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Or make it seamless with an image editing program, if you know how to do that.
You may also want to scale the texture up a lil bit, rotate it, so that the pattern would be less noticeable.

Agreed wit FresheD..

OK, I think I get it now.
Thanks for the help, guys..

Eels - I need some sleep

If you'll get to London too late, what kinda help will you need?

I can't dl it..

There are lots of tuts for MS3D..
Pepper's tutorial, I learned from

...What model?

Yea, Seventh's right..
Imo, all of them Black Mesa-ish mods kinds suck. Even Azure sheep (which is a great, big mod with new wpns, enemies, 11 chapters, lots of maps with good architecture) got boring after the 3rd chapter.
Believe me - there are thousands of such mods. I wanted to make something black-mesa-ish myself when I was a starting mapper, but I soom realised that this won't be original.

If you wanna make such a mod and expect ppl to play it - it has to be something really special, because the whole Half-Life-disaster-aliens vs. grunts vs. gordon theme just isn't original and gets boring pretty soon.

Anyways - it you're making it - good luck..

Meh. I just ran steam for the 1st time after like 3 months..
I updated pretty quickly..

Didn't you already ask this?

Download ZHLT 3.3 compile tools from the links page and then try compiling the map..

Explain more..
How do you try to create em?
What happens when you try to create them?

I can't make any fuckin thing out from 1 sentence.. :

Well it's still not what i'm looking for.
To make this more understandable - I need to read .pak files in text format (notepad, for e.g).
I need to know, if the wav files stored in it aren't compressed or changed, I need to know, the process. How the .pak is made from the technical side
I tried emailing the creator of pak explorer, but I bet that the email is old and unused.. :
Any more ideas?

For a null texture you will need:
1. Any kind of image, size doesn't matter as longm as it divides by 16.
2. The textures' name has to be "null"

That's it. It's the name that matters, not the texture..
You can rename any texture to null and it will work as one.

@Muzz: Hell yea, that pwns!!
Hilarious!

Woah.. That's an awesome lookin mod (carmagordon). Kinda reminds me of Interstate.

Awesome. I'll join.

Yea. He's right.
My entry to Xen Transportation was the biggest, and it had the most special effects, but I only got 3rd place, cause there was no strong link to Xen..

You made that, Muzz?
Awesome

Trust me, if you start making such complex shapes brush by brush - you'll:

a) Spend days on it.
b) Spend even more days on it, trying to get rid of invalid brushes, coplanar planes, and other shit.
c) Spend lots of time compiling.
d) Won't be satisfied by the result, cause it will look like crap, because of the crappy shadows and weird lighting.

If you texture it like a sphere it will:

a) Look like crap
b) Look unrealistic
c) Ruin the image of your map, because it's the logo.

Modelling:

a) You'll need ~1-2 days to find the right tuts, learn modelling it.
b) You'll need quite an amount of time to finish the model, compile it, place it right in your map
c) The result will be awesome.

Your choice..

halflife.wad -> SKY

Try the texture filter in hammer to find it.

The SKY texture is just a texture for the engine to understand that there will be sky there.

Theres a tutorial on sky making...
"Adding skies", if I recall it right..
Search the tuts and if you don't find your answer, ask it in the forums..

Capn' P has a point there.
Huge maps aren't popular in CS.. :

Weeeell, look who showed up?
Nice to see ya again..

nd in another map I saw you only two times and you hit me like 50 times.

Lol. What map was that?..
And I wasn't hiding.. I was standing on the plat and if you would pay more attention, you would probably have seen me and tried shooting me..
Shit, you were staying there yourself, when I joined..

Are those brushes complex ones? (made with vertex manipulation, resized, clipped alot)

1 day left.. Post them compo entries..
200th post! Booyah!

A pipe won't make a blocky thing look good.. :
Try adding some curves instead of those blocky corners..
And tbh, I dislike crates in buildings. Change em with furniture.. :

<spawns near the plat wit the gauss, grabs teh shotgun, smg and camps behind a barrel>

Daubster <gauss pic.> The Hunter
Daubster <gauss pic.> Mr.Yariv
Daubster <shotgun pic.> Muzz

Daubster: W00t! ^^
Muzz: meh

Muzz <crowbar pic.> Daubster

<spawns near the plat area, goes for the gauss and finds muzz there>
<double shotgun blast sound>
<beep..beep..beeeeeep...>

Muzz <shotgun pic.> Daubster

<spawns near the plat area, goes for the gauss and finds muzz there>
<gauss firing sound>
<splatt!!>

Muzz <gauss pic.> Daubster

<spawns in the water for some reason, grabs a smg and takes the elevator up, finds a shotgun, sees Muzz jumping around with the longjump and gauss, hides behind a crate and hopes that he won't see him. Muzz didn't notice!! Yay!!>

<crowbar swoosh sound>
<baf>
<pif>
<swoosh>
<blam>
<boom>
<splatt!>

The Hunter <crowbar> Daubster

The Hunter: Ah. Sweet revenge
Daubster: ...

Madcow <shotgun pic> The Hunter

The Hunter: Wtf?!
Madcow:

<spawns right in front of muzz>

<ARgrenade explosion>
<splatt!!>

Muzz <ARgrenade> Daubster
Muzz <ARgrenade> Madcow
Mr.Yariv <snark> Muzz
Mr.Yariv <snark> The Hunter
<snark> Mr.Yariv

Mr.Yariv: Auh sheit
Daubster: That aint right..
Muzz: tehe
The Hunter: lol! pwned himself!

<spawns near muzz, madcow and Hunter, who are fighting>

Daubster <9mm> Muzz
Daubster <crowbar> The Hunter
Daubster <shotgun> Mr.Yariv

Daubster: Pwned! ^^
The Hunter: lol
Mr.Yariv: not feir
Muzz: ...

<walks around, grabs some medkits and finds some satchels, plants one near the gauss on the plat and camps behind a crate>

Daubster <satchel> Muzz
Daubster <satchel> The Hunter
Daubster <satchel> Madcow
Daubster <satchel> Muzz

Daubster: Gotcha!

<runs off to plant another satchel and finds Hunter with a shotgun>
<single shotgun blast>
<warning, blood loss detected>
<double shotgun blast>
<beep..beep..beeeep>

The Hunter: Noob camper.. That'll teach ya'
Daubster: Let's mapchange to stalkyard or datacore... plz
Madcow: yea
Muzz: ok

Daubster: ><

Daubster <shotgun pic.> SpaG
Daubster <shotgun pic.> 38_98
Daubster <shotgun pic.> Mr.Yariv
The Hunter <RPG pic> Daubster

Daubster: sigh Mapchange?

@Boxtop: Oops. My bad.

Are they tied to func_wall or any other solid entity?

Daubster <egon gun pic.> 38_98

<38_98 spawns and does nothing.. The pizza guy is probably asking for a big tip.. :tired:>

Do you have any letters like (ą,ę,į,ų,?, etc.) in the name of your map?
If you have them, change them to normal ones..

Set the max.viewable distance to something bigger if your map is very big and open.. If the objects vanish in a bigger distance - that's the problem.

Or make your own.. :

Daubster has connected

<runs around, finds Hunter and 38_98 in the middle of a fight. Kills them both with teh crowbar and takes their wpns>

Daubster: pwned!!
The Hunter: lol
38_98: omg fag

<Goes to the central area, finds Boxtop camping with the egon>
<egon gun sound>
<beep..beep...beep..beeeeeep>

Boxtop <egon gun pic.> Daubster
SpaG <crowbar pic.> Boxtop
Mr.Yariv <snark pic.> SpaG
<snark pic.>Mr.Yariv

Boxtop: haha! i r 73h pwnz0rz0rz!! :@@
Daubster: i'll be back.

<spawns just in front of Hunter with a shotgun>
<double shotgun blast sound>
<beep..beep..beeeeeep>

The Hunter <shotgun pic.> Daubster
Madcow <357 pic.> Boxtop
38_98 <9mm pic.> madcow
The Hunter <shotgun pic.> 38_98

The Hunter: LOL
Daubster: ><
38_98: wtf?

<spawns in the room with the egon, takes egon, takes tripmines, plants tripmines, camps in the building with the crossbow>

Daubster <egon pic.> 38_98
Daubster <egon pic.> The Hunter
Daubster <egon pic.> The Hunter
Daubster <egon pic.> Boxtop

<grabs a medkit>

Daubster <egon pic.> Mr.Yariv
Daubster <tripmine pic.> Mr.Yariv
Daubster <egon pic.> SpaG
Daubster <crossbow pic.> Madcow

Daubster: SO pwned!!!!
Madcow: lol
The Hunter:
38_98: liek..
SpaG: -.-
Boxtop: ...

Madcow <9mm pic.> Daubster

Madcow:
Daubster:
SpaG: Finally
Madcow: Yea

38_98 <9mmAR pic.> madcow

<spawns in the area with the crossbow, runs to the bridge with the gauss and the 9mmAR, grabs both>

Daubster <smg pic.> Mr.Yariv
Daubster <9mmAR pic.> SpaG
38_98 <crowbar pic.> Daubster
38_98 <crowbar pic.> The Hunter
Mr.Yariv <snark pic.> 38_98

Mr.Yariv: auh may godd
SpaG: ...
38_98: Haha! PWned!!
Daubster: pah
Mr.Yariv:

<Spawns on a tripmine>

madcow <tripmine pic.> Daubster

Daubster: Holy friggin crap! >:|
Madcow:

<spawns in the room with the egon...

And the game goes on...

The tunnel could use some beter architecture, not just blockyness.
The spawn area somehow reminds me of the canals in HL2. It would be cool, if you would make it like that..

Perhaps the .net package has somethin to do wit it?

See Andy Gone's tutorial on dead bodies in cs. It might get ya started on the right foot..

Yea, rowley is good at skies.. All I did was copy+paste the city1 sky buildings on the xen sky, blur them a lil, adjust brightness, contrast.
I'll try to do something with lighting..

Short and wide wings should do it..

Three c's to describe the world today:

1. Crime
2. Corruption
3. Cruelty

Woah.. I made that up myself...

What blood element?
Glad that this thread is revived

Reviewed, Hunter..

@Seventh: I know it's simple.
Heres an example:

PACK @ blahblahblah
blah.txt ų d~ūwxųw˙˙˙˙?ų  x � ?ī�  ?Ų�  

This .pak file is made with pak explorer, opened with notepad. It has 1 .txt file named "blah", which has "blahblahblah" in it.
The things I don't understand is the array of those mixed up symbols in the end of the file.

Although I'll try make somethin out from that code, it's pretty much like C++..

@m0p: Yea, I thought they were like .zip files too, I tried comparing a .zip and a .pak with the same file in them, but they weren't the same.

Later:
I found some source code for an app that opens .pak files. That's great, just that the example app doesn't openplay sound files

I was workin on my Sentences.txt editor, and I thought that it would be really cool, if it could read sound files from .pak files and make sounds from them. Like a mini .pak explorer..

Now the big problem is:
How do I read .pak files thru notepad or any other text editor?
What are the specialities of the file?
If you know any site or other source of explanation, please let me know.

I tired googling, but found nothing on it..
I tried examining the file myself, but it wasn't clear enough.

Any ideas?

Wait.. All I get is a dialog that asks for my hl dir. and nothing else..

I can try.. Just gimme a sec.

How's that?

http://www.geocities.com/daubster_maps/xencitysky.jpg

sigh
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