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I'n baq agin! Weth nu spelin skels!
jk...
But, I am back, again...
jk...
But, I am back, again...
I will upgrade my DSL from 0.5Mbit to 8Mbit soon. 
It's going to be fun to play CS:S And HL2DM without having 600 ping :
It's going to be fun to play CS:S And HL2DM without having 600 ping :
Forums haven't changed a bit during 8 months. We're still the community where the lazy, arrogant and new folks just go straight to the forums with a new topic. Seriously: I knew more advanced map editing than most of the new guys around here when I didn't even have access to the internet. I wonder how many that has actually looked in the help file that came with Hammer.
So what if the answer isn't in the help?
The answer is simple. Perform an online search for tutorials. And to stick to them until the basics and the intermediate has been learned. It takes patience, and I've been really frustrated at hammer on several occasions. I can imagine how certain people feel when their dreams, of the greatest map in HL history, gets crushed for something as useless as a vertex manipulation error or a leak.
Something people tend to fear today, especially new mappers, is the will to experiment. Everything has to be taught and this is a shame. The things you learn by yourself, are the things you'll remember. Worthy of mentioning is also the lack of planning. Sketch out a map on a piece of paper, put out notes, scribble down some ideas along the side. Things will get so much easier when there is written information to refer back to.
What I definitively can't understand is the fact that many posters detail their topic with ":P", "lol" and ":D". What the... People want to avoid such things and just skip the topic. Which is exactly what the poster didn't want. He/ She wants help but instead sort of chase the repliers off. Use plain english to the best of your ability. Get your mom and dad to help you if you don't know how to properly spell a certain difficult word.
Enough ranting for now...
So what if the answer isn't in the help?
The answer is simple. Perform an online search for tutorials. And to stick to them until the basics and the intermediate has been learned. It takes patience, and I've been really frustrated at hammer on several occasions. I can imagine how certain people feel when their dreams, of the greatest map in HL history, gets crushed for something as useless as a vertex manipulation error or a leak.
Something people tend to fear today, especially new mappers, is the will to experiment. Everything has to be taught and this is a shame. The things you learn by yourself, are the things you'll remember. Worthy of mentioning is also the lack of planning. Sketch out a map on a piece of paper, put out notes, scribble down some ideas along the side. Things will get so much easier when there is written information to refer back to.
What I definitively can't understand is the fact that many posters detail their topic with ":P", "lol" and ":D". What the... People want to avoid such things and just skip the topic. Which is exactly what the poster didn't want. He/ She wants help but instead sort of chase the repliers off. Use plain english to the best of your ability. Get your mom and dad to help you if you don't know how to properly spell a certain difficult word.
Enough ranting for now...
kol gets DSL!!!!!!
Hahahahaha!!!!!
Back to my usual forum spamming
Hahahahaha!!!!!
Back to my usual forum spamming
Mwhahah my map is 50% done!
Check out my website people www.geocities.comunderground2120 its not done yet so some help would be very nice send me an email 
Congratulations, RabidMonkey! Good luck on your application.
I'll send positive vibes your way this entire week.
I'll send positive vibes your way this entire week.
The forums are so full of swearing, idiocy (of the not very amusing kind), and 1337ism I'm actually now too embarassed to look at them in work. Even if something fun, funny or interesting pops up in the Stuff forum, its quickly ripped apart by morons who can't thing of anything to add to it, so they just randomly make vaguely offensive and highly cringeworthy 'jokes'. I thought all of this would have changed, and the idiots left post hl2, obviously not. :
Theres no point trolling, and, rather than stepped over, the 'conversations' are derailed to the point where they're pretty impossible just to ignore.
Theres no point trolling, and, rather than stepped over, the 'conversations' are derailed to the point where they're pretty impossible just to ignore.
Man, i love TWHL. it's so fun to read the threads, Everyone's inability to stay on topic is really amusing
A guy needs help removing trojans, the thread evolves to a discussion about Porn.
another guy writes about his MOD idea, the thread transforms and is suddenly a thread about the difference between American english and english spoken in the rest of the world
TWHL OWNZ0RZ!
A guy needs help removing trojans, the thread evolves to a discussion about Porn.
another guy writes about his MOD idea, the thread transforms and is suddenly a thread about the difference between American english and english spoken in the rest of the world
TWHL OWNZ0RZ!
Damn, Kinapuffar Owns.. Best candy ever. after Dumle and Piggelin, But that's an icecream...! 
I have a Russian dictionary.
Don't know why, But i'm feeling very nostalgic today.
I think it's because of HL2 and Hammer4. I feel like a Newbie again
Damn, Has it been 3 years already? Seems like yesterday when i was mapping on my old Comp (233mhz celeron) without RAD because it took so long to compile
The first map.. 2 rooms textured only with AAA and a scientist in the middle. That was it.
Then followed numerous attempts at recreating my school. Both in SP and MP. None of them were any good.
After that i started my first serious attempt at making a Singleplayer map: "Another Day" (yeah i know there are hundreds of maps with that name, it just seemed original at the time). A-D was a horror map with a very thin storyline, You were Gordon Freeman. You've been sleeping on the job and when you woke up, everyone was DEAD ... Really original.
Then i did some small maps to learn what i didn't know about the entities.
After that i did my first real MP map called Deathmatch1. IMO it was a pretty good map, but the r-speeds were too high, you would have to have a really good comp to be able to play the damned thing.
Again i did some small maps such as the infamous "Magoria" series with my friend. Magoria was an arcade map. you would die all the time from stepping on traps and such. the only way to beat it would be to learn where the traps were. it was fun, but i doubt anyone else would agree
Then i started to sketch, i wanted to make a really good map, a map with alot more advanced architecture and layout. so i started with "dream1". it has been under construction for over a year and now it seems it will never be finished..hm.. damn, i wasted a whole year
I think it's because of HL2 and Hammer4. I feel like a Newbie again
Damn, Has it been 3 years already? Seems like yesterday when i was mapping on my old Comp (233mhz celeron) without RAD because it took so long to compile
The first map.. 2 rooms textured only with AAA and a scientist in the middle. That was it.
Then followed numerous attempts at recreating my school. Both in SP and MP. None of them were any good.
After that i started my first serious attempt at making a Singleplayer map: "Another Day" (yeah i know there are hundreds of maps with that name, it just seemed original at the time). A-D was a horror map with a very thin storyline, You were Gordon Freeman. You've been sleeping on the job and when you woke up, everyone was DEAD
... Really original.Then i did some small maps to learn what i didn't know about the entities.
After that i did my first real MP map called Deathmatch1. IMO it was a pretty good map, but the r-speeds were too high, you would have to have a really good comp to be able to play the damned thing.
Again i did some small maps such as the infamous "Magoria" series with my friend. Magoria was an arcade map. you would die all the time from stepping on traps and such. the only way to beat it would be to learn where the traps were. it was fun, but i doubt anyone else would agree
Then i started to sketch, i wanted to make a really good map, a map with alot more advanced architecture and layout. so i started with "dream1". it has been under construction for over a year and now it seems it will never be finished..hm.. damn, i wasted a whole year
From The Los Angeles Times; November 27th, 2004 (Saturday)
How about a group thug?
*Friends and strangers gather to 'kill' each other in a friendly game of Halo 2. For players, it's a matter of thinking inside the Xbox.
By Deborah Netburn, Special to The Times
At 9 on a Friday night in a sparsely furnished office bungalow in Hollywood, a group of 14 television writers, screenwriters, comedians and assorted tangential friends have gathered around a few television screens. The premiere of someone's new show? Actually, they've come together to play Halo 2, the stunningly successful video game for Xbox.
Most of them have been playing the original Halo on a weekly basis as a group for a couple years. But as this session got started, it became clear that there was going to be some disparity among their skill levels. For some, this was their first time playing the sequel, which was released earlier this month.
"I played for three minutes before I got here, but it clearly wasn't enough," said Ken Little (a.k.a. "Weapon-X"), a self-described computer nerd. "I have a job, a wife and two kids, so it's been kind of hard to fit it in."
But John Travis, a 40-year-old stand-up comic who plays the game under the name "Dr. Takahashi" had spent at least 15 hours over the past week familiarizing himself with the game to make sure he'd be comfortable with all the "maps" ? the complicated and intricate environments where the action takes place.
Halo 2, like the first Halo, which was released in 2001, is a first-person shooter game, so the player never sees his character's corporal body, only the guns, swords, rockets and grenades that he uses to blow up and otherwise destroy his enemies. In single-player mode, Halo and Halo 2 tell an elaborate story that involves battling a confederation of aliens, but when played in the more popular multiplayer mode, both Halos become about nothing more than trying to annihilate your friends.
The original is one of the 10 bestselling videogames of all time, with an estimated 5 million copies sold. Halo 2 shows promise of reaching similar numbers with 1.5 million copies pre-sold and $125 million in sales its first day in stores.
Each Xbox can support four controllers, and if there are enough TVs and enough Xboxes, they can be linked to play the game with up to 16 people at once. "It's kind of like a softball game without moving around," said Jay Johnston, the tall gravely voiced actor who started the weekly games. "Or like a poker night with blood," said Jeff Walton, a screenwriter.
During its glory days, the weekly Halo game was played on a large-screen TV at the spacious home of Johnston's girlfriend and would draw up to 25 participants. But the game has been roving ever since the two broke up about a year ago. This particular Friday it was held at the production offices of three Halo regulars who are working on a pilot for Comedy Central about nerd culture (which explains the "Star Trek" uniform hanging in the hallway). They had already filmed a segment on the Halo crew earlier that month.
The game was spread out over two rooms, each with two TVs and two Xboxes. In the back room, Sarah Altman, an aspiring comedy writer with dark makeup and bulbous black shoes who plays the game as "Sicky," was getting slaughtered repeatedly by a player named "Cracken" who was in the front room. Altman is one of the few women who regularly attends Halo nights and prides herself on being just as good, if not better, than the guys. But this night, she was not at her best, having played Halo 2 only twice before.
"What? Who's Cracken?" she asked. "Why are there strangers here?"
"Yeah, I don't know those guys in the front room," mumbled Little, who was looking at the screen with marked confusion.
Altman pressed a few buttons and there was a splatter from her section of the split screen. "Ahh ? I just killed Cracken and it felt good," she said, leaning back in her chair and smirking with satisfaction.
In the front room, Ian Rutherford, Jeff Walton, his brother Ed, and Kevin Jarzynsky sat in a row of office chairs in front of the television, their fingers moving rapidly over the bulky black controllers. Ed Walton, who plays as "PrimaNotra" and works for Jerry Bruckheimer, looked pretty serious in his black wrist guards. These were the four strangers, brought to the game by Travis, and they were killing everybody.
In the back of the room a short, gentle-looking guy in a knit cap who asked to be identified only by his Halo name, "Spooky," sat with his legs up on the desk, the controller sitting limply in his hands. "Sicky, stop it Sicky," he said quietly, looking despondent as the words "You have been splattered by Sicky" popped up on the screen.
After the first round the group decided to play in team mode, so Gerry Duggan, a clean-cut television producer, moved into the back room to join Altman, Little and a scruffy producer named Ken Daly against the strangers in the front.
Duggan has chosen the player name "A Cute Baby" because whenever his character is killed, the screen will flash his assailant the words 'You killed A Cute Baby." Duggan said he was still getting his Halo 2 legs, but he seemed to be doing better than Daly, Altman and Little, so he took the lead.
"OK, they are all at the top," he said. "Everybody take the elevator up."
"Are you taking the elevator up, Sicky?" asked Little, looking confused.
"I don't know where the elevator is," Altman said.
"Stay together," Duggan commanded.
"Copy that," Daly said.
Altman and Little looked bewildered.
The front room took that round.
Spooky, who sat out that match, walked into the back room looking anxious and said he was taking a cigarette break. "I'm getting depressed," Little said. "Like an out-of-my-league thing." Altman agreed and within the next 10 minutes all three of them had packed up their controllers and called it a night.
Some new players arrived, some more players left, but by 11 there were still eight people hanging around, so the group shifted to capture-the-flag mode. Travis, Daly, Duggan and the recently arrived Johnston, who plays as "Captain Oopsie," took the back room and the four strangers stayed rooted to their seats in the front.
As soon as the game got underway, the back room became frantic with cursing and yelling commands and lots of joking, but in the front room it was all business with Jarzynsky, a heavy-set redhead, leading the crew.
"They are coming in, boys!" he would say authoritatively. "I just need some offense!" Or "A Cute Baby is coming this way! Front door, Rusty!"
The front room beat the back room two games to one. Closing in on midnight, the back room was still getting slaughtered. Needing a change of pace, they switched the battle to all-sword combat. Finally, the front room players began to lose their cool.
"Boy, they really know how to use those swords," said Ed Walton, sounding young and frightened.
"Let's huddle up boys," Jarzynsky said.
"I wish there was a way to hold hands," Jeff Walton said.
How about a group thug?
*Friends and strangers gather to 'kill' each other in a friendly game of Halo 2. For players, it's a matter of thinking inside the Xbox.
By Deborah Netburn, Special to The Times
At 9 on a Friday night in a sparsely furnished office bungalow in Hollywood, a group of 14 television writers, screenwriters, comedians and assorted tangential friends have gathered around a few television screens. The premiere of someone's new show? Actually, they've come together to play Halo 2, the stunningly successful video game for Xbox.
Most of them have been playing the original Halo on a weekly basis as a group for a couple years. But as this session got started, it became clear that there was going to be some disparity among their skill levels. For some, this was their first time playing the sequel, which was released earlier this month.
"I played for three minutes before I got here, but it clearly wasn't enough," said Ken Little (a.k.a. "Weapon-X"), a self-described computer nerd. "I have a job, a wife and two kids, so it's been kind of hard to fit it in."
But John Travis, a 40-year-old stand-up comic who plays the game under the name "Dr. Takahashi" had spent at least 15 hours over the past week familiarizing himself with the game to make sure he'd be comfortable with all the "maps" ? the complicated and intricate environments where the action takes place.
Halo 2, like the first Halo, which was released in 2001, is a first-person shooter game, so the player never sees his character's corporal body, only the guns, swords, rockets and grenades that he uses to blow up and otherwise destroy his enemies. In single-player mode, Halo and Halo 2 tell an elaborate story that involves battling a confederation of aliens, but when played in the more popular multiplayer mode, both Halos become about nothing more than trying to annihilate your friends.
The original is one of the 10 bestselling videogames of all time, with an estimated 5 million copies sold. Halo 2 shows promise of reaching similar numbers with 1.5 million copies pre-sold and $125 million in sales its first day in stores.
Each Xbox can support four controllers, and if there are enough TVs and enough Xboxes, they can be linked to play the game with up to 16 people at once. "It's kind of like a softball game without moving around," said Jay Johnston, the tall gravely voiced actor who started the weekly games. "Or like a poker night with blood," said Jeff Walton, a screenwriter.
During its glory days, the weekly Halo game was played on a large-screen TV at the spacious home of Johnston's girlfriend and would draw up to 25 participants. But the game has been roving ever since the two broke up about a year ago. This particular Friday it was held at the production offices of three Halo regulars who are working on a pilot for Comedy Central about nerd culture (which explains the "Star Trek" uniform hanging in the hallway). They had already filmed a segment on the Halo crew earlier that month.
The game was spread out over two rooms, each with two TVs and two Xboxes. In the back room, Sarah Altman, an aspiring comedy writer with dark makeup and bulbous black shoes who plays the game as "Sicky," was getting slaughtered repeatedly by a player named "Cracken" who was in the front room. Altman is one of the few women who regularly attends Halo nights and prides herself on being just as good, if not better, than the guys. But this night, she was not at her best, having played Halo 2 only twice before.
"What? Who's Cracken?" she asked. "Why are there strangers here?"
"Yeah, I don't know those guys in the front room," mumbled Little, who was looking at the screen with marked confusion.
Altman pressed a few buttons and there was a splatter from her section of the split screen. "Ahh ? I just killed Cracken and it felt good," she said, leaning back in her chair and smirking with satisfaction.
In the front room, Ian Rutherford, Jeff Walton, his brother Ed, and Kevin Jarzynsky sat in a row of office chairs in front of the television, their fingers moving rapidly over the bulky black controllers. Ed Walton, who plays as "PrimaNotra" and works for Jerry Bruckheimer, looked pretty serious in his black wrist guards. These were the four strangers, brought to the game by Travis, and they were killing everybody.
In the back of the room a short, gentle-looking guy in a knit cap who asked to be identified only by his Halo name, "Spooky," sat with his legs up on the desk, the controller sitting limply in his hands. "Sicky, stop it Sicky," he said quietly, looking despondent as the words "You have been splattered by Sicky" popped up on the screen.
After the first round the group decided to play in team mode, so Gerry Duggan, a clean-cut television producer, moved into the back room to join Altman, Little and a scruffy producer named Ken Daly against the strangers in the front.
Duggan has chosen the player name "A Cute Baby" because whenever his character is killed, the screen will flash his assailant the words 'You killed A Cute Baby." Duggan said he was still getting his Halo 2 legs, but he seemed to be doing better than Daly, Altman and Little, so he took the lead.
"OK, they are all at the top," he said. "Everybody take the elevator up."
"Are you taking the elevator up, Sicky?" asked Little, looking confused.
"I don't know where the elevator is," Altman said.
"Stay together," Duggan commanded.
"Copy that," Daly said.
Altman and Little looked bewildered.
The front room took that round.
Spooky, who sat out that match, walked into the back room looking anxious and said he was taking a cigarette break. "I'm getting depressed," Little said. "Like an out-of-my-league thing." Altman agreed and within the next 10 minutes all three of them had packed up their controllers and called it a night.
Some new players arrived, some more players left, but by 11 there were still eight people hanging around, so the group shifted to capture-the-flag mode. Travis, Daly, Duggan and the recently arrived Johnston, who plays as "Captain Oopsie," took the back room and the four strangers stayed rooted to their seats in the front.
As soon as the game got underway, the back room became frantic with cursing and yelling commands and lots of joking, but in the front room it was all business with Jarzynsky, a heavy-set redhead, leading the crew.
"They are coming in, boys!" he would say authoritatively. "I just need some offense!" Or "A Cute Baby is coming this way! Front door, Rusty!"
The front room beat the back room two games to one. Closing in on midnight, the back room was still getting slaughtered. Needing a change of pace, they switched the battle to all-sword combat. Finally, the front room players began to lose their cool.
"Boy, they really know how to use those swords," said Ed Walton, sounding young and frightened.
"Let's huddle up boys," Jarzynsky said.
"I wish there was a way to hold hands," Jeff Walton said.
hmmm havent been in here for a while lets see ok well i suppose i have played hl2 and finished it 
now i want to map for it so i think ill make my school as its a request by mates!!! the only buggering problem with source is the lights and water
There blooming hard to get to work as the lights are first fullbright then they suddenly go dark the next time i compiled grrr and the water seems to go purple and even have weird glitches
it is pissing me off i just hope i can solve it!
now i want to map for it so i think ill make my school as its a request by mates!!! the only buggering problem with source is the lights and waterThere blooming hard to get to work as the lights are first fullbright then they suddenly go dark the next time i compiled grrr and the water seems to go purple and even have weird glitches
it is pissing me off i just hope i can solve it!
This is got to be one of the most entertaining discussion I've come across for a long time (not just at TWHL, but any forum).
http://cariad.co.za/twhl/forums.php?action=viewthread&page=last&id=5778&pg=1
I can't wait for the conclusion of the thread (or perhaps there wouldn't be one?).
http://cariad.co.za/twhl/forums.php?action=viewthread&page=last&id=5778&pg=1
I can't wait for the conclusion of the thread (or perhaps there wouldn't be one?).