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It's not my computer's problem - Maybe the video card but I doubt it. Physics were a tad jerky, but nothing toooo severe.

There were some NASTY lag spikes, though. And I don't like starting with the weapons - Start w/pistol was much more fun.

dm_overwatch SUCKS in terms of layout - Someone camps with an RPG and kills everyone.

dm_lockdown is great, though.

Me, too :/

You don't necessarily have to be 18 - You could have purchased it retail. Gaming stores like EB don't run checks on IDs for M rated games. You would technically have to be 18 to purchase it with a credit card via Steam, however, unless you get your parents to get it for you or something.

You could probably enter it in your parents' name if you're under 18, with their permission of course.

I'd think that the '18+' rule is mainly in place to prevent small, annoying kids for entering n00bish maps that obviously won't win - Older mappers usually = more mature, and know more about what would and wouldn't get accepted and thus they won't get flooded with 'omgz killbox' maps.

Jerky physics? Jeez, the 'physics simulation' is one of it's main advertised features. Can you really shoot toilets at people?

I had nothing better to do, wrote 'em a rather nasty letter.

I doubt they'll reply.

But then they don't have to get my money for HL3.

So much for my 60 bucks when I can't even play the game I paid for.

We'll either release an add-on mappack or split up and work on our own projects or new mods. I've applied to NW and Forsaken so if either accepts, I'll have work to do. If not, I've gotten a few other various offers.

So it depends on the individual member.

Not to mention half of us can't even play it yet :/

Yeah, but its not a bad chunk of cash for entering something you enjoy doing.

HL2DM Official has been released with the full SDK, along with a VALVe contest for maps that has a prize of $5,000.

'tis probably getting stuck on a brush.

I don't have this problem, but when you assign props to inaccurate types of prop models the game doesn't like it. Trees cannot be physics props, and prop_detail is for procedural details like grass. (ie, not everything gets rendered depending on your render path.)

sv_lan 0

It's only applicable to Hammer 4 as well - NULL is the Hammer 3.4/5 and Worldcraft equivalent.

He knows he's being annoying - That's why he's doing it.

Well said.

Why is it looking for the Q tools?

In Hammer 4 it is, in 3.4/5 it isn't.

Yes, its H4.

RabidMonkey ;D

Oh yeah, by going over the archway from the rugs.

Nodraw just discards the face. It's like NULL. You should do as chris82 said.

I did this in one area of Sandstorm, by accident. With low-grav you can hide behind some cliffs and see players outside of there, while they cannot see inside.

Did you delete the sky camera entity at 0,0,0 if you did indeed place one there?

At the moment, you cannot see lighting in-editor with Hammer 4. Wait for the full version of it with the full SDK this week.

monster_generics bleed, so use a cycler entity instead, if you're mapping for multiplay.

No prob. Glad to be of assistance.

It seems like he understands why he needs the opfor FGD :/

http://rabidmonkey.bluewolf72.com/files/halflife-op4_3x.fgd

Did you check your compile log for leaks?

Did you run RAD?

Yeah, info_player_starts are for singleplay/HL2.

You'd need to contact VALVe and have them transfer your CDKey to a new account or get a new CDKey to register.

Subst is a rather easy command. I have a batch file that runs the command on startup - You can download it here: http://rabidmonkey.bluewolf72.com/files/substdrive.bat
and modify it to your needs - Just replace your SteamID and the path where you installed Steam and place a shortcut in your startup folder, then run it and it should be good to go.

He's not trying to compile his Steam ID, it just says that since its choking on the @.

And you can't compile rmfs. The compilers like map files.

Mmm, displacement maps...

It's possible. You're probably stuck at a physics puzzle...

I'm not anon. I've got DM_Petrol to finish - I don't hang around in the forums making gigantic posts

That's because it uses Game Cache Files instead of Pak files.

You really don't even need to unpack this stuff like models and sounds, Hammer will automatically load them for you with the proper gameinfo setup, and when the proper SDK is released.

http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL2&id=119

Try installing SpySweeper - It's better than Ad-Aware at eliminating Spyware - When I first ran it, it eliminated about 600 different traces of spyware and adware. That oughta help quite a bit.

Argh, figured it out.

Apparently, the compiler is being anal-retentive now about props sticking into world brushes one or two units - I simply moved the ladder prop up a few units and this dissappeared.

** Executing...
** Command: Change Directory
** Parameters: "Z:half-life 2"

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "Z:half-life 2hl2mapshl2dm_something.vmf" "Z:half-life 2hl2mapshl2dm_something.vmf"

** Executing...
** Command: "C:ValveSteamSteamAppsrabidmonkey777sourcesdkbinvbsp.exe"
** Parameters: "Z:half-life 2hl2mapshl2dm_something"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Nov 4 2004)
2 threads
materialPath: Z:half-life 2hl2materials
Loading Z:half-life 2hl2mapshl2dm_something.vmf
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (2)
** leaked **
Entity prop_static (-1303.71 1.54 -407.72) leaked!

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1776.5, -2048.0, -44.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1264.5, -2048.0, -44.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (2048.0, -2560.0, -44.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (512.0, -2048.0, -44.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (-512.0, -2048.0, -44.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (-1536.0, -3072.0, -44.0)
Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
Leaf 1 contents:
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (-1536.0, -2048.0, -552.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (-1536.0, -2048.0, 464.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:

** Suppressing further FindPortalSide errors.... **
Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (1)
Creating default cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox sky_day01_06...
Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (1) (789880 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...Material maps/hl2dm_something/nature/blendmuddirt001a_1032_176_-283 uses unknown detail object type coastline_redgrass01!
10
Writing Z:half-life 2hl2mapshl2dm_something.bsp
12 seconds elapsed
Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 49
Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 1

I'm getting this annoying portal issue when I'm compiling - I've noticed the ***leaked*** bit, but can't find ANY prop_statics near those coords - Is there an easy way to jump to a certain area if you know the coordinates? I'm confident I could easily fix this, if I could just find the dratted prop_static that's leaking.

Apparently so.

Yeh, running IRC won't download any files without your authorization.

Restart Hammer a few times - There's an obscure error that sometimes makes the selection toggle option not work.

It's 100 mb in it's cache form - The real big parts are the source materials/models/sounds which are multiple gbs.

Afaik, no - Putting in unreachable buyzones isn't that hard, though, so I'd say just go with it.

Memory leaks happen on every map for some reason, at the moment - It doesn't seem like too nasty of an error, since all my maps run fine when I get said error.

To be simple, they scroll in teh direction of the little yellow texture face marker thingy.

Justin DeJong

Thanks and posted on Competition 2 thread

Right, well with some more data from people on IRC I'm going with the second.

Thanks for your opinions

Some GameInfo modification:
http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL2&id=119

http://rabidmonkey.bluewolf72.com/images/mapshots_3/

This is my hl2dm map I'm also entering into the RUST competition - Many of you may have also seen this posted at Snarkpit.

Well, I've been working at it, and have a decent presentable area of the map I've screenshotted for the compo, though I'm having trouble picking which one to enter. Thats why I'm posting this message - If you wouldn't mind looking at all four of the shots, and choosing one or two that you like, it would help, immensely.

Cheers.