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now also in the vault:
https://twhl.info/vault/view/6336

Hello again,
it's been a while but I finished something half life related again. Basically it's a map that I have build in 2011 for AG of which I thought that I have lost the map files but just stumbled across a few ago.

Original mapname was "The_Tube" refering to the large tube in the middle of the map. I have greatly overhauled the visuals and opened up several places for better gameplay and on recent testing it worked very well in AG and will also work in HLDM, especially in teamplay. Every room & every part of the map has been worked on.

Attached are some screens and a link to gamebanana. I have also attached the old version for curiousity.
https://gamebanana.com/maps/204922
OLD VERSION DL: https://www.file-upload.net/download-13595634/The_Tube.bsp.html

hi hi,
I might not get done in 2016 too Spreen, so don't take it that easy with your mod

you mean the third barrel on the second picture? as far as I experienced it the opaque entities often drop totally incorrect shadows.

When using the new versions of Vluzacn's Half life tools ( a modification of zhlt) it should always draw correct shadows though.

you can combine func_walls with cycler_sprites then

nice, i changed that
yet one more thing to say about my crossbow... it also pushes the cameraangle up inside the zoom when firing. (doesnt do so in mp)

i have the feeling that something outside the crossbow.cpp is beeing called but I guess my main question was if i have to fix it for each weapon manually

so that seems to be the case

Thats what I did and im quite certain that I didnt change anything else but my shot from zoom is still not creating a bolt or its sound...

I'll probably recreate the situation from scratch by time and test if the problem occurs again :/

Does anyone know where the speedcap (bhop) is saved?

Hello again,
for my singleplayermodification I would like to use the whole movementsystem and weaponbehaviour from Half-Life's Multiplayer.

Now I am not a real programmer and also I never saw c++ before :/
Does anyone have an Idea what the easiest way to implement that would be?

Things I thought of:
1: change the code for every weapon manualy whenever it asks if it is multiplayer or not. I tried that with the crossbow but had no full success.

Instead of normal bolts with airtime i now have explosive bolts outside the zoom and the instant shots (sniperbolts) when inside the zoom.
Sounds like multiplayerbehavior so far,
however it wont show the bolt (at the target) when fired from zoom (only damage applies[with blood])
When I shoot without zoom and hit a monster it wont make an explosion, but make a normal singleplayerhit.
So I obviously still missed something somewhere :/

2. Changing the gamerules in Singleplayer to Multiplayer
I saw that there are different booleans: "bisMultiplayer" and "g_pGameRules->IsMultiplayer()"

Do you think changing the gamerules to multiplayer would also disable monsterspawn and such? Or might those things still work cause the other boolean "bisMultiplayer" will still always be false.

I would be very grateful for any ideas or if anyone in particular would help me some with the code in general (i don't want to change so much actually)

Now I want to see those bad things.

just don't let it be my mod

So when I have a camera that moves faster than it's func_train there will be unlogical problems?

thanks for hints anyway, I went on to new problems, which might get revealed by a new topic

i cant imagine all goldsourcemods beeing on moddb though, since many of them are older than the website and the internet was a bit different at that time as well.

yepp, it's very cool - i enjoyed it a lot.
it has a few flaws but overall it's very enjoyable and keeps you entertained about all the playtime.

The ending is pretty awesome aswell

you mean target_cdaudio? I didn't know about it but i will check it.

This is vanilla Half-life and will only get a very few changes. I only really need a working env_fog

I made a modpage for my upcoming mod "Trouble on Terra"

http://www.moddb.com/mods/trouble-on-terra

The work in progress mod intro is on youtube as some sort of sample
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2D2_bdnII

Thanks a lot to Unq for helping me fix my trigger_camera

Black Mesa Source or HL Source have similiar gameplay to Half life? HA HA

-> No they don't

So you build maps for HLDM that you can't launch? Or do you just need a newer enginge to have them running more smoothly?

awesome, thanks a lot!
it worked

Hey,
I am trying to make an intro with a camera on a track of path corners targeting a func train on a different track of path_corners.

The problem: My camera doesn't follow it's target at all.

I know that the path's are working correct. I have tried different starting times, and also changed the tracks a bit but I don't see the problem. I've seen the exact same setup working in a sample map.
At the moment this is how it looks in the editor:On this sample picture and vid the func_train is not in its usual position at start which unfortunately doesnt have a lot of effect.

However this is what the cam shows (It doesn't ever have a target on it's right side actually). :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MbIQUdEf4g&feature=youtu.be

Maybe the turns are to drastic for the rather delayed moving camera? Or do I maybe need to set more path_corners on the turns? I got very tired of this because I already had a lot trial and error :/
"Do you have any idea whats going on?"

Thinking about i, i probably used another tool to decompile it because the one that I linked above can't recompile the model. So you need a tool that can decompile a model and compile it again (after you made your changes)

I indeed would not recommend this for a mod, but you can get a decompile tool here:
http://www.moddb.com/games/counter-strike/downloads/kratistos-goldsource-mdl-decompilier-2003
The .qc can by opened with the windows editor and you might want to think yourself a bit in there. Its not very difficult to adjust the animations for a different game.
I did the same thing for a 1.5 deagle which I use in hldm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXt7FJCsWyk //In the video it's a glock replacement which is a little pointless, now it replaces the .357 for me.
I think in cs 1.5 there were different models for right handed and left handed models.

I can't really bring up the time to take part in this one. I need some progress in my started singleplayer mod instead

But I'am looking forward for a sven coop project which would be awesome with sven coop 5.0 coming up.
But this should really have some more connection between the maps then.

About the editors, i have to admit that I didn't try sledge but the new Jackhammer Version is awesome in comparsion to Hammer 3.5 and also comes with a nice fgd. It also solved my camera problems
Anyway hf with the project, i'm just going to keep an eye on it

ok, so i'll stop working on my map...

I recorded this with the mircophone from my headset and that's not the best after all

My youtube account is not set up for making money, so I can't afford that pop shield :/

well the quality isn't impressive but it was some fun for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVPgz9SKY8E

well, i could play glock only if it should be necessary. just wanted to give that info because we can install all maps and so on that server

we do have an 18 Slots Half life server by the way

well go ahead and consider it, but please don't chose it.
I played this game quite a bit and well, ofc it's nothing like hldm. But also it has a deathcam that forces you always to wait about 6 seconds until you can respawn :/
If it didn't have that it would be playable at least.
and bb, i'm on holiday for a week

yes, i'll take part aswell.

hldm?

looks like an awesome trip. the landscape is very inspiring. I like the shot of the leaves on the lava.

sure i'll make a page when i finished the intromap(s)

This is supposed to become a short singleplayerstory. I haven't mapped for singleplayer before and so this is supposed to be a test that should take about 3-4 Maps. This map is going to follow after a more or less cinematic intro and it is still just an introducing map.I'm using models from the russian website "gamer-lab" but it's never showing the models authors For the rest im using a wild mix of textures. Some of these i created myself. The portal room is still gonna change a lot, but it's meant to be a microscopic dimension portal which you can see when using the microscope ;)I'll keep poly at a playable limit ofc. The contrast between low resolution textures and high res models might be a bit drastic.... and what do you think about it?

trigonowhat? hm yes i'm afraid i know how to calculate it but it's still a lot more annoying than having the camera instantly on the target. Also i'd rather struggle with calculating the length of the triangle's sides. which i would need then as far as i know.
I'll probably do it with an env_fade then usually.

Thanks for the welcome Trempler, could you remind me again what I am famous for? I'm just certain that it was not for my legendary mappingskillz

Hi,
for my singleplayermap i want a perfectly static camera. So i made a trigger_camera and an info_target. When I activate the camera the field of view moves from the standard angles of the camera to the target (using the acceleration deacceleration and so on).

But i want the camera to show instantly locked on the target without moving at all. So is the only way to achieve that with setting all angles manually? which is a lot of work -.-
But i think there should be a way to loc on the target instantly - thats why i ask Didnt found any info about this in tutorials though

hihi, yes but i also needed to replace it with a standard config (copy of default.cfg) cause otherwise it would use the config from my valve folder. also i made it "read only" for now cause it seems to be overwritten otherwise even if i dont change something in the options. nvm i know that there are other ways to handle this problem

The problem still appears with the new Files. I tested it on a System with a completly up to date hl version on a seperate PC.

But somehow it was in fact a problem with the config.cfg.
The config is working perfectly fine in hl though. Sorry for disturbing already

I know that jave wont help me directly. But with some java knowledge it's still easier to understand how some c++ code works.
Also i found this for example: (a tutorial for changing weapon properties)
http://www.moddb.com/games/half-life/tutorials/modding-weapons-ammo-weight-etc

So i will need to edit some stuff and i'm interested in it.
Unfortunately i need to keep the older .dlls in my half life folder for competitive gaming. My hl.dll is from the before 2013 (when they started patching hl again). This hl.dll was in use for many years and stable i guess but yes, sure it could be a problem in combination with other things. So the next thing is do is importing all new .dlls from the valve folder into my modfolder. then it shouldnt acces my outdated files.

well ok then, i'll downloaded all updates for hl and place copies of all .dlls in the modfolder. then i should be able to use the older files for my normal hl and it might just work

i am using a slightly outdated hl.dll in Half life itself. but i got the current hl.dll from a friend(it's still the same problem).
The problem also appears when refering to the hl.dll from the valve/dlls folder.
So the only option is fixing the hl.dll manually? i mean some people are still modding for hl1, so shouldnt there be a fix arround somewhere?

I don't use custom code so far but i will certainly try to. i have some experience with java. so im optimistic that i am able to change some simple things with the help of tutorials. Though i first need to get rid of that bug -.-

Hello,
i have a strange camerabug in a selfbuild mod. i can't turn my camera more than some degrees in each direction. so i cant look completly up or down and also only a bit to the sides.
i've build the mod step by step with a tutorial. So i dont have much more than a liblist, a save folder, maps folder, the client.dll and the hl.dll.// i changed the gamemenu.res file to change the menu buttons but i also did the whole thing again without changing any further things. I've used the normal crossfire map for demonstration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_WFsAQXU0
My liblist is looking like this:
game "TroubleOnTerra"
gamedir "TroubleOnTerra"
startmap "crossfire"
trainmap "sp"
type "Single"
hlversion "1122"
cldll "1"
gamedll "dlls/hl.dll"
Any ideas?