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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-13 04:59:52 UTC
in SoHL Noob Question... Post #252465

They are the particle effects.

see? Particles. Fuckloads of particles!

I've also managed to make fire, bubbles, dust, vent coolant mist, chocolate rain, smoke, etc. and a variety more. They are included in 6D. Its a shame no one ever really uses them. The aurora system is primitive but effective in the right hands.

In detail, you can make a small and easy script to handle the emission of sprites from a point entity, or bind it to a position, like a monster. (flaming zombies in goldz0rz for example

) They can also animate or choose a frame to be used, which can be random. Just about anything with a number can be set to random, so making effects is easy and variant everything.

I'll add to the original script document and release it too, it was inconclusive and there are more commands than it lists. lame.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-12 23:03:09 UTC
in Competition 25 Post #252458

if he understood that it just needed to be 1 map, (gameplay optional) he would've likely pwned everyone (or at least placed) with his brushwork skills alone.

There's always MotM ya know.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-12 17:23:04 UTC
in Competition 25 Post #252452

i think the compos should be 2 months each and every other month, one is judged and restarted. Gives optimal time for entries to get awesome looking and plenty of time to finish and tweak without worries. that or we need a judging team for both source and goldz0rz, like the MotM team.

EDIT: oh yeah, the HL tentacles always give me the Zeebie-Geebies.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-12 14:36:52 UTC
in Competition 25 Post #252449

I think Zeeba-G gets special mention for all this. I liked his entry too. The first part was awesomely mapped and the some of the sounds were retro as hell.

User posted image

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-12 01:56:07 UTC
in Competition 25 Post #252421

BRING ON THE NEXT CHALLENGE!

Post the next compo quick while all this animosity is still in the air. It could make some epic mapping!

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-10 14:49:46 UTC
in HL1DM: Supplybase Delta Post #252371

i never use bevel. :/ maybe i should. though i can't find decent info about it.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-09 16:53:43 UTC
in HL1DM: Supplybase Delta Post #252317

looks awesome! Someone is shooting for MotM... hopefully my pointers are being useful :/

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-08 22:23:03 UTC
in Elevators cant lift pushables? Post #252273

I found that HL can lift 1 just fine, its when the player or another pushable is stacked up it doesn't seem to work. Like the elevator will push up on only 1 but not a dozen.

Using spirit, it is possible to enable a 'Movewith' to tag the extra boxes and junk to the elevator so they act as together better. I don't know the details but its completely possible in Spirit.

If you make a minimod, we'd be glad to play it

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-07 15:17:35 UTC
in func_tank firing too slow Post #252203

rate of fire is how many bullets in a second or something like that. change it to 10 or 20 and try it.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-07 13:32:38 UTC
in [UTILITY] Half-Life Launch Pad Post #252197

what kind of new features, also is the Compilator done?

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Posted 16 years ago2008-07-07 13:18:16 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #252194

Fixed the water problem. By default, the 'contents' were set to -1

changing it to 'water' makes it work. But thats a lame default setting $:\$

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-07 13:10:26 UTC
in [UTILITY] Half-Life Launch Pad Post #252193

wasn't this originally called MuzzleLoader or something?

either way, its mega handy. thanks!

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-07 01:47:50 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #252169

Well, its a matter of out smarting each other here. If you beat it without cheating, its ok I guess, I want you to have a tough time and have fun thinking of the various ways to use the skills given to you in the game.

If you have to cheat to get past it, I win.

YAY! new page!

EDIT: Heh, if you have to make something idiot-proof, for a moment you have to be an idiot.

EDIT again: Bawwww i can't make a particular puzzle cuz something is wrong with the func_water entity. It turns the water hollow and uncolliding, and entirely useless. I tested against regular HL, so its perhaps a spirit or 6D thing.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-06 21:47:03 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #252167

10 days? word on the street says it comes out in 7 days.

i got the feeling that you'll either love me or hate me for making this mod. :/

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-06 21:11:57 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #252160

Grim is really gewd with the dramatic concert stuff, which is great for the single player mode, but for classic mode, it was going to resemble generic techno-type-tetris music, which was going to be done by me. I'll pick up the slack one way or another. I don't think you should concern yourself with it.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-06 16:57:43 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #252158

Grim is stuck in vietnam or something so there won't be guest music, I was looking forward to it too. Now I have more things on may part to accomplish. I still think I can do it. I need to get some words from Daubster how he's doing. If you're listening Daubs, reply. Pretty please.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-04 20:09:26 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #252121

i'm unheadcaked. finishing up a map here.

but i'm worried it may be too tough for beginners.

...dammit, i hate seeing that Jack Sparrow everytime to check this thread we need a new page.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-03 17:28:35 UTC
in Texturing a cylinder Post #252093

yes

align and adjust one face, then select it and hold alt and right click a face connected to it. Hammer will align the face you clicked with the one selected. select that face, hold alt and right click the next one. you can go around until you meet your starting spot. It should work.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-02 16:21:01 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #252074

Sorry guys, I took the day off. cleaned my bathroom and did a load of errands. I already have some decent mapping done but not nearly enough yet. I don't have anyhting that will melt heads yet. I managed to get more than I wanted to get done yesterday. But meh, life happens. Still looks like we'll hit the mark I'm sure of it.

Since I have a self proclaimed holiday, I'm makingn papercrafts. So far I made a snark. Haven't put it together yet. If it works I'll post it. But I'm not doing anything serious for 6D, all that cleaner gave me a raging headcake.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-02 00:03:17 UTC
in Texture lighting problems Post #252033

maybe he's ashamed of his problems, did that ever occur to you hmmmmmm?

either way, have you tried clicking the World or Face alignments in the texture edit tools? might be because its flipped some weird way.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-07-01 09:24:11 UTC
in GoldSource Mapping Tips Post #252010

clever use of the NULL texture can make models cast shadows. but remember that the lighting for a model is sampled from what directly beneath their origin.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-30 17:54:28 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #251967

NOTICE: The timer is not correct! according to that, I would be releasing it at 4 in the morning on monday... I don't know how to fix the timer, but just to let you know, it comes out at noon sunday, July 13th. (noon my time. its 5:51 at the time writing this... so calculate you're own offsets.

sk_apache_health is now 900. You can thank Urb for the brilliant suggestion.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-30 11:59:34 UTC
in V-Ray Post #251990

Vray 1.5 SP1 Final works on 8, you have that version?

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-29 18:40:54 UTC
in cp_goldfinger Playtesting Server (MotM) Post #251961

hell even i managed to jump in a few times... if it was still up, i'd be in more often now that i have ok innerwebs.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-29 14:56:10 UTC
in Post Your Skins/Models! Post #251957

looks nice too. perhaps a subtle gradient on the leaves as it gets closer to the trunk to make them pop out. unless source lighting will take care of it.

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Posted 16 years ago2008-06-29 09:46:38 UTC
in Albums That Never Existed Post #251953

There's an album that will never exist.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-29 09:10:20 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #251951

unlike some people, I'm not trying to recreate or even make it look like HL2.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-28 11:01:27 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #251937

hope you guys can handle the r_speeds... 1000-2000 wpolies + prop model epolies ranging to about ~9000.

its all optimized as best it can get of course.

a while back i think it was agreed to go a little above the limits of a standard dm map just for this. can't really remember though.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-28 10:02:29 UTC
in Albums That Never Existed Post #251936

crazy luck...

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Posted 16 years ago2008-06-28 07:56:17 UTC
in Albums That Never Existed Post #251933

odd, i dunt like it.

EDIT:

My second one is awesome! so random...

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-27 18:27:23 UTC
in hl2 in hl1 mod Post #251904

6 of those images aren't necessary, after the first one i can clearly see you put the irifle in.

It looks really nice too! maybe once the 6D source is released when we finish the whole thing, you can add a proper gravity gun and basic physics to go with it. what ever you do, don't do that lame SoHL gravity gun crap. its no good for an extensive project.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-27 13:57:47 UTC
in TWHL Cake Decorating Contest Post #251877

fuck it.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-27 13:21:18 UTC
in TWHL Cake Decorating Contest Post #251872

Damm. It. ZL.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-27 13:10:58 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #251871

Its possible I can finish mapping pretty soon here. Its looking like we will really hit that mark.

That actually makes me feel gewd.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-26 20:18:31 UTC
in Light... or lack of it :P Post #251863

-gamma # (decimal) That will do the trick I think. You can also try:
-ambient # # # (RGB, default 0 0 0, black.) This will tint and also brighten your shadows. Just for a little lighten up, use a dark gray, although you might want to play with some colors to find out what can look good.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-26 13:55:45 UTC
in TWHL Cake Decorating Contest Post #251849

just do it. you can make more than one.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-26 12:34:48 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #251845

well sorry i put up a timer... be glad i couldn't make the text larger like i wanted to.

the good news is its not that far off, the bad news is its not that far off.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-26 08:30:50 UTC
in TWHL Cake Decorating Contest Post #251842

lol'd at cake caek.

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Posted 16 years ago2008-06-26 08:19:34 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #251841

its set for noon on july 13th, so i think its accurate. at least it better be.

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Posted 16 years ago2008-06-26 06:02:43 UTC
in 6-D : A Half-Life Puzzle Mod [WIP] Post #251832

all of which haven't been upkept. once the demo comes out here, i need to finish that bitch up and provide a home for the project. Its started but needs finishing. A LOT of things need finishing... especially the demo.

sorry i haven't posted updates, not really necessary to at this point.

here's a progress note: it looks like it could come out on time.

Also, this is my new homepage for a while.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-26 05:16:38 UTC
in Light... or lack of it :P Post #251834

add -bounce # (minimum of 0, integers only. Default is 1) in the rad command line or turn it on and adjust it in your batch compiler if you use one. That sets how many times you want light to bounce off geometry. it can fill in the shadowed areas naturally.

also, -sky # (minimum of 0.0, decmial, default is 0.5) can be used to control how much light from the sky spills into the shadows in outdoor areas. Great for indoor/outdoor maps where lighting changes.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-26 05:08:39 UTC
in TWHL Cake Decorating Contest Post #251833

It returns, been a long time too.

and with a bunny this time. For those who are new to it, photoshop or MSPaint something on the blank cake above. Have fun, there's no prizes except the joy of lulz.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-25 14:43:44 UTC
in Desktops of June Post #251823

another great website for good a wallpaper is FantasyArtDesign.com

A good range of scifi and CG rendered scenery.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-23 09:07:09 UTC
in Now Playing: ... Post #251781

Butthole Surfers - Bitchin Camaro

lulz

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-23 06:50:49 UTC
in Modeling question Post #251777

is it 3ds max? use the Cut tool to draw edges and dice geometry.

nevermind, its XSI.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-22 06:54:32 UTC
in Simple music editor Post #251735

I could perhaps give one a try.

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Posted 16 years ago2008-06-21 00:59:56 UTC
in hl2 in hl1 mod Post #251680

This is getting repetitive, my brain hurts.

Whats this thread about again?

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-21 00:49:28 UTC
in hl2 in hl1 mod Post #251677

so, who's this lady? mom or momlike figure? that would explain a few things why she has the Breen ability to take shit from you.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-21 00:42:27 UTC
in hl2 in hl1 mod Post #251675

geez, a math teacher that kills a kids computer, i smell lawsuitz.

get some kind of life together and drop some balls, gawd.

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Rimrook

Posted 16 years ago2008-06-21 00:28:53 UTC
in Help me fix this problem. Sky clipping? Post #251673

i'd say just map some scenic buildings. some scenery never really hurts unless you're near maxing your map's resources out.

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