You've Been Mapping Too Much When... Created 20 years ago2004-04-10 13:33:51 UTC by Blueblade

I know I've been mapping too much when I see a vent cover on a real building and wonder if I could break it with a crowbar.

Im at 470 log ins right now. I log in 3-4 times a day haha

495...but who really cares?

Nearly 2900.

You know you haven't been been mapping enough when you still care how many TWHL logins you have.

lol

Yup, i said it... MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

-When you see people in your school who look like slick the scientist.

-Vassy you know who i mean.

that happens

Well you should see the William Parker G-Man. I'll try an' get a photo of him sometime. He's tall, with a narrow face, always wears a blue suit, and has a suspicious manner. Sound familiar? Maths teacher.

God, almost biggest post! What happened to avatars?
oh heres one

• When you compare post sizes on a HL mapping community

zombie you got the dreaming virus to. oh and mine is up to for dreams now. all about day of defeat

• When you are borwsing this very page.
• When you post this.
• And this.
• Also, count this as well.

OH NO! This thing is going completely off topic!

nun of my teachers look like anything from Half-Life.

Hammer is a religion, a very odd religion...

• when you watch the news of the war and say to yourself "why didn't they use a monster clip?

ok that one was dumb :/

Or impulse_101...

Many a time I have mapped for a few hours straight and walked upstairs and wondered without thininking how much bounce did that light need to created a glow behind my fridge....or WOW...a lot of stuff is in here, yet the r_speeds are doing fine!......Seriously...ugh...then you realize it......lol

-When you are watching TV and someone else changes the channel and you wish you had a trigger_hurt to activat on the couch they're sitting on.....

i like that idea Dark Tree!

• When your in trouble, and you try to hit the "undo" button

• When you get laid, and you hit the "redo" button

• When you search your closet for custom textures

• When your parents are yelling at you, you delete them and make a new "monster_"

• When you try to clean your room, copy hit, and try to "Paste Special" when it comes time to clean up your room again

• When your in a car, and start to wonder what the distance between the wheels and height above the track is

• When you move into a new house, you wonder how much space on the grid you have left.

• Whenever you see an animal, you refer to them as "monster_rat" or "monster_cockroach"

(Sorry if I took anyones joke; didnt read all the posts)

When you try and duplicated weed and cash using your 'shift' key

i dont get it seventh...

I thought you monkeymen all understood the same language?

This thread is absolutly great! There's something I've thought of:

-When you want to change the track on your stereo and you aim for the button 30secs, becouse you might 'use' the wrong one

-When you open a door and wonder how they've made the handle rotate while opening

-When you're witnessing an important event and you search for the F5 key to get screenshots

-When you're in a train and try all the seats to see if the background out of the train is made of shrunken brushes and models (remember Op4 opening scene?)

-When you hear high quality stereo sound and ask if they've used multiple ambient_generics or improved the sound engine

-When you see a rope and think: "I wonder if they've ripped the code from Op4... I'll try if it's climbable!"

-When you're in an elevator and try to 'use' the whole button pad (not sure if it's called that way), believing it will take you to the preselected path_corner

-You're at school and have an important test to make. Unexpectedly great idea popes in your mind and start making sketches of the map on your test-page

-When you reallize that on the turn-off button of you computer is a symbol really similar to lambda (I've been playing Op4 and Civ3 for 14 hours, now the button doesn't look that way...)

-When you ask your parents if these jokes are funny and they don't even know what is path_corner or texture

jahxel, you thought wrong...

What........you mean? ..... no.

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN! Remeber when I said
-When you plan maps on your TI-83 calculator?
Well, I got bored in class and I actually planned a map on a graph! Somebody slap some sense into me! I'm going insane!

-When you plan building and decorating work in Hammer.
-When Hammer.exe is in your startup group in Windows.
-When your most used program in the XP start menu is Hammer and Half-Life (not guilty, I use 2000).
-When your car number plate is "SomeNumber MAP".
-When you have a screeny of Hammer as your wallpaper in Windows (not guilty!)

It actually makes sense to plan out decorations or changes to your house or building projects with Hammer/Worldcraft. Its pretty accurate.

Lol. True, just make textures of your wall paper or paint color and floor and anything that needs texturing. I'm pretty sure I could make a realisitc map of my house.

i can make a dm map for school

You kidding??!? And what dimensions you're going to use for your house? Don't tell me 1unit=2inches. But actually it's far from accurate and you can never make a proper design with smallest object 2inches... Unless you use models, but then youd better use 3Dmax (or Gmax if you don't have the money to spare). Hey this brings me to something!

-If you think that the creators of Gmax where HL mappers and they've mapped too much (Gmax...Gman, just one character in difirence)

-When you're one of the Gmax creators and called it this way because of the Gman

-When you get the el.power usage bill and realize that most of it is because of your computer running nonstop and increased processor usage due to often compiling

-When you get the water usage bill and it's incredably small sum, because you've almostly not used the bath

You've been playtesting too much when you move your hand to move the mouse when someone ticks you on the shoulder. (Wich has happened once to me... :))

-When you run HL and other games in window, so you can immediately start new map if good idea occurs in your mind while playing

-When you make a user-modified version of Linux, that runs Hammer all the time and the background is actually a Hammer window

-When you steal the HL2 source, so people can keep mapping for HL1 and your maps are always recent (oops, I think I shouldn't have said this one... )

-When you put Lambda as your My Computer icon and call you harddrive containing HL "Half-Drive"

-When you logged on 28 diffirent machines just to vote for HL at the GameGrudge (planethalflife)

-When you have remade all HL SP maps without decompiling (man, thats alot of work)

-When you're a modteam member

-When you have a hammer drawn on all your notebooks

-If you think that the communist coat of arms is inspired from VHE (Worldcraft)

-When you intend to change your wallpapper or paint color (of Windows or in your room) and try to press Shift+A to bring up the Texture Application Tool

-When see a pretty girl (or boy, whatever you prefer) on the street and the firs compliment that comes in your mind is "Your model is really HiDef"

-When you actually have said this to someone (I can almost see the look on his/her face! )

-When this post never ends

-When you look at the water in your bathroom and think: How did they simulate that fluid?

-When you look at the horizon and wonder how many polygons you view, and how your eyes can handle it without dropping to an extremely low framerate...

when you actually dream about half-life

guilty. actually i dream about mapping and wake up, go onto the map and find i didnt make the changes i thought i had. very annoying.

Hah, my eyes do drop to low fps!!?!...after few days of mapping...

(dude, I'd better goto doctor... )

-When you have posters of Gordon Freeman above your bed and your room is littered with thousands and thousands of level idea's and sketches/concept art.

Hey, wait... my room IS littered with that...

omg ,mine too

Oh dear. Now that's when it goes beyond obsession

(that is unless gordon freeman has a big head of dreadlocks, was in a famous band called the Wailing Wailers and has a tendancy for smoking spliffs)

No, wait.....Nah.

- You make maps of places like your school.

yep, me and blueblade were working on that for about 2 weeks, and it looked pretty good too, but we were afraid that if some1 found out, we would get it

and i am also guilty of concept mapping

and for any newbs on this site, NEVER MAP, IT WILL KILL YOU SLOWLY (if you have slow r_speeds, lol) IT WILL CONSUME ALL OF YOUR TIME! IT IS VERY VERY VERY ADDICTIVE, IT WILL BE ALL YOUR MIND THINKS OF FOR A LOOOOONNNGGGGGGG TIME, SO, STOP MAPPING IF YOU CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why are you teaching them to ahte mapping? do you not want them to be better than you>?

Its not that addictive dude. For me at least. Its a hobby for me. As are a ton of other things. And I have an EXTREME imagination. Give me place and I will spend day/ weeks making a map just off the word "park" and such. Seriously though, dont try to get me to map what you want. Map it yourself! Arr!