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Simpler? More 'fun'?

Hm. Sounds authentic, Anthony; I may be wrong. Not laid eyes on one of those books for years.

No, with SQL.

Damn! I blame the server.

It's good; little boring though.

1. cycler or monster_generic
2. SprWiz and Milkshape
3. Not sure

Thanks for being so specific. Perhaps you could tell us what you're mapping for. HL? CS? TFC?

Not that I can see you can get anything from a non-executable file. Perhaps it was called "Blah.mp3.exe"?

Yeah, it's pointless really, but it's fun.

"phermaldahyde"? Perhaps "formaldehyde"? (heh, dictionary.com)

Good luck. I'm gonna kill the gman in a mod of mine. If I ever make it. Doubt I will.

What the hell are you gonna drive four monitors with!? You'd need a super mobo that can handle two graphics cards at least. Is it even possible?

Speaking of recreating things in Half-Life, here's HL2 come early - for HL1!

Appendix: You can make your new splash screens any size you want, it appears!

Heh, nice.

Not a clue. You're putting it in the normal Hammer directory?

Good luck... still ongoing kinda luck

That'd be all of them, then.

That'd be all of them, then.

http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/download.jsp?ftpID=2354

You'll need to register.

It's a competition for the lowest
Even though we already know who wins.

Hopefully he'll return sometime before the site falls apart.

Quite possibly. The end is nigh.

Not the place for this. Discuss politics, go to Stuff forum.

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Get the trial from www.adobe.com

I am a completly law-abiding citizen. Especially in regard to copyright regulations. Yes. I own the copyright on all these files.

57. Pwning ahead.

Perhaps your 'i' key is broken?

Very nice ZL. Interestin' lyric adjustment.

Monkeychow: 'fraid not as I believe that'd be copyright infringement. Not willing to risk termination of contract from my ISP for hosting illegal software on their servers, not to dirty TWHL's name. It's easy

Your way is stupid as Word doesn't print backgrounds! They're only for HTML documents!

cause hes such a cute fat baby

P?dophile.

G-man. Nicer colour. More of a character too.

Heh, your reply wasn't there when I posted, Cap'n

A WAD and a PAK are fairly similar technically. They both share features with good ol' ZIPs. WADs, though, are only used for textures, while PAKs store a large part of the game. Open both in Wally.

GCFs are kinda like grown-up PAKs. They're only used in Steam and can be opened with GCFScape.

FGDs are Forge Game Data files. They just make mapping easier by remembering all the entities you can use. You could actually map without FGDs at all, but you'd have to type in the name of every entity and every property (i.e. you wouldn't have a list like SmartView offers). FGDs are only needed when mapping. They are nothing to do with the game itself! You cannot just use, say, a TFC FGD to map for Half-Life in order to use TFC features as many people seem to think.

Because that's a pointless way to do it.

Thanks

Pretty handy being able to change the text. I'm gunna remake the toolbars.

I know he tried it: I was just quoting enough for him to look it in his own log, then to find the co-ords and face number.

Be careful not to copy Sven

Be patient?

Compiles can take a long time. Most one of mine's ever taken was around 4hrs on a 1.9GHz PC with 256MB of RAM. That was Cause of Death, my competition map.

No, I'm not confusing ZHLT and Hammer. I'm showing you how to customize Hammer's appearance a little. I take no responsibility for anything on the face of the earth ever blah blah blah blah.

Okay, here're a few replacement splash screens I cobbled together for the purposes of this demonstration. I will show you how to take this image and put it into HAMMER.EXE, so I recommend backing up the original program file before beginning.Now you need to get a little program called "ResHacker". You can get that here and it's about half a meg.

Once you have ResHacker, just open the ZIP and run the program. It creates no registry entries so uninstallation is simply a case of deleting the files if they are present. Leave it open while you follow the next step.

Now, I want you to take the replacement splash screen and save it somewhere as a Bitmap (extension '.BMP'). You can do this in the versions of Paint that come with later version of Windows, or with the excellent freeware tool Irfanview.

Once you've done this, go back to ResHacker. Click File -> Open and then browse to Hammer.exe. Some jargon and odd numbers will appear in the left-hand pane. Click the "+" next to "Bitmap" and a submenu will unfurl. Then find "172" in this new menu and click the plus sign next to that. A screenshot is provided if you're confused [clicky].

Now click on the "1033" under "172". It's the only option. Look! The original splash! Right-click "1033". A menu will show; click "Replace Resource". A dialog box will now appear. Select your new splash by clicking the appropriately-titled button at the top-left. When you've selected the splash, click "Replace". Then just click File -> Save.

Open Hammer and bask in its beauty.

Look at all the other places in Hammer. You can replace the bitmaps for the toolbar buttons, you can even change menu texts. Don't be afraid to experiment. Remember that even if worst comes to worst, you can just re-download Hammer and it'll be fine.

You could try it with other programs too - just remember to back it up!

Go on: write one there's lots of material on the forum.

Better way: Insert -> Picture -> From File -> Resize as desired. Bear in mind that your printer is very unlikely to be able to cover the whole page.

"no, I it is intelligent in football American"

Pld.

Never ever use names with spaces for any form of directory structure pertaining to Half-Life.

Try the VERC.

Read your own log before you post it:

Error: Malformed face normal
Description: The texture alignment of a visible face is unusable
Howto Fix: If using Worldcraft, do a check for problems and fix any occurences of 'Texture axis perpindicular to face'

I was just about to say you seemed to have grown up a lot during your absence, BL :

Heh

I am re-born a new man!

Well you're hardly going to be born and old one.

Okay

A skybox is an all-encompassing hollowed box textured with sky. It is foolish and impedes performance both at compile- and run-times. A sky brush is one brush textured with "sky" and is sufficent for any outdoor scene without imparing the engine. Read the Glossary. Possibly a dictionary will be necessary too, I'm in a wordy mood.

the strider had an 'limbo_under_bridge' animation

Wow! It's animated?! You mean they've written code that dictates how things react, that things move? That's awful, they've lied to their community, their fans. I thought HL2 was a biological program that was sentient in its own right.

FGDs are not 4MB.