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you said you were going to have game rotations right?

like HL2DM monday
CS:S tuesday
HLDM wensday
HL2DM thurdays
CS:S Friday
HLDM saturday
HL2DM sunday
CS:S monday
etc...
so it keeps rotating, so if you don't catch it one day, you can get it another, and you don't have to miss the same thing every tuesday because you can't play.

and make sure all the good custom maps from the TWHL vault are in the rotations

so close...I can feel the light.

stairs look wierd, Normally a 16 by 32 or an 8 by 32 stair works best.

lol, my map is comming good. just have to finish up the room and split it into two maps, now that I realize im breaking quite a few HL limits with the one I have now.

FF VIII has the best FF sound track ever.

Half-life has some great music tat can be used.

the C&C games really did have some great songs to.

and all of those I just said were good games. So that really shows that game music really does influence how good the game is.

/me chops of Ace's feet.

wait, what was that last thing you said?

got any remaining picutes of the "Cheese Incident"?

Think youll be able to beat that super high quality car that someone posted a thread about a while back?

well, I have one more room to finish up. its the one room that im having problems with, my equivilent of hunters crappy room. I can't really get it right, even though its small.

But I have an Idea.

Then its to the Credits Map, which will be sweet

you say mmmmmmmmmmmmm luke

you can't have your part done in 2 weeks?

if you want me to, you can send me the RMF's for the weekend. I can get some of the stuff done quickly. I need a few days mapping other then my map.

by selecting a face to fit the texture to, it will turn red.

pipe bends are easy

see this:

Entity 0, Brush 110: plane with no normal
Entity 0, Brush 111: plane with no normal

Press Ctrl+Shift+G
tell it entity #0 and Brush number 110. Then press OK

click the texture aplication tool. the one below the create brush tool. because you had the faulty brush selected, the Tex app tool will select all the faces. press the WORLD check box.

repeat for brush number 111.

and if that doesn't work you have to delete them, and try again

Maybe HLrad is corrupted?

I don't know. but do an alt+P to see if there are any problems with your map before compile

check what ever directory ZHLT are in for the Wad.

because ZHLT.wad doesn't get included no matter what, because it isn't needed.

If you made your own, then distributed a map, you would have to wad include it becaue BSP would still put in the BSP file that it needs the wad you made

I always create everything as a null textured brush. then get it right. then texture the parts that will be visible.

Makes everything a whole lot better.

Reduced compile times. better R_speeds. And coupled with Hints you should be good.

take the Map Hunter sent me for the End Of Hostage Situation Camera sequence. its a small little thing. something that would normally take my computer about 30seconds to compile. Took 21 minutes, both because there was no use of null textures and a spot that pissed Vis off because of some messed up clip work.

I nulled and retextured everything, using a second copy I opened to get the textures from. cut it down to 5 minutes. then I realized the Vis Prone area wasn't needed for the camera sequence and got rid of it and the compiles were down to seconds.

proves my point. and the point that optimization from the start is good.

thats pretty funny.

and for JPGs, I normally give it a 15% compression and use optimize, no distinguishable quality loss and it can get to as low as 20% of the original file size. but I thats with an $800 program, so I don't know if what you have has some of the same features

no, IRC has its time constraints. and this is a public record, and open to all to post their opinions in.

Pepper, Mini-14 looks awsome . although you didn't have to put that much work the sights like that, but thanks for the effort!

nope, lets just say that if you watch it through you get the code, but I can't think of many reasons why you wouldn't want to see all my nice scripting and camera work.

and I have some bits of concept art and some stuff. Are you going to include the RMF's in the wad, so people can see how we did some of the stuff?

Its leaning to B.

Keep voting.

And thanks for the feed back.

Mark sat there for a while. stareing at the citadel, a sleeping monster at this time. Breen sitting in his top floor office, probably ploting some other way to exploit his Earth. The city still quiet, no sound of any combine monstosities could be heard. Mark felt at peace for the first time in two days. And he relished in that for a few minutes. then a thought came to his head.

"Josh, why did you call the general Mr. Deuce when you asked if we wanted to go see him?"

"Well, its his middlename, and officaly hes second in command after Eli. But our higher command stucture isn't really well set. Right now I would call freeman our leader, I think most people would do what he says over anyone elses sugustions. And Barney Calhoun for example, he's technically a Captain, but he really has more power then us."

"Ya, its really..." Tom began adding, but cut himself short. he paused for a minute looking up at the Citadel. Mark followed his gaze and saw that a buzz of activity seemed to be radiating from it, even though its apperence hadn't changed. "...Something is very wrong"

The sky lit up, a bright orange, almost white. Mark jumped up, grabbing his MP7 off the armrest. The .357 he had stuffed in his pocket fell out. What mark saw in the distance was giant. A mushroom cloud of dust and debris became visible at the source of the light. The sky returned to black, but the cloud was still visible as a dark shape in the night sky. The ground shook, as if a small earthquake hit, and a light breeze seemed to pass over them as if fleeing from the cloud.

"That came from Nova Prospekt. Its over 30 miles away, nothing near there could have possibly have survived. Freeman..." sputered Jessica.

The Citadel sprung into life, the giant wall covering two of its side moved up, and from behind them came a spew of Dropships and Gunships. Mark heard bits of Gunfire coming from the City, which had also come alive with lights and movement. Mark looked over to the three others he was with. Jessica had run over to the other corner, and was playing with a panel there. The old roof started slideing down the roof to close off this loft from any outside gazes. Tom had taken out a pair of binoculars and was scaning the area near the Citadel. And Josh had taken a radio out of his pocket and was talking into it franticly.

"Close the exits, we can't let everyone out to scatter throughout the city. We can't let the War start till dawn, we need the few hours of preparation....Well don't let them go, tell them to go get ammo while you get the damn doors closed...I told you, If we let them start a full war tonight we will get our asses handed to us. So just keep them in." Josh put the radio back in his pocket, and quickly moved to the door with Jessica behind him. Tom continued looking out through the shrinking field of view that the roof was covering. As it narrowed to a crack he spoke up.

"I think its begun, you ready to win it Mark?"

"Ya"

Tom turned to walk out, Mark began following him, but his foot hit the .357 and he stoped for a second to put it back in his pocket. he took three quick steps to put him behind Tom and they both walked out together. They were almost moving calmly, but as Mark started walking down the stairs he saw the comotion that had erupted on the ground floor. The lights had come back on and at the far end weapons were being passed out like candy. Tables were being set up and having ammo and medkits droped on them. There was a line forming in front of a structure down below as well. A man at the door of it was handing out vests, heavy vests by the look of them, the kind that would maybe save you from a glancing hit from combine bullets, but not much more.

"you should get some rest. there still will be plenty of supplies around in the morning. You look like you could use it. Nothings going to happen until dawn anyway."

"I guess your right Tom, how far away is dawn anyway?"

"Pro'ly a few hours at least, its sometime around midnight now. And Josh and me are going to be giving a presentation before we all move out, so be up for it."

"i'll be there" Mark finished, he walked over to the cot storage rooms to find that among others there, were Dan, Fitz, and Amber. Mark through a quizical look over to Dan, who saw it and spoke up.

"Josh told us to bunk here for the rest of the night. So since we had already grabbed some stuff we came over for some sleep, same with you."

Mark nodded, seeing the cots lined up drained the remaining energy from him, so he grabbed some water from one of the Water cooler things that were all stored against one of the walls. This quenched his thirst, so he turned of his flashligh, dropped his stuff, and fell onto a cot between Amber and Fitz. He was asleep the instant his head hit the rolled up piece of cloth that was ment to be used as a blanket.

He awoke the next dawn, The lights were on and he assumed it was the sound of a radio playing loudly that had woken him. the radio was letting out some old music that Mark remembered from a few years ago, Mark thought of what Josh had said about whatever Eli had made for the watter countering the Combines memeory stuff in it. And so he mumbled the words to himself as he grabbed his stuff and tie his shoe, which he had just noticed had come undone. "...Think about the chance I never had to say, Thank you for giving up your life that day. Never fearing, only hearing voices calling out. Let it all go, the life that you know." Mark considered waking the other 3 up, but saw that Amber was already doing so, so he continued giveing the song some lip."...You were strong and you belived. Everything is going to be alright, Everything is going to be alright, be strong Belive...Think about the love inside the stength of heart. Think about the heros saving lives in the dark. Think about the chance I never had to say, thank you for giving up your life that day. Be strong belive..." The music was turned down and Mark stopped voiceing the words. Then Josh's voice came over the noise and everyone quieted down. A great Exuberance in his voice.

"Thank you Andrew, that was a very fitting song for this occasion. Now, if you would stop hording all the cds, like the Yellow Card one you just played, that'd be great." This drew quite a loud chuckle from the gathered. He continued "As we all know, or at least should know, Breen really likes curing the pain his ass complains about by inflicting pain on us. But we shall soon remedy that, at least our part of it, Breen can continue with his end." This drew a laugh from everyone.

Tom added more "And guess what breen is saying right now." A screen above them flicked on depicting the whitehaired Dr. Breen, still spewing propaganda to no end. The figure was mute though, and after a second of silence Tom began speeking again, with a clearly half-hearted prod at imitating Breen. Mark also saw that Tom was synching his words to breens mouth. "My fellow Citizens. It has recently come to my attention that a group of highly edujucated insergents have decided to besiege our city. Myself, Im scared shitless, I have infact soiled myself in fear. As im sure every other combine soldier has done. I am sincerely in dought that we will win, so I urge you do not look at my soiled pants for an answer." By this time everyone was laughing heavily, but Tom didn't let up. "If all you good citizens would cease staring at the rebels for an answer to the problem of my soiled pants. These people are nothing but people who have decided to be Trick'sy and make me scared." The entire congregation of people was emptying their lungs quicker then they could brethe. Breen turned as he ending his accuall speach, but Mark noticed that the screen frame froze once Breens face wasn't viewable anymore.

"What is that smell?" said Tom, still in his Breen voice.

"Sir I think you should see this!" Replied Josh

"What is it?" Shot back Tom

"Its a big'un sir!"

"My God, flush that thing down the can already!"

"I tried sir, it just clogged, so I tried a few more times!"

"What do you mean, how the hell did this happen?"

"I think its the rebels sir, they must have sabotauged it."

"the Rebels! here? Oh damn, I think I just soiled myself again..."

"don't wory sir, i'll get you a clean diaper!" Finished Josh. The screen went dark, and the sounds of laughter died down in the croud.

Tom and Josh spoke up together. "Thank you, Thank you, now may we give you our great general, John Stalin."

John walked up onto the stage. His tone was more somber then the twins, but still quite uplifting. The last of the laughter died down almost immediatly after his first word.

"Ok...The day has come for us to finish everything we ever started. There may be failures of some of us, but we would emerge victorious under any conditions. Now I need you all to get In your assigned squads and get your orders from your squad leaders. After that well open the doors and we can all go on our passionate way. And make sure to grab any supplies you don't have on the way out."

Mark had no clue what squad he was in, nobody had told him.

A) Ask, Amber, Dan, and Fitz if they know.

B) Follow the three, and just stick with them.

C) Wait by the exits and just join a random group.

your right, as long as its out IN january we should be good, so get all your stuff ready for beta in 1 or 2 weeks MAX.

I will plasticly alter my self to look like satch and go hitman on his ass, then take up his daily routine.

Me?

I want:
New DVD burner (mine craped out)

To have recorded all the Boondocks and Ghost in the shell eps with my TV tuner card by the time I get the burner, so as to have them on DVD.

A new TV for my room

my 17" monitor back so I can have 2 17"ers again

Money

and Another copy of Steel batalion would be nice too, for some head to head action

we already delayed 6 months, so going over will just piss alot of people off

under 5 weeks left people, lets finish this stuff up

yes

exactly, blame the puritans

could have sworn they are now offering International shipping.

maybe its illegal for them to let people under 18 enter a contest like that one.

O right, it is.

there is, like I said, but not dynamicly.

as far as I know newegg has international shipping.

newegg.

if they don't have it try ebay. and if they don't have it it doesn't exist

you could have it on a set path. if you want the turret to be laser guided to specific objects it is do able

ya, nice DLL's

coldfeet, Saco, Unbreakable, speak up on how your doing

Urb, remember the Half-life story, and how this lines up with it. Remember what happens on the night after Ravenholm, which was the day of BME being taken.

But the calm before the storm has lasted a little to long, maybe I should have made the last to chapters shorter.

And don't worry, Id have no problem killing Mark off if it were realistic for him to die.

And some correction:
the "Ask about Kaufman" choice was just a thought of mine that only Mark saw Kaufman dead. read back to the first strider attack if you don't remember.

I meant to say Jessica was late Twenties or early thirties, not what i said.

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next one is being written, and the curent printed version is 43 pages long at 10 font. almost a mini novel

that can be done in HL1

Im still the only one who has said anything about how their map is going at hunters request. Speak Up everybody, even if yours is ready for Beta

ill have one on if Video Games were airlines up shortly, aka in less the 12 hours

looking better, hallway looks to cretie now though

way for the mappers to quickly find some textures

I do to

thanks to Ugly n Grey for this joke:

If Operating Systems Were Airlines

DOS Air: Passengers walk out onto the runway, grab hold of the plane, push it until it gets in the air, hop on, then jump off when it hits the ground. They grab the plane again, push it back into the air, hop on, jump off...

Mac Airways: The cashiers, flight attendants, and pilots all look the same, talk the same, and act the same. When you ask them questions about the flight, they reply that you don't want to know, don't need to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie.

Windows Airlines: The terminal is neat and clean, the attendants couteous, the pilots capable. The fleet of Lear jets the carrier operates is immense. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushes above the clouds and, at 20,000 feet, explodes without warning.

Linux Express: Passengers bring a piece of the airplane and a box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing about what kind of plane they want to build. The passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft but give them all the same name. Only some passengers reach their destinations, but all of them believe they arrived.

^
its now one of my personal favorite jokes

I think that is just where he got the Idea for a transport Hub Compo From Habboi, so no need to worry

one of the best ways to accually test to see where your problem is is to add an entity to the game, and make it an info_texlights. if you don't have it added to your FDG you can just click the box in entity properties where the type of the entity is and rename it. turn off smart edit and add a value. give it the name of the texture and a value of four numbers separated by spaces. the first three are the RGB values and the Fourth is the brightness, same as in the lights.rad file. RAD will pick up this entity on compile and parse the tex lights from it, instead of the lights.rad.

if you still get no light from what brush you want emiting light, then you know thats the problem

splashy is trashy.

everything else looks good though. keep it up

all texture steching and perp to face problems are solved by selecting the steched face and aligning it to world. you should know that by now BL

and 2nd, to fix the tex axis perp to face thingy, find what brush it is, ZHLT should tell you. Select it through the find brush menu, make sure to use both the ent and brush numbers provided by ZHLT. Then press the texture application tool, the one above the box with a target on it, and press the WORLD check box.

is it that you don't own any kind of copy of HL1 or 2. because any kind will work.

will barney reloading be in HS as well? since hes your side kick and all it would make it more realistic.

ya, a func train with and angular velocity will do it for you

now, when kol says something like that you know its good

well, at least ill be able to do it over christmas vacation and focus on HS over Thanksgiving