monster_furniture Created 20 years ago2004-07-05 07:34:12 UTC by [VDC] Rad Brad

Sigh... I've been reading all night trying to get some plant models from DoD to not have their blue background on them in Halflife. I've tested many combinations of "solid", "texture", "additive", and "normal" at 0 and 255. Nothing I try seems to work. I tried the cycler_weapon and I kept picking it up like a weapon, so that was a no-go.

I have hammer 3.5 (says when it starts up), the halflife_fgd_02 from VERC, and I pulled the models out of DoD and placed them in a subfolder in the models folder in Valve. I'm compiling it fast, with normal rad, and I'm doing this in Halflife 1.1.1.0.

It's 4:34 am and I give up (for the moment).

For model transparency you need either Steam HL (1.1.2.0) or these replacement DLLs.

I thought it was a steam thing... Easier to leave things like they started and install STEAM to it's own thing, but it's looking like that's got to change....

So these .DLLs, they mimic STEAM? Completely? And I can keep my independent mapping setup (that I love) and not have to screw with STEAM?

No, they just mimic the model transparency settings.

They're from Day of Defeat I think.

Well, they mess with the old Halflife BIGTIME! I was able to check a few times, and now, Halflife quits before the map is loaded. I've restarted several times, and it still kills Halflife. Details shows it's in the KERNEL32.DLL. I"m on Win98se, if I haven't mentioned it before.

So how bad is it to map using STEAM? In the begining of STEAM, it was impossible. Do you have to sign in to map? Is it faster using STEAM? Why is only one of my socks blue?

Steam: not great, but you could use it for playing. I do; use WON for mapping, and maptesting, but for MP and even SP I use Steam (for the music)

thanks