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Looks great! Looking forward to trying the finished product.
It's smarter actually. Constant turning your machine on/off stresses mostly all the components on your pc, namely your power supply. Constant Heating and cooling down is detrimental to your pc's well being. Constant warm is better.
Urban dictonary is your friend. They list everything.
Ya, I really shouldn't have. And I was more complaining that I would have to buy another machine than dissappointed when it did not perform well on mine. Thought I made that clear in last post.
Anyways, my new machine should arrive early next week sometime...keeping my fingers crossed.
Anyways, my new machine should arrive early next week sometime...keeping my fingers crossed.
Yes, I read the minimum requirements and knew it would probably run shitty anyway, but the need to try HL2 was overwhelming. Saying I hate HL2 was not correct, I'm merely lamenting that I have to spend 2K+ to buy a decent enough laptop to run it--i refuse to deal in desktops anymore. I'm looking at an HP with a GeForce FX Go5700. Should handle it, I hope.
You can also activate console and developer under Options in one of the submenus under 'Advanced'.
nonags has plenty of free power tools with 0 ads. In addition to many of the good suggestions, i'd like to ad:
1. Get a good registry scrubber--regvac is the best i've seen, and it does many other things than just delete broken keys.
2. Procinfo from ALM is excellent for identifying processes.
3. Ad-Aware is superior to spybot, but not better than spy sweeper. However, you have to buy spy sweeper.
4. Startup Inspector is a neat, quick utility to identify and easily get rid of resident or junk living in the quicklaunch area.
5. If your machine was as messed up as you say it was, save your important files and format your hdd. It's a pain in the butt, but well worth the piece of mind.
1. Get a good registry scrubber--regvac is the best i've seen, and it does many other things than just delete broken keys.
2. Procinfo from ALM is excellent for identifying processes.
3. Ad-Aware is superior to spybot, but not better than spy sweeper. However, you have to buy spy sweeper.
4. Startup Inspector is a neat, quick utility to identify and easily get rid of resident or junk living in the quicklaunch area.
5. If your machine was as messed up as you say it was, save your important files and format your hdd. It's a pain in the butt, but well worth the piece of mind.
I've seen this before. Here's what to:
1. Format and re-partition you're hd.
2. reinstall os.
3. reisnstal VHE.
It's the only way.
or...sorry, i've been consuming too much Red Bull. How 'bout just deleting that entity.
1. Format and re-partition you're hd.
2. reinstall os.
3. reisnstal VHE.
It's the only way.
or...sorry, i've been consuming too much Red Bull. How 'bout just deleting that entity.
HL1 forever!!!
I finally caved and bought it, but i wish i'd not.
I hate HL2 for some very good reasons:
1. Runs like crap on my computer with all settings at there lowest, and still takes like 5 minutes to load up and like 2 minutes between maps.
2. 4.5 megs WTF!!!!??!! I had to delete all kinds of porn to fit it on my machine.
3. You're restricted to playing the game with cd in-tray---shitty...
and...(flamers get ready)...
4. Nope, I won't even say it.
I finally caved and bought it, but i wish i'd not.
I hate HL2 for some very good reasons:
1. Runs like crap on my computer with all settings at there lowest, and still takes like 5 minutes to load up and like 2 minutes between maps.
2. 4.5 megs WTF!!!!??!! I had to delete all kinds of porn to fit it on my machine.
3. You're restricted to playing the game with cd in-tray---shitty...
and...(flamers get ready)...
4. Nope, I won't even say it.
Kindly don't excessively stereotypeSeventh, I think you would probably agree, that mappers such as yourself are the exception, not the rule. Most new mappers--myself included--behave exactly as 'Brad described them when starting out. Not necessarily spamming the vault, so much as continually asking the same bad questions, which they could easily find through the tutorial section or a google.
Great Post!!!
More than I could possibly list. Easier to say I like everything except country music.
Though, it's interesting that since the age of mp3's, I've found after downloading nearly every single song I ever liked and more,--over 10GB--I almost never listen to music anymore.
Though, it's interesting that since the age of mp3's, I've found after downloading nearly every single song I ever liked and more,--over 10GB--I almost never listen to music anymore.
What? She's kinda hot.
fuck you all. Dajuppi, I am gonna have some "alone time" with you avatarLOLZ. Me too...
Goodnight sweet prince.
I don't really know, but my money's on the AIDS.
The AIDS...
I was holding it in my hand today, but I decided not to pick it up for 3 very good reasons:
1. Cost is $55 US -- kinda pricey right now for me
2. You have to log on to steam to play the SP game?! WTF!!!!
3. It prolly won't run on my computer anyway.
I suppose I'll be forced to buy it once everything on steam goes source, but for now, I can live without it. Screenshots look awsome though.
1. Cost is $55 US -- kinda pricey right now for me
2. You have to log on to steam to play the SP game?! WTF!!!!
3. It prolly won't run on my computer anyway.
I suppose I'll be forced to buy it once everything on steam goes source, but for now, I can live without it. Screenshots look awsome though.
Maybe we can revive this after the deadline for Compo 12, as it usually takes quite a while for judging finish up.
Kool wit me.
<angry>Dear Moron, I mean ministeve, why don't you read the post againe.</angry>
Uploadin' mines now. It's totally unfinished, but I think it's a good start. This is what the rooms look like where I work. Might finish this and use for compo 12, 'cause my original Idea is turning out to be tough to do in the time allotted.
This one is wed 9pm GMT, if i'm not mistaken.
That was a great movie, well at least a great scene, when the ship is plummeting through the atmosphere.
Hotel room
-What's the useless piece of flesh attached to the vagina?...the women.
-'Ur mum the curb caller charges a penny an hour...she is pennyless.
-Crafty Butcher: Someone who takes their meat 'round the back!.
-'Ur mum the curb caller charges a penny an hour...she is pennyless.
-Crafty Butcher: Someone who takes their meat 'round the back!.
Hey Un, kool avatar...assasin from The Bourne Identity.
'Kay. Anyone feel like divulging they're Idea? I'll show you mine if you show me 'urs!
Something very important! We forgot to mention about the outside area. Does it count for the room size or is it juist outside? This gives alot of oportunities...Zoner's compile tools doesn't render the outside walls so they can be as big as you'd like 'em to be, right?
Cool. [excited]Finally figured what i'm going to do![/excited]
I don't think anyone disagrees that models are useful and important. If we agree to use them though, it changes the competiton. What we really need is to decide what we really want to get out of this compo.
Or, maybe it would be better that for each subcompo only one person makes the conditions. Just a thought.
Or, maybe it would be better that for each subcompo only one person makes the conditions. Just a thought.
Agrred. No Models whatsoever.
The room is so small anyway, none of us should have a problem with r_speeds. IMHO, the greatest advantage of using models, is they keep your w_polys down, which always seems to be a problem for me. Don't get me wrong, there are many other advantages and reasons for using them, but that, to me, is the most important.
The room is so small anyway, none of us should have a problem with r_speeds. IMHO, the greatest advantage of using models, is they keep your w_polys down, which always seems to be a problem for me. Don't get me wrong, there are many other advantages and reasons for using them, but that, to me, is the most important.
No models means no monsters, right?
I'm in. SubCompo 2 "room" here we go!
I'll do another if you want to, or we could wait until we turn in compo 12. Up to you.
Well done all who entered. Congrats PTS! Thanks Seventh for taking time out to judge. Shall we have another?
Your right, I guess that settles it...we're geeks.:)
Sure. 'Was hoping more people would enter. Looks like me and PaLO had the same idea!
Mines is in. Spent too much time on this, but it was fun and I learned a lot--At least I hope so!
You were right too, when you pull it up, the dialog box says 'Map Information'.
In mine, it's Map >Show Information. I have 3.4 too.
Check. I never saw that in hammer before. 9pm GMT it is.
I'm sure it does, but the video card is prolly mediocre at best. I mean, look at the size of videocards for desktops these days! They're freakin' huge compared to what they used to be. Hell they're basically system unto themselves. There is simply no room in most notebooks to put a powerful vid card.
PaLO, what do you mean by prop specs? Dimensions, w-polys, #textures?...not sure what you mean. Whatever y'all want to do for judging is fine with me. Regardless, I agree the easiest way to make them accessable--for judging or otherwise--is to throw them in the map vault under unfinished.
Looks sweet. Scarry with the lights off! Would it be an anachronism to add a glowing ruby eye to the eagle?
yeah, i had a similar idea, and barley after I got started, it wouldn't even compile anymore. Another thing I tried was taking a full size map and shrunk the whole thing down to 64?. It looked really cool in hammer, but you should've seen how many errors there were...
If you want to make your prop super-detailed, who cares. The compo description didn't say make a prop that would be suitable for a real game, it says to build the most interesting prop you can think of.
We could make the next compo an extension of this one that would set a polygon limit, include entites, and be more suitalbe for a real game.
I actually tried to make a super-deteailed prop like you and madrage are refering to. You'd be suprised how quickly you reach the max faces error. What do you think?
We could make the next compo an extension of this one that would set a polygon limit, include entites, and be more suitalbe for a real game.
I actually tried to make a super-deteailed prop like you and madrage are refering to. You'd be suprised how quickly you reach the max faces error. What do you think?
"aren't notebooks out there that won't" Hmmmm. Try again. I'm not saying there aren't notebooks out there that will run newe FPS games properly, but they are gonna be pricey.
Not true, obviously none of you use notebooks. I have a sony vaio p4 2.66, 512 ddr. Thats all fine, but the mobility Radeon video card sux my ass. Even though it's 64mb, there is tons of stuff it simply won't run, mostly all new 3d games. It works fine for mapping though. But I guess a Pentium 2 400 mghz would work fine for hammer too.
I'm not saying there aren't notebooks out there that won't handle HL2 and Doom and such, but They are gonna be expensive.
I'm not saying there aren't notebooks out there that won't handle HL2 and Doom and such, but They are gonna be expensive.
No, but I use Impulse 101 and no clip in HLSP all the time. It does take the fun out of playing after a while, but it's nice to use say noclip if your tired of doing a stupid jumping sequence and falling to your death 50 times in a row.