed and packed, the player will take control of him when he exits his apartment, ready to go to Barney's house, and that should be in Unbreakable's part.

The Hunter: Correct me if im wrong, or if you have other plans, tell me!

Allright. I started rebuilding my part yesterday. In fact, complete restyle should be the perfect word for this.

As you might know, my whole part will be cinematic sequence, meaning you'll see this map through a trigger_camera. The camera start in front of Gordon Freemans appartment, then the camera goes inside, down the hall, to the elevators. Then it'll ride the elevator to floor i-dont-know-yet. The camera exits the elevator down the hall until it stops in front of Gordon Freemans room... More will come later.

Quick note: I got rid of the Poke646 textures for the inside look of Gordon's appartment. I am now using the textures from de_morningstar. These are much better.

If your new grunt is like the original grunt, you can simply base your grunt off the original grunt. This article could be very helpfull: http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1037152293-25623400

Note that you need a C++ compiler and developer environment like Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. Or you can try the free Borland C++ compiler.

If you wish, i can TRY to code your new grunt, and give you the dll.

Shit dude, its hard to see what textures you used. Can you send me the rmf, so i can make my part in the same kind of atmosphere as yours? Because, out parts are both in a city, and the city should be the same.