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Looks pretty realistic, Huntey. The textures are a bit too plain and clean though. I suspect you are going to use decal textures?
So it's 8192 from start to end. Who cares, this thing is a miracle. Can't wait to see what people are going to do with it.
Stojke: 16384³ units are not double the original size. It's octuple (eight times) the original space.
16384³=4398046511104
8192³=549755813888
4398046511104/549755813888=8
or
16384³/8192³=2³=8
16384³=4398046511104
8192³=549755813888
4398046511104/549755813888=8
or
16384³/8192³=2³=8
I tried to decompile it too but seems that all of hims maps have some kind of decompile protection or are simply too big and complex for the decompilers. However you can use BSP Viewer to see the entities or you can open decompiled .map with notepad.
EDIT: I really recommend for everyone to download and see those maps.
Stojke: Don't forget to see his eden.
EDIT: I really recommend for everyone to download and see those maps.
Stojke: Don't forget to see his eden.
This is some sort of small Black Mesa sitting room. And no I haven't played Portal 2. The wall poster idea came long ago when I saw movie called Scarface. Originally this room came from a dream which I dreamed few years ago. It is probably going to be in my upcoming HLDM map. So my little lovely room:
I love his map eden. It's huge and have great atmosphere and even better gameplay. His maps are very unique.
He released his last map 10 years ago so I don't think they are still somewhere. Just type in google one of these "eden.bsp" "merlin.bsp" "plateau.bsp"
About ten yeas ago at the time when a lot of people were playing HLDM he was one of the most popular mappers and even now after a century his maps called plateau, eden and merlin are very popular. So I am just wondering if anyone remembes him and is he still alive.
I wonder if anyone knows who is guy called Peter Manson?
So you turned on anti-aliasing in your graphics card control panel?
If it's not then it's definitely Source. Unless you forced anti-aliasing in graphics card settings.
If the image is resized then it's impossible to tell.
I face the gauss reflectivity problem very often. I haven't researched it too much yet but I noticed that NULL texture is extremely reflective.
Of course there were gunfights. And Nazis killed at least 30,000 Jews in this place.
1916
Kaunas is the name of the city so the complex is called the Kaunas Fortress. Yeah I hope it will inspire someone.
Recently I have found out that a nuclear plant in my country called the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is the most powerful nuclear plant in the world and has the biggest nuclear reactors in the world. Currently it's being closed.
There is a massive fortress complex in my city called the Kaunas Fortress which was constructed in 1882 by Russia for the World War I. More accurately most of it is underground bunkers. There are main strongholds and most of them were connected by underground tunnels. The complex then covered about 65 square kilometers. Currently the connections between the strongholds are blocked. And there are few strongholds less than kilometer away from where I live. One of them is the Ninth Fort and currently there is a working museum in it. With a guide you can get in the tunnels.
The Ninth Fort
The strange buildings you can see in the background are massive 32 meter tall monuments which are memorial to the 30,000 Jews and others from Lithuania and abroad who were brutally murdered here during the Holocaust.
Thank you. I'm really surprised how it turned out because I made it in just a few minutes. Making of the textures took most of the time.
Crollo: you are absolutely right.
Crollo: you are absolutely right.
I'm shocked how often you guys can't distinguish whether it's GoldSource or Source. I can see the difference from a mile even if it's a six sided box.
My first try ever to create something similar to the ancient Egypt. All the textures are mine. Currently I'm not going to make a full map, just trying.
I would love to see someone playing in my old crappy map.
Submitting:
http://twhl.info/vault.php?map=4880
Submitting:
http://twhl.info/vault.php?map=4880
Well to me TWHL looks completely dead.
Should be fun!
I think TWHL competitions are way to rare. We need competition after competition!
I think TWHL competitions are way to rare. We need competition after competition!
A little update to my slowly progressing HLDM map. I think it turned out pretty good. You can't see but there is floating dust in the light and it looks really nice. What you think about the grass details? Also the machine gun turret is probably going to be removed.
I could make the text readable but there is little official information on this weapon.
Here is my newest version of some sort of a poster/document of the Tau cannon I made. It could be used in a mod or a map or wherever. You can use it if you want. Though a little credit would be nice.
I finally understood why switchable lights looks so bad. As we know normally light bounces one time in Half-Life. This means that when light hits a surface it bounces and then hits second surface but don't bounces again. This is because of -bounce 1 parameter. But this only applies to static light. Switchable light do not bounces at all. This means that when light hits a surface it lights only that surface and then stops without bouncing and affecting other surfaces. And the purpose of this is to generate less lightdata. But it looks very unrealistic because in reality light bounces again and again until it loses its energy and finally stops. I made two identical example maps but one with switchable light. I only gave the light a name and then made a button. The top image is switchable light and the bottom is static light. You can clearly see that switchable light do not bounce.
I also know that -nodynbounce parameter prevents dynamic (switchable) lights from bouncing. But how to disable it?
My question is how to make switchable lights bounce?
I also know that -nodynbounce parameter prevents dynamic (switchable) lights from bouncing. But how to disable it?
My question is how to make switchable lights bounce?
That would be revolutionary because a lot of default textures have this problem. And if somehow it would be possible to attach that command to a map so all the players would see it correct.
Soup Miner is right about GoldSrc. But there is a little trick to fix this without changing the size of the actual texture. I use it very often. You just need to make a bigger texture of correct dimensions and then place the original smaller texture with wrong dimensions inside it. There you go:
Someway it reminds me of Portal 2
My new hldm project
Say hello to my little friend!
It looks very real and the atmosphere you created is really nice. Especially the first version.
Picture from an old HLDM map which I have never managed to complete.
Thanks 
Some new 
Ok, i do it! Thanks for comments 
Hello everyone, I am creating map for half-life deathmatch - dm_beam.
Sorry for small text, my english is bad.
Screenshots :
Sorry for small text, my english is bad.
Screenshots :