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If a kid can kill a bee and not think anything about it, he will grow up thinking killing other things is ok if he continues to do it. Lol...gateway kills.

Yes firefox all the way! I'm so glad I moved to it last year. IE is so messed up, i could never trust running anything in it. I don't even have macromedia flash installed.

Who cares if the thread is old? I don't get why people always nag at a thread being old.

"He says he wants the fire to last longer and bigger!"

"Have you ever tried to make a bush that burns yet is not consumed? You CAN'T! Because that's a sign from GOD RIGHT?

-Epic Proportions

Nooo I'm never included in these things for some reason.

It wasn't lame, it hit all the points that made cs funny or annoying. Like the doors getting stuck, the lag, and the hosties. You had to have experienced cs in it's early days to get it.

Mandarin ftw! I started learning it last summer, I think it's a great language. The writing though....ugh. The only way you can learn to write chinese is to memorize each character as you go. It's a veeery slow process. (for me at least)

Large signatures..psh, go to the HIT forums, it takes me 10 minutes to load a thread.

You guys really need to make some characters for HL and Hammer I see normal stuff and then HAMMER or HL2 hehe

Think about this, nothing is really round, if you could look close enough, you'd see bumps...

I don't care if adults smoke or not, it's their life they're wasting. But if a kid thinks hes cool because he is smoking...well...they are just retarted.

edit: But I think EVERYONE should try marijauna under a controlled condition JUST ONCE to see what it's like (only if you have high self control)

Amelie is a great movie, but it's in french. You can watch it with subtitles. i liked it alot. Search for it.

My inspiration is dramatic things that give you that "mpf" feeling in your stomach. Like an explosion in a movie, an amazing view like a movie panning down a huge cliff or something, or music that makes you "feel". It's hard to re-create moments like these in HL1, so I try my best. The feeling I'm talking about is like when you listen to a piece of music that makes you feel like you can do anything, like you are filled with energy.

Other than that, I get my ideas from things that impressed me, and i try to recreate them.

The materials.txt tutorial was quite deeper than this.

I was thinking more of a science fiction setting, although something like that could happen on a smaller scale, like racing to get to another part of the complex, and losing integrity of a small area.

They are living.....

mmmmmm plutooonium.

I would want a decked out bow...but since I already have one...I'm good to go.

And maybe a quiver of unlimited arrows. THAT would be nice, instead of like 10...
LOL it rhymed.

The first underwater fusion reactor. Great idea, thanks tycell! I'll put you in any credits.

Beer isn't healthy AT ALL. Red wine is healthy.

GrimReafer:What do you mean by bloated?

I'm not going to return a phone that doesn't work. DIdn't I say the screen was smashed? I have no idea where it belongs to, and I'm pretty sure he/she doesn't want it back. I'm also sure the police could care less about someone's broken phone.

Perhaps later, when I have the plans down for what I am mapping, I might give people who want to help a section. I still don't know about the facility having anything to do with research. It's just like every other mod...but underwater. Point is I want some complex that is underwater. It doesn't even have to be on earth, it could be in liquid hydrogen on jupiter or something.

I think I'm going to try and map the underwater theme. I was thinking about some basic plotlines today, I think it might work out quite well. The mod is going to open up with you as a tourist in a new marine research facility.

Within that time period, the caldera at yellowstone national park will probably have exploded, destroying everything between there and tennesee. It will lower the global temperature 10 degrees or more. Trillions of dollars of damage.

If a member posts more than 10 new topics within 10 minutes, he should be temporarily disabled.

Madcow you got it, but have the light come from the other direction. It just curves around the obstacle.
Elon like we've said before, a black hole doesn't suck in all light, just the closest, which is why it's invisible. The bubble of stars around it is there because the BH's immense gravity is bending the light coming at it that's all. It's not a halo of light, it's as if the BH was surrounded by curved glass, and you are looking through the glass at other stars.

What I'm asking is that would it be a waste of time to try and create an underwater based mod, or is it better to just try and brainstorm some other wacky idea.

...realized luke has a very un-interesting life

My guess is that you'rea dog person. No offense, but being a houndeye doesn't appeal to me. I always viewed them as the weakest creatures I fought. Even headcrabs were more dangerous. I think it'd be cooler to like be a garg or something, and sack an entire town. But that's just me

Hee hee..hazard course. Who doesn't know how to play hl?

I have one last ditch idea...I havn't thought of it at all, but basically the setting is deep underwater. The only probelm is that hl wasn't set up to handle water settings very well. Any travelling outside of a sealed building would have to be swimming, as I don't think you can be in a func train moving through water (and still be in "air").

About my ideas above, I was trying to think of a horror theme, because I see very few of those these days, and i think they give the most entertainment out of a (what 8 years now?) year old engine. Also there is no "big whoop". The ideas are very broad, and anything can happen from them. The plots are very open to tweaking. Just like madcow said above, you can do anything in an alternate dimension. I never saw anything like that (wierd physics)in hl1..o rhl2..or doom, or any mod.

Demons only invade earth in doom2. Doom 1 was confined to phobos, diemos, and hell. Doom3 is suped up doom1.

@xyos I don't understand your post. what is (shadertest/gooingglass)? This is hl1 not source btw.

I mean the light is coming towards the black hole, and it bends around it, going to your eye.
---0------it curves around the edges and continues it's path. It's hard to describe.

I used hlmv. The room is huge, and there is nothing in the room except a light, me and the garg. huuuge room, the model isn't touching anything.

I resized a model (garg.mdl) and when I load it into the game there are yellow dots around it. It's not stuck in anything because it starts in the air and falls for about 2 seconds.

If you were in the researcher position, you would be an innocent bystander. But you gave me a better idea...have the station placed underground, but under a major city! That way you could have mass chaos during the rising action of the story. Here's my timeline so far:

Regular day, cutscenes show a strange character walking around who doesn't fit right..
Portals start malfunctioning, nobody suspects anything, people hear voices
People start disappearing (beginning is just like doom3)
On june 6th at 6:00, all hell breaks loose.
People rush like mad to get away from it all (still no weapons here)
You emerge on ground zero of the apocalypse.
You hear people shouting to get to some safe spot
You are at the safe spot, where people try to figure out what's going on
You realize that a demon somehow infiltrated the facility and used your teleportation research to open a portal to hell. "We must close the portal"
Your party is crashed when they find your safe spot, and you'r only escape is to go back into the facility, which is now the demon base (like the hive in aliens)
You go into the first portal
You're in hell
You eventually find the devil himself. Normal weapons don't work (nihilinth remodel)
You kill him and save the world...but you also release all the dead back onto earth
Sequel-

This definately needs work though lol. I'm not sure if the city setting would work.

Normally I think of an Idea, map alittle, and then quit. But this idea is different, I feel I can finish this. It's just a basic idea, and I don't have a name or anything yet.

Basically I have two starting points.
1. You are involved in a research facility, and something goes wrong with the equipment, causing a portal to either A) Hell, or B) another dimension. It turns out later that the whole thing is a conspiracy and someone A) a demon, or B)an alien wanted to destroy your world. You find little bits of info about the plot as you play the mod. Your mission is to shit down the portal by either A) travelling to Hell, which would be SO fun to map, or B) travelling to another dimension. I don't know the ending.

2. Same as above, except you are hired by the government to shut it down, military style.

Depending on what path I choose it will either be A) Horror, or B) Sci-Fi. I'm thinking of reskinning models and changing their size and importance, like a little garg replaces the alien slave, and the slave is huge and dangerous. What do you think?

p.s. Stealing ideas is bad, think about why your head isn't on right.

Come on, if you found a usb thumb drive in the woods you wouldn't be curious what's on it? Same thing.

Thanks for the links and info and such.

Now that you explained it a little better, I understand it now. It also explains all the issues I had with my other theories.

Black holes don't suck in all light, Just the stuff closest to it. If you looked right at a black hole in space, and were just close enough to resist it's gravity, you would see stars on the other side of the black hole in a "bubble" around the center of the invisible mass. The gravity bends most of the light, and only sucks in the closest light. It's hard to describe the effect, because I saw it once in a video and it was just too cool. It looks sort of like a magnifying glass is being placed over space.

What moral issues? The phone is trashed, and you can't really have any personal information in one. I'm just curious about the phone itself is all..is it repairable? etc.

I didn't restrict my post to just our galaxy, kasperg. There are billions of galaxies. I also didn't say we would come in contact with them.

I'm having trouble understanding einstein's theory. You can't compare the universe to earth. Earth is one big rock that holds you on it as you walk around. The universe is just space. If you were randomly placed in any spot in the known universe, the odds are high that you would be so far away from anything, that all you would see around you is blackness. You can compare yourself moving in space to a galaxy moving in space. Are you saying that every galaxy in the universe is eventually going to travel back to where it used to be?

I found a phone on the street in the middle of nowhere. It's pretty sweet, the only problem is the battery is dead and the screen beneath the actual clear plastic is cracked. I need to see what's on this phone! How would I go about finding out what's on it? Is such a thing as like a cord I can plug into my computer that like transfers data? it's a nextel i836 phone.

You had a computer with a processor slower than 40mhz?

I imagine ff you were going the speed of light, turning sround would prove quite difficult.

That's what I was getting at. Other more advanced species probably have a better math system, which is why they are more advanced. And don't tell me that there can't be space life..please, there are billions of solar systems in billions of galaxies, the odds are that there is at least ONE other planet which can support life. Do you realize how flexible an organism can be? The planet can be hot, cold, etc, but if it has the building blocks something can live.

Eh..I give up...maybe I was wrong afterall lol.

Humans can NOT perfectly determine the volume of a curved object. Decimals and fractions make it impossible. That is where our math system is flawed. Did you read my post at all? How do you explain my 3 separated pieces? Of course there are rules in math that we DISCOVERED, but our system of irrational numbers that go on forever are invented, simply because in math..the number goes on forever, but if you look at physical evidence, the math is wrong. There was a time when humans didn't use the number 0..but we managed to still have math. I'm not saying the math we use is wrong, I'm saying that eventually we will have to think of something new to be able advance further.

About that black holes, once you are going a certain velocity and are a certain distance away from a black hole, you can escape it's pull. And since the galaxies are moving away from eachother at an ever increasing velocity, it's unlikely that 1 black hole will pull them ALL together again.

So by what you said a spaceship is flying through dark matter...yet no reaction occurs. Wouldn't dark matter be falling onto the earth just like tons of regular space dust does every day? We don't gain any mass from this dark matter...

We use most of our brain, we just use 10% at any ONE TIME. If we could use it all at once we'd be thinking about the future, present, doing something, moving, smelling, and remembering all at the same time...that's impossible. There are people who have created worlds inside their brain and they see and feel things. It's called schizophrenia, but it's there. They have entire people or GROUPS of people in their mind that they interact with. So to them, those people ARE there.

We didn't discover math, we invented it. It's possible to use a totally different math system than humans use. We use numbers, which technically with decimals and our measuing system, is inaccurate. If you divide 100 by 3, you get en ever repeating number, which means you can't divide an object into 3 equal pieces. But you put three equal pieces together and you have 1 whole piece divided by 3....hmm somethings wrong there. Think of our math system like a bunch of blocks that can be divided into smaller blocks (decimals, fractions) no matter what you do you can't get 100% accurate measurements of curved objects like that. Personally I think our math sytem is flawed, and we will only be able to advance a certain distance before we have to develope a new math system.

Dark matter...psh that's a load of bull. Scientists can't figure out what they did wrong with their calculations to find missing mass in galaxies, so they invent matter that can't be seen, felt, heard, or anything. Scientists say that because the outer edge of a galaxy doesn't move slower than the inside ( like a solar system), that there must be dark matter there to hold the galaxy together. Maybe it's simply like this: imagaine a record spinning, the outside edge is moving FASTER than the inside to stay attached to the rest of the record. A galaxy has a huge amount of gravity, why wouldn't the record effect apply to a galaxy as well? They are comparing a galaxy to a slolar system, which isn't correct imo. Planets orbit the sun in a solar system, but a galaxy rotates as a whole, with the gravity of it's suns and the black hole in the center holding it together.

If dark matter DOES exist, we should send a probe to where we think some is, (oh wait, we don't know where 99% of the universe is? psh) if it disappears into the "matter" than it's real, if not, well, we've got some dummies on earth.

I...love..you

Maybe we aren't even existing. The power of the mind can really amaze you. We might all be living in this world just in our heads. With enought willpower, the human brain can do anything. If you have enough will to "move a desk" you brain will tell you that you moved the desk, even though you couldn't possibly do it. Therefore, you don't know if YOU exist, your character might be entirely made up inside your brain with everyone and everything else you know. You might be in a coma somewhere and life is just an imagination...whoa...

I am NOT high at this moment btw