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I think I have a problem.
I literally can't stop doing things. I'm not sure if the word "relax" is in my vocabulary.
Thanks for the kind words, Crypt19!

DONE!
Play it here if you wish
@Captain:
I was trying to work out some masters and teleports.
Worked fine in Hammer, Not Sledge.
Didn't have the time to find out why, however.

working on it.
I cant tell if sledge is messing with me, or if i'm just THAT rusty at GS

Works for me on Chrome :-/
Oh well.

is you press backspace and lose your stuff, just go forward (alt ->)

ooooooooo great stuff there, rim!
Thanks

From what i understand, you run it to a .vmf or .map before a compile.
And I also think that Atom's Compilator has an option to use HLFIX

Terror relies heavily on HLFIX from what i remember

Noted. I got the new ZHLT
Thanks PB!
I'm curious as to what caused that problem though.

Ha nice CT! Reminds me of the puddle jumpers from Stargate Atlantis

Like i said. Eerily similar
Body type, jaw lines, part in the hair. Wild.
She turned out to be crazy though. All's well that ends well.

Scotch. That's pretty good! Eerily similar to a girl I once dated...
CT, reminds me of Sin City. Some of the ink mark looks like blood spatter

The tools are mostly the same.
You're just losing some luxury.

As soon as i'm done with this 15 page monster final paper
[270 pages in a book was rough, but writing papers is still difficult]

Hmm I haven't gotten 3.3... I just got sledge, and remembered that Atom hosted lots of goodies

Any NPC has an 'on death' trigger and math_counters are way more flexible than multisources.
There's really nothing to figure out after that.

You can always tie a trigger to the birds that make them fly away if you get too close Just to make it more difficult

Compile Tools: Zoners 3.4 64bit - LINK if you're interested.

Screenshots:
Here's a screenshot of an error relating to the player start - seemingly unrelated to the door not having a master.

Here's an error displayed in game after trying to activate the door by touch, and then backing off.

Link to Map: Please Click here (VMF) Right-Click, saveas, else it'll open as a text file.

Steps to re-create:

• Create two rooms with connecting hallways
• - I made a block, hollowed it, cloned it, created a connecting hallway.
• Create a player start and a point light in each room
• Create a brush sealing off both rooms
• - Tied said brush to func_door, made it move vertical, lip of 2.
• Compiled

Compiling through sledge.. func_doors.... master is null or not a master.
Doors don't work. wat?
Func_walls not showing up...
Lights placed within ~64 units of eachother not rendering..
Something's afoot.

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more details....
Using the compilator instead of sledge to compile.
Using halflife.fgd located here: http://themightyatom.nl/downloads.html

I have a simple func_door, set to have a lip of 2 with no master set (field is blank).
When i compile and play, the door does not open and the game returns "master is null or not a master"
HOWEVER
If i tick the "use only" flag, the door opens when i play the game yet NO FUNC_WALLS RENDER!?

This is quite odd.

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Tested map with hammer 3.4
Created new door, exported to .map, compiled with compilator - works fine.

Something to look into PB

Makes sense now, but I just missed one of the big details that wasn't in the original briefing. Not your fault - 'twas my oversight.

S.O.B i totally missed that part.
Not sure if im gonna have time to spruce it up now.
Damn these summer classes....
Blah

Only if everything is prefabbed, textured cubes that you're splicing together

didn't know we had to keep existing geometry but could cut into it

See that's where it's fuzzy.
The Brief doesn't say you can add geometry to the area.
It doesn't say you CAN'T add geometry either.
It just says you can't change what's there...
HALP

hmm maybe i misunderstood but I thought this was primarily a re-texturing thing...bleah
I'm really doing this to keep my mind sane in between these crazy 8 page long papers i need to write for these summer classes.

whatever happened to not changing brushwork?

I've always scratch-made mine.
Seeing as how I've not used more than 10 different tex lights in a map, I'd end up tweaking them anyway.

Damn impressive that you JUST made that.
/slowclap

I'm honored to have my map remembered =] Thanks 2muchvideogames

Funny how hard it is to do something this simple. >:[

That's my favorite part about working with goldsource - using the restrictive tools to do something simple. Definitely shaped my brain to be a good troubleshooter / engineer.
In Crowbar of Time, all I used a multisource triggering a multimanager.
I wanted to implement a coin counter, but I had no way of displaying it on on a HUD.
If one wants to display a count, you can have a central display showing how many enemies remain, and have the same number of multisources as there are enemies to be found....
Each multisource will have the same name, but a different trigger number (from 1-number of enemies) to toggle visibility of the "enemies remaining" counter. The final multisource triggers a multimanager to do the outro sequence.

Simple in theory, complicated and tedious in execution.

@ Ghost, don't be afraid to lose We're not going to make fun of you for not making something incredible. This is a chance to flex your brain muscle. All the limits imposed in these competitions are exercises for creativity. Give it your best shot and you might win. I can GUARANTEE that you'll lose if you don't submit an entry. Start with picking a theme for the walls, texture everything in a certain area, and make trims and details by clipping existing brushwork.

@ Urby

There is a lot of evidence that... shudder... carving was used.

I've been replacing the existing geometry to suit my needs. The wall size, location, etc hasn't been changed, but I've been reorganizing as i go. The first thing i noted that drove me crazy was the little guard booth on the bottom floor near one of the doors. The floor is split into 4 sections and the walls are just crazy nuts. So I replaced that whole floor with one 5-sided brush and it satisfied the OCD section of my brain.

100% ok with it. I'm just blind and didn't read.
Thanks!

Can we use custom textures or only what's in the Vanilla assets?

Love ZP. How could I forget about Yahtzee?
every now and again, i'll binge watch the last 20 he puts out.
It's so easy to just say: "ONE MORE"

I'd like to thank Archie for 2 things: 1) an awesome topic. 2) My 2 failing grades for my summer classes thanks to his top 5

(In no particular order)

1) RoadKill
What you get when 2 master car mechanics have a free weekend and some spending money. It's every American muscle-car guy's wet-dream: Having the money and the skills to do whatever you want to cars.
For instance: throwing a dart at a map, flying to that location, buying a shitty car, and making it back home... for $1,500

2) 8 bit theater
I read these strips religiously in high-school and while I can't say I've kept up on them, they're good for crude humor and they're a breeze to read.
The strips follow the adventures of the 4 main characters from Final Fantasy 1 and each of them is about as useless as the next. Except for white mage - who the male characters lust over and fruitless try to court.

3) Misfile
A well written, intelligent manga of a boy who got turned into a girl because of an angel's mistake - misfiling the boy's papers in the female drawer in heaven. He wakes up one day as a girl, having lived his entire life as a boy. By the way, he has a wicked crush on his next door neighbor, his dad is a gynecologist, and he's an amateur race car driver/mechanic.
Once he get's over the fact he has boobs, some real-life, intelligent, plot developments come about. A fantastic read.

4) Mighty Car Mods
Two Aussies try to trick out their cars for as cheap as possible. These guys just did what any novice tinkers do - buy crappy parts to make their crappy cars less crappy. But they're hilarious - eventually got sponsored, became the most popular Aussie car mod show, and they've released a industry respected electronic soundtrack for one of their movies.
If you don't watch the series, at least check out their movie: Kei to the City where they fly to japan, buy a cheap car, and take it drifting with a band of rag-tag wrenchers.

5) Gone with the Blastwave
A lost-gem i recently stumbled upon. It covers the mindless banter and antics of a group of forgotten soldiers battling a war for who knows which reason. They're also lost and can't find their way out of the city. They try to entertain themselves by finding hilarious ways to kill their enemies - and seeing who's bullet can stay in the air longer. Extremely well drawn (for a web comic), entertaining, and hilarious at times. One of my favorite comics.

I second the Zebra Pencil! It's a very solid feel, but light enough to manipulate easily. Zebra also has a SUPER nice gel pen variant of the same body style. It was my favorite pen until I found the Uniball Jetstream.
I'd also recommend those sketchpad block erasers. My Eraser of choice has been a STAEDTLER rasoplast. It's great for notebook or printer paper, however I've never used it on a legit sketchpad so who knows.

Being in production meetings a lot really makes you appreciate nice pens.

I disabled it completely.
I don't think standard HL2 supports manifests right?
Blank/wasted space drives me nuts.

Glad it's fixed, but how do you live with that useless manifest toolbox taking up room?

Back when i had GOTY edition, i had a separate CD for HL, OP4, and Blue Shift. Not saying you're wrong... But Idk. Im confused

I wouldn't consider OP4 to be an expansion so much as it's own game?
But it is a fantastic piece of work nonetheless.
I have to agree with Archie on the Conquerors add-on for AOEII. The Mayans in that game are my favorite race next to the Celts. But only because of the addition of race-specific buffs.
The Brood War release of the original Starcraft is awesome. Another epic campaign with the addition of well balanced units and another boom on battle.net. It was a great game.
I liked portal's version of Peggle too. It was a very nice addition to my steam library.

Thanks! I'm not 100% sure where I want to go with it, but I want a lot of color. So that's the thing i'm shooting for right now. Here, have some purple.The EP2 materials and models are surprisingly versatile.
I also plan on releasing the source files for everyone once I'm done with this.mmmmm caves.
Needs more detail in the far wall but i have no idea what to put there...

looks beautiful.
It reminds me of the rolling hills of my home-state Connecticut. But the architecture is way cooler

where's the black one?

something i noticed when using the vertex tool lately is sometimes when you select a brush and select another one (not both at the same time), the first brush becomes invisible. its still there and selectable, just invisible.

Yeah i got that one too a few times.
That and every time i close sledge, windows throws me an error

I'm mapping at work to map on my break/lunches. I'm making soccer arenas for a source mod. The rotate gizmo has saved me hours of fine tweaking already.
Once I have the basics laid out in Sledge, I plan to import the map into 3DSMax to make models of railings and some of the more detailed bits.
After that, send it to Source and re-texture it. It runs flawlessly on my work machine which is sub-par by my standards.Red - Seats
Orange - Walls
Blue - Stairs / Floor

Sledge is an incredibly functional editor. I know this because I trust it.
Pb, I feel better about launching Sledge than I do about Hammer!
All I can say now is, thank you for your hard work. I know you didn't do it for me, but thank you. This thing is great.

One little tiny flaw that shouldn't matter, if you do a horizontal or vertical flip on an invalid brush, the faces reverse.

Sure. Grab another plane ticket to NYC. I'll pick you up at the Airport.

It's summer in the Northeast USA so the temp fluctuates between 75 and 90F (24C and 33C for all you real people)

Btw Archie, if u are taking donations for the server I'd be happy to contribute!

seconded

View from Window at work. Im in a Cube and don't have my own window, but i can at least look out that one.
'Merica.