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Eh, my main gaming/mapping computer, the one with the x1950 pro runs source mapping, goldsource mapping, all flawlessly.

OK, i might be old fashioned for sticking with my x1950 and my XP, but i don't have anywhere near the problems a lot of other people have, so as far as I'm concerned i made the right decisions.

I run an ATI Radeon x1950 pro on my main computer and everything works as it should.

I run an ATI Radeon 9600 series on my secondary computer, and I cant select stuff in hammer 3d, plus I get intermittent OpenGL problems.

Depends on the card i guess.

And its OK if others use them, but NVIDIA cards have screwed me over so many countless times I refuse to buy them, that's just my opinion.

OK, so no minimod format, but can it still be multiple maps, as long as i make the appropriate adaptations to the readme?

Believe me, I'm horrible when I'm given a single map to work with. That's why I suck at making MP maps.

ARGH! I'm so freakin late. Stupid school sappin' my CSS

If you know the beta has bugs in it, you should fix them before you release, that way, when people report more bugs, you know its something you didnt know about.

Just a thought

are you willing to pay for the right models you are looking for

Theres models you have to PAY for? That is the most stupid thing ive ever heard. Better to learn and make them yourself.

On sale!!: generic crate model, only 3 easy payments of 29.99 after mail in rebate.

If I wrote a tutorial, I would only post it here. It wouldn't go on any fpsbanana or snarkpit. I'd rip my arm off first.

Looks like TWHL gets my site exclusivity for free. Too bad I'm too lazy to find something, and make a tutorial on it.

This is fail

The original Doom was the first game i had played. My dad showed me how to load it in DOS when i was 2 years old. Thats what got me hooked on games, and the computer in general, and got me to where i am today.

Funny how you can complain about a browser that cuts corners, and then say you like IE.

I LOL'd

The transformer movie was horrible. I had to watch it twice cause i fell asleep while first watching it.

And did it hear that right? A pokemon film? Dear lord, is there a bigger example of fail?

I might be biased, since i viciously made fun of pokemon/transformer/yu-gi-oh enthusiasts, as a child. And i continue to hate all those toys.

But i think any movie based on a toy will fail, unless they do something Really special.

Yeah, between IE and chrome, its chrome FTW

No doubt

Forum search is useless, and takes long to load. Needs improvement.

I tried to dig up my old mod thread, so i typed in the actual name for the thread, and still had to go through 10 pages before i found it.

But indeed! Google chrome is mega fast.

Chrome

Ooo Shiny.

I like the simplicity of the interface, in addition to its ultra speed in loading! The task manager is also nice.

Perhaps a change from Firefox is in order? Ill wait until it comes out of beta, and see what kind of plug-ins they might offer. In particular, a better download manager, as world crafter mentioned.

And just a side not, Tito, don't take this personally, but i hate your outlook on the internet, and i cant stand reading your posts like the one above, or the ones in that "browser debate", they just irritate me.

Meh, school just started today for me, and 8 PM GMT is 3 PM for me, 10 minutes before i get back from school.

So if im going to participate in these Ill have to check twhl and then jump on CS:S right away, and then still be late.

Its ok, ill manage, not that you guys wanted me on the server anyway

Kielbasa (IDK how to spell it) with sauerkraut on roll.

Those links are dead since VERC is down, what needs to be done is have those links point to another download link. (i know muzzleflash has some hammer downloads on his site, perhaps link to there?)

I'm down with that, now that I fixed my steam. Ill be there.

I just make the things myself. Prefabs are indeed less common now, and by the time you find the thing your looking for, you could have already made something twice as good. (if you ever do find it)

Plus, i don't like prefabs,I'd prefer to do my own work, than have to cite a bunch of other people because i used their work.

Well, whats not normal now is that steam cant connect. I think im going to see if steam has support or something

Luke misunderstood i think, i got that Game currently unavailable message after deleting the blob. But then i exited steam (penguinboy's recomendation) and tried starting back up. I get the steam updating window, that eventually turns to a "cant connect to steam network" message. Reinstalling didnt change the result at all.

Ok, im having serious problems now.

Upon deleting the blob file and trying to restart steam, The "updating steam window" would come up and after about 3 minutes of inactivity, that message would disapear and a new message would say "could not connect to steam network.

So i reinstalled steam, and i now get the same messages.

Wut?

Penguinboy, im not sure that helped. Error message:

"this game is currently unavailiable"

Does that for all games, media, and tools.

Well, i guess now i need to reinstall steam and all my games. So maybe it did help

meh

Its been happening the past 3 days, its just now that i've decided to ask TWHL.

Restarting steam, game, or computer, doesnt help

I tried reasearching the web, but i get no relevant results.

Im debating reinstalling steam, and all my games (i got em all on retail dvds) Steam already installs everything to my D drive, because i installed steam before hooking up my extra drive. So if i do reinstall at least that will be some good coming out of it

Im having problems with my Steam multiplayer games (tf2 css) In the in-game server lists, I cant see any servers in my favorites, history, or internet tabs. If i hit refresh it comes back and says "cant find main server list"

In the servers window on the steam interface however, i can see the servers normally, but if i join from there, it starts the game, but when it tries to connect, it says "failed after 4 retries"

This started to happen randomly, i didn't change any settings, and i checked my firewall, it isn't blocking anything from steam. Any idea what could be going on? I'd like to get on those TWHL servers

Trying to decide whether to map, practice my coding, practice modeling, or play some mindless Team fortress 2.

None seem very appealing and consequentially, I'm sitting here bored, reading over TWHL posts.

This idea for setting up this minimod, and having it in a world where you can travel between servers, is original, and sounds very complicated.

Ill be excited to see the turnout!

(especially penguinboy)

.>

The top maps is good enough, since they filter out all the crap maps. If we had a pure random map chooser, we'd get all the uncompleted, or completed but horrible maps.

Hey again. Im following the spawnroom tutorial on the valve dev wiki, but when i run my map, the team doesnt spawn at their spawn points. There are no compile errors, but the ingame console reports that "the entity is not clear"

To me that means they have objects to close to them. What distance should the team spawn be from any objects? and does it have to be that distance from any brushes like the floor or the ceiling? Thanks for any assistance

150 ping.

Beats my usual 180

Great! just the answer i was looking for, consider this question answered

Thanks guys

I want to exlude materials so that only the TF2 materials show up in my browser. The directory structure of the games in steam is confusing, and i cant find the materials i want to exlude. Can anyone tell me where to look for the materials in my games other than TF2? Thanks in advance

Indeed, that was fun.

First time i played that basin map. Much better than goldrush

Ill come

Theres a whole lot of you i still have to add to steam list.

Indeed. this looks like a fail on valve's part. Hunted would've been a much better mode. I know I would've it enjoyed much more.

Edit:

Can't wait for this huge update, regardless. I'm really liking where TF2 has been going thus far, and there's no way (ok, a small chance, anyways) they can screw stuff up.

You sure you didnt jinx something there luke? Ok, so maybe they didnt screw up, but i dont think anything is any better.

same

Oh great, im waist deep in sarcasm

Does the hazard course count as part of the game?

Haha muzzleflash

No, ATDestroy is my usual profile name for most stuff. When i joined TWHL, i was expecting a snarkpit-like site. In other words, i thought i was going to leave after a week, so i made a generic profile name (HLMapper) but after being here for a bit, i realized twhl wasnt anything like snarkpit. So i got my name changed to ATDestroy, which is what everyone usually knows me as. Think of it as me becoming a permanent involved member of twhl.

Plus i felt related to HLGenius :/

Besides, if you read my profile page you'd know i was named ATDestroy in steam/xfire/games

Off topic stuff out of the way.

@killerduck: It doesnt matter anymore, im going to redo that level.

An exotic version of Spaghetti, it has meatballs

yeah, but that wasnt the problem either

/agree

surely valve wouldn't discard the unique class roles that has made TF2 better than the other games out there.

a taunt?

Great, i have nothing better to do than sit there and taunt 100 times.

The wording of that achievement is weird. To me, it looks like they want you to pick up 1000 HP worth in medkits that lay around the map.

I know how urb feels.

I played starwars galaxies for a year, being one of the best pvpers on the server, but never enjoyed any of the time. why?

all i had to do was look around, the overwhelming majority of people were losers who cheated their level, and ran around with their "ingame girlfriends" and "ingame wives" and such

It took me a year to realize that the game was for losers, and what a waste an MMORPG is, and im sorry it took a year because 12x15$ a month = $225

what a freakin waste.

As for that vid, i will laugh unconrtollably everytime i see it, not only because they held a funeral in a game amd in a pvp zone, but because its hilarious to crash PVP events

wait, do you mean im using the original compile tools? or outdated zhlt?

O_o i am using the original tools, i just tried with zhlt though, didnt solve the problem =P

Yeah, i think so, thanks for trying to help though.

Im not sure what you mean, theres no place where you put your filename or extension

I cant change the command, but in parameters, there is $path$file which i think takes place of putting in the path and filename yourself

i checked over the directories in setup, and it appears everything is fine

Dear god

I made sure every file was deleted ( i missed a few last time)
so now, i tried the compilator, and got this:

[quote]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: hlcsg.exe -wadinclude barney.wad -wadinclude xeno.wad -wadinclude liquids.wad -chart -estimate -texdata 8192 C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.map
Entering C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.map

Current hlcsg Settings
Name | Setting | Default
--------------------|-----------|------------------------
threads [ 1 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ on ] [ off ]
estimate [ on ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 8388608 ] [ 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]
[barney.wad]
[xeno.wad]
[liquids.wad]

0 brushes (totalling 0 sides) discarded from clipping hulls
CreateBrush:
(0.28 seconds)
SetModelCenters:
(0.00 seconds)
CSGBrush:
(0.76 seconds)

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
---------- ------------- ------------- ------
models 0/400 0/25600 ( 0.0%)
planes 3810/32768 76200/655360 (11.6%)
vertexes 0/65535 0/786420 ( 0.0%)
nodes 0/32767 0/786408 ( 0.0%)
texinfos 219/32767 8760/1310680 ( 0.7%)
faces 0/65535 0/1310700 ( 0.0%)
clipnodes 0/32767 0/262136 ( 0.0%)
leaves 0/8192 0/229376 ( 0.0%)
marksurfaces 0/65535 0/131070 ( 0.0%)
surfedges 0/512000 0/2048000 ( 0.0%)
edges 0/256000 0/1024000 ( 0.0%)
texdata [variable] 0/8388608 ( 0.0%)
lightdata [variable] 0/6291456 ( 0.0%)
visdata [variable] 0/2097152 ( 0.0%)
entdata [variable] 0/524288 ( 0.0%)
0 textures referenced

Total BSP file data space used: 84960 bytes

Using Wadfile: \sierra\half-life\valve\halflife.wad

• Contains 20 used textures, 83.33 percent of map (3116 textures in wad)

Including Wadfile: \sierra\half-life\valve\zhlt.wad

• Contains 1 used texture, 4.17 percent of map (8 textures in wad)

Including Wadfile: \sierra\blue-shift\bshift\barney.wad

• Contains 1 used texture, 4.17 percent of map (408 textures in wad)

Including Wadfile: \sierra\blue-shift\bshift\xeno.wad

• Contains 2 used textures, 8.33 percent of map (264 textures in wad)

added 3 additional animating textures.
Texture usage is at 0.31 mb (of 8.00 mb MAX)
1.27 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: hlbsp.exe -chart -estimate -texdata 8192 C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.map

Current hlbsp Settings
Name | Setting | Default
------------------|-----------|------------------------
threads [ 1 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ on ] [ off ]
estimate [ on ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 8388608 ] [ 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]
--- 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: hlvis.exe -full -chart -estimate -texdata 8192 C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.map
Error: Portal file 'C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.prt' does not exist, cannot vis the map

--- END hlvis ---

hlrad 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 hlrad ---
Command line: hlrad.exe -extra -lights "C:\Valve Hammer Editor\tools\lights.rad"-chart -estimate -texdata 8192 C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.map

There was a problem compiling the map.
Check the file C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.log for the cause.

--- END hlrad ---

[/quote]

Didnt work.

This is where it gets messy. So then i tried hammer, got this:

** Executing...
** Command: Change Directory
** Parameters: "C:\SIERRA\Half-Life"

** Executing...
** Command: C:\VALVEH~1\tools\qcsg.exe
** Parameters: "c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final" -nowadtextures

qcsg.exe v2.8 (Jan 31 2000)
-- qcsg --

********** ERROR **********
usage: qcsg [-nowadtextures] [-wadinclude <name>] [-draw] [-glview] [-noclip] [-onlyents] [-proj <name>] [-threads #] [-v] [-hullfile <name>] mapfile

** Executing...
** Command: C:\VALVEH~1\tools\qbsp2.exe
** Parameters: "c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final"

qbsp2.exe v2.2 (Dec 28 1998)
-- qbsp2 --

********** ERROR **********
Can't open c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final.p0

** Executing...
** Command: C:\VALVEH~1\tools\vis.exe
** Parameters: "c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final"

vis.exe v1.3 (Dec 30 1998)
-- vis --
1 thread(s)

********** ERROR **********
Error opening c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final.bsp: No such file or directory

** Executing...
** Command: C:\VALVEH~1\tools\qrad.exe
** Parameters: "c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final"

qrad.exe v 1.5 (Apr 6 2000)
--- Radiosity --
1 threads
[Reading texlights from 'C:\VALVEH~1\tools\lights.rad']
[14 texlights parsed from 'C:\VALVEH~1\tools\lights.rad']

********** ERROR **********
Error opening c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final.bsp: No such file or directory

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final.bsp" "C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.bsp"

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "c:\sierra\half-life\valve\maps\airtower_final.pts" "C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\maps\airtower_final.pts"

So, since that failed, i copied everything in the map, and pasted on a new one, and named it airtower_final2.
But! instead of even remotely working, it got the Same logs as above! just with the 2 on the end of the filename

I. Dont. Get. It.

Did i just break my map for all eternity?

edit: agh, posted before i saw muzz's post
Thats...interesting, so those warnings aren't complaining about any of my brushes, if you compiled it fine. Ill double check the folder and get back to you. i didn't know my brushwork was that bad! lol. You cant see that stuff in game because of the lighting. I guess i should clean that up a bit

Absolutely positive

Interesting, My mapping technique isn't awesome, and an invalid solid seems plausible, ill have to track down that solid.

An invalid water brush for the vector error? i don't have any water on the map. I guess i could check my brush based entities through ent report and see if any are weird shaped, but that doesn't seem likely

One thing, i have my brush based triggers intersecting world brushed all over the place. i didn't think it would be a problem with brush entities intersecting, but could that be a problem?