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I've never seen that unless the entity is standing on an entity like a func_wall... Are you able to upload the map and source file to the problem maps vault. Somebody can take a look.

Edit: According to Bruce's comment on the map you uploaded, your NPCs ARE standing on a func_wall. Dunno why your standard looking floor would be a func_wall, but that's your issue.

How do you mean? Like a key that can be used to unlock a door?

Whenever I've wanted to do that I simply make the key a func_button and have that point to a trigger_changetarget to open the door. You could also use a trigger_relay and use that as a Master for the func_door. There's a number of ways to make an unlockable door with a key/code.

How can HL be delisted? Why would Valve pull its flagship title from its own distribution platform? Unreal games are gone because Epic's pissy due to their so called "platform war" with Valve. They don't want the games sold on their competitor's digital storefront.

In their defence, Unreal was Epic's flagship series and that's been pulled from all digital store fronts (including their own) as well as other distributors such as GoG. It's highly unlikely that Valve will ever do this since Tencent probably had a hand in Epic's decision, but Fortnite is basically printing astronomical amounts of money for both companies so they can make all the shitty decisions they please sadly.

JACK is a level editor. You're talking about programming. You need to download the SDK.

https://twhl.info/wiki/page/Half-Life_Programming_-_Getting_Started

Did you download the SDK? Those files are definitely in there.

I just mean the "Not Toggled" flag might not make a lot of sense at first glance. It used to be "Is Not Looped" which I think is little clearer.

Good to hear that's done the trick! I figured it would be something simple in the end but a lot of things aren't particularly well labelled.

OK, so I've taken a look at the map you sent (I had to retexture everything since I don't have the .wad you're using) and I believe I've found the problem. Your ambient_generic should indeed be set to Start Silent, but also Not Toggled since they are not looping sound effects.This will affect your multi_managers though, since they appear to be set to target each sound twice? I assume to start and stop the sound. Not Toggled will mean you don't need to do this. Simply trigger the sound once, when you want it to play.

Quite the necropost, and this user no longer appears to be active. Maybe we helped with their various questions, maybe not. They never followed up on anything...

OK, I will aim to take a look at that tonight and get back to you.

Hard to tell just from the post but it sounds like you've done the usual trouble shooting. The main thing is that "Start Silent" flag should be checked if you don't want the sound to start playing as soon as the map loads.

Is it at all possible you could post the map to the problem maps vault? I'd be willing to take a look.

I probably meant bipod... In any case, looks like we're going D. LMG for Mendez. Next part should be considerably shorter and more digestible.

Best way to do this would probably be to use a game_counter entity. That will open the door as soon as you've killed the set number of enemies.

game_counter
name: lock
target: door1
Initial value: 0
Limit value: 3 (or however many enemies you want)

func_door
name: door1

Enemies (whichever monster_entity enemies you want to use)
TriggerTarget: lock
TriggerCondition: Death

even though tripod isnt canon

Not when Shepherd picks it up maybe... but it is there:

Just FYI, They Hunger zombies didn't use human gibs. They actually reskinned the alien gib model and edited the yblood decals and the BLOOD_COLOR_GREEN code to be red. This will affect all creatures though.

I'm pretty sure if you wanted the zombies to use human blood and gibs, I figured it would just be a case of changing their bloodColor from BLOOD_COLOR_GREEN to BLOOD_COLOR_RED, as shown in your screenshot. I'm guessing that hasn't worked?

Hoo, boy. This took some time to write. I promise that after this establishing chapter, the next few will be a lot shorter...

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It was a Tuesday seemingly like any other. The intense heat of the mid-morning New Mexico sun cut through the air and baked the black asphalt. The chirping and buzzing of crickets and cicadas could be heard from every direction on the desert plains surrounding Greville Military Base, along with the distant rhythmic thud of boots on the ground. A cacophony of shouts, grunts and curses emanated from the obstacle course to the South. Then above it all, a deep, booming voice filled the air.

“Mendez!” A large silhouette of a man was standing atop a wooden climbing tower, shouting in the direction of the tents at the start line, “Hey, Mendez!”

“Jesus,” Mendez stood, arms folded and rolled his eyes. He had been taking refuge from the heat in the limited shade offered by tents, “Is that Jackson?”

A short, thin haired man was sitting nearby, rifling through a field medical kit. He looked up, pushing his glasses back up to the bridge of his note and squinted at the distant figure, “It looks like a grizzly bear wearing PT gear. Sooo yes.”

Mendez sighed, as the obnoxious figure began doing star jumps, “He’s beaten my time again.”

“Most likely. What was it anyway?”

“One minute fifteen.”

“For the whole course? Sheesh.” replied the man, wiping sweat from his forehead and rising to his feet.

“How about you?”

“Slower.” he replied, while making his way back towards the starting line.

“Come on, Guts,” Mendez groaned, “I don’t go in for this competitive bullshit. I’m just curious.”

“And your curiosity is your best quality I’d say,” replied Guts, waggling a finger as he backed away, “Stay curious, Mendez.”

By this point Jackson had descended from the tower and was jogging alongside the obstacle course towards the tends, a beaming, idiotic grin stretched across his face. He snapped two finger guns at Guts as he passed him, “Time?”

“Nope.” Guts replied before breaking into a jog himself and disappearing into the course.

Jackson slid across the gravel to a stop under the canopy, a foot away from Mendez. He folded his arms and tilted his head, seemingly expecting an explanation, “I know heard me.”

“One minute… ten.” Mendez winced

Jackson sucked in sharply through his teeth, “Oooh, buddy. Even when you’re lying you’re too damn slow. One minute and two seconds.”

“God damn it,” Mendez dropped his arms to his sides, “There’s no way I’m topping that. Beat Gutierrez though. O’Keefe too.”

Jackson raised his eyebrows and threw up both hands in mock awe, “Oh shit. A middle aged sawbones and a guy who spends most of his day balls deep in the mud on the firing range?”

Just then a shrill, Irish voice emerged from somewhere inside the obstacle course, “Go fuck yourself, Jackson.”

Jackson grinned for a moment, then his expression fell as he scanned the other men present in the tent. “Man, where the Hell is Dobbs?”

“Haven’t seen him,” shrugged Mendez, “O’Keefe said he’d been summoned to command HQ or something, early this morning.”

“Son of a…” Jackson clenched his teeth, “Look, man. I ain't exactly the nervous type, you know that right?”

“Of course.”

“Does it not bother anyone else that our squad leader is never here with us during PT?
We’re supposed to follow this guy’s lead and yet we’ve never seen him run the course or fire a shot on the range. Not once. Where the Hell does he go every day?”

“I dunno, man,” Mendez shook his head, “Nobody else seems concerned.”

“Nobody else would say a damn thing if they were. Dobbs spends his day filling out paperwork and brown nosing the officers over in command while we’re out here busting our-”

“FOX COMPANY!” Dobbs’ voice rang out amongst the din, stopping the men dead in their tracks. Some stumbled over obstacles while another man lost his footing on a balance beam and plummeted into the muddy water below, “FORM UP ON ME! MOVE IT!”

“Speak of the Devil,” Jackson rolled his eyes.

Within a minute, everyone in the company had untangled themselves from their various training exercises and formed a grid on the tarmac, facing Dobbs. He was not in his PT gear, instead he was decked out in urban camouflage fatigues and a red beret, an MP5 submachine gun hanging from a strap over his shoulder. He paced from one side of the group to the other then back to the centre.

“Alright boys, at ease. High command has ordered that training be cancelled for the remainder of the day. We’ve got a job to do. Disaster response in the local area. Get yourselves cleaned up, get your shit together.I want to see everyone on the landing field, deployment ready in fifteen minutes. Is that clear?”

“Yes sir,” the group responded in unison.

“Sir?” a voice broke the silence. A sodden man, drenched from head to foot in filthy water raised his hand.

“What is it, Symanski?”

“...What’s the situation, sir? Where are we going?”

“You will be given a full briefing once we’re in the air,” replied Dobbs. He glanced toward command HQ briefly, then back to the company, “Have any of you boys heard of Black Mesa?”

“Great winery, sir.” came one response.

“Yes, thank you,” Dobbs sighed, “I can assure you that is not our destination. Anyone else?”

A hand sheepishly emerged within the group.

“Gutierrez.” Dobbs nodded

“The research facility, sir?”

“That is where we’re headed, yes. And That’s all you need to know right now. Fifteen minutes, people. Get your asses moving.”

The company turned in unison, formed a neat line and marched hastily to the barracks. With the exception of the occasional hushed whisper, everyone was silent. They entered the building and filtered into the shower block, discarding their PT gear as they entered. Mendez pushed past a couple of guys and headed for the shower next to Guts. He turned on the water, glanced around the room as the steam started to rise, then sidled up next to him.

“Guts?” No response. He was fixated on the taps in front of him. He hadn’t even turned on the water. “Gutierrez.”

Guts snapped out of it, looking at Mendez before sheepishly turning on the water.

Mendez looked over his shoulder. He ensured nobody was paying them any mind before turning back, “What is this Black Mesa thing?”

Guts slowly raised his eyes up to meet Mendez, “I don’t know much, okay? We’ve had a small presence stationed there for a while. Security detail that assists their in-house security force. Only official word I’ve heard is that they’re conducting weapons research. Pretty advanced stuff.”

“Doesn’t seem too unusual. We’ve got places like that all over the country,” pondered Mendez.

“That’s just it though, we haven’t. Black Mesa is enormous.” Guts lowered his voice even further, now barely audible above the rushing water, “I knew a guy who was stationed there. Said he couldn’t take it anymore. Got reassigned up north. Way up north, like Idaho or Montana or some shit.”

“What? Why?” Mendez whispered

“He couldn’t tell me anything, naturally.” Guts said, “He mentioned… He mentioned animal control or something like that.”

“What a load of shite!” O’Keefe’s voice pierced the silence as Mendez and Guts spun around to see him standing right behind them, “Military grade animal control for a fuckin’ research facility? Just how big are these fuckin’ lab rats?”

“Keep your voice down, dammit.” Guts snapped, “Look, I only know what I heard but these eggheads are up to some really weird shit.”

There was a loud bang as the door to the shower block burst open and slammed against the wall. Dobbs stood in the doorway, surveying the group. “Time’s up, ladies! Gear up! Move move move!”

The men returned to their bunks quickly and quietly. Each one opened their footlockers and retrieved a set of urban camo fatigues, combat boots, gloves, belt, webbing and a water canteen. At Dobbs’ order, they lined up at the foot of their bunks for a very rushed inspection and then marched quickly out of the building, stopping off at the armoury along the way. Mendez shuffled along with the line patiently, his mind constantly going over what Guts had said. He barely registered when it was his turn at the window.

“Hello?” the supply officer rapped his knuckles on the counter.

“Sorry, Mendez. Uh, private.”

The supply officer turned, and checked a number of lockers before returning to the counter.

“Private Mendez. Joseph E,” he started passing items through the window, “One M2 helmet, one M50 Respirator, one kevlar vest.”

He bent down out of sight and then reappeared with a hefty khaki backpack which he opened and started placing items into.

“What’s th-” Mendez started.

“Three spare air filters, green tinted respirator lenses, two days worth of MREs, sleeping bag, IFAK and refuse bags. Last but not least,”

A) …MP5 Submachine Gun, five magazines and two hand grenades”
B) …SPAS-12 pump action shotgun with folding stock, 8 rounds in the tube and 24 reserve and two hand grenades.”
C) …M40A1 Bolt Action Rifle, five rounds fully loaded and four spare mags and two smoke grenades.”
D) …M249 light machine gun, tripod and a thousand rounds.”

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Cast your votes now to chose a loadout for Mendez. I hadn't intended to make them the central character but it just kind of fell into place. Also please do share any feedback or input that you have. I'd love to hear it.

I use button_target instead of func_button because for some reason func_button never works for me, i think its pretty bugged.

Curious... I've literally never had issue with a func_button in over 20 years.

Lip is always blank by default. That shouldn't break anything.

You would need to have a trigger_teleport which contains the entire area where the player might be. Then you will need to assign it to a master (like a multisource) to keep it disabled until you're ready to teleport the player. Then trigger the multisource and any player inside the trigger_teleport will be sent to the assigned destination.

Couldn't hurt. I guess it really depends on how you prefer to work. I used to work room by room and whenever I hit compile issues I could just cut the map a couple of rooms before and stick in a loading screen. In the last couple of years I've had to work in stages. Blockout > Texturing and detailing > Objects. I've not done that in Goldsource yet though and I imagine you could hit some limits if your blockout is already fairly huge before you start piling in the details and entity work.

Pros and cons to every method I suppose. Level design is fun, haha

Looks like we're leaning towards a grunt story. Should be fun to explore from their side. Will wait a couple more days to see if that changes and start writing at the weekend.

If that was a reference to something I'm afraid it's lost on me, sorry.

Neither of those are options.

That’s right, I’m back on my bullshit again.

So in the past few days I looked up one of my old fan fiction threads and skim read a large portion of it. Considering that I wrote this story around 17 years ago it was… excruciating and not just because of the broken formatting. On a positive note, it did cause me to realise just how much my creative writing has improved in recent years. However, it has also stirred something in me and I’ve been tempted to pick it up again. I’m aware that this same idea came to me around two years ago and the thread was opened and promptly closed again when I realised I didn’t have the drive to keep it up.

So, what is the multiple choice fan fiction. Well, in a nutshell, I write a small segment of a story set within the Half-Life universe and then wrap things up with the protagonist(s) having to chose from a set of options. Then, anyone following the story can choose which path to take, as well as provide any notes along the way. Think of it being kind of like the old “choose your own adventure” books, though ultimately with only one path explored as I will only have a small snippet in mind for how each choice will play out. Characters can and will die.

So, I’m thinking of going back to the tried and tested method of putting the first choice of whether or not I do this to the people of TWHL, and if so, which story we explore. That way you get an idea of how the choices work.

A) Write a story about a group of rebels in City17 during the uprising
B) Write a story about a band of survivors in Black Mesa during the resonance cascade.
C) Write a story about a squad of the HECU sent into Black Mesa
D) Write a story about a group of civilians caught up in the 7 Hours War
E) Write a post about how this was a bad idea, nobody cares and the thread should be closed immediately.

The simplest way would be to use a multisource. Create a multisource entity, give it a name and then have something target it. Then, go to the trigger you want to turn on/off and set the Master to the name of the multisource.

Example:

func_door
name: door1

trigger_multiple
target: door1
master: door1_lock

multisource
name: door1_lock

func_button
target: door1_lock

In the above example, the trigger_multiple which opens the door will NOT work until the func_button has been pushed. If the func_button is set to toggle, or if you trigger the multisource again, the trigger_multiple will be disabled again and the door would be locked.

Well it sounds as though your compile is not working and that the map is only being partially compiled. Post the full compile log so that somebody here can take a look and see why it's failing.

Also, just to be certain your setup is correct, are you able to create, compile and run regular Half-Life maps?

This cannot be done in the standard Half-Life game. It can be done with mods like Sven Coop or Spirit of Half-Life with modified code, but not for a single map for Half-Life.

Is there a reason you're using a trigger_transition in the second map and an info_landmark in the third? I would advise to use one or the other in both maps. Also, your trigger_transition is a hollow cube? Why not just a solid brush?

Edit: Turns out to be quite a simple issue in the end. Your third map does not include a trigger_changelevel back to the second. Even if you do not intend for the player to go back to the previous map, you must include the trigger to go there. Make it use only and keep it out of the way somewhere.

I don't think switching the mod over to a different modified version of the game is really the answer they're looking for here. If the complex puzzle can be recreated without issue and the base map still fails to load with the majority of the entities removed, it might be worth considering that there is an issue elsewhere in the map. I've checked and you're right in saying that there is little to no information about this online. The only threads I could find were with regards to online servers for CS1.6, with one exception which solved the issue by disabling HD models.

Otherwise, it looks to be a tricky issue to triage without seeing the files in some form.

I've heard of people having issues with this before, but in the version of the mod which was released and played through Half-Life on Steam, it's just a case of looking down, jumping and then Gauss jumping. I'm not aware that Jessie made any changes to the map properties to allow Gauss jumping to behave any differently to normal.

I'd certainly play Half-Life 1898 before I played another God damn Half-Life 1997 alpha/beta mod.

We'll take your word for it

A game counter is all you need, along with the enemies needed to count towards the trigger amount and the multimanger you want to trigger. You need the following entities:

game_counter
name: killcount
target: trigger_mm
limit value: 3

At least three enemy NPCs
triggerTarget: killcount
triggerCondition: Death

multimanager
name: trigger_mm

That's it. When three of the enemies are killed, they each will trigger the game_counter (killcount) which will in turn trigger the multimanager (trigger_mm)

Yeah, to be honest the whole pitch is very vague. Give Half-Life the "modder's treatment?" I mean we've been doing that for 24 years at this point.

What modifications in particular are you expecting to make? Is this an entirely new set of singleplayer and multiplayer maps or simply reimagined versions of the existing levels (which has also already been done a couple of times, just by the by)

In any case, even if I had the time, I couldn't honestly join a project without a clear set of end goals and some examples of the current progress. I've joined mod teams in the past with big crazy ideas and even concept art and they've always fizzled out within weeks.

Winter solstice was yesterday so it's time to switch over to the chilly theme.

If you own Blue-Shift, simply copy the v_ weapon model files from the Blue-Shift models directory into the models directory for your mod. Model files such as v_crowbar.mdl and v_9mmar.mdl are the viewmodels. That's it.

Yeah, sorry. I dropped out when I noticed Minecraft was eating into my increasingly limited system drive space. I also have a bunch of new deadlines at work and could do without the distraction.

I'm afraid it's not just as simple as adding new submodels to the model and then editing the FGD. This will only make a difference in the editor, not the game engine. The hgrunt model heads are tied to the weapon selection or role in the game's code:

Submodel 0: Gasmask is used when the weapon assigned is the MP5
Submodel 1: Commander is used for squad leaders, regardless of weapon
Submodel 2: Ski Mask is used for shotgunners
Submodel 3: Cigar is used for MP5 with Grenade Launcher

Long story short, if you want to be able to select the grunts head irrespective of their weapon selection like in Opposing Force then you're going to need to go in and edit their code.

Latest News: HLDM still a bunch of fun

Welp... time to learn Minecraft again

Sure thing. I'm not trying to tell you what to do, you can all come to an agreement together, but try to start small. I've seen a lot of mods with big ideas fall apart very quickly. Hell, I've even been a part of some.

Looking forward to see what you all come up with.

Always happy to see collaborative projects. TWHL has had a bunch of collaborative projects over the years, with many different approaches.

If I may wade in however, why not start with something more simple at first to see how you work with one another? Try making a singleplayer map or a map pack even. If you jump in with both feet and start a total conversion I guarantee it will fall apart before you even start seriously working on it.

The dead grunt is too close to the door. If you bust the corpse with the crowbar, the door opens freely when used. I suggest you move or remove it.

Check your other flags. If you have Touch Activates checked, then you have to walk into it, Quake 1 style. Otherwise, E should work.

Feel free to post a screenshot of your setup if you need help

I'm curious as to why you're using item_generic as opposed to some other entity like a cycler_sprite? In fact... I'm not even familiar with item_generic.

How do both of those spots look in the editor? Can you post some screenshots of that?

As has been mentioned already, those are some lofty goals for what is essentially a Source mod at this stage. As Archie has stated, the artwork is pretty good so far, but the level design in particular needs considerable attention.

I wish you the best of luck with your campaign, but I will be closing this thread now as such repeat posts are not necessary.

I'm not aware of any such tutorial. Best bet would be to reach out to the author of that video. They appear to be active in the comments on their latest videos.

Lost Coast took place in Ravenholm.

I thought it took place in St. Olga...