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how do you change a models skin?

I went and replaced that blurry picture you get when starting hl2 with another vtf file. The thing is, it shows the new picture for a few seconds then it changes to purple and black checkers. whats wrong?

what output name do I choose? eg. OnLoadGame , OnMapSpawn

how do you make an ambient sound keep playing after the round has finnished, because mine always stops after the first round.

what does func_detail do and what good is it?

what entity puts a weapon into the map instead of buying them?

How do you make grass that sticks up like in hl2 levels. Is it a model, if so where abouts is it?

no, sorry i mean in hl2

How do you change how much damage a weapon causes?

I dont know why, whenever I put one in and parent it to somthing it will only light up models not brushes.

error: material NATURE/WATER_MOVINGPLANE_BENEATH doesn't have a $bottommaterial.

to make water i just make a block with nodraw tex on all side except top. then I just put a water tex on top. whats wrong?

Is there a tutorial? Cause I really wanna know how to do this.

so can you get, say a gun model from css then just rename it and stick it in your hl2 models folder?

Is there a site where you can download hl2 models or hasnt one been made yet?

Yeah my hl2sp works fine just css dosnt.
What about a css lan game, how do you set those up?

Hey rabid, you know all that "railing should be such n such" is that the same dimensions that the creators of hl2 used to make hl2 maps? Because I can never seem to get mine right

But it says you can play it in offline mode and im not trying to connect to another game im trying to create my own.

But if thats the problem why isnt there funny colours in the actual hl2 maps.

I got geforce 4 mx 440. Its already caused me some problems

My CS:S shows this error when ever I start it "connection failed after 4 retries" It shows that even when steam is in offline mode. What is it trying to connect to anyway?

they turn green, red, yellow all those simple colours. But it might just be my graphics card.

Whats causing this? It's a bit hard to tell the player there suppose to be that way.

but what files and where on the files can you change the damage

I ran that "create a mod" thing on Source SDK and it set up the folder of my mod but all that stuff in there, is that all you need. so you can just add your own stuff to it .(eg maps, models) And one more question how do you change the amount of damage weapons do and how much health npcs have?

How do you make those tv screens or the video or that old guy at the start of hl2?

** Executing...
** Command: "c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayerssourcesdkbinvbsp.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayershalf-life 2hl2" "C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Dec 15 2004)
1 threads
materialPath: c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayershalf-life 2hl2materials
Loading C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.vmf
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.prt...done (0)
Creating default cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox sky_wasteland02...
Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (9348 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Writing C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.bsp
2 seconds elapsed
Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 48
Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 5

** Executing...
** Command: "c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayerssourcesdkbinvvis.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayershalf-life 2hl2" "C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (Dec 15 2004)
1 threads
reading c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.bsp
reading c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.prt
2 portalclusters
1 numportals
BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Optimized: 0 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 4
Average clusters visible: 2
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 2
visdatasize:24 compressed from 32
writing c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.bsp
1 second elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayerssourcesdkbinvrad.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayershalf-life 2hl2" "C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test"

Valve Software - vrad.exe (Dec 15 2004)
--- Radiosity Simulator --
1 threads
[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[45 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.bsp
28 faces
9329 square feet [1343488.00 square inches]
0 displacements
0 square feet [0.00 square inches]
28 patches before subdivision
352 patches after subdivision
2 direct lights
BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
BuildVisLeafs: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
transfers 10540, max 76
transfer lists: 0.1 megs
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Bounce #1 added RGB(0, 0, 0)

Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.0009 sec>
FinalLightFace: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
FinalLightFace Done
Ready to Finish
0 of 0 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.
ComputePerLeafAmbientLighting: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
---------- ------------- ------------- ------
models 10/1024 480/49152 ( 1.0%)
brushes 21/8192 252/98304 ( 0.3%)
brushsides 126/65536 1008/524288 ( 0.2%)
planes 126/65536 2520/1310720 ( 0.2%)
vertexes 97/65536 1164/786432 ( 0.1%)
nodes 71/65536 2272/2097152 ( 0.1%)
texinfos 25/12288 1800/884736 ( 0.2%)
texdata 5/2048 160/65536 ( 0.2%)
dispinfos 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_verts 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_tris 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_lmsamples 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
faces 28/65536 1568/3670016 ( 0.0%)
origfaces 20/65536 1120/3670016 ( 0.0%)
leaves 82/65536 4592/3670016 ( 0.1%)
leaffaces 28/65536 56/131072 ( 0.0%)
leafbrushes 45/65536 90/131072 ( 0.1%)
surfedges 192/512000 768/2048000 ( 0.0%)
edges 137/256000 548/1024000 ( 0.1%)
worldlights 2/8192 176/720896 ( 0.0%)
waterstrips 0/32768 0/327680 ( 0.0%)
waterverts 0/65536 0/786432 ( 0.0%)
waterindices 0/65536 0/131072 ( 0.0%)
cubemapsamples 0/1024 0/16384 ( 0.0%)
overlays 0/512 0/180224 ( 0.0%)
lightdata [variable] 42136/0 ( 0.0%)
visdata [variable] 24/16777216 ( 0.0%)
entdata [variable] 8999/393216 ( 2.3%)
occluders 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder polygons 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder vert ind 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
detail props [variable] 1/12 ( 8.3%)
static props [variable] 1/264 ( 0.4%)
pakfile [variable] 9906/0 ( 0.0%)

Win32 Specific Data:
physics [variable] 9348/4194304 ( 0.2%)

Total Win32 BSP file data space used: 88989 bytes

Linux Specific Data:
physicssurface [variable] 0/6291456 ( 0.0%)

Total Linux BSP file data space used: 79641 bytes

Total triangle count: 56
Writing c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.bsp
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** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppslukeayerssourcesdk_contenthl2test.bsp" "c:program filesvalvesteamsteamappslukeayershalf-life 2hl2mapstest.bsp"

when I place light_spot or light_dynamic in my map it only lights up models not brushes.

naa but I got some hardware firewall and I got norton. I tryed to turn off the windows firewall but it says its still on

how can you fix it?

right on!

I just click steam.exe it goes to steam's update progress does nothing and just says "cannot contact the steam network, try again later".
Yeh ive read "cant connect" twice. What suppose to happen when you delete your clientregiserty.blob? Ive deleted it before and it says "steam needs to connect to the network to create another registery" but I still cant connect.

I was wondering if you guys could help me cause the people at steam arnt replying to my urgent questions. My steam aint workin anymore, its not my firewall, I dont have a virus or spyware, its nothing to do with my net connection and It cant connect with the steam network. I keep asking question at the steam support page but no ones listning! Have you people got any thoughts about it?

Are you sure this is he right one. because Ive been having some douts.

No but I mean like a physbox door that you can shoot and hit and it moves accordingly

When ever I start half-life2 it says your drivers are out of date and need to be updated. I click on the link but it dosnt have my video card type. Where can I download the update? It says I have a nvidia geforce4 mx 440.

How do you make a door that just randomly swings on its origin?

I place rain and wind in my map. the wind dosnt seem to be there and it has no blowing sound even though I set some. And my rain is pink, and has no sound. umm could someone help

The models look fine when I play, but in the editor they are black.

when I place any kind of model or prop in the map it appears black/dark. How do I fix this?

Where is the hammer setup/program? is it on a hl2 disk or do you download it?