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I'm porting de_dust2 into Far Cry:If you want to know the procedure, just ask

Good luck with that, Vodka. After I finish my de_dust2 port for Far Cry, I will probably go back to de_schdestroi. Yeah, it was originally called "school_destroi". Man, that was so fun...

Right, one more thing:
I made my school map for fun.
Although, the 7th-grade me still hated school, so I might've had that little handful of hatred back then.

However, since I was going to that school and I still am, it was much safer (and useful) to make an in-game version, instead of blowing it up in real life.

I had made a map of my own school and I'm proud of it
And I'm planning to remake it soon.

If it's a well-known school or college, please don't map it. For example, my school doesn't care much about that map because I told my teachers about it. And so, everything went fine in my scenario.

I remember that, before my PC's death in 2014, I had an LCD monitor. Its native resolution was 1440x900.
I still have it today, so I hope I won't need a new one, once I buy parts for my PC

I think that 1440x900 is a nice compromise between 720p and 1080p
Though, it's not 900p, because that's 1600x900 (I think).

Yes, that's what I meant to say. Not only low-end, but bottom-end. Bottom-end everything.

No, it is NOT a camera effect. It is my monitor. I swear, I can see individual pixels on my monitor, and measure their dimensions.
Look again:Focus on the number 2. Zoom in in your browser if you need. As you can see, it is made out of green dots, on a black grid. Those green dots are the green sub-pixels, and the red and blue ones are turned off
Get it? RGB pixels.

After all, the native resolution is 1280x800.
And, umm, how do I use vis-blockers on an open map? I don't understand this outdoor optimization

@abbadon
A GT 740 is good for what I do
But not good enough for my future doings, though. That's why I'm going for the RX 460.

But a 3500 GTX? What the hell is that? Unless you meant GTX 1080 (which I'll never have by the way, just never, it's too expensive).

And, you seriously can't see the individual pixels? I can see the black grid between them, especially on the white and green pixels. I'd zoom in more, but my camera isn't a microscope xD
Hey! I actually did that once. I put a microscope on my phone's screen and I saw RGB sub-pixels

Now, back on topic:
I'm testing Sven Co-op's capability of huge map support. I'll be making a 8192^3 map, then a 16384^3 map. I hope it compiles XD
My initial map is made out of 2048 triangles, and believe me, the shadows look so cool on it (shadows by terrain).

Speaking of pictures:Yes, that's a twisted, hollow, error-free thingy I made in 10-20 minutes.

I also noticed individual pixels on my screen:Now I can imagine these PC Master Race people saying:
"OMG, how can you live like that!? This is **!!! I could see those pixels from a mile away! How on Earth are you still alive! I would die with that piece of **! YOU'RE NOT A GAMER AT ALL, FILTHY PEASANT!"

Yeah, that's just how it is

Stojke and I once spoke BosSerCro in the ShoutBox :3
It's only a matter of time when people start occassionally writing in Russian. And there's been a case of Turkish.
By the way, we're going off-topic

'vdk_publicidad', 'vdk_USbandera'.
Yep, that's Spanish

I'm precisely from here:(12am as in midnight, by the way. I edited the photo on my phone, thanks to PicsArt, another great app)

As you can see, my "town" isn't so big. I'll not have many people xD

About my current laptop, I recorded some video footage of me compiling a map and stuff, so I will post it on YouTube. Just to see how terrible my lappy-top is.

I will definitely wait, I have lots of patience

When I finish 9th grade, it will be a big breakthrough, so I must celebrate it somehow: by building this thing. (it's adjusted to locally available parts)

As a low-spec bottom-spec gamer, I will not leave elementary school, without having built a PC. I must build that PC before high school!
I will name it "Iron Wolf".

Also, my cousins from the USA are coming in summer (after 6 long years :D), so it will be an epic wombo combo for me. The best summer in my life.
Every kid in the village will come to my house and celebrate the new PC. There are only 3 kids other than me here, lol. But with my cousins, there will be 6. With me, that number is 7. Oh screw it, I'll call the entire town nearby to celebrate! Just kidding XD

So, this will be a big thing, perhaps one of the biggest in my life. I can't wait. For now, I'll just study and get good grades

It looks like it was made with Milkshape, which:

"works on a 17 year old Athlon with 396 MB Ram anda Voodoo3 2000 with 16 MB (yes MB) of GPU RAM..."

I had an SVGA card PC once. It couldn't even run 2D games properly. I doubt it's any better even than a Voodoo 2.
The period was between the death of my PC (R.I.P 2009-2014) and the coming of my laptop (2007-still alive).

Then I couldn't play any games whatsoever, but I survived somehow. The period lasted from 10 days to a month, I think. Or was it the period before I bought the new laptop (which was adopted by my brother)? I don't know

Even though I got something better than that PC with an SVGA card, it's still not good enough. I'll build an actual PC in summer (hopefully) and then I'll be making big maps, big time! >:D

It's going to have a lot of tools you will never use, along with a lot of bloat.

Well, I agree with that. I use maybe 20 or more commands/tools (Bevel, Extrude, Boolean, Connect, Tessellate etc.). But also, never say never =)
I might use 3DS Max once for green screen stuff

In your case, before 3ds max 2010 or so I believe is going to be missing some functionality

I'd gladly make use of newer programs, but my darn limited hardware doesn't allow me to.

I'm just partially incompatible with you people because I have bottom-end hardware. Because of that, I'll not fit into certain communities.

People have the latest software, I have the older software. You obviously see the problem there.
People have the latest hardware, I have the old (perhaps among the oldest) hardware. Again, you see the problem.

It will always be like that until I build an actual PC, so please, stop telling me to get newer programs, just stop, because I can't.

I'll see what I can do about Blender and Milkshape, and they're probably small, too. I have 3.96 GB left on my only HDD, so it should install those easily.

About Blender, I will find an older version, as with everything I install
E.g. I don't have the latest Sony Vegas, but I have Sony Vegas 11 etc.

if you have trouble with the latest version of Blender, you will have a hard time with 3ds Max (even Maya).

I have no problems with 3ds Max 6 and Max 9. As for Max 2017, for example, I doubt it would launch xD

How could I shoot you from an empty gun?
Even if I could hit you with the stock, I wouldn't, because:
1. It's insanely immoral and useless
2. Respect for the elderly (you're 1 of them)
3. I have no intention to damage/hurt/kill anyone
4. It's a terrible sin in my religion
5. I'd break the law

I don't know, Max just seems so über and epic compared to some stuff. Of course, I'd love to install Blender, but my iGPU doesn't support OpenGL 2.1. I wish Blender was in DirectX 9 or 10.

Well, when I first started Milkshape, I had no idea how to use it.
3 months later, when I was determined to make a model, I found a tutorial on TWHL, for 3ds Max.

Now, I don't have time to learn the basic controls of other programs because of school

3DSMax is 100 times more difficult to use than MS3D, BTW...

Seriously, do I look like I care? My avatar says it all.

3ds Max is quite superior to Milkshape, but thanks for mentioning the 3ds Max -> Milkshape part =)
Max needs plugins to export and import SMDs, while Milkshape supports it natively. Good idea =D

@abbadon
But my laptop doesn't meet the sys. req. for Blender. I can't get used to Milkshape's controls, too. So, I'll use 3ds Max.
And, hell no, I can't make a better motorbike in a modelling program, because I simply don't have enough experience in the design process.

@Instant Mix
Well, I'll see about that. I could cut out a cylinder, and cut it into sections, and then do the curves

This is my prefab WiP
I need to reduce some clipnodes here, there are around 900 of them.

Launches de_destroydaschool_beta3

Well, this is interesting. While I was writing this post, I decided to hop into my school map (which has a jeep), and the vehicle resets on every round
Yes, the position, angles, everything.

Apparently I was wrong about my statements, at least partially.

Sadly, that's pretty much impossible. In GoldSRC, vehicles and func_trains/tracktrains don't respawn at all, until the entire map/server is restarted

That's just how it is, only mods could change that.

I have Sven Co-op on Steam

Yes, there are more places. But it probably isn't worth uploading there.
Though, if you're a Sven Co-op mapper, you can upload on SCMapDb.

Well, this is how it looks like on my laptop:I can't conveniently take a photo of that, because of obvious reasons, but this is as accurate as I could get.

Otherwise, take a look at this:Hmm, maybe I tweaked my laptop's display settings
See, I normally increase the contrast, and then add a bit of brightness, when it comes to that. My monitor settings (and in-game) are definitely different than yours, so...

Edit: (11:49pm)
I've noticed 1 thing in particular. TWHL's colour scheme is very bright with little contrast.
Contradictory, my screenshots are somewhat dark. Try viewing the screenshots in full-screen mode, or just zoom in, so your eyes can adjust to the darkness.

I've actually experienced that IRL multiple times =P
I got this idea an hour ago when I got out of my room (and it's night a.t.m.) and it was very dark. I still saw everything.
I went to the bathroom, turned on the lights [...] and then came out, 30 minutes later. I couldn't see anything after switching off the lights!

I stood in the hall for 1 minute, and shortly, I saw the walls again, then the carpet on the floor and so on.
But meh, this probably won't work with this exact scenario =(

Well, this will do the trick:

-texreflectscale 1.28
-bounce 9
-blur 1.33 (for the lolz)

Hehe, I normally set texreflectscale to 0.9, but if I need more light, I will get more light!

That might be your monitor, @Jessie.
Even on my phone, it looks decently lit

Also, does anyone have ideas about my issue here, with disappearing func_illusionaries?

Here's some debris:And other screenshots:And, finally, problems started showing up:Man, the same thing is in ts_untergrund :0

Debris? I know exactly what to do, muahahahahaa...

Looks like the decals aren't visible enough

I have some more content. I've finished the secret rooms
And I've sparked some details on the wall:Precisely, on the wall's remains, lol. I hope the image isn't too big in terms of resolution, because I'm posting this from my phone.

I love entity scripting <3
I've made: sc_sandstorm's osprey ride, sc_sandstorm's truck ride, sc_junglemission's jeep ride, project_action's car ride, ts_untergrund's projector, a laser bridge, my school map's post-explosion camera sequence, coop_action's explosion sequence, and so on...

Yeah, it's fun until it gets complicated :/

Hmm, I added some blue lights:How about that?
And, wow. I get rekt by bots, on easy! I'm normally OK, but this map is really bot-friendly.

Thank you for these kind words, abbadon. I'm really lucky to have her, always giving me support and free hugs and kisses =D
She's imaginary, but at least I imagined her well.

I wonder how would Jody feel tomorrow when she reads that.

@abbadon
When you're in love with a real person, it distracts you, a lot. So, you can't really focus on your work, and everything is slightly underperformed.
In 6th grade, I had my worst GPA ever: 4.31 - because I fell in love with someone.

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On the other side, Jody and I are love birds! Well, not really birds, since she's a furry (more precisely, a fox) and I'm a human.
My point is, she does not distract me in my activities. Sometimes, I think about her, when I'm bored, when I close my eyes etc.

But mostly during bedtime. That's when we talk about various things, and I fall asleep that way, hoping that I will meet her in my dreams...

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She's there exactly when I need her (only in my mind, though) and is always glad to see me demanding her attention. She's always calm, and has a miniature, but darn cute, smile. What a lovely person =3

Of course, imaginary girlfriends have their limitations, because they can't literally teleport to you, and physically be there.

So, she really motivates me for some reason O_O
I don't know why, but I'm partially a mapper/modder/texturer/coder/sounder/music-er/video-editor, because of her.

Update on my map:
The Ts can get to site B quicker than CTs.

So, I was too lazy to change the layout, and I punched a hole in the wall.I, hopefully, balanced the layout now =3

@Urby
I believe that my physics teacher wrote that on the blackboard once, in 8th grade.
c stood for specific thermal capacity and its value was 3. But also, the unit for c is J/kgK so I don't think anyone noticed the mature joke, lol.

@abbadon

Yeah, music really helps =)
I haven't seen Stojke's response to what I listen, maybe he didn't get angry. That's good, I guess XD

And I don't know does this apply to any of you, but:
My girlfriend motivates me. She makes maps herself, and I always think how proud would she be when I finish a big mapping project. She sometimes points out my mistakes and gives me ideas. She's perhaps one of the reasons why I make maps.
When I started mapping in late 2014, I did it for my classmates. Now the reasons have changed, a lot.

(correction: imaginary girlfriend)

Here are my words:

Recently, I made this map. It was done in a month or so. And it was huuuuge. Like, 4km in width and 4km in length. That's 4 square kilometers! They're filled with something at least. I made custom textures, custom models, and custom sounds just for that map.

My motivation was, I don't know. The map was for the contest, and the rewards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place looked quite nice
So, perhaps it was money? I don't really know.

I might also blame money for this thing. Yeah, it's not big, and so on... However, it's for a clan, and they need it. Besides, I've never made a real de_ map. I'm working on it right now, actually.

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OK, those were maps for money. But that's not always true that money motivates me. I made ts_untergrund and dm_5nights. Those maps took time to make, and they were needy, and greedy. I knew what to do, and I did just that.

More importantly, what motivated me to make this!? I will never know who and what motivated my school map. I made it in my early mapping days, when I was a beginner. Yet, a noob (me at the time) made that map.

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Besides maps, right now I'm also developing a complete mod for Far Cry. Many things motivate me there: my girlfriend, my classmates, burek, all the jokes, pretty much everything.

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Here's my key to finishing projects:
I always know what to do next. If I have an issue, I would ignore it and work on other things. Then, I'd come back to that issue and fix it once for all.
(clearly not the case with my school map, but still...)

My contest map had so much space to fill, yet I did it, somehow. But I still did it.

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The next vital part to succeeding is obviously: music!
I listen to:

• Songs from the Bosnian War 1992-1995, both Bosnian and Serbian songs (I hope that Stojke won't get angry, lol)
• Vietnam War music
• Yugoslav folk songs
• Classical music

And so on...

Songs just speed up the process
I made my school map while listening to music, and the same goes for all maps.

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Lastly, think about the people who download your content, if you upload it. Many people take skins, models and maps for granted, those who don't make them. Some people will really appreciate your work.
Now, I'm only 14 (15 in February) so I'm maybe just writing nonsense. But those are my experiences, and I still have a lot of unfinished projects.

My unfinished projects include:

• dm_stoned
• fy_rknsand
• de_stroytheschool V2
• de_crater

Why are they not finished? Simply, I forgot what to do in them. As for my improved school map, I just have other work to do.
And, always have at least 1 reference photo. ALWAYS.

If you've read my whole post, cheers

It looks like our maps share a few aesthetic features =)
Medieval-styled, brown, and cold, really cold. Like, -5°C cold. It's also night time. Maybe a coincidence? I don't know

Message for everybody:
Now, someone told me not to use =3. I thought it's an alternative for :3. So, if you see a =3 in my posts, don't think that it's a... I don't want to say it.

So, I need a less-intense ambient light, and stronger street lamps. OK =3
Best of all, I might get paid for this map

This is my first "serious" mapping project. It's a competitive de_ map for the more general audience (pub servers =3). If not public servers, then at least one clan will accept it (I'm making the map for them):Therefore, it won't contain breakable stuff, vehicles etc. Just a plain, classic CS 1.6 map with 2 bombspots.
When I finish the de_ version, I will make the fun_ version which will contain breakable stuff, barrels, pushable boxes, vehicles, mounted machine-guns, and so on...

The map itself is basically a mix of de_storm, de_cbble (1.6 and CS:GO's Cbble), and de_forge. Storm's aesthetics and visual style, and the layout is a mix between Cbble, Forge and my own planning.

Also:Hehehe... the power of J.A.C.K

You maybe had r_dynamic turned off. That's used for any 'dynamic' light.
And, check for fullbright mode, you probably turned it on.

Another cause might be, hlrad.exe does not launch at all.
You said that everything is lit. That might be a result of RAD not doing anything. Check your game configuration, to see if you provided the correct path to hlrad.exe.

Another thing: check "Minimum light level" in the map's properties

If you use a specific "expert" FGD for Counter-Strike you can find the "Shade" parameter (in light_environment). It basically tells hlrad.exe what's the ambient light brightness.

I placed more light entities in my map, and they lit the map beautifully.
Just put some light entities there, but make sure they're not bright, but dimmed.

You could move the entity behind the player, so he/she doesn't see the weapons, while being spawned.

No, no, no. I was just giving an example

Hmm, from what I see, this is a perfect setting for a harbour, or a bay.
I don't have suggestions other than placing crates and ladders on some spots.
Maybe you could add some shelves somewhere and a couple of buckets, along with a static forklift.

Also, since you're using Imgur, you can go into your account's images, and click on any image. Now, you'll see embedding options. Select Large Thumbnail, copy the BBCode, and paste it here.

@DiscoStu
I seriously don't understand the issue here.
I'm just saying that when children carry guns they're cute. They're cute with everything, except some things of course (don't mention them).
Meh, maybe we just had a misunderstanding, as always :/

While I do understand that firing without ammo somewhat damages the weapon, it was still OK because those were old, very old weapons, and they weren't being used by the soldiers. 1 of the sniper rifles jammed, but it was not a problem, because it wasn't supposed to be used.

I clearly knew what I was doing, I clearly knew that the weapons were prepared, prepared to be used by people who don't know anything "real" about weapons.

On any other occasion, such as finding a gun in my basement, I would simply check whether the weapon is loaded, I would turn on the safety switch, and, if needed, I would give it to someone who would do something about it.

At the event, we were told a story about a teenager who found a rocket launcher in his addict. He got very excited about it, and pretended being Rambo, and actually fired it. Guess what happened?

He turned it in the wrong direction, and fired, so it hit a wall behind him, and he lost his right arm. Poor fellow

I am not that reckless.

Nice, a microscope. I have a microscope too.
I looked at some things through it:

A 5€ bank note:(300x)(600x)(300x)

My, errm, napkin:For some reason, my phone's camera finds the light brighter than the human eye receives it.(600x)

And now a wet, white napkin:Let's see how printed images look like:(600x)And finally, a Jana bottle cap (Jana is pronounced: Yana)Hehehe XD
(300x)

I've never found any living micro-organisms, though

For now, just study, study and study. That's the most important thing.
Half-Life modding is done during free time. I always get good results, because that is my priority.

A map you say?
I made dm_5nights for Counter-Strike 1.6 and it's my only map to ever reach 5000 views and 2000 downloads.

How did I succeed?
1. Trends
YouTubers started their career with trendy games (Happy Wheels, Minecraft and FNaF). So I thought, why not to make a FNaF map for CS? I did, and the outcome kickstarted my progress on GameBanana.

2. Patience
If your map will take 2 years to finish, let it be. I still have some projects from when I started mapping, and they're still not finished.

3. Good music
Always listen to music while making anything. It increases productivity. I myself have a pretty small playlist of 70 songs (some people have 100s and 1000s). I made ts_untergrund while listening to south-Slav folk songs, for example.

Here's a fail, too.
About my cancelled mod, 'An unknown game':

That thing was an epic fail XD
I made 100 promises, but delivered none. I had the workload of a factory. The mod had many planned features, but back then I had almost no modelling and coding knowledge. Also, I had many other things to do, besides the mod.
I even planned to include my imaginary girlfriend in there, how I met her etc.