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Sure :).

By the way, clicking the English flag gives a Forbidden error?

<presentation page>

"Welcome on the de_raid website." --> "Welcome to..."

"This map is the result of a team work
to provide to the CS community a new map with both nice-looking backgrounds and a deep gameplay." --> "This map is the result of a team effort to produce a attractive and well-laid-out map for the CS community which provides good gameplay."

"Wanna discuss about CS ?" --> "Wanna discuss CS?" OR "Wanna talk about CS?"

"Have feedbacks about the map ?" --> "... feedback..." (just one :), it's called a mass noun, and it's like "water", "fruit", "software". You never have, say, "softwares").

"From the basic concept of a CT base attacked by terrorists. The counter-terrorists have to protect an experimental stealth, long range strategic bomber, located inside the base, while terrorists just planned a raid to prevent it to take-off. Both teams have to accomplish their objectives to all costs : there won't be any surrender." --> "The basic concept is that of a counter-terrorist base being attacked by terrorists. The CTs have to protect an experimental stealth bomber" (there aren't short-range or un-strategic stealth bombers ;); no comma after 'bomber', either) "located inside the base while terrorists are trying to prevent it from taking off. Both teams absolutely must to succeed; there will be no surrender."

</presentation page>

<download page>

We call megaocets megabytes, and as such, use "MB" instead of "Mos". Both capital letters; lower case 'm' means milli, which is very small, and lower case 'b' means bits (13% of a byte). We'd say "alpha version", too; remember, we say stuff like "red car" instead of "voiture rouge".

</download page>

<faq page>

"Counter-Strike is a Half Life (1) mod (modification), based on a counter terrorist simulation." -> "(modification) providing a counter-terrorist simulation".

"the game engine for another game concept that the original one." --> "the game engine for a game concept different to the original."

"Here are a list of mapping websites where you can get Hammer tutorials." --> a) No there isn't, b) "Here is". There's only one list, isn't there?

"... versions has been released in..." --> "... version was released in..."

</faq page>

Was pretty good, though, it all made sense.

I like CS: Source :P.

Is that Russian?

Can't see the problem with being liberalist, as I was illustrating there.

He said leaks, so I think he meant model in a general way rather than a technical one.

What does that say, Gman? "I <verb> you... Mister Freeman"? "Miss you"? Only word I could find like that in the dictionary.

Try just putting a big clip brush over the 'plane (or a few small ones, hitbox-style); I think that should discard the ones within and cut down the usage. It doesn't need to be that precise, I'm sure.

I think interactive lighting is probably a good idea.

Yes, you can; select a face (the yellow dots) in VM mode and press Shift+F. If not that, it's Ctrl+F, but I think it's Shift.

www.imageshack.us

It'd be better just to VM the one brush into an appropriate shape, actually. Read the VM tutorials if you don't know how to.

What the hell? If you're going to test deleting threads, why did you bother typing all that out?

Closado.

PS: It is under the "Tutorials" heading...

Just stay as you are now :P.

Impressive.

I prefer the BBC too, even with the liberal slant you'll notice in the interviews sometimes.

What, you think they should be going "now let's go an' interview this nigga <attutide type="patronising">so whajuu think of dis shizzle, bruv?</attitude>"<punchinface />?

Jimmy Eat World - 23

Tracy Chapman? Neat, EELS' old drummer left to tour with her.

"Moderator"
"Regular"
"Forum Friend" (helps people.. Yes.. lame.. Think of another)

Erm, Forum Award, already going to be put by winners' names on the forums?

Can't see the point in qualititating it. OMG THAT MAN HAS 332.76 POINTS AND THIS MORON WHO ANSWERED MY QUESOITN ONLY HAZ 297.35!!!1111

If that doesn't, change it to index.html.

It's not just invisible, though, it's abolished.

game_playerspawn.

It's using HTTP headers specifying that the whole page is old from the moment it's loaded, etc.

The swishy robe thing!

So it worked? Showed the new avatar immediately for you?

I think it's fixed now... try it, somebody :).

Dude, I'm not changing it again :P.

Anyway, this development blob having completed, I now declare this thread closed. Further comments can have their own threads.

Wow, that's a lot of detail. Excellent stuff!

I think a gold swishing cape with a flaming torch and "BL" carved into something, size 96x96. Oh, and it should have been created by a colour-blind humpback called Eric. Specific enough?

Update: 27th July 2005

In the order in which things appear on the menu as a logged-in user, here should be a complete changelog:

• More special login count messages;
• Restricted forum search to at least four characters;

• Renamed "News 'n' Stuff" to "Front Page";
• Added RSS feed and appropriate links;
• Reformatted News on the index page;
• Added little chevron things to the latest news and latest post boxes;
• Fixed a bug where people with PNG avatars didn't have them shown in the Member Sites box;

• Added News Archive page;

• Updated About page with a paragraph by me :);

• Slight changes to Links page, both in formatting and content;

• Divided tutorials into HL and Source categories;

• Added a tutorial proposal page;

• Added awards (nearly time for the first batch, too :));

• Added mod icon key to the MV;
• Made descriptions mandatory for all maps;
• Made screenshots compulsory in the Completed section;
• Forbode rating enablement in the Example and Problem sections;
• Made comments a requirement for voting for maps;
• Restriction of only one vote/map/user, and none for those not logged-in;
• Enlarged comment box and changed the typeface to a variable-width type to try and deter people from posting silly ASCII diagrams;
• Stopped comment-echoing;
• Lots more mod icons;
• Added "PM on a comment" option for comment/vote notification;

• Added an indicator key to the forum listing;
• Added stickies;
• Made closed/new-post/sticky threads distinguishable graphically;
• Enabled users to edit their own posts when they are the last in a thread;
• New emoticons;
• Echo protection;

• Added private messaging;

• Made profiles moderate-able;
• Restriction to remove completely invalid URLs;

• Journal entries limited to one every twenty-four hours to cut out the dumb double-posting spam;

• Actions added to ShoutBOX ("/me <action>");

• Removed oneself from the Onliners box;

• Nice tidy new buttons for the CS and HL top 200 vote links instead of the nasty irregular squares we had before;

• Added a link to Mercutio, which will be directed to a page about it, rather than a link to a test install of it.

I think that's everything!

They all work fine on my Opera, Firefox, and IE. Very strange. What version number does IE have, if I might trouble you again? I'm wondering whether it's a bug in older versions or a "fix" in newer ones.

What? I didn't do either of them.

Because people would mess around and do stupid stuff. It's not a problem... new discovery = new post.

SpaG, it really doesn't matter. Append it, don't spam it :P.

BJ: no weird settings? Not changed the 'text size' things in Display Properties? Zoom?

Dude, why didn't you just put the image in? 352x288 is hardly massive.

Dodgy cam.

Erm, dude, you're not gunna get anywhere pimping that here. I'm sure there're people raking in millions of referrals. Just save up and buy a new PC, you won't get anywhere with that.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

It doesn't need to be in the HL directory, but you should definitely have everything HL-ish on the same drive. You don't, do you?

Jahzel: no double-posting. Edit button.

No, because the ratings go on the right. I could switch the date and the poster name, though.

There're already borders around it, and HRs, and the poster name. Might be a bit over the top, actually, it'd probably be easier to read with less. I'll work on it sometime, but I'm having a break at the moment.

Why a sad face?

Those big letters actually say "business", by the way, heh. Lazy VALVe.

Yeah, I'll make it use the PM system if you're logged in, e-mail if not.

Andy and atom aren't on the list, they're commented out until they return. Not very useful having stuff go to them for us or them.

So did I, dammit :P.

I'll 'ave a vote on the dot colours. Everybody complains about everything :sarcastic:.

I'm going to make it be hidden for people who've made more than ten forum posts or something.

Better than what? Most of the things're dots still.

SpaG: stop calling things gay, it's annoying. Journals are asexual. There's no reason for people to be able to post a journal entry more often than every 24 hours.

You can edit it as much as you want, the only condition is that it's the last post in the thread.

They are GIFs, SpaG.

SpaG: it's one journal entry per 24 hours. Why do you need more? Edit the last one.

Thanks for pointing out the profile modification thing, I think I left some debugging stuff there :).

I noticed that the PM times seem to use SA time, though, I'll fix that too.

No.

Do plain func_breakables respawn automatically?

What? Slander against one's country is the most serious crime you can think of?

No, ZHLT.wad is included by default, and HL looks in valve, not in the directory where the WAD was when the map was compiled.

No, but it can lead to unpleasant irregularities and stuff. Always lower-case letters, 0-9, and underscores.

I'm not making a habit of this, it's just been for three members who've been here awhile and have used other names (IRC, personally, etc.) for a long time, so don't all ask for them to be changed!

I don't know that we need something so... mechanical. The forums here aren't that busy. It's be a consideration for Ant and Rabid, but thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Yeah, it's occured to me that we need a General section or something, for stuff like BrattyLord's Atmosphere tutorial, and other kol-like stuff.

Where is he, anyway?

PS: BJ: fits fine for me all the time. You're not using IE5 at 640x480 or something? Details please.

Anyway, this is a rather old thread. Kiss it good-bye.