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Might have to give this a try (only just noticed it here). Nice work on doing it from scratch too - I got the impression other Hammer clones were based off existing work.
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Nice - does it support the Day of Defeat texrendermodes too?
Possibly it uses the language you've set in Steam - not sure, and off the top of my head I'm not sure if you can choose a language for a mod through Steam.
this is nothing new. (Can't think of an example right now, but I'm sure I've seen it.)Grand Theft Auto V was the last one I think.
The fact that it came from Laidlaw is the dead giveaway. He's a writer, and this isn't outside his realm of expertise. His departure from Valve was far too parachuted for him to be barred by a severance contract NDA. He is still perfectly within his right to do exactly what he did. His retirement from Valve isn't even two years old yet, and by the time he departed, his job could've easily been concluded with Ep3.As much as I'd like to believe it, I believe it less and less. It feels like everything Marc Laidlaw has had to say recently has been full of thinly veiled resentment (Epistle 3 being no exception).
I think we'll see a release at some point this fall.
Or maybe on October 10th 2017 the three games that Valve is working on will get released in some sort of sequel to The Orange Box, which will include a new Half-Life game. Actually the more I think about, maybe this was an intentional leak because Marc didn't like what the next Half-Life has become, and he knows it's due soon.
I guess we'll see wash-up in the coming weeks and months.
Anyway, the story itself seemed just fine to me - it has some finality to it.
Started playing Titanfall 2's singleplayer. Fun so far, and it looks gorgeous.
Nice - I've never really understood how that colour remapping works and I can see it's not so simple.
Yeah it's a model with no bones or meshes or whatever. I guess I'll try something more substantial.
The engine doesn't complain when it loads it but JHLMV gives an error.
The engine doesn't complain when it loads it but JHLMV gives an error.
So the engine requires the model to be in motion for $flags to take effect - what does in motion actually mean? I've set pev->velocity on my entity and still don't see any effects (the model itself is an empty model i.e. it has no body or whatever).
Yeah doing this kind of thing is pretty hard if you're not a strong C/C++ programmer.
Good luck anyway, and take advantage of the tutorials and free code out there.
Good luck anyway, and take advantage of the tutorials and free code out there.
In the server code in the ClientCommand function is where you'd do the first bit.
The second bit you'd probably need to detect what monsters the player is attacking in some function that gets run every frame - probably StartFrame - and then do something with that in the monster AI, but I've never really played with monster AI so I'm not sure where you'd do that.
From memory Botman's Bot Number 10 has following but I've never used it.
The second bit you'd probably need to detect what monsters the player is attacking in some function that gets run every frame - probably StartFrame - and then do something with that in the monster AI, but I've never really played with monster AI so I'm not sure where you'd do that.
From memory Botman's Bot Number 10 has following but I've never used it.
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The ClientCommand callback has the command that was called and I think which player - from that you should be able to get the player's position.
It's not so easy to get the monster that the player is attacking - at best you could probably get any monster in the player's field of view or a subset of the field of view.
I think one of Botman's bots has code to follow the player but I've never checked it out.
It's not so easy to get the monster that the player is attacking - at best you could probably get any monster in the player's field of view or a subset of the field of view.
I think one of Botman's bots has code to follow the player but I've never checked it out.
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HPB Bot does the precaching in DispatchSpawn (it only precaches if the entity whose spawn it is dispatching is worldspawn).
Half-Life itself does global precaching in CWorld::Precache in world.cpp which is probably more performant as there's no check each time DispatchSpawn is called.
Half-Life itself does global precaching in CWorld::Precache in world.cpp which is probably more performant as there's no check each time DispatchSpawn is called.
Nice - I didn't realise that most of the $flags variables from Quake still worked - I'll have to try them out some time.
Have you got any further with PS2 .dol support? I asked Jed many years ago how the format differed and it's apparently the same as Half-Life except the textures are swizzled (see http://ps2linux.no-ip.info/playstation2-linux.com/download/ezswizzle/TextureSwizzling.pdf).
Any chance of Dreamcast .mdl support too? I suspect that all Dreamcast .mdl files use only two of the twelve or so different .pvr formats.
Any chance of Dreamcast .mdl support too? I suspect that all Dreamcast .mdl files use only two of the twelve or so different .pvr formats.
Any errors in the console? Programming is required to add save-restore support for entities but looking at the cycler_sprite code it appears to have it (though perhaps an important field isn't saved).
edit: monster_ entities would have extra overhead but these days it would be pretty inconsequential.
edit: monster_ entities would have extra overhead but these days it would be pretty inconsequential.
If you want to get rid of the Training Room checkbox altogether try deleting the "Training" section in resource/NewGameDialog.res (make a copy of Half-Life's).
They come with the games, so deleting steamapps/<user>/game and re-running the game should re-extract it.
Which game is this for?
Which game is this for?
I think you can get Half-Life 2 Lost Coast to show up in the Source SDK by adding an entry for it to steamapps/<user>/sourcesdk/bin/ep1/bin/GameConfig.txt
Maybe try changing the bit in player.h from void CBasePlayer::TabulateAmmo( void ); to void TabulateAmmo( void ); (assuming it's around or at line 314: I think I'm using Spirit of Half-Life's code to check this).
Not sure why CBasePlayer:: is even there seeing as it's in the class definition (and I'm a little surprised it isn't an error in Visual C++).
edit: I think you'd be better off trying a free version of Visual C++ anyway because I think there's an issue with the client.dll project where you can't link the VGUI library without Visual C++.
Not sure why CBasePlayer:: is even there seeing as it's in the class definition (and I'm a little surprised it isn't an error in Visual C++).
edit: I think you'd be better off trying a free version of Visual C++ anyway because I think there's an issue with the client.dll project where you can't link the VGUI library without Visual C++.
I tried that and it still didn't work.
Having said that, there are also the Australian members who we can laugh at to balance things out.It's not that bad.
I got 9.97Mbps download and 0.49Mbps upload.
No I didn't. The Valve Developer wiki said that info_node entities weren't necessary. I'll give it a go anyway.
Yeah, I've set the next target to another path_corner, and there's a yellow line being drawn between them so it looks like they're connected logically too.
Okay I tried that and the npc walks to the first path_corner but doesn't go any further. Any ideas?
Thanks, I'll give it a go.
I'm trying to make an npc walk around a building continuously (I'm doing this in Zeno Clash).
I looked at one of the example Half-Life 2 maps in the Source SDK and it used path_corner entities chained together.
Anyway, I've got an npc and I've set its Target Path Corner to the name of a nearby path_corner (384 units), and it points to another path_corner and so on.
The npc doesn't move though. Is there something I' missing? The Valve Developer wiki mentions being able to use an aiscripted_schedule or scripted_sequence as well but it doesn't say how.
I looked at one of the example Half-Life 2 maps in the Source SDK and it used path_corner entities chained together.
Anyway, I've got an npc and I've set its Target Path Corner to the name of a nearby path_corner (384 units), and it points to another path_corner and so on.
The npc doesn't move though. Is there something I' missing? The Valve Developer wiki mentions being able to use an aiscripted_schedule or scripted_sequence as well but it doesn't say how.
I want it to be a model though. Something to do with the lighting being affected by a brush-based door.
Okay, I've sort of got this working now.
I'm rotating the bounding/collision box so that it aligns with the model, but the problem is that if the door is oriented at an angle either >90 and <180 degrees or >270 and <360 degrees the bounding box is invalid (and the map won't load) because one of the components of mins will be greater than one of the components of maxs.
Anyone know any way around this?
I'm rotating the bounding/collision box so that it aligns with the model, but the problem is that if the door is oriented at an angle either >90 and <180 degrees or >270 and <360 degrees the bounding box is invalid (and the map won't load) because one of the components of mins will be greater than one of the components of maxs.
Anyone know any way around this?
I want to make rotating door once I've done the sliding door, so I don't know if that will work.
Anyway, it looks like SetObjectCollisionBox is responsible for collisions (as long as the entity has a touch function and the right solid flag set (I think)). I still don't know what UTIL_SetSize is for though.
Anyway, it looks like SetObjectCollisionBox is responsible for collisions (as long as the entity has a touch function and the right solid flag set (I think)). I still don't know what UTIL_SetSize is for though.
Just to prefix this, I'm trying to make a model-based door in a mod I'm working on, so if anyone know of any open source mods with a model-based door entity, let me know.
Anyway, does anyone know the difference between UTIL_SetSize and SetObjectCollisionBox (what each one should be used for and which ones affect collision and so on)? I've tinkered with both of them and haven't reached any conclusions. The examples in the default code don't make things any clearer either.
Anyway, does anyone know the difference between UTIL_SetSize and SetObjectCollisionBox (what each one should be used for and which ones affect collision and so on)? I've tinkered with both of them and haven't reached any conclusions. The examples in the default code don't make things any clearer either.
The HUD images are in 640hud0*.spr I think.
Or you could make a completely new sprite and change weapon_crowbar.txt
Or you could make a completely new sprite and change weapon_crowbar.txt
Enabling this option in your project options should solve all of Half-Life's loop variable problems.
To add to this, I believe there's a function in the server .dll called IsInWorld or something like that which checks if an entity's location is within a 4096x4096x4096 area so if you're doing this in a mod I think you can change that to stop some problems.
Also, I think if you want a model to render outside the 4096x4096x4096 area part of it needs to be within those bounds.
Also, I think if you want a model to render outside the 4096x4096x4096 area part of it needs to be within those bounds.
I thought that all those Source protection methods were now kind of defunct because of BSPSource.
I don't know that you can decompile-protect Half-Life maps though (at least I don't recall reading of a way to in the readmes of the decompilers I've used).
I don't know that you can decompile-protect Half-Life maps though (at least I don't recall reading of a way to in the readmes of the decompilers I've used).
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that the compile tools can compile it because they know what they're doing, but decompilers can't always decompile because it's more of a guessing game (trying to generate some valid shapes from whatever is in the .bsp).
The problem shouldn't be an entity (point entity anyway).
The problem shouldn't be an entity (point entity anyway).
I think the protection is just some piece of geometry that the decompilers choke on, but I don't know of any specific things that will make decompilation fail.
The paths are defined in %sourcesdk%/bin/<engine version>/bin/GameConfig.txt
Look into bspzip/pakrat for embedding content in a .bsp file.
I'm not entirely familiar with the entities used in Counter-Strike Source and Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, but I wouldn't be surprised if some entities work slightly differently.
I'm not entirely familiar with the entities used in Counter-Strike Source and Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, but I wouldn't be surprised if some entities work slightly differently.
Do you have a compiler, like Visual Studio installed?
No problem.
As for the cycler issue, can you make them a prop override entity or something like that?
As for the cycler issue, can you make them a prop override entity or something like that?
Did you put the the model and materials in the same file paths as in Garry's Mod?
Where is this tutorial?
No, you'd need to edit your GameConfig.txt to get Portal to show up in a different engine in the Source SDK.
Also, is there ZHLT or something for source? If so is it any better?There were (called CST), but they were Source 2004 only and the author never updated the tools.
I think it's in ammo.cpp, around HOOK_COMMAND("slot1", Slot1);
If you're using the WON version, have you installed any updates?