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Well this is the place where you can place little hints about your compo map. At the moment I have a couple which I can tell/show you which will not give away much of my idea.

The first is that the name will be Agamemnon Icarus Glass. No more information on that. No asking what it means, or what it is, as you will not get an answer.

The second is that I have some early screenshots in a folder on my site. Not actually on the site, yet. If you wish to see them simply go here: www.dhost.info/trapt/images/space

I don't want to be the only one giving away little hints, so please join in on the fun.

Comments on the screenies are also welcome. Please don't complain about the sheer smallness of the screenies, as I will just tell you of my crappy graphics card.

Seventh, you knew it doesnt allow hotlinking, which is the main reason you asked....

I reckon we need to make the HL Top 200 vote thing a bit more obvious, because at the moment it just looks like a link to a site, and where it is isnt a place where people look. Maybe place it with the words 'Vote for TWHL in HL Top 100' above the Journal entrys on the front page.

http://24.3.236.53/hl/gfx/fac0006.jpg
http://24.3.236.53/hl/gfx/fac0000.jpg
http://24.3.236.53/hl/gfx/fac0008.jpg

Same Pics but jpegs, just thought I would make it a bit easier to access for people wishing to see.

No need to thank me the_wrath, I do these things out of the bottom of my heart

Yup, sounds good. Page numbers down the bottom as well as the top would also do me just fine. That way when you get to the final post of the page you don't have to scroll up 50 posts to change the page.

http://www.tekzoned.com/games/psychic/index.html

Ok, Me and some others know the trick to this.... Try and work out a logical explanation of this, and when you tell me the correct answer you will get the pride of knowing you are smarter than most people.

The people who cannot answer are: Me, Seventh, Rabid and Mike.

Please don't spoil this for others.

And don't argue with me that it is just freaky and there is no logical explanation, because there is.

Warning: No entities exist in hull 0, no filling performed for this hull
Warning: No entities exist in hull 1, no filling performed for this hull
Warning: No entities exist in hull 2, no filling performed for this hull
Warning: No entities exist in hull 3, no filling performed for this hull

You have most likely placed a skybox (evil) around your map and forgot to hollow it.

Do not make skyboxes, find out the correct way from google.

www.dhost.info . 100 MB limit and FTP access, its great.... and best of all, its FREE!

Check it out, its what me and rabidmonkey777 use.

Idea = Needs creativity, which is brilliant.

I've been back at school for 4 weeks now, and I would love to see the deadline moved back a week. 14 days am not enough for some people.

Think back to last compo. Lot's of people struggled to finish, or didn't finish, and that was a lot longer than this one.

Please extend this by a week, for our sake.

I doubt it was serious, probably one of our members who logged out to make an annonymous guy look like an idiot.

If it really was a real annonymous person.... sorry....

Cheesy indeed.

wnglish is the easiest thing... i wouldnt really know because, well, i live in america! where all we speak is english!

You don't speak english! You americans have stuffed around with the language so much that it can't be classified as english anymore.

You speak American.

func_illusionary, not func_wall, otherwise you can't walk through it, which would be entirely unrealistic

I did say 'most' Seventh, because they do come in handy sometimes. Although they are overused quite a bit.

I know

No it doesn't. If you are a good enough mapper, prefabs do nothing.

Let me tell you something davideo59:

Most prefabs are for n00bs who can't make it themselves.

TWHL is a mapping site. Not prefab site. I suppose we could maybe have a link to some prefab sites.

Type 'status' in the console. Look under your name. That should do the trick.

Not bad, but I think it might look better with texlighting.... You are using point lighting unless I am sadly mistaken.

Trust coolfat to say something like that. :

Vote! or I will be forced to kill you.
Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote!

Silent Gunz, I could be a fellow mapper with you, I'm guessing you can't do it on your own. My work can be found at my site (www.traptsmapping.cjb.net) and if you are looking for a spaceship kind of looking thing, go here: www.dhost.info/trapt/images/space

-I dislocated my kneecap pretending to be Shane Warne (err... stupidest way to dislocate your kneecap, kids, do not try that at home)

-I drank a drink consisting of: Spaghetti, melted strawberry ice cream, melted chocolate ice cream, Spaghetti sauce, salt, pepper, sugar, pizza and a lot more stuff which I can't remember (I was like 7 back then). Surprisingly enough, it just tasted like strawberry ice cream. I did regret drinking it the next day though. The drink was named 'Monster Blood' that night (We were all obsessed with Goosebump books back then)

That drink was put together out of boredom at Pizza Hut. My cousins and my brother and sister (and me) helped put it together.

I think its mainly because we have HL in TWHL, we have both Worldcraft and Hammer in the heading, aswell as Tutorials and Resources.

If someone is looking for Hammer tutorials and doesnt type in at least one of them words, they must be retarted freaks.

Just thought I would mention that:

I have just got a .cjb.net website redirection, it has no pop-ups so it is better than .tk.

My unfinished mario map is on my website as well as the mario textures, which will be added to when I get hold of DockRoc's textures.

www.traptsmapping.cjb.net

While your there just have a nice shout in the shoutbox, it helps me piss off my brother, since he said my site would get no visitors.

I really think we should start a Website thread for pimping. I hate making a site which no-one visits. At least with that we could at least generate some visitors. What do you think about using this as a Website Pimping Thread?

Oh, if you want a site done, Seventh is actually very skilled, as I have seen some of his sites. You would be smart to leave the site to the monkey, best chance you have of getting a quality site for free.

I made a redirection for the Mario Mod Site.

www.mario-mod.cjb.net

My unfinished mario map is on my website as well as the mario textures, which will be added to when I get hold of DockRoc's textures.

www.traptsmapping.cjb.net

While your there just have a nice shout in the shoutbox, it helps me piss off my brother, since he said my site would get no visitors.

Wow didn't read that.

Just have a welcome page!
Example:

Welcome to TWHL Map Vault for more than 2 MB files!

Click here to check out the maps!

That way they will think that it has content.

Yup. Multiplayer automatically equips players with a HEV suit and crowbar and pistol. So don't bother placing the crowbar or pistol anywhere around the map.

he means like an ftp server for files larger than 2 meg, I think. Instead of using your own webspace or using someone elses web space, he wants one for everyone I think.

We could sign up a www.dhost.info site called TWHL, it has 100MB limit with full FTP support, and best of all, IT'S FREE! For files larger than 2 meg, it should be able to hold 30 or so files. Then we could set up another one called TWHL2 and so on and so forth.

I personally think its a good idea. And it would save a lot of time for people who don't have websites because they won't have to either start a new website or try and find someone who will host it for them.

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Give it time trapt, and you will adapt into one of the regulars at TWHL.

I reckon he is actually, he posts a lot

He is right, I am one of the regulars, always on the website, and always on IRC. Well.... not always.... but quite a lot. I forgive you for not thinking of me as a regular, as you have spent large amounts of time away, and while you were away, I became known as a regular.

So..... yeah.....

Why are the screenies widescreen looking?

Not exactly. If I am good at Architecture and lighting, but I am really bad with scripting and things, I could make the structure of the map and the lighting, then give it to someone else, and tell them where to put monsters and scripts.

All that is needed is communication.

No, just defending myself because BL has no idea who I am because he hasn't been around for a while

woohoo! This seems to be a good thread to pimp your sites! Everyone! Pimp Pimp Pimp!

www.traptsmapping.tk

OR

www.dhost.info/trapt

They are both the same except one has popups (.tk)

FGD is also known as Game Data Files. Half-life's fgd stores information about available entities, their properties and flags, and how they look in VHE.

You can download it with that link i gave you up there. You need to replace the old one though. It goes in Valve Hammer Editor/fgd/half-life.

Forgot about the FGD, thanks for that Anthony! (and come on IRC! I'm bored)

Less bugs, better features.

With 3.5 Beta, you can see models and animations in the 3d view, instead of green and purple blocks. You need to have unpaked the models though.

Valve Hammer Editor 3.5 Beta

I would do it.

People were dedicated to The Project, but I think it failed because none of the maps were good enough, if I remember correctly.

How can you judge people by how long they have been here?!

I have been mapping for a lot longer than I have been here, so that's just a load of crap. Rabid has also been here as long as I have, yet somehow you lay off him. You can't rule out Anthony because he doesn't have an Avatar, you moron. He has 33k Internet, he probably cant be bothered uploading a proper avatar.

Everytime I come to this site, I am on IRC, and ask Anthony, I give help there if people need it. I help out in the General Mapping Questions as much as I can. And don't be fooled by my forum post count. I don't spam and most of my posts are about 2-3 paragraphs long. I only started posting in the forums lately, so that is the main reason for my low ammount of posts.

So don't give the crap that I am not good enough because I have only been here 106 days. I am capable of doing as much as anyone around here.

I bet you don't like me because I'm Australian, which is probably the reason you don't like Anthony either.

Floater, I recommend you work on ONE thing at a time. What happened to your spaceship mod? And now this mod? Work on one thing at a time and take your time on it. The map I am currently working on has taken a week just for a corridor and a room, because I wanted the details and lighting to be just right.

The screenies do like quite nice, although I am not sure how nice they would look if they didnt have the custom models in there. The screenies are a bit bland though. IMO i think you need to focus more on lighting, texturing and architecture.

Lighting
Make it dark, not too dark, but dark enough to be able to scare the player. You can hide the zombies in the shadows and make them pop out of nowhere when the player least expects it. Good Lighting = Good atmosphere, and atmosphere can cause horror. I recommend you read BL's horror tutorial.

Texturing
The texturing is way too boring. They aren't properly aligned, and it is very very repetitive. You might be able to get away with it if your lighting is just right, because the player will be caught in the atmosphere and would almost not notice the textures.

Architecture
Needs MAJOR work. Very very bland, and the ceiling has no supports. I think old rusty pillar type things would look nice, and would also leave a nice hiding spot for a zombie. I think you need to add railing type things on the roof (texture = {TENSION5). Pipes on the roof would also go quite well, and maybe some rusty old vents. Floor detail would also come out well. Make the walls more interesting, as they are just blocks right now. Maybe clip them into 3 or 4 different brushes and then use Vertex Manipulation to make them interesting, read the hallways tutorials if you need help with VM.

I really hope you consider my critisism, because this work is the most promising I've seen from you.

Good luck.

lol.

Floater, your avatars don't always have to be HLish. Get something funny or something, just to show a nice side of your personality, as with your constant HL and CS avatars, I believe that you are a nerd who lives in his room playing HL, CS and using Hammer.

No offence intended

Jahzel, you really should keep mapping and making things

I think that we should wait for HL? before we start making things. We do not know the capabilities of HL?, so we do not know how much detail and stuff we can put in and all that type of thing. Be patient, not long to go now.

i am speechless. Just, speechless....
Give me the drugs trapt...

Does that mean I win!?!?!?

The drugs available for purchase if you wish to buy them. It's called 'Imagination'. This particular drug also helps you get ideas when creating maps

I agree with BL, although m0p does have a habit of flaming 'new' mappers. I however offer good help both in these forums and on IRC I guess that since BL hasn't been around for a while, he doesn't know who I am as much as you other people do. Spelling and Grammar shouldn't be too much of a problem, just try and use punctuation if you are editing someones post or something.

This is who I think should be moderators:
RabidMonkey777 (Definetly pick him)
Captain P (always has helpful comments)
Anthony (Quite helpful, and all round nice person)
Me! (Please?)

Lol

Aww. How come Coolfat can get away with crazy stories and I can't

There is nothing wrong with me, I just have a large imagination!

You need medication M_gargantua? I always wondered what the M before gargantua in your name was, now I know! Medication_gargantua

Coolfat3459,
Considering you joined TWHL this year...

He was previously Worldcraft Dude. Dunno how long WCdude has been around for, and I really cant be stuffed looking.

liblist.gam

Well, I think you might have placed the prefab wrong, maybe causing an error with hlbsp and it just loading the old version because it hasnt generated the new bsp yet.

Not 100% sure though.