Does that answer any questions?
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Place the button far away from the doors. And don't listen the Pinguinboy, the thickness of the wall doesn't really matter.As I understand, it's really just based on your proximity. I don't think I'm going to want to place the button on the other side of the elevator, just for the sake of realism.
Maybe if I get around to it, I'll try copying the setup Valve had from a decompiled map. Theirs worked without a hitch, and it seems like it might be simpler than combining the ideas of three people.
EDIT: Penguinboy, the buttons are usually right next to the door in real life. What kind of elevators have you been riding lately?
Ok, thanks, this should work. Just as long as the player doesn't push the button inside the elevator through the wall while still standing outside it (remember that nice little feature of HL1?), it'll be fine.
But the transition is triggered by the door... :
If I'm just not understanding what you're saying, maybe you should create a flowchart or something.
If I'm just not understanding what you're saying, maybe you should create a flowchart or something.
Yeah, I thought of that (you can do it in HL1), but you'd somehow need to make it so the button on the outside can't trigger the doors to close, only to open. Anyway, I just found some tutorial on 69th Vlatitude, so I'll read that and see if it helps.
But if you do it like that, there's still no way of insuring that you're inside the elevator when the level change occurs... They did it twice in HL1 I think, I just don't know how they did it. SOMEBODY here must have done this at some point...
Okay, so I'm trying to make a level change in an elevator, but I'm running into some problems...
I have the normal setup with a trigger_changelevel and an info_landmark. You shouldn't be able to change levels unless you're inside the elevator with the doors closed, so I put a trigger_transition inside it, gave it the same name as the trigger_changelevel, and had one of the elevator doors "fire on close", triggering the trigger_changelevel (but it should only work if I'm standing in the trigger_transition, right?). The elevator door has its "toggle" flag set, so I have to press the button inside or outside the elevator again to get it to close.
Now, this would all work fine, if the map wouldn't change when I'm still outside the elevator. The way it is, it's almost as if the trigger_transition isn't even there. The map will just change whenever the elevator door closes, no matter if you're inside it or not.
So, do you see any problems with the setup? This is the first time I've attempted using a level change of this sort, so I'm sure there's got to be some mistake in there, right?
I have the normal setup with a trigger_changelevel and an info_landmark. You shouldn't be able to change levels unless you're inside the elevator with the doors closed, so I put a trigger_transition inside it, gave it the same name as the trigger_changelevel, and had one of the elevator doors "fire on close", triggering the trigger_changelevel (but it should only work if I'm standing in the trigger_transition, right?). The elevator door has its "toggle" flag set, so I have to press the button inside or outside the elevator again to get it to close.
Now, this would all work fine, if the map wouldn't change when I'm still outside the elevator. The way it is, it's almost as if the trigger_transition isn't even there. The map will just change whenever the elevator door closes, no matter if you're inside it or not.
So, do you see any problems with the setup? This is the first time I've attempted using a level change of this sort, so I'm sure there's got to be some mistake in there, right?
Edit: Retracted, because I realised I was supposed to use my username, not my screen name. I hate my username. Besides, nobody really cares about talking to me. 
Don't torture yourself, get Hammer 3.4 or 3.5 beta.
Oh, I don't really know. I heard about the logfile thing after I switched to ZHLT, so I just assumed they both used it.
Or you could just open up the log file that's saved when you compile... I think it's in the same folder as the RMF.
There's no way you'll be able to have HL2 on high settings and expect it to run well with those cards. In the price range you're looking at though, you shouldn't have a problem getting a higher-end card.
For what you're expecting out of it, I wouldn't get anything less than a GeForce 6800/Radeon X800 or similar. Cards from that era don't usually cost more than $160 or so.
For what you're expecting out of it, I wouldn't get anything less than a GeForce 6800/Radeon X800 or similar. Cards from that era don't usually cost more than $160 or so.
That's a mistake, halo4life. If I just looked at the MB, I'd think my old 256 MB Radeon 9600 was faster than my 128 MB GeForce 6800. You should pay attention to things like the core clock and memory clock speeds just as much as the memory size.
I'd still have to agree with you though, I can't see myself needing that kind of power, at least not with very current/near future games.
I'd still have to agree with you though, I can't see myself needing that kind of power, at least not with very current/near future games.
Woops, I didn't see this was for Source. 
How about this place, it's got a ton of them?
http://thedoenerking.myexp.de/models.php
It's not in English, but you can still find your way around easily enough.
http://thedoenerking.myexp.de/models.php
It's not in English, but you can still find your way around easily enough.
Cool, those look awesome, except the jeans on the zombie and that guy look way too bright, in my opinion. They could just look that way because of the black background, though.
Finished it a month ago... Or was it yesterday? I forget.
Edit: Duh! Didn't read the posts before me. Repeated info FTW!
Even the original engine had some form of physics, seen with the pushable boxes. And we all know about those crappy, buggy, cars in CS... But that isn't what you're talking about.
I've heard that several HL1 mods have used (or will use) some kind of ragdoll physics engine, but I'm not sure which ones. I also heard that the mods using this take an unreasonable amount of time to load their maps.
I don't think there is any kind of code extension like Spirit that allows for this stuff, so you would just have to code it in yourself, or find somebody to do it for you. Not sure about that though.
I don't think there is any kind of code extension like Spirit that allows for this stuff, so you would just have to code it in yourself, or find somebody to do it for you. Not sure about that though.
i think they shoulda left barney the way he is in striders pic. looks better grin -For that part, it would have been awesome, but it would look kind of stupid to see him running around like that all the time.
It would be nice to have a skin like that though.
Was that real?!Somehow, seriously doubt it.
This is top secret info about Star Wars, only the most elite fans are allowed to see this. I found it below MuzzleFlash's.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5923229756032465229
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5923229756032465229
Fun facts FTW! I could probably find something more about it if I just looked through Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, but I'm too lazy.
Can someone please tell my why on earth the black mesa security guards are called 'Barney'?Because thats the name somebody at Valve decided on? Why does it matter anyway, it's just a name?
I'm guessing that early on, they never anticipated the usage of him as a main character, so they just nicknamed him 'Barney'. I doubt it was intended to mean that every security guard was to be named this, they just didn't model a bunch of them, for some reason.
But you never did hear him be called 'Barney' until Blue Shift, did you?
Err, sorry, but I'm going to have to decline too, for the same reasons as Strider. My writing/ideas would just destroy this. 
That's bull. Just buy a real sound card, like an Audigy 2 <3.Or an X-Fi <3
Oh, it is.
srry, he was jokingAlright, obviously I didn't get it when I first saw it.
Jobabob, it's for HL1... Although if this was in "Half-Life Engine Discussion" like it's supposed to be, there wouldn't be any confusion about these things.
I guess the textures were -wadincluded, because when I went to check the GCF, I didn't find anything. However, I decompiled the map and uploaded the WAD if you want to download it.
http://members.cox.net/n00b86/de_inferno.wad
http://members.cox.net/n00b86/de_inferno.wad
This is exactly the kind of post you're NOT supposed to make! Is there any way to get newbies to read this?
http://twhl.co.za/tutorial.php?id=82
Anyway, that's way too general of a question for anybody to be able to help you. Is there any way to be more specific about the problem you're having?
http://twhl.co.za/tutorial.php?id=82
Anyway, that's way too general of a question for anybody to be able to help you. Is there any way to be more specific about the problem you're having?
It's Windowblinds, I think? It lets you change it like that. I've never used it, so I don't know much about it.
Of course it was just an example, what he's saying is that it wouldn't use the whole directory name, because not everybody has Half-Life installed in that directory.
So, you wouldn't use anything except "models/tree.mdl" because that directory has to be there. Get it?
And to answer your other question, those models are in the .pak file.
So, you wouldn't use anything except "models/tree.mdl" because that directory has to be there. Get it?
And to answer your other question, those models are in the .pak file.
Whenever I got on to check, I don't think I ever saw anybody on there... The only time I actually remember it being active was when I had just joined TWHL and I played against a couple well known members... Can't remember who they were, but that's the only time I actually saw anybody on it! Is it just a coincidence I always checked it when it was empty?
Pop tart wrappers, and the smashed chips under my desk. 
Deathmatch Classic? You mean the normal deathmatch maps or are you actually trying to use Deathmatch Classic to play the maps?
The general dank, stale, stench of my room that I don't even notice any more I'm so used to it.
Then again, when I read that description again, I'm not really sure I know what it does!
TextureSeparator seems kind of pointless to me, since you can just do that in Wally. Still, nice work.
Steam-powered. How ironic.
Anyway, I think HL2DM is actually just a mod some guy made, and Valve started shipping it with HL2 because they were too lazy to make their own multiplayer component. So I guess you can take some of the blame off Valve for your problems with it.
Anyway, I think HL2DM is actually just a mod some guy made, and Valve started shipping it with HL2 because they were too lazy to make their own multiplayer component. So I guess you can take some of the blame off Valve for your problems with it.
You didn't mention that it's next to impossible to use a decompiled map for anything other than learning from. You certainly can't just open it up, make a few changes, then recompile it.
Nah, it would be so hard to map something like that anyway, even if the engine supported it.
That's an odd problem you had though, I've never heard of it before.
It's not really a big problem in compairison to other things that could happen, but your triggers won't work any more, so you will want to change them back.
Unless your map has a lot of triggers in it, you could just go back and re-texture all of them, but otherwise, just use the "replace" feature in the texture browser.
All you have to do is select the texture you want to replace (CLIP) in the texture browser, then click "replace" down at the bottom. A screen will pop up, and you can select the texture you want to replace it with (AAATRIGGER). click "Replace" and all the textures in your level that are CLIP will turn into AAATRIGGER textures.
The only problem with this is if you have a lot of CLIP textures in your level, then you'll just have to manually go through and re-texture those...
Hope that helps.
Unless your map has a lot of triggers in it, you could just go back and re-texture all of them, but otherwise, just use the "replace" feature in the texture browser.
All you have to do is select the texture you want to replace (CLIP) in the texture browser, then click "replace" down at the bottom. A screen will pop up, and you can select the texture you want to replace it with (AAATRIGGER). click "Replace" and all the textures in your level that are CLIP will turn into AAATRIGGER textures.
The only problem with this is if you have a lot of CLIP textures in your level, then you'll just have to manually go through and re-texture those...
Hope that helps.
Ummm... Ok.
I had never actually heard of that game.
I don't think the first one looks that great. The second one looks like it could be done in the FarCry engine, But the third is pretty amazing. What game is that?
Er... they're not even making HL3, guys...And thus ends the great saga of Half-Life, everything that comes after Half-Life 2 will be destined for obscurity, never to be remembered by future generations. I had such hope for it.
Its all episodic from here on