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Oh darn...I can't do architecture. Oh well, I'll enter anyway. Maybe I'll get away with it by doing a first world war map...I can make them look really realistic. BTW, I believe Scripted! was only 2 weeks long...

It better be a long compo...say, a month. I think I'm going on holiday for a week this weekend. I hope it isn't architecture as well...I can't make architecture look good.

Well, compos are much more common now. But I'd like one in the next few days...

Yes. WON is dead. Almost. Hasn't quite finished dying yet. It finishes on the 31st. Steam is great IMO, I just wish some git hadn't got my CD key from a generator program

I have a GC that I hardly ever use. But it's a nice platinum colour

Bumping threads is just going to piss people off. Wait.

Games:

HL

Mods:

HL
Opfor
Blue Shift
TFC
CS
Firearms
Spirit of HL
Sven Co-op

I think that's it...

Um...I can't enter. Not enough time. And the script is [b], not [bold].

Audacity is pretty good...now, how do I stop the sounds from losing quality ?

One YEAR? That's just insanity. I submitted for the first time about 3 months after I started mapping. OK, so the map sucked...but I thought it was decent at the time. Well, actually, it was one of my worst maps ever

147 (and an eighth).

Bizarre.

Atom...can I be a sub-mod please ?

Krunch just left...and silent bob followed him. If we have a problem, tell atom or Andy. Or a forum mod.

How do I take a part off one wav file, paste it onto the end (Or middle) of another? And how do I delete parts of wav files?

Have more full map compos than base map compos, but keep base maps. I want to try a base map compo.

I don't think there should be a limit of maps to submit at a time. If you get errors uploading, it submits a map that doesn't work, so I once had about 4 broken maps, and then the real thing. Maybe if you're allowed to submit more if you delete others you submitted.

Atom, your ideas for curing the site of its "ailment" are brilliant. However, we do need rules to sort out spammers etc. But other than that, great idea. Ranks sound good, but make it really difficult to get the high ranks (EG: highest rank is 10: 1-5 is easy enough, 6-7 could be harder, 8-9 difficult, and 10 would only be for hardcore members. And I'm not talking about pornography )

The map vault ideas are good, but we need to have it in mod sections,
EG:

HL, CS, HL mods (TFC, OF, BS, SC etc.), and have this for every vault except maybe the example vault.

VOX! Welcome back! Now we just wait for pepper....

Atom and Andy have said it all. Very wise words.

I like both those ideas. The second makes it nice and clear, but it should also state whether it is for HL, CS, HL mods, or an actual mod, just to ensure people don't screw it up. Call them maps and advanced maps. Advanced maps would probably be things like subzone (OK, maybe that's too advanced... ) or enigma 7. I would say any maps I make would go in the regular maps section, since I tend to take the easy way out when mapping. RacerX, your first suggestion has already been done (See "where to start" in the sidebar), but we should make it a LOT more obvious. These are all excellent ideas though, and I suggest we get as many of our regular members as possible to try to sort it out. As for atom, he is actually extremely easy to contact, and replies very quickly. He just almost never appears on the site, and it's not difficult to see why. Time limits for map submissions are a good idea as well, 7th.

Unfortunately, TWHL is dying. And I think most of these ideas have great potential, but no individual idea is good enough on its own. I say we do the following:

1: Get one or two more moderators to check the forums for spam, people going seriously off-topic, flaming, swearing etc. They would be part-time, but should check the forums as much as possible, keeping the moderating time realistic (Obviously, they don't have to ruin their holidays by going to internet cafes just to sort out the forums).

2: Get a team of moderators for the map vault. They could read the comments for the map, if the reaction suggests the map(s) is/are effortless, pointless, showing off, or flooding/spamming the vault, they should email the person who submitted about the problem, and if necessary, delete the map. At the moment, I have to wade through several pages of pointless maps just to find one or two that I'm looking for.

3: Encourage new people to look at tutorials before asking questions. Bring back the old forums! Originally, there was a General Mapping forum, Stuff forum, Site comments forum, and a forum for each individual tutorial (Obviously, keep the new Maps and mods forum). The individual tutorial forums meant that people would at least see a list of tutorials in the forums before going to answer questions that have been answered in the tutorials. Encourage new people to search the forums for help as well.

4: Break up the vault. Have a CS completed section (Most maps tend to be CS), a HL completed section (Second most popular), HL mod completed section (EG: Opfor, BS, TFC, Spirit etc.), Problem section (HL, mods, and CS), Example section (HL, mods, and CS), Unfinished section (HL, mods, and CS), Completed model section, Unfinished model section, and also include a mod section for any HL mods people have made. This will make finding things easier, and remove the chance of having to wade through several CS maps to find a TFC map, for example.

OK. Now I'm guaranteed a trophy

No, voltigores are from Race-X, who are enemies to the Xen race. Pit drones and shock troopers are in the same category. If you want a solution, you really have to read your evil twin's story.

And then download SD models to replace them because they suck
Well, some of them do.

Just read lots of tutorials, especially the In The Beginning ones on this site. Then it's all down to practise.

The BS high-def pack is OK, but you can get much higher quality on http://hl-improvement.com/forums
and the site I mentioned before.
http://sdmodels.cjb.net has some good stuff, but is rarely updated. I'll give you links to much better models at some point, like I said.

JESUS! Stop all this symbol spam. It looks crap. This is the sort of thing putting people off TWHL. BTW, count me in. I wanted to enter TWHL's scripted, but I joined after it closed

Correct, ubernoober. BTW, there are some very high quality gman models on http://hl-improvement.com/forums. You need to be a member to download though.

Your models are quite nice. HEV barneys were made ages ago though, there's an excellent one by Ambient.Impact on
http://planetquake.com/aow
What you need is an improvement pack. I'll give you links to lots of SD models at some point.

They're on http://hl-improvement.com/forums in model releases. You must be a member to download them, and they're merely improvements of models other people have made. If you want to contact me, my email address is in my profile.

Your Evil Twin from HIT had a site with the whole story. A few details are incorrect (He refers to gman as the administrator, but they are different people), but it's good. Go on:
http://hl-improvement.com/forums
PM Your Evil Twin and ask what his site is.

I can model a bit. Depends if you want improved models or models from scratch. I can't do models from scratch very well, but I'm sure I will be able to eventually. Intro level should go in completed if it's finished, but unfinished if not.

This is a very important point that we all need to look at and sort out. We've just lost two of our best members, because this place is turning into a spam hole, filled with lazy new people who want help, but because they don't put in any effort whatsoever to look for tutorials, they keep spamming the place with "How do you do this? How do you do that?". Not only does this drive people insane, but it shows that the place is dying. This never happened in the old TWHL. We need all our mods here if possible (Yes, that includes atom), so we can search the forums, point people in the right direction, warn them not to ask for things without looking for a tutorial on the site first, and then everything will be fine.

Also, the map vault is a complete shambles: There must be hundreds of maps made by people who have only just got to grips with mapping, and think that we'll think they're good if they submit a quick 2 minute map to show they can map. However, they shouldn't be submitting first maps, test maps, and maps which are of a low standard IE: rushed, effortless etc. We really need to look at these, and possibly put up a set of map vault rules (And of course, remove maps which we decide are spamming the vault). These include only putting up maps which you feel are worth releasing to the public in completed maps (OK, so I was guilty of crap maps early on, but I deleted them a while ago), but example maps are fine at the moment, and problem maps is ok. People really should sort out their finished and unfinished maps though. It's pointless to put an unfinished map in the completed section, just as it's pointless to post up a map with a start point, a weapon, and an alien, just to show you can map.

Right, let's get this place back to normal again now.

And as for everything bad I've done in the past, I'm really sorry. I won't do any of it again

Yeah. But I'm doomed. 4th place, here I come...unless MuzzleFlash rigs it so I win

Cool...I think I'll get Raptor's grunt player models from HIT and use them

Sir Basil Fawlty is John Cleese...

1: A
2: A
3: A
4: A
5: A
6: A
7: A
8: A
9: A
10: A

Ever occurred to you that (I think) all the answers are A, and that half the questions aren't possible to answer, so I just said A to piss you off ?

1: Dell do not suck, my Dell computer is decent. It's fast...well, it was until I started cramming it with a load of crap which I don't need. It's reliable when I don't have a virus. It can take SD models on HL with ease, and only lags on CZ: Deleted Scenes 'cos the maps are so fricking big.

2: Aren't Macs supposed to be really good? I only hate them 'cos they aren't compatible with HL or anything, and I'm crap on them

3: Get back to the age topic.

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!

Why is bad beer so much like making love in a canoe? It's f**king close to water!

NO! KEEP HL1! My computer will die if I install HL2...

Oh, alright...does that mean I still have to have a scientist typing on a non-existent keyboard, sitting on a couch? Or can I make it properly?

John Cleese rules as Q.

I can't recreate my first map. It was made completely out of water, and as a result didn't compile.

Pepper: Not all of the models were ripped, and those that were have been heavily improved.

Advice for everyone: If you can't get model transparency (Like the glasses on Ambient.Impact's scientist), download the DoD transparency dlls from one of the threads in the help desk forum (I think). Or use Steam. DON'T use both. WON: Dlls; Steam: No Dlls.
BTW, use my models

HIT's models are a lot better than the PS2 models. Conveniently, because some were ripped, they are very easy to convert and hack to bits. Look at the difference between the PS2 scientist and AI's scientist. Same with the grunts, although I liked the PS2 grunt. Barney looks very similar to the original, but has still been improved a lot.

I'll be 14 on the 28th August. But I'm 13 ATM.

RipEnt comes with Sven Co-op as well. It's in the maps folder.

Advertise on chatrooms, in the shoutbox etc. Email people (And get your mail treated as spam and deleted :P) if you really want.

Hmm...are you sure you set everything up correctly? You don't have to turn off the camera. You can target it, and in it (the camera)'s properties, set it to hold for however long. Don't bother targetting it again with the multimanager. If you already have set this, I have no idea what is causing the problem. Just make sure you set it in the correct box. Also, I think seconds in HL are shorter than seconds in real life, but that still doesn't explain it since you set it to 500. But if you set it to say, 10 seconds, it would hold for 10 HL seconds, and then stop. If you are targetting it a second time with the multimanager, don't. I've never tried it before, so I have no proof that it works (Or, indeed, doesn't work), but I know it works if you set the hold time correctly.

You could teleport in scientists with scripted_sequences, but it would mean they wouldn't be infinite, if that's what you wanted.

They're from Day of Defeat I think.