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You can just make it a physic prop and in the flags bit in properties tick the don't let gravity gun pick it up. If it's heavy it can't be E'd.

How about a barcode since it's going on your neck.

But seriously a crowbar going through the middle?

Because why waste our PC's power rendering a whole new brush when you could just texture the side...It'd be the same...

Also 1 unit brushes are hated by the compile tools...Anything small should be made into a model.

If you've used the HL2 textures for a good 2 years you kinda get to know which ones not to use. Mainly the bottom lot when you filter somethong.

But like I asked Ghetto...Did you buildcubemaps?

Not sure. Maybe lower the top one so the pinks touch the floor...Otherwise it might be your entities...

Seems to me like you used a model texture. Hammer has a bunch of textures which are still displayed even though you're not supposed to use them.

So try changing the texture...Also do you buildcubemaps?

Even so it gives you the texture with the VMT so you can look yourself. Either way less work for me

This Dying Soul - Dream Theater but then Rick Roll came on and I can't stop watching the gay man dance.

Simple but effective. So 5 stars.

Yeah that's possible. But if you want someone to do this for free you'll have to prove to them this isn't a one off idea that will die. You need to show your work. But I guess it doesn't hurt to try...I got a concept artist one with nothing but an idea and my assurance but I sure did let him down

Well the thread below this answered it really.

You can have as many cameras and screens as you want but in the end all the screens will show the same thing for the first camera and you'll have to trigger it to change camera with a button however just so you know every screen will show the same thing. You can't have one show an outside and another show a tunnel or something...

Right well first of all since HL2 is BSP Leaf Based you can't have a dynamic environment however a clever sod coded one a while ago for a mod. It might have been for Gmod but somehow I think using entities and a bit of coding he was able to change the light_environment and the sky like it was day to night.

And the Saw idea...It's kinda been done : ) Good maps they were. Saw 1, 2 and I believe 3 was in the works...Don't know what happened. You should try them for ideas.

Glad I could help.

I sent him a PM explaining it anyway so he won't be taking over your thread anymore. However that doesn't mean I won't ; P Caturday!

But seriously do you need me for the 3D skybox? I think you are more capable of doing it.

Alright this whole arch thing is not my strong point so my well is a bit icky...I mean it's just filling in holes without it intersecting a tiny bit is hard and I'm getting tired. I may try the water wheel next but it looks like it could take a while. Apart from that your map is all fixed. Haven't tested it but I am sure it's those badly cut brushes and the fact half the map was tied to func_detail.

Also it's ok for water to intersect.

A few tips though is I covered the places the player never sees with nodraw to save FPS. You'll notice a lot of yellow in your map on brushes. I nodrawed the outside because it keeps it tidy but anything facing the void is not rendered so it is not required but i do it to keep it clean.

Not long now I think.

Alright I've finished the well. Although the bottom inner ring was messy so feel free to remake the 4 corners. I made them fit but they became invalid and were deleted...So I got angry.

As for the water wheel I noticed you parented the small buckets to the rotating bigger wheel. I wonder if this causes it to crash. I can picture 15 small wheels spinning as a larger one spins...I think that causes it to get jammed or something and the engine doesn't like that. I would suggest deleting it but if it has worked in the past then I don't know. I really have no more energy or will to remake it. I'm sorry but I did change a lot and if this doesn't work out you can still learn from it and start a new one.

Here is the VMF anyway:

www.habboi.co.uk/gg_littlecabin_v3.vmf

Anyway you'll also noticed I placed cubemaps around the map. You have to do this so the textures can receive the reflection data. I hope you know that after compiling a map you must type buildcubemaps in console after the map has loaded. Then re-load the map and the textures will look correctly reflective. You have to do this with every new compile as the old data is thrown away.

Hope I helped. I'm gonna collapse on my chair now...

I should have suggested you make threads asking this question on more talented forums such as:

Interlopers.net
HL2World.com
Snarkpit.net
MapCore - Especially this one.

Seeing as I have free time lately I'll check the VMF now as Hammer is open...Depending on how big your map is I'll try but I won't spend all night on it Brb with a reply if I fixed it.

*Right it has been 2 minutes and my first look is you have skyboxed the map. I'll fix it that for you. Second that waterwheel...It looks as though it was carved...It's split into loads of fucked up brushes...I'll test that. Lastly you don't need to use origin for doors. The small circle that is made when you turn it into a door determines axis.

Ok I'll get those sorted. Nice little map though.

Edit 2

DEAR GOD MAN! You tied the whole map to func_detail! That may be the reason...

Hang on...You have carved haven't you? The well is so badly cut up into tiny brushes...I'll have to remake it with the arch tool.

Edit 3

Ok almost done. I've drastically changed your map and optimized it with nodraw and fixed intersecting brushes. This map is a little messy so I had to reshape brushes etc but no worries it is the same. I must admit I was tempted to detail up your map but I guessed by the simplicity that you wanted it that way so I restrained myself.

Anyway all that's left is this well and the waterwheel...It's nice but you've used a nasty tool to make it which is most likely the evil bug causing it to crash. Assuming you used the carve tool then it broke the cylinder into tiny brushes that the engine no likey. So I'll try to remake them...My arch tool skills suck but I'll try.

Well anything is possible I suppose. I can't help you there though so maybe Google for threads made by people who also seek the answer.

Alright have you tried just copying and pasting the whole map into a new file. It sometimes fixes it if the error isn't map related.

Your compile log is clean except for a prop that is set to the wrong entity but that wouldn't cause it to freeze.

If I was you I would go through the VMF and delete a certain area and test. If it still crashes then delete more stuff and test until the error goes and then narrow it down till you find out what objects cause it to crash.

If it crashes it could be because you have no player starts? Or they're stuck.

Yeah friend it's looking really professional. I want in-game screens though and a playtest to see if the layout is good before you finish it up.

Thanks mate. And you can open it in Hammer 3.5 which can in turn be saved to .map which can be opened in Hammer 4.5.

Fun

Hot damn Rabid those are good. And that mud is pretty awesome. I can almost touch it.

Don't waste your time on that, we both know that we'll never use it.

I will actually. Stop being selfish and send it. I wanna try something with it in Gmod.

Hahaha Kasperg at that Truman Show one. Also funny Ghetto.

You can have as many screens as you want but they'll all show the same thing. Source was only made to have one screen per map. You can however have a set-up where the screen changes to each camera you place but every monitor texture will still show the same thing.

Sadly I can't suggest anything that would help with this situation but I will say that my experience with Norton has been terrible plus people always told me not to use it as it is quite crap.

Perhaps try AVG Virus Scanner and see if that picks up anything...

Gah! Pressed refresh while typing my reply...

I started texturing not too long ago and tried reskinning a HL2 NPC for my horror map. Since it wont see the light of day you can see it here: http://www.habboi.co.uk/2dgallery.shtml

Also you can see my poor attempts in the past here: http://www.habboi.co.uk/textures

Making textures can be quite fun though.

You actually have to change a setting in your Windows thing...Damnit I always forget how and ask Seventh Monkey but he is never around.

Google saved me:

* Double-click My Computer
* Choose Tools, Folder Options from the menu bar of the "My Computer"          window.
* Click the View tab
* Scroll down a bit and remove the check mark next to "Hide extensions for known file types" as shown below.
* Under "HIdden files and folders" click "Show hidden files and folders"
* Make sure the other options are set the way you want them for all folders on you computer
* Click OK

Ah Orion. They changed to that name recently...Preffered the old name. The shaders and maps they have used are really impressive.

Fuck not that shit again M0p!

Mine is the same as always. Just a new background I took of my back garden.

Please please please compile that. Or send the RMF so I can compile it

VTEX is .exe...Surely you know that exe just means executable program.

Anyway ok I can help you out a little. So with mytexes in both places depending on the game you want. Shall we do it for Half Life 2 for now.

So you should have a mytextes here:

C:program filesvalvesteamsteamappshabboihalf-life 2hl2materialsmytexes

and

C:program filesvalvesteamsteamappshabboisourcesdk_contenthl2materialsrcmytexes

Just so you know the HL2 one is for the game to find your texture and the SDK one is for Hammer to find it.

Ok so with an empty mytexes folder in those two places you must place the .TGA in the SDK mytexes folder. Then if you want you can drag the .TGA onto VTEX and if it went ok (the black box will say positive comments) then press any key and check both mytexes folders. Just so you know it helps if the SDK is set to the game you want or these files will be made in the game selected in the SDK list aka CSS, DM etc...So if the files don't appear you can look in the other game folders.

You should see .vtf in one and .txt in another. With the .txt you must put this inside it:

"LightmappedGeneric"

{ "$basetexture" "yourfoldername/yourtexname" }

So say the texture was called habboi I would put:

"LightmappedGeneric"

{ "$basetexture" "mytexes/habboi" }

Exactly like that.

Ok now if you have your Windows set to allowing renaming files then you must rename the .txt to .vmt - If you don't have the rights it wont change and instead will show .txt.vmt

Ok so now copy all the files, .TGA, VMT, VTF and paste in both folders. You don't need the TGA after that but I keep them in there in case I need to replace the texture later on.

If you need help then you can add me on MSN.

Also, only 6 texture lights? Sheesh.

That may be so but a good combo of spot, light, sprite and point looks great. You could also have windows with an invisible brush covered in white to light up a room as if the lighting outside shined through.

But yeah if you find a model you like but it's got the wrong texture aka off or on then just type 1, 2 ,3 , 0 and so on in the skin bit.

sv_cheats 1

alias bf prop_physics_create props_c17/oildrum001_explosive.mdl
bind "p" "bf;bf;bf;bf;bf;bf;bf;bf;bf;bf;"

ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

sv_cheats 0

And that's why I'm staying away from your mad admin powers

Also Ghetto perhaps include physic traps like a shelf above a door that falls when shot.

Shoot I should stop buying those. A bit random...

That grammar correcting thing. I never knew about it and it has been on all this time. It hasn't corrected anything except my searches in CTRL+F...Where does it apply if it don't work on forums.

uhh ! what do u mean by that?

What I mean is you typed witch instead of which. Kinda a joke. Also it'd help if you typed you instead of u.

But back on topic use Elite Model. Because it's Elite.

Cool, i just found a place in the fire fox web called dictionaries and i installed the add-on WITCH WAS NOT INCLUDED IN MOZILA FIRE FOX 2.0+ called now i can see my mistakes smile -

I assume it wasn't turned on then? Burn the witch!

If you want I can hook you up with one for a mere ?1000.

Well here is my tutorial which has helped a few people:

YAY I got custom textures to finally work in HL2 etc:

I misread the guide at the end where it said convert to .vmt so thats why it didn't work :S

I explained this to another guy and I wrote this as to how to do it!

Get your .jpg, use Irfanview to convert it to .tga, make a folder called mytexes in this place

C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppshabboicounte
r-strike sourcecstrikematerialsmytexes

and here as well:

C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppshabboisource
sdk_contentcstrikematerialsrcmytexes

ok now you have the .tga so right click vtex.exe and send it to desktop, now open up the place where the .tga is and drag it onto the desktop as well.

then again drag it onto vtex.exe and a black box should appear, if successful it will say something like:

input, output directory blah blah and then press any key to continue

you should end up with a .vtf in the folder called mytexes and also an empty .txt

open up the .txt and write:

"LightmappedGeneric"

{ "$basetexture" "yourfoldername/yourtexname" }

(exactly as I have written it but in place of folder name put mytexes and your texname put fence1.

ok nearly done, save as and rename it

to fence1.vmt and copy this new .vmt to the two folder called mytexes in the css materials folder and the sdk one as well!

Ok thats basically it so start hammer, go to browser and type the name of the texture and if it comes up then you are successful!

Make a quick map and it should hopefully work!

Thats it and I found it very useful

Haha well I found that funny. But yeah World is sick...Blah blah blah. Lets get on with life. Bring on the Longcat! Please no Widecat!

But we all know. If you play non-Steam Healf-Life 2, you're gay. Anyway why buy a new one you dumbo? Just complain to whoever you bought it from...If you bought it from some random guy then you're a bigger fool than I imagined.

There's a guy on Interlopers who made a very detailed brush GFX card and a Processor etc...Just a suggestion that if you 'do' it then make them very detailed with seperate brushes for knobs and such.

I read somewhere that Alyx was in the Dormitory area when it all happened. Maybe Eli ran to get her.

I didn't know Decay was made by Gearbox...Well I'll be.

Indeed it'll be Episode 4 most likely or so I hear on the HL2World Forums.

Well seeing as Lost Coast is a HDR presentation I assume HDR is the main way of doing it but perhaps either the clouds are a model that flies in front of the sun or you just assume the sun changing all the time is because of clouds when in fact HDR always changes like that...

Take a pick.

Yes that's a good game into movie conversion.

Resident Evil sucks but I quite liked Silent Hill. It reflected the horrors and sounds of the game and did it really well.

Also, be sure to put some rain! It's London!

And what is that supposed to mean

Your terrain is good but I think you need to lay off screens for a bit and work more on it.

Haha the Moocow got owned