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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-23 19:32:04 UTC
in Ideas for TWHL's x-mas special Post #311109
Yeah sure ... :D
@Urby: thats where the ticket system comes in, id say we do it the same way as last year, its just more games and other people are better at some games so they could catch up in kills if say potatis owns everyone in half-life.
Anyway, so what do you people think: motm or make a level in a month for x-mas ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-23 06:55:11 UTC
in Ideas for TWHL's x-mas special Post #311104
A week before i believe.
Il talk over with Daubster about the new suggestions.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-21 18:13:45 UTC
in Ideas for TWHL's x-mas special Post #311088
You wont have to pay a cent, though you are welcome to pitch in to make the prize bigger.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-21 07:54:18 UTC
in Model glow Post #311081
Engine has the capability of adding the glow effect, but only through code.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-21 07:52:14 UTC
in Ideas for TWHL's x-mas special Post #311080
Would the 21, 22 and 23 of December be good for you guys ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-20 18:51:53 UTC
in Ideas for TWHL's x-mas special Post #311070
Come on guys, don't you want to win some steam games and have a good time ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-19 21:10:15 UTC
in max map models - 512 Post #311054
Group all solids you can, remove unneeded ents.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-19 16:26:44 UTC
in Which cheap GPU for 3D modelling/mapping Post #311052
That would probably be for someone who just needs a video output for a server or something.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-19 16:06:45 UTC
in Which cheap GPU for 3D modelling/mapping Post #311050
I did some searching around and it appears the case that the sff thinkcenter has can only accept low profile cards, so any used last gen high-end cards ( > gtx220) wont fit. I looked at the specs of 6450 (both manufacturers are about the same) and a gt620, judging by spec it should beat nvidia by a hair.
Unless you are willing to cut your case open for used high-er end cards you're stuck with these.
Could you also give the exact model of your thinkcenter ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-18 21:04:54 UTC
in Which cheap GPU for 3D modelling/mapping Post #311042
I can't imagine the pain you must be going through using integrated graphics. Basically any dedicated card will improve your experience alot.

The cheaper price could be due to lower clock, cheaper components, more units produced etc... The clock is not a big problem, you can always oc it a bit, I oc all my cards by at least 100mhz, though the manufacturer oc editions aren't any better than the standard clock. Custom coolers are a plus, even if you are not overclocking they provide less noise and better temperatures than the reference cards. The bigger issue could be your psu, 280w is quite low (my servers Pentium 4 has a 400w one, the old chips like their power :) ), when playing a game which im sure you will do at some point, if at any point the gpu can't get enough power the system might restart, the increased wear on the psu could cause it to fail after some time.

As for the specs, you should line both cards up and see which one is better, read some reviews.
Also would you be kind to provide links to the exact cards you are looking at?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-18 19:37:39 UTC
in Which cheap GPU for 3D modelling/mapping Post #311040
From what I understand you are running integrated graphics ?
If so I would be running to get a GPU, makes a world of difference.

As for XFX vs Sapphire. I had an XFX GTX260, ran great, never had any problems, now my cousin is using it. All i know is that Sapphire is a AMD exclusive board partner, but it doesn't have a big market share. If i were you id look into "The big 3" that is MSI ASUS and GIGABYTE? who actually own the factories that assemble the boards, so there is more support if anything goes wrong.
BFG had a good no questions asked return policy, basically if your card breaks down they give you a new one, not sure if they are still in business though :D
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-18 15:49:22 UTC
in Which cheap GPU for 3D modelling/mapping Post #311038
If you really must spend that cash get the best GPU you can.
Any modeling program will run fine if you don't go overboard with the amount of polys.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-16 12:15:17 UTC
in win 7 update fukked Post #311008
I have them on and they are nothing compared to flash or java updates, they don't ask whether you want to install them or not they just do that when I turn off my machine which is very convenient.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-15 20:29:01 UTC
in win 7 update fukked Post #310995
Does it occur to everyone that the update installs to or just specific machines ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-15 15:26:02 UTC
in Which cheap GPU for 3D modelling/mapping Post #310987
Phrased that wrong sry :D
Ram is so cheap these days you can get some extra with your gpu.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-15 13:15:34 UTC
in Liquid texture is bright in the dark? Post #310980
Just as an idea, wouldn't making that water texture a texlight fix this problem ? I mean turning the brightness down. If not you could at least light up the surroundings.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-15 13:13:10 UTC
in Which cheap GPU for 3D modelling/mapping Post #310979
The new gpu will bottleneck the rest of the system.
Yeah 560ti's are awesome :)
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-15 12:30:05 UTC
in Which cheap GPU for 3D modelling/mapping Post #310972
Best option - just save up for a new system.
If you really want to throw money away then take a look at this
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt640/specifications
the psu might cause problems cause the card does require a bit more power, but the new cards don't suck so much these days so you could get away.
I'm a nvidia fan boy so don't expect me to recommend anything else.
But once again you are just better off saving up for a new rig.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-13 19:16:29 UTC
in Ideas for TWHL's x-mas special Post #310946
So i had a look at the available maps:
CS 1.6: 6 maps
HLDM: more than enough
CSS & TF2: 1 map each

We can move css, tf2 and flat-life into the same day thus having a 3 day tourney with cs and hldm with their own days.
Who would be interested in hosting a US based server for any of these games?
How about the date, does the weekend before x-mas work ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-13 12:15:52 UTC
in Ideas for TWHL's x-mas special Post #310943
So with the holidays not far away, i remembered having a good time in the last x-mas retro map tourney. Why don't we start thinking about what could we do this x-mas ?

Im thinking CS:GO, HL2:DM or something, i know there arent a load of community maps for them, but we could just have a good time blasting each other on some standard ones as well.

Any other ideas ? :)
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-12 16:01:44 UTC
in Help with map for online server. Post #310926
Goldsource engine limit is 512 entities, I don't get where you keep digging up 2k limits when even source is not capable of driving that many.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-10 20:41:06 UTC
in TWHL Post #310880
Something like that, I believe (though not sure) that you can setup a router at home (using dd-wrt) and connect to it so that that it becomes a proxy. I have one router for testing purposes but don't have a limited connection to test with :(
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-10 19:53:08 UTC
in Team Mapping 2 Post #310879
Why did this just die ?
Me wanna make something !
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-10 11:51:14 UTC
in TWHL Post #310872
Set up a vpn to home then :)
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-06 17:45:57 UTC
in Advanced mapping help? Post #310825
It might if you use an entity that HL does not have like bomb_target.
But probably wont.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-05 20:24:20 UTC
in Advanced mapping help? Post #310810
Those are brush based entities, you select a block you just made, right click and then select Tie to entity.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-05 13:09:38 UTC
in Hallucinating mod, need help Post #310806
"I know mods can be purchased through steam"
Where did you get that info? Well atleast you cant sell a source mod w/o owning a license (rumored about $200k). And I don't think valve sells gs anymore.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-05 08:47:14 UTC
in Hallucinating mod, need help Post #310802
You can't sell mods, even if you are using everything custom you are still using valves engine to drive it so w/o their notice you can't sell it :(

Btw don't you think source is better for this type of mod ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-04 19:33:31 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #310787
AGS, what is that ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-04 14:07:58 UTC
in Using cycler_sprite crashes VHE? Post #310779
VHE 3.5 tries to display the model in the 3D view when using cycler_sprite, maybe it doesn't find the model to where you pointed it.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-04 14:05:26 UTC
in Advanced mapping help? Post #310778
Triggers are not advanced mapping.
Use trigger_multiple or trigger_once, cycler_sprite to display your model in the world, use a multi_manager if you need to trigger more than one entity, there are tutorials on that here at twhl.
I'm not however sure how you change animations in gs maybe someone else can provide some input on that.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-01 18:10:37 UTC
in 2D sketching software for mapping Post #310722
Yeah i believe it is called revolver.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-01 18:07:47 UTC
in Half Life map at fullbright with no leak Post #310721
Just copy the files into a folder, and change vhe or your front end's paths to the vhlt exe's, there is an extra .txt file there that the tools take settings from so don't forget to edit that, you have to set the location of your .wad's.

-maxlight "-1" should work , the sign specifies a parameter so it thinks -1 is a new parameter not the option for the -maxlight.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-11-01 13:21:18 UTC
in Half Life map at fullbright with no leak Post #310706
You're in the right place, could you give us the entire compile log? that would speed things up.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-31 07:17:46 UTC
in 2D sketching software for mapping Post #310682
Now that i think about it, i believe that there was a tool that gave you something similar to a hammer grid just to draw lines, but in a sense that defeats the purpose of just using hammer.
I'm not custom with pain.net and gimp, but there should be addons for a grid.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-31 06:25:33 UTC
in 2D sketching software for mapping Post #310680
Overviews are done within the game there is a tutorial about that.
As far as sketching, anything that has a drawing capability: photoshop, ms paint, paper and pen.
Unless you have problems remembering ideas for the map you got, plain paper is sufficient for sketches, i used to do it.
For software, personally i dont like the mouse interface to draw, so unless i had a "wacom" tablet (dont know the general term :( ) im using paper, it just feels right.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-30 20:35:02 UTC
in elevator Post #310672
Say what ? What do you mean by best elevator ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-28 17:39:33 UTC
in [CS:GO] de_cefalu_go Beta is out Post #310649
I believe twhl has a map vault or am i wrong ?

Nice work though :)
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-27 09:21:55 UTC
in How do you survive not being able to map Post #310633
Bruce is taking very long to return from his mapping free vacation, i noticed.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-27 08:19:58 UTC
in In-game map editor Post #310631
I see you don't understand how source/gs works.
Since they are not realtime engines everything has to be precomputed for them (lightmaps, geometry etc...) hence why we compile.
It would be impractical to have an ingame editor, if your pc is slow running the game at the same time would not be the best mapping experience, having to alt+tab every time you need to edit a model, sound, texture would be a pain and would kill productivity.
Doom3 and Quake4 had a built in editor, even though they used dmap(not sure exactly) some elements still had to be compiled.

There is an ingame editor for Portal 2, but is very primitive though interactive :)
I agree hammer is a bit "out of date" compared to other editors, but we got used to it, and so will you.

Btw you can't link images from you pc, upload them to the web first (imgur, imageshack ...)
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-25 17:11:02 UTC
in Source lights Post #310603
So, im trying to put a light in source like this one:
http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00ICWQmalrhykH/3W-LED-Ceil-Light-LED-Ceiling-Lamp-Lighting-Lights-SGL-CL-3W-01-.jpg you know the ones going into the wall.

Is there a good "ceil" light model in source and how should the light and model entities be setup for accurate light rendering ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-24 15:34:05 UTC
in Source Limits Post #310584
If the map loads fine and you have no lags then keep building.
Btw the 4096 ent limit is split up into 2 halves: networked and non-networked
both 2048, so if you go over 2k of entities and start having problems that might be an issue.
Also keep in mind that even if the map runs good on your pc, i assume you're running a high end one it might not run as good for other people with slower pc's.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-23 18:54:53 UTC
in How do you survive not being able to map Post #310563
When i dont have a pc around me i think up all of the the things i would love to do, but then when i come back i just dont do them.
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-21 08:43:31 UTC
in Platforms that kill you Post #310512
Either add a wall in front of the spikes so that the player gets crushed by having no where else to be pushed or use trigger_hurt and multi_manager to time the whole event. I know that there's an entity to apply precise amount of damage, but i don't remember what its called :(

Urby, maybe the spikes are very sharp and you get stabbed right on the spot :D
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-20 20:31:31 UTC
in Problem with save files. Post #310497
Linux has gotten pretty good over the last years in terms of general usability even better now that steam is on the way. I would switch myself probably, but it doesnt cut it for me just yet. I have a linux distro for playing around though.

What about GPL ? Doesnt it say that you have to give credit to the original author ?
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-20 18:17:17 UTC
in Problem with save files. Post #310494
You should have stated that you are running linux in the first place :)
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-20 18:12:16 UTC
in Help with map for online server. Post #310490
GS entity limit is 512, that is solid + point.
I don't see how can your map work anywhere with that many ents
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-20 17:14:35 UTC
in Half-Life: The Core Post #310485
Looks awesome
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-20 17:12:06 UTC
in A question regarding catwalks in Half-Li Post #310484
From what i get you don't want the player to use the catwalks, then why do you use func_illusionary ?

EDIT: Maybe try to raise the clip brush 1 unit above the grate or raise the monsterclip
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Posted 12 years ago2012-10-20 11:15:09 UTC
in Steam Skins Post #310480
The default skin still makes me cum just looking at it even the oldest one was great so im never switching
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