Journal #8085

Most definitely.

Yeah.

Do you have any reason not to release the rmfs?

I can't really tell what's going on but his work looks legit? Would HL:S run in garry's mod natively or with a little entity hacking?

I know nothing about Garry's Mod so i don't know, but what he shows to me are just HL1 levels loaded into GM.

I put a lot of work in Uplink Extended and i don't want to just give away all the rmfs to people for them to use the their mods. I'm willing to share parts of the areas in my mod to people but only if they can show their work is legit, as in, made by themselves in Hammer. Those screenshots don't show any of that.

Woah! HE MUST BE A GOOD MAPPER IF HE MADE THE HL MAPS FOR VALVE

I SHUD SUBMIT MY MAPS 2 VALVE N I CAN MAKE HL3 IN LIEK A CUPLE OF DAYZ

I don't see anything to suggest he HAS any work, let alone that he should have access to anyone else's.

Exactly my point, Scotch.

he's in the 4chan steam group... tells u something doesnt it

Just politely decline, at least until he can produce actual material.

Did you release the maps themselves? If he wants them so badly surely he could just decompile them.

That looks dubious.

If it was me, I'd release the sources. Not just to this guy, but to everybody under a Creative Commons license. But then I'm a huge fan of open source.

Can I get TWHL's backend code?

Can I get the US Military's password documentation?

No you can't Stu, because:
1. I'm not proud of it, and
2. I'm hosting TWHL on my own server and don't want to expose any of the potential security risks that are almost certainly to be in there.
I am, however, hosting the framework that will be behind TWHL4 on my website.

Will TWHL4 be out by HL3?

I would say if you have plans on re-using the maps in a new mod one day, keep the rmfs private, otherwise, i don't really see any reason to hold them back, personal preferences aside.

Source on the other hand i always release the source now if someone asks, since BSPSource does such a perfect job decompiling, you may as well.

So you asked for examples of his work, and he sends you Garry's Mod screenshots of Half Life maps?

I'd tell him to fuck off. He's insulting you by posting screenshots of Half Life, so as far as I'm concerned being as rude as possible is fair game.

You don't need to deal with potentially chasing this guy down if he tries to pass your work off as his. That's an inconvenience you could live without, and you don't have any obligations to this guy in the first place.

@Captain: Yes, Half Life Source maps will run under Gmod.

Edit: If there's any doubt left at all, ask him for Hammer screenshots.

Will do.

He can just decompile the .bsp files from half life source i don't see why do you need to ask him for hammer screenshots.

Just say NO

Uh... No sir, that's a really dodgey message, you can look at it in the fist glance and tell sum tin wong. Don't do it! He steal, even if its a small file and it may seem as though it won't matter, to me, if he did that, it would matter A LOT to meh.

I thought PMs were supposed to be private.

At least tell him about BspTwoMap so that he can learn more about VHE and your maps as well... So that he can improve.. if he was ever willing to. I suppose, that is the right thing to do.

I apologize if my comment is a bit late, I just.. I don't know.. He doesn't seem to have much ulterior motives. Or perhaps, I'm just too soft on the matter.