Forum posts

8 of 12 completed on the first TWHL game. Only 4 more!

Video Uploading as we speak!

Sure is taking a while...

http://drawception.com/play/eUoYt0hk2LLfs06s0iDIt09of15ueH0OBgbJp5XXuBM/

Come on guys, we're only on stage 5 out of 12 for the first TWHL game. Get drawing!

Great idea

OK, back from shoot. Sorry about the wait, guys, but at least my internet is back up!

Layout is pretty much done. Changelist from CT's version 15:

• exterior lighting reworked
• env_sun fixed and tweaked to new light settings
• tetsuo's boiler room expanded & lighting reworked
• hostages added
• hostage rescue zone added
• new decals for hostage gameplay
• new graffiti
• rooftop details added to overlooking buildings
• skybox reworked for shadows and appearance
• fog added
• some prop fade distances reworked
• added dustmotes to office
• added new entrance to boiler room for Ts to set up defence of hostages
• fixed broken and off-grid brushwork
• fixed nodrawed visible faces
• added cubemaps
• reworked vehicle positioning on road for gameplay
• added billboard and ladder to provide escape route from office
• fixed odd lighting glitch outside garage

Download

My internet is being a total douche again. Is there any chance I can get a small extension purely because I don't want to lose the work I've done, but I can't upload at the moment.

I won't get any extra time to actually work on it since I'm not at home all day, but I can't actually pass it on right now

OK, done a fair bit over the night. Still some bugs, but I spent ages sorting out some of the messier bits. I don't know what grid-size some of you are making your geometry with, but there were quite a few brushes off-grid, especially around the building next to the CT tunnel on the other side from Urby's hut.

Also I have no idea how you compiled the version you sent me, CT. It had so many entities with their origins outside the map boundaries. Didn't you notice the leaks and CONTENTS_SOLID errors?
When you shrank the 3D skybox elements, you forgot to deselect the entities so all the overlays and stuff got scaled as well - something they definitely don't like.

It's coming together though, and is actually playable in its current state.

I still have ~12 hours left based on when CT sent it to me, but I have to go on a shoot. Depending on how long that takes, I might not be able to do any more.

Sorry for the rant, this is still awesome!

Your Optimus Prime pouring petrol over himself made me laugh. Awesome!
Sucks about the private game timing out, though. Hope it let's you join at a later stage.

I got shown this by a mate of mine Ally. You might have seen him if you ever watched my Postman Ally mockumentary.

New feature: Private games

Added the ability to create private games last night. You’ll now see this option on the Create game page.

When you create a private game, it will generate a link that you can use to invite your friends/family/coworkers/twitter followers to play it.

When it completes, anyone who played it will get a notification and will see the game listed on their profile. It will not be visible on the rest of the site, BUT the link to the game can be shared so others can view the final results. Which should be useful for things like forum communities or offices where there may be people who want to see the results, but weren’t able to participate.

Coming up is the ability to set the size of the game. So you can scale it to the number of people you’re playing with (to a degree… since less than 7 or so wouldn’t make for a very interesting game). But for now you’ll need to share the link with at least 12 people for a game to complete. On your profile page, you can see the status of the game and how far along it is.

Enjoy!

So here's the first TWHL game:

http://drawception.com/play/eUoYt0hk2LLfs06s0iDIt09of15ueH0OBgbJp5XXuBM/

oh ok. There's loads of visible faces nodraw'd in the latest version you linked, btw.

OK, starting now.

Go into their properties, change their brush face to something a bit away, then change it back.

Fairly non-specific question, so no real idea what you need to be told. I suggest reading this tutorial:
http://twhl.info/tutorial.php?id=10

And here's some more detail into the entities involved:
http://twhl.info/wiki.php?id=194

http://twhl.info/wiki.php?id=193

http://twhl.info/wiki.php?id=154

http://twhl.info/wiki.php?id=155

I can start in about 16 hours.

http://drawception.com/viewgame/c88yX2xRgE/spring-snow-in-scotland/

Ha. Representing!

As will an undo button

just didedit:
weebitmagic is down for maintenance. The image will load when it's back up, but long story short - Private games will be added possibly as soon as tomorrow.

This is only for Source, just FYI

give me back my plung

I'm shooting on Friday as well, so Thurs or Sat are my only options for this week.

Adding a smiley face at the end of your posts does not make them any less condescending.

I think we might have to prevent access to Zeeba's rooftop area. It's possible to see too much of the map from there and would mean that a lot of currently nodrawn areas would need to be textured. If you just get rid of the ladder it'll be fine.

Ha, yeah, same! We need more overlords has been on the front page for like 2 days and got me about 90 points!

I'm not sure if they'd get much out of joining this one at this late stage - it's pretty much just tweaking from here which isn't the most interesting part. Give them a good spot on the next one so they can actually be creative!

I'd really quite like to do the building across from the office, purely because I've had plans for what to do with it since my second pass (I just ran out of time). Since I'm fairly early in the third pass order it should be alright, yeah?

Also, I'd really like to let everyone involved know how fucking awesome you are. Seriously, it's the success of community projects like this that set TWHL apart from every other forum. Also huuuge thanks to CT for optimising like a boss.

Edit:
I can't do tomorrow, btw. On a shoot.

http://drawception.com/viewgame/EOtewBOqTg/the-milky-way-galaxy/

This is my current favourite of all the ones I've done. I love that the cheese stays with nothing more to go on than "Swiss".

I can't believe I've only just come across this absolutely glorious browser-based social game.

The first player types a phrase, then the second player (chosen at random from everyone registered) has to draw it. A third player (again chosen at random) then has to try to write what has been drawn and the cycle repeats until 12 players have had turns, at which point the game is complete and everyone can see all the stages. It's like chinese whispers and pictionary mixed into one.

You can follow players, too. Here's me:
http://drawception.com/player/94933/archiesnc/

Post your best ones!

there was a de_alpine, but as I recall it was a big steaming pile of shit, so there's still a gap in the market for it, Scotch.

Looks cool. Nice combination of models and brushwork. Hope the combine textures are temporary, though :>

Where abouts is this in the map?

Office is snowing lightly.

RAD isn't actually running.

Opening wad files from directories:
C:Half-Lifevalve
C:Half-Lifevalve_schinese
C:Half-Lifecstrike
C:Half-Lifecstrike_schinese
Error: Could not locate wad file halflife.wad
Error: Could not locate WAD file
Description: The compile tools could not locate a wad file that the map was referencing.

This is stopping it. I had similar troubles with the compilator that Muzz was never able to fix. Try compiling out of Hammer and see if it works.

Totally agree with your last point. Player models and hostage models seem to be dependant on map location now, so it'd be nice to see a British map to get the SAS back in there.

The thing is there is not a lot of new stuff for cs to have a new title.

If it was too drastically different then all the CS players would bitch and whine about how it's not identical, just like they're doing now with only minor changes.

There's nothing wrong with keeping up with the times. Yes, this new instalment is primarily visual, but as I keep saying - it's been EIGHT YEARS. They're allowed to make a new one. Go shout at Activision who release the same game every year for £45 a pop.
As mappers you should be excited at all the new toys you can play with.

Honestly, some of you are so odd when it comes to stuff like this.

pardon?

In Bruce's world, 'constructive criticism' is a term used only by inferior beings.
Striker, I recommend you add a couple of elements that will focus the player's eye the moment they see them. Perhaps put some large pillars running down the middle of the room and have some stark constrasting combine lights attached to them to break up the monotony of the orange bulbs. Try to give the room some sort of purpose as well. An underground area the size of a football field could be used for all sorts of crazy things.

Anyhoo, ahead of the moddb release tomorrow, here are some Core WIPs. This is deep underground and is pretty much where Black Mesa filters its waste. It's also the closest thing to a "horror" section the mod will have.

Nuke, Train and Office are all fairly clearly unfinished. They have never been included in the "test weeks" where specific elements are tested on all of Valve's servers for the week. Last week was cs_italy 24/7. Now it's the two ar_maps.

Not sure I agree with that.

I think it's just the next logical step forward. It's everything to CSS that CSS was to 1.6. It's also a lot more like CSS than it is like CS 1.6.

Much better graphics, more accessibility, new weapons, a new game mode, streamlined competitive play, new versions of classic maps.

It's still the same game, but that's a good thing - it's just changed enough to be fresh to existing players without stepping too far into the territory of other modern shooters.

Again, keep in mind that CSS is over 8 years old now. It's high time for a revitalisation.

We're desperately trying to get a media release for The Core ready for Monday, so production has increased over the weekend.
A question we sometimes get asked (read: never get asked) is how we keep track of all the mod updates between the three of us. The answer? SVN repository. Here's a few highlights from the revision log, updated every time we save something to the repository.

[quote]
Revision: 101
Author: pkhunter
Date: 11 March 2012 03:11:34
Message:
You think you can trip this hardass motherfucker up just by making my SVN stop working? Ha, bitch, please! Motherfucker aint done shit I just nuked my fuckin folder and downloaded all your shit again. What you got nigger? You aint got SHIT that I aint got because this g-unit playa just re-downloaded all y'all. Oh and you think that's all I got? You think I only got what you spoon-feed me? Fuck yourself sideways, nigga, I got ma own shit too and this shit beyond any of all y'all's shit! I'm talkin cendark1, I'm talkin RMF AND BSP up in this bitch. And you niggas just KNOW I aint done til i got ma core2.wad up in y'all's grills. Peace.

---

Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark1.rmf
Modified : /thecore/maps/cendark1.bsp
Deleted : /thecore/submerged.wad
[/quote]

[quote]
Revision: 111
Author: urbanebula
Date: 12 March 2012 23:24:59
Message:
Turned that nasty low-poly hgib model into a lovely chunky fleshy giblet of truth.

---

Modified : /thecore/models/hgibs.mdl
[/quote]

[quote]
Revision: 132
Author: pkhunter
Date: 20 March 2012 15:54:33
Message:
some sexual ventage in cendark2, combined with some sexual ventage in core2.wad

---

Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark2.bsp
Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark2.log
Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark2.pln
Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark2.rmf
Modified : /thecore/core2.wad
Modified : /thecore/maps/cendark2.bsp
[/quote]

[quote]
Revision: 135
Author: urbanebula
Date: 20 March 2012 23:07:13
Message:
Broke Archie's map be renaming some textures to have the tc_ prefix. Changed it back before he noticed. I'm like a texture ninja.

---

Modified : /thecore/core.wad
[/quote]

[quote]
Revision: 152
Author: pkhunter
Date: 08 April 2012 05:40:36
Message:
This update so mighty... You might want to write this down because I'm going to blow your fucking mind. This update so mighty it'll make your puny head spin. I'm talking major updates to cendark2.rmf. I'm talking major updates to core2.wad. I'm talking a brand fucking new ambient sound for industrial machinery. Motherfucker you want more? You don't deserve more.

But the new texture set in core2.wad? The best fucking textures I've ever made, and no doubt.

---

Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark2.bsp
Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark2.log
Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark2.pln
Modified : /thecore/PROJECT RESOURCES/RMFs/cendark2.rmf
Modified : /thecore/core2.wad
Modified : /thecore/maps/cendark2.bsp
Added : /thecore/maps/graphs/cendark2.nod
Added : /thecore/maps/graphs/cendark2.nrp
Added : /thecore/models/GameCfg.wc
Deleted : /thecore/sound/ambience/horrorstorm.sfk
Added : /thecore/sound/ambience/refinery_loop_1.wav
[/quote]

Me and urby are not good at this game.
clicky

Except once, apparently.

hostage room and T spawn across the walkway from the office! <3

click on the overlay and right click on it like any other entity to get to its properties. You can choose which brush faces it applies to.

Surely for a thread like this it'd make more sense for you to link to their stuff in your original post?

it would have been nice if they fixed it.

It's not an error, so there's nothing to fix.

..what?

You talk like it's a bad thing that it's not identical to CS:S in every way, rufee.

Just like people said it was a bad thing that CS:S wasn't the same as 1.6 in every way.

Lovely poetic analogies get you an immediate and detailed response!

First, choose expert compile.You'll see this. Click the edit button.Select the HDR -final preset and click the copy button. You will be prompted to put in a new name for your copy. This can be whatever you want.You now have a new compile preset. Go to the lights run command and paste "-both -final -TextureShadows -StaticPropPolys -game $gamedir $path$file" into the parameters box. That should be it.
You can remove the run map command if you don't like it starting the game after it finished compiling (as shown in my screenshot - only 4 compile processes)

whole compile took less than 10 for me at the end of my second pass, but I had to spend a few hours just nodrawing stuff and func_detailing stuff.

Yes, Blitz.

I was meaning the building connected to the office rather than the office itself. Perhaps it could be T spawn? 2 Hossies there and 2 in the office?

Didn't manage to get as much done to the layout as I would have liked. Spent too long tinkering.

I thought it'd be a good idea to have the hostages on an upper floor in the large building the office is connected to via the overpass.
There would need to be three additional entry points to that building. Perhaps a vent next to the trees, a main entrance in the car park at the bottom of the hill and a side entrance somewhere.

Of course all of this is optional - it's just what I would do if I had the time.