REAL horror Created 20 years ago2004-07-01 03:18:15 UTC by Coolfat3459

This wave of horror maps is a very good idea, unfortunately I am disappointed. Nothing jumps out at you, there aren't any scary rooms or screams of the tormented. You want to see a scary map? Or maybe a series of them? Maybe even a mod if I want to take the time? I'll show you a horror map that will make you be afraid to sleep at night....

Screenshots coming soon to a thread near you.

erm, jazhel is already working on the mod

But the screenshots are dissapointing, good job on reading my whole post there buddy.

your the only one who foudn them disapointing. i mean jahzels are good. those others not great

Well the environment just doesn't look frightening... no offense to Jahzel...

I bet he intends to scare us with super high r_speeds.
Horror in HL is quite hard to do, unless you change the code.

they hunger managed it. i think wcdude is being over-critical and boastful

I bet he intends to scare us with super high r_speeds.

I was just about to say the same thing. I'm more scared of the mangling of the engine than what is done in it...THAT is something that'll keep me awake .

Horror is managable if you are a master of scripted sequences and impressive entity setups. And I didn't find Hunger scary. Even with the lights off, headphones cranked up and playing at 11pm in only the light from my computer screen....but that's just me. I'm never really scared of anything in movies or games, although the Silent Hill series had its share of creepy moments.

You cannot create real horror in HL. You'd need better animation sequnces for the monsters, that'd help alot.
DOOM3, will be real horror, I'm really looking forward to play it.

Well This will be a dead giveaway to some of the stuff that will scare you (and if I say this everyone will starting doing it) but I must to tell you how I intend to make a horror atmosphere:
1.Random sounds of terror (tons of new sounds that are not taken from the .pak ooooo ahhhh)
2.In some areas, extremely disturbing monster skins or images (disturbing as in scary, not as in sickening) maybe appear for a split second right in your face with a scary noise then vanish
3.I am inspired by Fatal Frame (an EXTREMELY suspenseful horror/puzzle game www.fatalframe.com)

I think I will be turning this into a small mod rather than just a map, this will delay es_station for a good while...

You cannot create real horror in HL.

....It's possible using the engine, is it not? Create some custom animation sequences, make more monsters...Like the stuff being discussed in Jahzel's thread. I agree, the default Half-Life setup is a bit....lacking in the horror department, I was kind of referring to mods and anything with the engine in my post, but it didn't come across that way.

DOOM3, will be real horror, I'm really looking forward to play it.

Me too, especially since it's designed on NVidia cards. (still works on ATI, anyone who has one) Huzzay for the GeForce!

Got a picture...finally. Its the splash screen, but its also an ingame shot (without the skull or letters)

Come on guys, Now I know you wouldnt want to be wandering around in THAT just waiting for something to lunge at you....

www.fatalframe.com I seriously don't know why 7th deleted my correcting post.

The skull looks poorly cut out and stuck on. The name and screenshot look like youre coppying that weird dream map in the vault. No offense, thats just how it looks.

Coolfat: you wrote "www.fatalframegame.com" originally; I didn't realise the bracket was a problem too.

it looks boring wiht bad architecture.

And you can still see the 16bit colordepth relics.

I'm not ripping off Weird Dreams. If I could have made fog months ago, I would have already made this thing. Its not boring, you have to actually be in the map to understand what it feels like. I couldn't have done a better job with the skull because I only have paint.

It's.....grey.

Now I know you wouldnt want to be wandering around in THAT just waiting for something to lunge at you....

I'll do it.

it looks so boring, show us what you mean then

it looks pretty empty.

@coolfat: Get GIMP.
The Windoze Version and GTK+2.

That's a better skull for you right there.

It looks so ... stamped.

What prog did you do that with, ZL?

Ok then -- so you want horror, right?

Well I was playing around with spirit not long ago and I achieved some really eerie effects:Not the kind of place you would like to visit after a cup of tea and biscuits.

I was thinking of using this in my own horror idea, who knows...

A bit empty and not very detailed. Make the pillars round. You could also add some strange plants and stuff. Maybe some skelletons nailed on the pillars.
The shadows look crappy too, but that's the old engine.

and the ceiling need some support

the shadows would look better if you tweak the compile settings a bit

It'd be cool if you could increase the resolution of the lightmap.
The only way to get a higher resolution is scaling the texture down, too bad.

Dude Jahzel, thats nice, if you don't use that effect, can I have your permission to use it? I'll mess around with it, will probably look really good if you cannot see the ceiling. Of course, its too industrial for my taste, I'll probably end up replaceing everything with abstract textures to make it seem more like a dream.

Hmm...how did you accomplish it? Looks like a little fog combined with a light_environment set as a sun with a special color, or some Spirit light FX?

Actually, to tell you the truth it was piss easy to do, and those shadows, I agree, are pretty strange. I didn't actually know it would look like that...

It's basically just a silly litte Spirit of Half-life experiment type of thing

Oh, Just to say, I have a horror tutorial that goes through the basics of Horror is Half-Life. Check it out.

Coolfat,

can I help? I would like to do this stuff.

Hello?

That horror tutorial rocks!

I read up on it before working on my zombies map. I'm trying to make it more scary because it isn't scary enough right now.

My maps haven't had much horror in them as they've been MP, CS and during they day in bright areas. Although with the recent arrival of the Natural Selection Beta, maybe I can change that .

Hmm, real horror. This is highly unlikely, but did anyone go to Dreamworld on the Gold Coast (QLD, Australia) during the christmas holidays? Because they had a temperory attraction there, some Tomb Raider thing. NOW THAT WAS SCARY. Basicly just a really dark maze with light effects, and sound effects. Although the scariest sound effects came from the real people inside the maze which were ahead of you, screaming their lungs out, leaving you wondering whats ahead. They had some walls made of like net kinda stuff with real people wearing make up and a costume to make them look like monsters behind them. Whenever you walked past they would poke out and roar/scream at you. In fact, I saw one of them scare some people in front of us, so I said to him "I know you are there, so you better not scare me". Me of course being me, walked past without suspecting he was actually going to scare me. However, when I actually did walk past him, he screamed in my ear and scared the shit out of me, and the 'monster' started pissing himself laughing. Now i dont get scared very often, but HOLY CRAP, that was scary. It was designed by the worlds best 'scare-master' or something but god damn, that was scary. The least scariest bit was actually when a couple of japanese tourists accidently led us into the fire exit, and eventually to a dead end. Aren't they nice

In fact, I might just go and make a map like that right now

Without the japanese tourists and the fire exit of course

Lol.

Heard of that attraction, never went though. There's plenty of em' though.

Thanks for complementing my tutorial.

Complimenting. You said "adding to".

I am a bad speller when it comes to typing, that is why I use spell check when I type a novel.

That's probably why you use similar-looking words with different meanings and connotations

use THAT sound in your horror map.

Actually, the screams they heard were most likely the men, women, and children being sacrificed by the underground reptilian race, reminds me of the story about the some-300 children, teachers, and guides who all went missing after entering a string of undergound tunnels in Malta. All of them went missing, not even one of them managed to escape. Apparently, according to the legend, their screams could be heard undergound throughout the entire Island.