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My brain is shot at the moment. I'd suggest posting it on a maths or physics forum, they usually crank an answer out quick-smart.
Looking nice, though I reckon change the ceiling texture (looks kinda weird being the same as the floor texture imo).
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Wtf?! Surely this is a breach of civil rights or something? He didn't do ANYTHING. One of the first maps I made was my high school...man did it suck balls. I've also done:
- my house
- my apartment building
- a castle
- xen
I'd definitely recommend S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as well. Pick up Oblivion if you don't have it, also.
Guess I'll have to pony up the very steep sum of $10 to get HL1. Bugger.
Howdy people. I wouldn't mind having a lash on the server sometime. Can it be played using Half Life Deathmatch: Source?
Looking very nice. I like the designs, they feel very consistent and seem to work well with the setting.
OMG i am SUCH a retard. I had my sprites folder named "sprite" 
Working now. Thanks anyway.
Working now. Thanks anyway.
I'm trying to change the appearance of the numbers in the HUD, I used SpriteExplorer to create the sprite, set it to the same name as the original "640hud7", and put it in the sprites folder.
But I load up the game and its still the original half life numbers. I compared the palettes of the original sprite and my sprite, and my sprite's palette is a mess.
Could anyone recommend the programs they use for this kind of thing?
But I load up the game and its still the original half life numbers. I compared the palettes of the original sprite and my sprite, and my sprite's palette is a mess.
Could anyone recommend the programs they use for this kind of thing?
Splash screen. The zombie is a placeholder for a picture of a more traditional zombie model, when I make it. Lol.
Dark screens...Even for me so I wreckon you'll get a lot of comments on that.Thanks. I might change the time of day to twilight.
Nice models.
I've started work on my first Half Life mod, currently titled "Miasma", its a single player and multiplayer modification based around the deliberately typical "zombie survival scenario".
Combat will be highly involved, involving hitting strategic targets on your enemy based on what weapon you are using. All new weapons, too.
Multiplayer will involve players teaming up against the NPC zombies, each player starting away from others in areas such as a town. Players must find equipment, weapons, npcs and other players, and move towards some goal in the map, such as a rescue helicopter.
At the moment it's myself doing modelling, mapping, programming and just about everything else, and a friend of mine working on sound and music.
Here's some shots, just because shots are fun:
Combat will be highly involved, involving hitting strategic targets on your enemy based on what weapon you are using. All new weapons, too.
Multiplayer will involve players teaming up against the NPC zombies, each player starting away from others in areas such as a town. Players must find equipment, weapons, npcs and other players, and move towards some goal in the map, such as a rescue helicopter.
At the moment it's myself doing modelling, mapping, programming and just about everything else, and a friend of mine working on sound and music.
Here's some shots, just because shots are fun:
Oh, I didnt have any keyframes set in the animation. I set that. This is the error message I get when I try to compile:
"grabbing blood mod/clawHammer(ref).smd
grabbing blood mod/hammer_seq.smd
********** ERROR **********
blood mod/ist2_802833_hammer_with_characte not found"
"grabbing blood mod/clawHammer(ref).smd
grabbing blood mod/hammer_seq.smd
********** ERROR **********
blood mod/ist2_802833_hammer_with_characte not found"
I dont seem to be able to decompile either. I tried decompiling the zombie model and nothing happened...no files created??
Hey, I'm working on some models, and I want to export to .mdl format. The only option is .smd format. So I fiddled a bit, exported a .smd, generated a .qc and tried to get the right values in there, and compile it, but I really have no solid idea of what I'm doing.
Could anyone give me an idea, or point me to a tutorial or something? I'd appreciate it. :
Could anyone give me an idea, or point me to a tutorial or something? I'd appreciate it. :
heres my last resort: making the func_wall a world brush... its going to create MASSIVE face splitting but im ready for anything at this point..I'll make the bridge a world brush and then re-make the sections of cliff where the bridge meets so that it's one surface rather than 2 intersecting surfaces, that should sort out alot of polygon issues (hopefully).
Did some work on the first of the real artificial structuring:
Proved to be pretty nasty on account of the angle it was on from the VM I did with it. Won't be doing that again...
The landscape sounds very interesting!
I think a pseudo-random quest generator would be entirely possible. The placement of "possible" monsters and items within the map, and when inciting the quest the code assigns the pattern of the quest over a selection of these possibilities, and removes the unselected.
That's probably non-sensical, its very late and I need sleep
I think a pseudo-random quest generator would be entirely possible. The placement of "possible" monsters and items within the map, and when inciting the quest the code assigns the pattern of the quest over a selection of these possibilities, and removes the unselected.
That's probably non-sensical, its very late and I need sleep
Ah righto, wow sounds like a lot of effort you've gone to. I don't remember if I did any carving actually. It's pretty much all VM, so it should all be to the grid.
I'll try sealing the entities with world brushes. Thanks very much for the help.
I'll try sealing the entities with world brushes. Thanks very much for the help.
biax email the map and wads to me ill run a compile and test for leaks i can usually find mine in under 30 minutes depending on how major you messed upAwesome, that'd be a great help, I'll get that to you tomorrow some time.
Like the piccies.
Nice setting! Just hope you've got the player character well designed beyond "the prophecy fulfilling absurdly odd-defying hero", not that i disapprove of that; i LOVE those kind of characters, as long as they are sufficiently developed and not just plonked in there.
I think they mean you only pick up 1 grenade but you can carry more than 1, right? :
What about a Legen of Zelda: A Link to the Past style map? A simplified grid representation of key areas.
I just wanted to say, I had a play of the demo and the level of quality is just every-oriphice-bleedingly good. The problems I had with it seem to be on your list of things to address, and I am REALLY looking forward to the next release of this. 
Oh I see! Something to keep in mind for my future leak hunt
EDIT:
Last screenshots before bed...
EDIT:
Last screenshots before bed...
I'm feeling quite happy with this treeline now. It took a LOT of screwing around trying to get some textures, but in the end it's come out well I think.
@Dorian: Thanks alot :). It's been a new experience for me, though I have had a fair bit of practice with making models, which is a fairly similar process.
Yeah that's pretty much what I've been doing with my skybox, but I'm pretty sure its the models causing the leaks now, so I'll have to get onto that some time.Looks rather nice, keep it up.Thanks
Yes it does.Hmmm, that's baaaaaad news, lol.
Hmm, I dont have the steam version of dod, and the decompiler crashes on the dod maps. Gah! I cant win!!
If they're from official maps, just get the textures from "day of defeat.gcf"I couldnt find that anywhere in the half-life/dod directory, where is it?
Ah I sorted it out, it was to do with how batch compiler was set up.
I don't know WHAT is going with this. Its only rendering entities, and its doing it with this weird texture. All of the clipping still works, I can run around the level fine. Does anyone know whats going on??
Awesome, thanks. Well I was specifically wanting treeline textures from official DoD maps, that's allowed, isn't it?
Is there any way to extract textures from BSP files?
There are brush base entities exposed to the void, but they pass through the hull.
EDIT: Aaaaah the models, their outer boundaries go outside the hull, does that cause a leak?
What do you mean open the saved version?
EDIT: Aaaaah the models, their outer boundaries go outside the hull, does that cause a leak?
What do you mean open the saved version?
Ok, back on track with this! I've just got to be more careful. I've detailed the bridge more:
Anyone know any wads with good tree-line textures? I want the summits of the cliffs to have trees along them.
Anyone know any wads with good tree-line textures? I want the summits of the cliffs to have trees along them.
Well I've been using that, but the leaks are appearing in places where the geometry is sealed in the editor. It's making holes when its compiling.
I just converted to map using hammer, did a fast Vis and it came out like this:
Similar improvements were in other areas of the map, but it still just doesnt work.
M_gargantua: I can't avoid using a skybox because of all these leaks. And yeah the terrain is just too complex it looks like this map could be doomed
I don't know what else to do
Thanks.
Similar improvements were in other areas of the map, but it still just doesnt work.
M_gargantua: I can't avoid using a skybox because of all these leaks. And yeah the terrain is just too complex it looks like this map could be doomed
I don't know what else to do
Thanks.
Gaaah! I sealed the level with a big skybox...took 8 hours to compile with a normal vis, and there were some really nasty problems:
I used HLFix to convert the RMF to MAP. Could that be an issue?
I used HLFix to convert the RMF to MAP. Could that be an issue?
I've started working on a heavily terrain-based map, which is all new territory for me. Having some problems with it at the moment, if anyone could check it out, I'd be really greatful:
http://twhl.co.za/mapvault_map.php?id=3868
It's going to be very Halo-like, having terrain with structures melding into it, though it will still be to it's very core a Half-Life map with lots of cool interactive map elements like bounce pads, locking doors, and various traps.
http://twhl.co.za/mapvault_map.php?id=3868
It's going to be very Halo-like, having terrain with structures melding into it, though it will still be to it's very core a Half-Life map with lots of cool interactive map elements like bounce pads, locking doors, and various traps.
Ahh yep that fixed it, cheers
I'm working on a very geometrically detailed map set in the outdoors, and I've started running into some glitchy problems with the Vis, namely, blocks of sky disappearing when viewing them from certain positions:
Does anyone know how I would go about fixing this?
Does anyone know how I would go about fixing this?
Oh I didn't before, but now I do and it still doesnt do anything
EDIT: I managed to get it, I committed suicide in the game and it went to the view. But I just realised...this is a 5 storey map, how effective can an overview be?? lol
EDIT: I managed to get it, I committed suicide in the game and it went to the view. But I just realised...this is a 5 storey map, how effective can an overview be?? lol
I just tried following the tutorial in the intermediate section for creating an overview image of the map, but the
dev_overview 1
command does nothing?
dev_overview 1
command does nothing?
Almost got the layout and detailing completed!
Here's some shots of the second battle area (the roof) and the hostage rescue (the ground):
Here's some shots of the second battle area (the roof) and the hostage rescue (the ground):
I've seen some absolutely increbible trees around, which I'm certain are brush work. I think I read somewhere that they are Day Of Defeat trees, are there any prefabs of them I can get somewhere?
The tree I'm thinkin of is the big one in http://twhl.co.za/mapvault_map.php?id=3679
The tree I'm thinkin of is the big one in http://twhl.co.za/mapvault_map.php?id=3679
Well this problem wasn't actually caused by carving, I just thought it was. So my record is still in tact 
Well this is the first map I've worked on in quite a long time, and I'm pleased to say its the biggest, highest quality, and most finished map I've ever done. It's a condemned apartment building, hostage rescue, and is designed for 16-24 players (its pretty damn big).
So it's getting close to play-testability, and I thought I'd tantalise with some screenshots:
So it's getting close to play-testability, and I thought I'd tantalise with some screenshots:
Well I've just been carving rectangular prisms out of rectangular prisms for things like doorways and windows. I don't useit all the time, just when I know its a time saver and is going to do exactly what I would have done with the clipping tool anyway.
And so far I've had 0 problems due to carving.
And so far I've had 0 problems due to carving.
I tried the "Big Pink Sky" method...took a long time to compile but I found it straight away. Lol the leak was very noobish: I had copied a breakable window into part of the hull, then changed it to func wall with Normal render properties and thought the compiler would think its part of the hull...wrong Ryan...suffer.
Leakmarker looks like a fantastic program, I'll surely be using it in the future.
Thanks for the help everyone, I'm back on track to getting this map finished
Leakmarker looks like a fantastic program, I'll surely be using it in the future.
Thanks for the help everyone, I'm back on track to getting this map finished
Oh cool. It gives an error though "not enough free particles" and only draws the pointfile line up to a certain point, which I'd say is only about the first 1/5th or 1/4th of the whole file.
Thanks for the tip.
EDIT: thanks, I'll change that
Thanks for the tip.
EDIT: thanks, I'll change that
Oh damn I forgot to mention I also got one of those funky hull 3 leaks, I don't really know what it means :
Warning: === LEAK in hull 3 ===
Entity info_player_start @ (-352,-980,-316)
Warning: === LEAK in hull 3 ===
Entity info_player_start @ (-352,-980,-316)