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Yeah, we used to resort to that hacky fix. We had a developer fix it.
31MB for one sound file in a map is ridiculous!
If it is a music track, then replace one of the existing mp3 files used by Half-Life, but this would only work for a mod. You don't want to go overwriting everyone's base game files and you'd get a well deserved back lashing if you did.
For a single map within Half-Life, you could use a .wav and an ambient_generic entity, but then you have two problems.
First, not everyone wants to hear the same music as you. If it's an ambient generic, they can't lower the volume or turn it off without affecting every other sound in the map.
Second, the quality would be horrendous. You'd also get the directional issue where the player would only hear it in the left or right speaker depending on their position in the map.
Long story short: Don't add music to maps, only mods.
If it is a music track, then replace one of the existing mp3 files used by Half-Life, but this would only work for a mod. You don't want to go overwriting everyone's base game files and you'd get a well deserved back lashing if you did.
For a single map within Half-Life, you could use a .wav and an ambient_generic entity, but then you have two problems.
First, not everyone wants to hear the same music as you. If it's an ambient generic, they can't lower the volume or turn it off without affecting every other sound in the map.
Second, the quality would be horrendous. You'd also get the directional issue where the player would only hear it in the left or right speaker depending on their position in the map.
Long story short: Don't add music to maps, only mods.
You need to add ground, metal, rock or brick at the start of the texture for the custom sounds. for example: Metal_sfloor-hl2 is one of my textures, when you walk on a brush with said texture assigned it sounds like "ding ding ding"Yeah, that's wrong. You just need to add the texture name to materials.txt
Yup, textures.com (formerly cgtextures.com) is the way to go.
Same as the editor. I believe one will be selected at random when you compile the map. Best to rename one of them.
Photoshop is probably one of the best programs you can use. Just ensure that you save your BMP as an indexed image. (Top menu: Image > Mode > Indexed Color) which should let you save as a 256 colour image by default. That's the best way to ensure consistency between the two programs, but that's not to say that transparency won't still be an issue.
Best solution would be to change the colour at index 255 to something else like bright green. If the colour in the image itself doesn't change, then it's not using that index.
If it isn't, you can then use the fill tool to make sure that it is, then change the colour back to solid blue.
@Jessie I'm not so sure if compile tools affect it. With TWHL Tower, I had to edit one of JeffMOD's textures which was using pink for transparency. Did not work for me until I changed it to blue.
If it isn't, you can then use the fill tool to make sure that it is, then change the colour back to solid blue.
@Jessie I'm not so sure if compile tools affect it. With TWHL Tower, I had to edit one of JeffMOD's textures which was using pink for transparency. Did not work for me until I changed it to blue.
Any chance of getting the .wad? Everything above should be all you need.
They're commented out. Remove the //
Howdy.
Obviously.
Also FYI, the total area of 512x512 is the limit, meaning you can have 256x1024 for example.
Also FYI, the total area of 512x512 is the limit, meaning you can have 256x1024 for example.
I've managed to net myself a day off tomorrow, so whenever my daughter goes down for a nap I will jump in and do a preview playthrough of sorts. That way you can get my thoughts as they happen. 
Nope. My Internet speed would mean abysmal quality.
Will check this out. Expect a playthrough. 
That crate texture is way too basic at the moment Dr.Orange.
It looks very much like an MSPaint job next to the standard textures.
It looks very much like an MSPaint job next to the standard textures.
Urgh, clickbait articles.
... Why?
Love the BATMETAL and BATMETAL RETURNS vids 
I'm still about 75% done. Life and The Core are taking up a lot of time right now. I intend to finish my part soon though
If I recall, monsters just jump right back up if you trigger a death animation.
One method is to place a trigger hurt around the monster. Then, make sure it's set to be deactivated by the monster's death.
Do we not have a thread for this already?
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I think this is probably one of my largest maps... and I'm about 75% of the way done
O-ho. The doing there has been seen by me.
Yeah, modding is purely a hobby for me. I would love to make money designing games, but it would need to be from the ground up.
I'd never charge for a mod for Source or Goldsource considering how much is already out there for free. Not to mention the hefty cost for the Source license.
You'd need to make something really special to make that money back, considering Steam's refund policy could very easily destroy you.
I'd never charge for a mod for Source or Goldsource considering how much is already out there for free. Not to mention the hefty cost for the Source license.
You'd need to make something really special to make that money back, considering Steam's refund policy could very easily destroy you.
You see about Urby has baby and he hasn't problem with money? If he releases free games than he doesn't know about money. Haha how does it happen with Urby's baby? Baby need foods, clothes and going to kindergarten than school.Not sure if I misunderstood what you mean... I've never charged money for a game
Spirit of Half-Life has a particle entity (env_particle) with a setting called "Fountain" which I believe is what you are looking for.
If you're talking Vanilla Half-Life entities, probably going to need a lot of entity work with sprites or a model or some combination of the two. Not sure to be honest.
If you're talking Vanilla Half-Life entities, probably going to need a lot of entity work with sprites or a model or some combination of the two. Not sure to be honest.
You can just use the "lip" field on func_door to do that...
Lighting can be a bear. The trick is to keep it varied. There's nothing majorly special in terms of lighting in my map.
I am sticking to the following however:
Yellow Lighting - Large Interior Spaces / Accessible Doors
Red Lighting - Inaccessible areas / Locked Doors
Green Lighting - Temporarily locked doors / Inaccessible Areas
White lighting - Exterior sections
Blue lighting - Small Interior Spaces
I'm also being careful not to have one type for an entire room / hallway, to ensure there is always some form of blending light colour. If an area still isn't too interesting to look at once the main lighting is in place, I throw in a screen or a small light just to add something to break things up.
I am sticking to the following however:
Yellow Lighting - Large Interior Spaces / Accessible Doors
Red Lighting - Inaccessible areas / Locked Doors
Green Lighting - Temporarily locked doors / Inaccessible Areas
White lighting - Exterior sections
Blue lighting - Small Interior Spaces
I'm also being careful not to have one type for an entire room / hallway, to ensure there is always some form of blending light colour. If an area still isn't too interesting to look at once the main lighting is in place, I throw in a screen or a small light just to add something to break things up.
I don't think you will legally be able to sell a GoldSource mod. Not without licensing the engine, if that is even possible these days...
I've been a little naughty. I am working on my entry during work breaks only, which is 2.5 hours a weeka at most... but I've been on holiday this week and kinda pushing to get this done. I've been on the Core primarily, but I should be done with my entry today, and if not I'm back at work tomorrow so will be done by next weekend at the latest.
I've only compiled a couple of times since my work PC uses Ubuntu so can't run any of the tools. I'll post screenies soon
Edit: Soon is upon us!
I should note that all of the custom assets here are remnants of past projects or outdated Core stuff. I have quite a massive catalog of unused custom stuff.
I've only compiled a couple of times since my work PC uses Ubuntu so can't run any of the tools. I'll post screenies soon
Edit: Soon is upon us!
Those are some lovely hallways!
This video was shot after moving house. Half of our stuff was still in boxes, we'd lost the house that we originally went for because the landlord pulled out but we'd already given notice to move out of our old place. All this with a three month old baby and generally not giving a shit how i look resulted in my looking like that nine months ago.
What's the problem? No time or something?
I'm going to say software, based on the pixellation of the textures (unless he's disabled the OpenGL filtering in the console)
Well, what you've outlined in that second shot is a shadow, I assume from the lantern style frame around your light. If you don't want the shadow, you'll need to change the frame to an entity such as a func_wall
The .fgd is purely for how things render in Hammer / Jackhammer / Sledge.
It's to make things easier for you when making the map and doesn't concern other players.
It's to make things easier for you when making the map and doesn't concern other players.
No worries.
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You don't need multiple entities for this.
func_rotating with the 'not solid' Flag checked.
Boom. Done.
func_rotating with the 'not solid' Flag checked.
Boom. Done.
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TWHL Tower taught me that people are a pain.
Maybe there's a way making a texture emit light? Or something like that?Texure lighting? You mean the ONLY way you SHOULD be lighting maps in Goldsource?
In your compile tools folder, you should have a "lights.rad" document that controls the texture lighting values when you compile your map. You can edit this with notepad. It will have lines like this:
TEXTURENAME 255 255 255 2000
TEXTURENAME2 128 255 0 200
and so on.
Seriously though you using texture lighting for most of your map. Entity lighting in Goldsource rarely looks good.
Yeah. Zoner's is correct. Never would have got it.
I think it's been well established that any Source projects are doomed to fail here, so Goldsource is the sensible choiceI'm also just gonna put this here. Unless the Source team is gonna pop up with a surprise map pack that they have been working on behind the scenes... :rly:
I know it, but I aint talkin'
Yeah, I'm basically a God damn genius.
Modest too
Modest too