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The sentence is played by the animation - if you look at the 'push_button2' animation in Jed's Half-Life Model Viewer, it says:

"Frame: 0"
"Event: 1008"
"Options: *scientist/c1a2_sci_darkroom.wav"

There's 'push_button' that is the same anim but without the sound tagged on.

Check the flags "repeatable", "no interruptions", and "override AI" on the scripted_sequence. For some reason, if "repeatable" isn't checked, the sequence has issues playing.

Did you set movement speed for the camera?

Just tested it. Reinstalling worked! Whatever the problem was, it's been resolved.

Funnily enough, it's only the "c1a3" map that screws up. I tried the other sections of "We've Got Hostiles" and they work fine, but when I go to "c1a3" it gives me the error. I will try reinstalling, see if that works.

I was just playing the chapter "Office Complex" in Half-Life, WON, version 1.0.0.9, and when I reached the end, after trying twice to go to the "We've Got Hostiles" chapter, HL crashes & gives me the error, "File read failure.".

I do run the game in OpenGL mode, so... yeah. Anyways, problem's fixed.

Ok. That makes sense. Thanks Atom!

I'm making a single player map set in the underground area of Black Mesa. Part of the map is shown in these 2 pictures. The rail in pic 1 is visible, but when I look through the other rail in pic 2, the formerly visible rail isn't visible anymore! I'm not sure whether this is something to do with the game engine or w/e but I'd appreciate some tips on how to get around it, thanks. ~gameaddict117o7

Picture #1 (Rail on far side visible) :Picture #2 (Rail on far side invisible) :

Oh. That's really cool! : )

I was messing around with the Opposing Force fgd in Hammer. I noticed there were 4 more types of "tank" entity. They are the same as the originals, but their names have the "_of" suffix, and they have one new keyvalue: "Enemy Type". The values for "Enemy Type" are: "Player", "Ally", and "Random". I've got no clue what any of these mean.

Ohh. Thanks Dimbark! Where have you had the error before? Just curious.

Hi. I seem to be having a ton of problems with HL modding/mapping, lol.

Anyway, I tried making a new weapon (really a modified copy+paste of MP5.cpp) and I'm 99.99999% sure I got everything right because when I compiled the dlls I didn't get any errors.

But, when I go into the game (usually I go to the map "c2a5" [the "surface tension" chapter]) and try to use the console command "give weapon_m4", I get booted out of the game and the error 'Host_Error: PF_Precache_Model_L "models/v_m4.mdl" Precache can only be done in spawn functions!' comes up in the console.

What does "Precache can only be done in spawn functions!" mean? I extracted the models to my default HL models folder (after making backup dll files).

The models 'v_m4.mdl' , 'p_m4.mdl' , and 'w_m4.mdl' are in my HL's models folder (E:/SIERRA/Half-Life/valve/models) and it still gives me this error.

What's up? Is it because the weapon isn't loaded in the default maps, kind of like trying to spawn a monster that isn't loaded in the map?

Here's the code I used (the bold is what I modified for that particular section:

void CCrowbar::Precache( void )
{

PRECACHE_MODEL("models/v_crowbar.mdl");
PRECACHE_MODEL("models/w_crowbar.mdl");
PRECACHE_MODEL("models/p_crowbar.mdl");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_hit1.wav");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_hit2.wav");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_hitbod1.wav");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_hitbod2.wav");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_hitbod3.wav");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_miss.wav");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_miss2.wav");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_miss3.wav");

[b]PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_miss.wav");

PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_miss2.wav");
PRECACHE_SOUND("weapons/cbar_miss3.wav");[/b]

void CCrowbar::PrimaryAttack()
{

if (! Swing( 1 ))
{
	SetThink( &CCrowbar::SwingAgain );
	pev->nextthink = gpGlobals->time + 0.1;
	[b]// play whoosh sound
			switch( RANDOM_LONG(0,2) )
			{
			case 0:
				EMIT_SOUND(ENT(m_pPlayer->pev), CHAN_ITEM, "weapons/cbar_miss.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM); break;
			case 1:
				EMIT_SOUND(ENT(m_pPlayer->pev), CHAN_ITEM, "weapons/cbar_miss2.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM); break;
			case 2:
				EMIT_SOUND(ENT(m_pPlayer->pev), CHAN_ITEM, "weapons/cbar_miss3.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM); break;
			}
}

}[/b]

I did the method Dimbark suggested, and made four sound files. "cbar_miss.wav" (original pitch), "cbar_miss1.wav" (null sound. The crowbar's viewmodel plays the default sound on top of the sounds in the code, which sounded weird to me.), "cbar_miss2.wav" (pitched down 5 units in audacity), and "cbar_miss3.wav" (pitched up 5 units in audacity).

After that, I went into the source code, and changed "cbar_miss1.wav" to "cbar_miss.wav", added miss2 and miss3 and it works like a charm!

Self-variable? As in, the sound file itself was made at a different pitch?

This has been bugging me for a while now. In C++, how would I go about making the crowbar's "swoosh" sound when it misses play at a random pitch (sometimes a bit higher, sometimes a bit lower, etc.), like in older versions of Half-Life 1 (pre-1.1.1.0)? Right now, it just plays the sound like I'm repeating it in Windows Media Player or something. Hope what I said was understandable.

I just tried that. But now it comes up out of the paper on the desk. -_-'
EDIT: Nevermind. I got it rotated. But the camera still turns a bit too far to the right when it gets to its destination.

I'm attempting to make a sort of "first-person cutscene" for a map, showing the player seemingly getting out of the chair, and turning to face the exit to his office cubicle. I feel I set up the entities correctly (func_train w/ origin brush in center, multi_manager, trigger_teleport, etc.) But, for some reason, the camera wants to keep facing the map's origin. I posted the map in the "problem maps" section for Half-Life 1 GoldSrc.