Ninja: drools Niiiice.
Instant: How much optimization have you got? Is most of the compile time with VIS as it usually is?
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Yeah, get a basic story down, list of locations for chapters, etc.
Preferably something that incorporates monster_brother into the HL universe as some sort of survivalist group or government soldiers disguised as terrorists to fool the media after the nuke.
Preferably something that incorporates monster_brother into the HL universe as some sort of survivalist group or government soldiers disguised as terrorists to fool the media after the nuke.
Well, we've got a bit more information now. If it's personal stuff that's preoccupying him, that's good enough for me.
Yeah, my bad, actually. I should have gotten around to finishing the map and releasing it and my fgd a while ago, but I hit a few roadblocks concerning scripted sequences and forgot about it.
...I'm not collapse.
Edit: Whoops, my bad. I get what you mean now. Could have used some quotes, though.
Edit: Whoops, my bad. I get what you mean now. Could have used some quotes, though.
Secondly, I think the most interesting mods and especially the hall of fame ones were source mods. So make that banner "Gold&Source"Or call it "2 Much Gold/Source", pronounced "Too much goldsource". Rolls off the tongue and mind better than "gold and source"
And maybe make the gold... gold. Works well with red.
It is. In fact, I recommend using only a water base, because manually edited terrain is a bit hard to control in Terragen 1.
I guess I can kind of see where he's coming from, but the way he handled it just doesn't make sense to me. Surely he could get some moderators, or disable people making new posts and comments or something.
But take down the entire site altogether? That's just not the way to handle things.
But take down the entire site altogether? That's just not the way to handle things.
Now now, let's not steal other people's stuff.
It's easy to make custom skyboxes once you know how.
It's easy to make custom skyboxes once you know how.
Dimbark, VM'ing without invalid solids is a simple matter of making sure all your geometry can be reduced to triangles and each individual face is convex.
I mean, that's easier said than done, but once you figure out the trick (I almost have, I think) you can start learning how to do it on a large scale like Archie can.
I mean, that's easier said than done, but once you figure out the trick (I almost have, I think) you can start learning how to do it on a large scale like Archie can.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Picked it up yesterday with an extraneous Fallout 3 in a combo back for $20. Which is a good deal for Oblivion. And if my Fallout 3 disk ever gets scratched to hell, I have an extra.
It is Kisuke Urahara's. 
It's... not really intended to roll that way, but when it lands on it's side, the physics engine does that. Also, Rim, it doesn't roll nearly that quickly, I just didn't have any proper screenrecorder running (Because I didn't anticipate it doing that) so I mashed the screenshot button manually to make the gif.
It's... not really intended to roll that way, but when it lands on it's side, the physics engine does that. Also, Rim, it doesn't roll nearly that quickly, I just didn't have any proper screenrecorder running (Because I didn't anticipate it doing that) so I mashed the screenshot button manually to make the gif.
Your Gameinfo.txt seems to be broken somehow. Did you edit it at some point?
Either way, try verifying the game cache integrity, then if that doesn't fix it, back up your maps, models, materials, and sound folders, etc, then reinstall, and copy those backups back in.
Actually, no. Don't do that. Get someone with CSS to copy the contents of their gameinfo.txt, then blank yours and copy theirs over.
Either way, try verifying the game cache integrity, then if that doesn't fix it, back up your maps, models, materials, and sound folders, etc, then reinstall, and copy those backups back in.
Actually, no. Don't do that. Get someone with CSS to copy the contents of their gameinfo.txt, then blank yours and copy theirs over.
Looks pretty good so far- I can see some nulled faces on the side wall panels, but I don't know if those will be visible ingame, since that's an aerial shot.
I modeled a hat a while back and finally got around to getting it ingame.
It rolls.
I modeled a hat a while back and finally got around to getting it ingame.
Those are some nice ads, Archie. I like the irony in the Apache one.
Actually, it appears to be exactly the same size as the same hole in the map that's based on. It wasn't a very big hole.
Looks great, though.
Looks great, though.
I would so be in if I had any image editing skills whatsoever. Unfortunately, I can't to anything more useful that one-shot signs and graffiti.
Maybe it's time to get some practice modeling textures...
Maybe it's time to get some practice modeling textures...
New textures are more complex, because you need to make both the texture and the material, define any shaders the texture should have, etc, but it does give you a lot more options. The new entities are fairly straightforward, and brushwork is even easier than goldsource, because Hammer will remember the dimensions of the last brush you selected, which makes mass-creation of brushes with the same height or thickness much quicker- definitely makes placing walls and floors much faster.
That is a really nice looking map, but I just don't understand why you wouldn't do it on Source, especially since you're using ported HL2 textures. You could be having shaders with those windows.
You should be able to convert it quite easily, assuming you can get Hammer 4 to open a .map or .rmf. I think it should be possible, since it's been done plenty of times. You will have to recompile or replace your models, though.
You should be able to convert it quite easily, assuming you can get Hammer 4 to open a .map or .rmf. I think it should be possible, since it's been done plenty of times. You will have to recompile or replace your models, though.
Well then you obviously don't know Bruce. He's never done anything imperfectly in his entire life.
Sorry to hear about the company, but the map looks good. And if you have to wait for an interview or look for a job after your current one is gone, that's just more time to map, right?
I think it looks great, but unless it's pre-disaster, it could use a few more bulletholes, bloodstains, and broken lights. (Though I assume that by the time you read this you'll have already put those details in)
Which reminds me, I haven't opened Hammer 3.5 in well over a month. Sorry about that. I'll try to work on the tech demo/map I was making this weekend.
True, Skals, true, I need to actually finish a map sometime. Haven't done that in months, and haven't released one in about as long.
Damn, Dimbark, that's some nice work. You're definitely a quick learner, and I'd say you've surpassed me in your couple of years here. A few more years at this rate, and you'll probably be at the level of such experts as TWHL's own Rimrook, Archie, and those other guys who are awesome but don't release anything.
(Hint: If you're one of the latter, release stuff, please)
(Hint: If you're one of the latter, release stuff, please)
So the main character is a kid?
I'd personally recommend against that. Games that mix violence and children (By which I mean anyone under 18, so teenagers as well) are guaranteed to cause a shitstorm, even more so than someone making 1-1 maps of their school or workplace. It's very likely it could land you in hot water.
I'd personally recommend against that. Games that mix violence and children (By which I mean anyone under 18, so teenagers as well) are guaranteed to cause a shitstorm, even more so than someone making 1-1 maps of their school or workplace. It's very likely it could land you in hot water.
As far as I know: (Haven't gotten my hands dirty in the L4D2 Authoring Tools yet)
Custom model skins: Textures yes, if you overwrite the files in the materials folder for your addon. Custom infected models, yes, if you make a new entry for infected populations that includes them.
Update: According to the VDC, custom infected populations are not supported properly with addons, so do that at your own risk.
Survivors start with no weapons: I don't think so, though you could try using a weaponstrip. As far as I know, having the pistol is mandatory unless you replace it with a melee weapon ingame.
Flashlight: No.
Health/Behavior: No.
Level w/o special infected: I beleive there is either a volume or navmesh option that can prohibit special infected from spawning. But you'd have to cover the entire map with it. Or use this.
Again, I don't really know what I'm doing, the above is just speculation combined with what I remember from the documentation on the VDC, so that might all be wrong, and there is some scripting involved in my answers (The infected populations) which some might count as modding. I left it in because there's not really any code involved.
Custom model skins: Textures yes, if you overwrite the files in the materials folder for your addon. Custom infected models, yes, if you make a new entry for infected populations that includes them.
Update: According to the VDC, custom infected populations are not supported properly with addons, so do that at your own risk.
Survivors start with no weapons: I don't think so, though you could try using a weaponstrip. As far as I know, having the pistol is mandatory unless you replace it with a melee weapon ingame.
Flashlight: No.
Health/Behavior: No.
Level w/o special infected: I beleive there is either a volume or navmesh option that can prohibit special infected from spawning. But you'd have to cover the entire map with it. Or use this.
Again, I don't really know what I'm doing, the above is just speculation combined with what I remember from the documentation on the VDC, so that might all be wrong, and there is some scripting involved in my answers (The infected populations) which some might count as modding. I left it in because there's not really any code involved.
Check your file first to make sure you didn't somehow accidentally make a visgroup of the new area and hide it. If not, then change the file extension of the .rmx to .rmf. Make sure you back up the .rmf first, however, just in case the .rmx is an even older version somehow.
They should be filled in with high quality maps specially chosen by the moderators to gain that specific ID. Or, have the top 10 rated maps be 1-10, and have the rest come in the order they were made. 
In all seriousness though, they should either remain blank, or be filled in with whatever map gets uploaded when they're available. I'd want to shift everything over, but that would probably break a lot of links on other sites to TWHL maps.
In all seriousness though, they should either remain blank, or be filled in with whatever map gets uploaded when they're available. I'd want to shift everything over, but that would probably break a lot of links on other sites to TWHL maps.
HL2 is on 2009 now, so that should work if you have it.
Methinks Archie should write an advanced lighting tutorial.
Very nice.
If you export it as a .map or .rmf, you should be able to. What are you converting?
I'm pretty sure it only logs in to access your game library, otherwise people could just put a bunch of games in the steamapps folder that they don't own, and then play them in offline mode, free and legally.You can get Steam to remember your account credentials once you've logged on once, you just need to tell it to go offline manually. It does save what you have in your library, AFAIK, so you are probably right that you couldn't play games you don't own. (Never tried this, but I expect they have safeguards)
Everyone I know that uses steam complains about offline mode, but I've never had a problem with it myself. I suppose that might change if I were to actually use online mode for more than downloading, but if you have a laptop or a connection that's not always on, so you know when you're not going to be connected, it's perfectly stable.
I don't think I'm going to get DIII. I never really got into Diablo, and with the DRM and the fact that it's over half-way to an MMO now, I just don't see any reason to get this latest one.
You just ruined the surprise in that part of the game! D:<
Very atmospheric. I like it.
Yeah, Daub basically hit the nail on the head for me as well. I think the only times I ever grind for lives when I really need to. Also, there is the one level in Super Mario World where just a few (literally 3, IIRC) playthroughs can get you to the max of 99 lives through a super-long shell combo. But as long as you don't include something so game-breaking and simultaneously fun, grinding shouldn't be a problem.
If you do end up going with a health system, I hope that healing items will include foodstuffs. For some reason, I prefer them a lot to potions.
If you do end up going with a health system, I hope that healing items will include foodstuffs. For some reason, I prefer them a lot to potions.
I'll get the specs when I get the computer hooked up. Which probably won't be today.
Alright, I'll experiment with that later. Thanks for the link.
EDIT: No dice. Doesn't sound like CPs or Combine Soldiers at all. Barely sounds like radio, for that matter.
EDIT: Some further searching re-reveals the rumor/fact that it was actually done with a set of walkie-talkies, one reciving one of which was in a wooden box. The dimensions seem to be unknown.
EDIT: No dice. Doesn't sound like CPs or Combine Soldiers at all. Barely sounds like radio, for that matter.
EDIT: Some further searching re-reveals the rumor/fact that it was actually done with a set of walkie-talkies, one reciving one of which was in a wooden box. The dimensions seem to be unknown.
I tried burning it to the disk, and it seems to have worked. I'll have to set up the computer before I can get you the specs, as I can't recall them offhand. (It's been years since it was booted) I do have another computer lying around that should be (at least marginally) more powerful, and after a quick HDD swap between the two, I should be able to use that one as well.
EDIT: The newer one can definitely run it, But I will try it with the older one first.
EDIT: The newer one can definitely run it, But I will try it with the older one first.
Archie: Whoops.
rufee: If I recall from the few months ago I did it at school (Web design class, included server setup) it should work just like a standard installer, except that it formats the disk. Also, the HDD I'm rewriting uses XP. Motherboard probably won't factor into it, I think.
Stojke: Alright, I will give that a try before I go out shopping.
rufee: If I recall from the few months ago I did it at school (Web design class, included server setup) it should work just like a standard installer, except that it formats the disk. Also, the HDD I'm rewriting uses XP. Motherboard probably won't factor into it, I think.
Stojke: Alright, I will give that a try before I go out shopping.
I was afraid that would be the case. Thanks for confirming.
Also, I doubt the motherboard supports USB booting. The drive that came with it (not the one I'm using) runs Windows 95, IIRC. My dad got the system for $20 from the office of the construction firm he used to work at before it closed down.
Also, Stojke: When I said the disk was 700MB, I meant it the CDs I have available.
Guess I'm going shopping on the weekend.
Also, I doubt the motherboard supports USB booting. The drive that came with it (not the one I'm using) runs Windows 95, IIRC. My dad got the system for $20 from the office of the construction firm he used to work at before it closed down.
Also, Stojke: When I said the disk was 700MB, I meant it the CDs I have available.
Guess I'm going shopping on the weekend.
Alright, so I've been tossing the idea around in my head for a few days that I could set up a sort of "practice" web server (Ie, not connected to the internet, but otherwise set up) using spare parts around my house and Ubuntu as an OS. I have a decent capacity HDD that I am cleared to wipe and can transplant into a better system when one becomes available (or rather, affordable), and a tower with all needed internal components, CD tray and USB ports (It's old, however, so the USB ports are only on the back) There is currently only one problem; The Ubuntu install ISO is around 750MB, and the highest capacity disks I currently have are only 702MB (Rated at 700). I have an installer for Daemon tools, which means I could mount the ISO on and run it from there, but my question is; Would the mount stay even after I've reformatted the drive, or would the install process be halted (and corrupted) as soon as the process deletes the part of the drive responsible for the virtual CD?
Basically, I need to know if I can install Ubuntu properly by mounting it with daemon, or if I have to actually spend money on this project and get a higher capacity CD to burn the ISO on to.
Basically, I need to know if I can install Ubuntu properly by mounting it with daemon, or if I have to actually spend money on this project and get a higher capacity CD to burn the ISO on to.
Actually, now that I think about it, does anybody outside of Valve actually know how to make the metrocop vocoder effect? If we do any CP mod, that would probably be used at least a bit.
A thought occurred to me. If we do end up going with a CP as a player character, the mod should start with a full-scale raid. Pistol loaded, safety off.
Anyone have any clue what the inside of a combine APC would look like?
Anyone have any clue what the inside of a combine APC would look like?
I don't think CSS content is available to anyone without CSS, (I don't have it installed anywhere, anyway, and I don't see why I wouldn't if I could. Maybe its availability is a more recent update) but it's not like we lack talented/skilled texture artists here that could contribute new environment textures.
I'm liking the setting suggestions so far. It's making it a bit difficult to choose which country to head for, though.
I'm liking the setting suggestions so far. It's making it a bit difficult to choose which country to head for, though.
The first thing we really need is to decide on setting; Where and when in relation to the storyline. We do have a 20 year period where nothing much happens in the official canon, so it's basically a blank slate. We just couldn't have the player win too big. Maybe kill a bunch of combine and get away with their life.
POV as a metrocop could work, and it would allow for some form of armor as well. Replace the crowbar with a functioning stunstick, (Electricity included, maybe a "stun" effect that respawns human-sized NPCs after a while when you're in the same VIS area, but that's definitely optional) remesh and reskin the arms somewhat, and get rid of the HEV voice, and that's really all we'd need to sell it.
Perhaps the player is fed up with working under combine rule, and wants to sneak out of the city, where they happen upon some kind of rebel stronghold/shantytown out in the desert/woods/ruins. Again, we need to decide on the setting.
POV as a metrocop could work, and it would allow for some form of armor as well. Replace the crowbar with a functioning stunstick, (Electricity included, maybe a "stun" effect that respawns human-sized NPCs after a while when you're in the same VIS area, but that's definitely optional) remesh and reskin the arms somewhat, and get rid of the HEV voice, and that's really all we'd need to sell it.
Perhaps the player is fed up with working under combine rule, and wants to sneak out of the city, where they happen upon some kind of rebel stronghold/shantytown out in the desert/woods/ruins. Again, we need to decide on the setting.
Well, Urby brought up the point that if there's anything we could all agree on, it would be a HL Universe based mod.
I would personally prefer if it was made with the SDK base stuff, because if we were to base it off Ep2, I wouldn't be able to play the finished product, or test stuff without a bunch of checkerboards or red errors flying around. But that's just me and my lack of bandwidth.
I also think that if we do end up doing a HL Universe mod, we should keep the hell away from City 17, because practically every HL2/Ep1/Ep2 mod takes place there. I realize the content available makes it easier than, say, London, for instance, but City 17 and the surrounding area (Eastern Europe) has been done to death. I think it would be better to pick another city elsewhere in the world to blow up and occupy with combine forces.
I would personally prefer if it was made with the SDK base stuff, because if we were to base it off Ep2, I wouldn't be able to play the finished product, or test stuff without a bunch of checkerboards or red errors flying around. But that's just me and my lack of bandwidth.
I also think that if we do end up doing a HL Universe mod, we should keep the hell away from City 17, because practically every HL2/Ep1/Ep2 mod takes place there. I realize the content available makes it easier than, say, London, for instance, but City 17 and the surrounding area (Eastern Europe) has been done to death. I think it would be better to pick another city elsewhere in the world to blow up and occupy with combine forces.
You can't have multiple cameras at once; you'll have to make them switch.
Well, that's not entirely true, you can make it so you can have multiple ones at once, but you'd have to change it in the code. You need to increase the amount of rendertextures.
Well, that's not entirely true, you can make it so you can have multiple ones at once, but you'd have to change it in the code. You need to increase the amount of rendertextures.
It's beyond me why they didn't just code trigger_once to work once a round. I expect that would be quite handy.