Space Shuttle Discovery Launch

Haha I haven't seen this done before.
Reminds me of the Goldeneye rocket sequence for some reason.

Your dll's are borked.

Not for Habboi it seems... Geuss you installed it the wrong way.

no smoke ? ;o

No. I planned to add smoke when i get the everything else to work.

so we don't run this in the spirit mod folder?

https://sites.google.com/site/rowleybob/muzzerror0000.jpg

Don't you know already Habboi doesn't play maps, only comments on screenies?! (I love you Habboi don't be hatin' :P)

Its a stand alone mod, Rowley. The mod is in fact Spirit, you don't need Spirit to run it. Just activate it via the custom game menu.

Wad issues fixed.

Really cool Muzz.

The only thing that broke immersion for me was the transparent texture for the main tower... otherwise, everything was spectacular!

As it was lifting off, I noclipped to follow it up... breathtaking; the hair on the back of my neck stood up!

Just when you think you've seen everything with the HL engine, somebody does something like this... Simply amazing, period.

Can't wait for the updates!

LOLT! Glad you liked it, even though its unfinished.

And keep in mind that the launch tower was the hardest thing to do, it consist of countless numbers of steel bars, pipes, wires and what not. Its very difficult to make a perfectly matching tower as the real one. so, of course its a bit ugly.

Did the sound (mp3) work for you? How was the timing?

The sound was absolutely perfect!.. that must have took some time to sync--I didn't even consider that! (however, if you go to the console for any reason, the the sequence/sound sync will bork, due to the fact that the audio continues while the launch pauses (i think, anyway).

And at around 2000 wpolys, you certainly have room to add to this--this won't be a playable MP map, obviously. Plus you have all the room in the world to add models--the epolys were zero lol!

Maybe for the tower custom textures of the real tower would look better than the transparent ones. If all fails, you could just cop out and make the tower a model

You could do a lot of camera work with this too, the only limitation being that when your at altitude, looking down betrays the trick of the skybox. Maybe you could figure out a practical method to blend the ground, skybox for this purpose--this is always a pain with HL... but I'm sure there is a way to make it work.

Last nitpick, the info_player gordon starts stairing face first in the side of the launch foundation... put the spawn in full view of that pretty orbiter/boosters, in all their glorious detail!

Again, breathtaking stuff!

Oh btw, did you build the whole thing without using HLFix? If you did, you are the freaking master! I love the sleekness of the orbiter, the main engines. The boosters and liquid fuel tank are also quite astonishingly beautiful.

Thanks!

Yeah, the sound just continues while in console/menu/pause mode. There's nothing i can do about it.

2000 wpolies? LOL! I have'nt even checked with r_speeds 1. Oh well.

I lack texturing skills and modelling skills. Im also lacking good reference photo's of the Launch Tower. So its quite impossible for me to make a 100% matching tower.

Well, my main goal was to create the exact same sequence as in: http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-2510091430596079774&q=nasa+launch I want the whole sequence to be seen from a trigger_camera entity. But there's a bug with the camera that somehow screws up the exhaust flame...

Yeah, the ET (External Tank), SRB's (Solid Rocket Boosters) are of course made with high detail, especially the exhaust nozzles of the Orbiter and the SRB's.

If only i can get this stupid func_tracktrain and trigger_camera thing fixed. But im affraid its in the Spirit code...

Very cool! If you manage to get the camera stuff working, you could also add a Google Earth pic of the launch site. Maybe you could use the gfx/env maps only for the sky and clouds and make the ground with a 3D skybox. I don't know if it's possible with Spirit...

Maaaybe... Ill try it out, thanks.

Kasp:

I gave it a thought and i think im gonna do this in Source instead. More space available to me.

And since you're pretty much Pro with Source, im asking you if you would like to be my advisor. Is it possible to make the same kind of exhaust flame in Source as the one in the HL1 version?

I'm not sure if the exact same flame is available, but I do know that you can even add a heat distortion effect. We could also ask Captain P, since he's worked with particle effects before (my Source maps are usually more static)
I'll investigate a bit.

Would be nice, i can't stand Hammer 4, crashes on me a lot. :/

(I love you Habboi don't be hatin' :P)

That's too much information for me

As for the fire effect...As far as I am aware I don't recall a sprite like that but unless you make your own sprite maybe you could somehow trigger the explosion effect you get from barrels to constantly repeat although it might look cheap.

Looked great, but got an error message when I started hl. Ah well, will keep trying.

Wow, a while later, downloaded it and it worked! Only this time I used my steam half-life version.

Fantastic!

Muzzle can you send me the rmf file for this map im playing on making a air base for day of defeat and id be honarded if you had your creation in my map. send big_kev726@yahoo.com maybe we can make a map togather!

Planing*

Sorry, but im not going to send the rmf to anyone. Basically because im continuing its development for Source, as seen here:

http://www.themightyatom.nl/screenshots/sts_121_1.jpg
http://www.themightyatom.nl/screenshots/sts_121_2.jpg
http://www.themightyatom.nl/screenshots/sts_121_3.jpg
http://www.themightyatom.nl/screenshots/sts_121_4.jpg
http://www.themightyatom.nl/screenshots/sts_121_5.jpg

Maybe we can sort things out. Email me, and show me some of your mapping capabilities.

ive made well over 100 maps for dod, dod_orange2, dod_blue, snow_snipers, crasy_jump2, Spacetemple, and when i see maps i know exc what should be added and i would really like to work with you with my creaction and your bluiding we could make the prefect top 10 map.

Thats fine, but im not going to install Yahoo Messenger just for this. MSN only. Sorry.

where do i go when im doing downloading???

What?

Not sure what you're saying, but to download this, click the green download button.