You could make better environments, like a whole chruch wedding etc, and it would look damn good, but it depends how soon you want to pop teh question, you'll be waiting a little while after HL2 comes out to get started making maps for it etc.

If you have an idea, msn/email it to me or one of teh other experienced ( ) mappers here, and we'll tell you what you would be better off using.

I'll be willing to help, in any way, this sounds too romantic lol, I'm shocked he hasn't asked you to marry him, any girl willing to make a 'will you marry me map' would be ... well, it would only get better if she could drive a motorbike and her father owned a pub.



- Peace and LOve

Make sure all the brushes have teh same properties, like wave height, transparency etc, and the zhlt.wad will be in the same folder as your hlcsg/hlbsp/hlvis/hlrad compile tools, probably: Valve Hammer Editor/tools

That contains the vital NULL SKIP and HINT textures.

Then download a new fgd from VERC, but that's odd imho, have you not used env_blood's before? What has changed since the last time you used them?

You can use Counterstrike, if you shoot someone, they fall down.

There is a line in the env_blood's properties that sets its type! I think 1 is red human blood, and 2 is yellow alien blood.

I've thought about this many many times, and your only hope is to make an animated texture for the spinning rotors, and have everything else a func_train, that way it can follow a path in teh sky and land when it needs to, and then take off again.

It is possible though, would be a bit heavy on the r_speeds, think about how high it might have to fly, and how much extra shizzle is gonna be rendered by looking down onto teh map.

Did I?!
When teh Hell did I do that?

Haha, well, that was odd, don't quite remember that, perhaps I was st0ned.

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Peace and LOve

True, but alot of people sit on teh fence and point out the correct way to behave, but then carry on regardless and completely ignore their own advice.

In the case of Peace and LOve vs Anonymous, we were both guilty as charged of spamming, flaming, and generally disobeying every rule, and every piece of advice given to us.

I'd like to apologise (if I haven't done so already) for my behaviour, and I can honestly say it won't happen again. I guess sometimes you need a kick in the arse to know how you'd react to it, I didn't react in a way fitting of how I would like you to perceive me.

The point of arguing on the internet could be applied to apologies too, why bother? But the fact is that I intend to stay here and try to help and be useful for as long as teh site lasts, and as long as I have nothing better to do (sorry, things change as we all know). So I feel apologising, and perhaps setting out some of the guidelines I intend to follow in future is a good place to start.

func_button is activated on being shot too.

No, I didn't include that part.

What you need to do is have a set of trigger_once entities under the player, and have those target a multi_manager.

But here's where the warning comes in.

Don't try and give each different CT a different weapon using seperate multi_managers and game_playerequpis, you will get some bizzare errors.

I suggest making a small hollow cube and testing the trigger_once/multi_manager entity set up before you put it into your final map and go through a compile.
If the entities work, then go ahead and export the idea to your map.

Also, if you explain what you're trying to achieve we may be able to find another way around it.

Yes, it's hard to keep track sometimes, I think we should just link to a pic of our old avatars, so that these threads actually make sense in teh future.

Yo momas so fat that in order to F$ck her, all I had to do was slap her thigh and ride the wave

lol...

That's a good one.

That was me, I was signed out.
Thanks P&L.

Huh?
Did my post get deleted, did I post?

[/confusion]

I'm down with that, I've had other thigns to take care of, so I haven;t been able to spend enough time on this.

PTS, how are you making all that shit in a 400x320x256 room lol?

Hey, I've made threads based on even more trivial spam, so cut him some slack.

Besides, that was funny, you admitted to using male enhancement pills, I use somethign similar, male de-enhancement, I need to shrink myself to a reasonable 15 inches.

What exactly is your project, I can't view your website, so at least fill us in on teh basics, for all the people that missed it

Fun? Just make a hollow cube textured with GENERIC_CRETE and gfill it with 50 monster_hgrunt and monster_aslave's with no info_nodes and let the "fun" begin!

But seriously, my advice is look at Half-Life, play some of that game again, and look at why their levels are fun, and the amount of detail they put in.

[edit] I just snezzed and farted at the same time, the fart was more a sort of 'wet wheeze' - I feel sticky =/

I merely posted it as a suggestion of what we as members should try and aim for, we can't go head-on into having the forums ruled by Nazi's, no; but surely we as users (I mean teh non-Mod members) can take some personal responsibility and stop the flaming and elitism which has been present, if one thing is to come from this whole gay little episode, it should be that we learn to bite our tongues, avoid flaming, and respect teh Mod's, and not try to do their jobs.

I have learnt that you can't reason with some people, (like myself, I am unreasonable) and you have to take shit every now and then, but let's just step right over that pile of poo and head towards a betetr future.

Why do we need atom for things to be in order? Can we not just do taht ourselves? A little maturity from all of us would go a long way, and if we get any noobs or newbies, we give them a chance, and if they fail to behave responsibly, we report them to the Mod's and let them do their jobs.

That's all I wanted to say, but instead I copy/pasted the rules from a webcomic forum.

Oh.

Most recent tutorial: Equipping Weapons in CS

have i not setup something properly?

That's be my guess, show us a screen shot of your set up screen, and an exampel of teh difference.

Perhaps it's your machine :/

Now, I'm not 100% on this, but I think there's a tutorial on this.

[u]FUCK[/u]

They both copied someone else probably. A book more than likely.

And if he does re-join, he either has to behave like a normal human being, or he'll get rumbled. And I'll rape his arse.

They can re-join, but they get three username bans before a full IP ban.

Can you not apply the techniques used by Brad to fix up the other map, and fix the map yourself? It would be much betetr practice tbh m8

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When you compile, all you need is the mapname.bsp, not the .pts, .log, .etc

If you put in any models or sounds that aren't in teh original Mod, then you need to include those too.

Pretty funny, where did you get them from?

I'm 21.
I was born in 1983, what I meant to say, I haven't seen a movie before 1987

Correction: The first change, for the better, in two years.

Great little models, where did you get them? Or did you make 'em yourself.

And yeah, it looks alot better now, all you gotta do is get rid of those HL textures!

Make:

a trigger_camera (point based entity - the light bulb-lookalike tool)

an info_target (point based entity)

Set teh camera up anywhere you want the shot to be looked at from, up high is usually best.
Move the info_target to a place you want teh trigger_camera to "look" at.

In the trigger_camera's Target field, type: cam1

In the info_tagret's name field, type: cam1

Very simple stuff.

Search your steam files, or look through the CS 1.5 pak files.
Or make your own smoke sprites.

Your call

That screen is very small. I'd say keep going, learn as much HL mapping to be kinda prepared for HL2

the smoke nade is just multiple layers of sprites all rotating on the z axis of the grenade.

Try lookign through teh cs GCF.

How romantic, reminds me of Ctrl-Alt-Del

How do you mean?

I made my last entry, well finished it, 5 minutes before 9pm, IIRC, it was close anyway.. lol

I had my folks shouting at me for sitting on teh pc while my mate was waiting at the door, and fucking music was blaring, food was gettign cooked, it was like a warzone!

I'm surprised I even made it in at all

As in, make a note of how long and wide it is (ooo-errr missus) and then from the path corners line it up on each one and check if it goes through walls.

Failing that, make the tunnel really wide.

omg.

read what I wrote please.

measure the units of the func_train, then apply it to the corner.
Are there any other ways?

Oh I see it now, it looks great!

You deserve to win just for that imho

)

Haha, just churn out another fy_sux0r and you'll have it done in no time =)

Taking breaks from a large project is the best thing to regain interest.

I have maps that I've gone weeks without even touching, sometimes I open them up and just "walk around" to try and get back in the mood, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I think the best thing to do is find a project that really excites you, something that you want to be able to play sooner or later.

And take your time, a friend of mine has been working on a map for over a year now, he has had it in a releasable state for at least half that time, but he insists on adding, changing, tweaking and just generally making it a better map.

I suggest you spend no less than 1 hour on each corridor, room, small section of your map, make it so damn good that you can't give up.

Luck and my rugged good looks.

Luck and my rugged good looks.

I haven't seen a movie since 1987

I like yours muzzle, you really need to dirty up thsoe texes though, and get some graffiti on the wall, if you could get that actual graffiti I'd have your babies.
Well... I'd be impressed, to say teh least.

But so far, it's the best I've seen pimped in this thread.
Great detail all round.

Ant's is cool too, but the actual picture shows the support towers are actually alot smaller than shown in your pic, it could be the angle though, and either way, the actual curve on that bridge is great, looks smooth as Unreal! =)

Nice entries, I guess I should start mine, don't know if I'm going to have time now argghh!