Why are you mapping for WON HL?
Regardless, find your SAVE folder and delete its entire contents. Either you have a CS save (back from the days when CS even created them) which HL is getting confused about and is trying to load or your map has some sort of reliance on CS content which suggests that Hammer or your mod directory hasn't been set up properly.
Use steam. Avoid problems like these.
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Archie, try recompiling the map with the '-texreflectscale #' parameter set to 2.5 - 3.0, this might make the lighting look slightly better.3.0 made it almost fullbright. Rubbbish. :/
And is the lightmap lower too?Nope! thanks for the comment
Your last screen looks blocky arch and needs more trims. lighting is quite bleh as well..Sadfaced until I realised you were talking about the photo! ...Or at least I hope you were
I'd also extend the wall supports so that they would connect with the ceiling ones, would make it look a bit more realisticCan't get more realistic than the real place!
Scotch: Guess again :3
css and dod use 512 x 512 most often, but css is almost 7 years old. Computing power has moved on significantly since then and the norm in modern games is starting to be as high as 2048 x 2048.
The point is, though, that players with good computers will want the option to play the mod at its best - i.e. with high res textures. If you have scalable graphics it won't make a difference to people with older PCs.
I don't quite understand what you're saying about the UDK but it's coming across like you're making simultanious versions on 2 engines? A tad peculiar.
And just for the record, FPS stands for frames per second. You want that number to be high, not low.
The point is, though, that players with good computers will want the option to play the mod at its best - i.e. with high res textures. If you have scalable graphics it won't make a difference to people with older PCs.
I don't quite understand what you're saying about the UDK but it's coming across like you're making simultanious versions on 2 engines? A tad peculiar.
And just for the record, FPS stands for frames per second. You want that number to be high, not low.
Try ep2 just in case. The error you got normally occurs if you try to run a Source map in hl1 or vice-versa.
What game are you trying to launch it in, X-Layer?
Still seen no comment or confirmation that the person I made a map for has even played it
Ha! Out a' sight. 
thanks, CT!
I must say I'm enjoying seeing the progress I've been making over the past week. I've done several all-nighters just working on The Core (you might have seen my complaints about it in the shoutbox) but the absolute best part are the SVN log updates.
For those who don't know - SVN is a system we (Urby, myself and Digi [our coder]) use which updates everyone's files for The Core when any one of us changes them. For example, if Urby needs some textures and asks me to make them I can add them to the core.wad and he'll get them automatically without me having to send him the whole .wad again.
When you commit your updates (apply them to everyone's folders) you get asked to write a short changelog so that updates can be kept track of.
Writing these after ~40 hours of no sleep produces some hilarious results.
Here's a few from the past month.
5th Dec, 21:49
Archie:
cendark intro reworked. Soundtrack added.
6th Dec, 03:12
Archie:
Get yer fuckin cendark tae fuck
6th Dec, 19:58
Urbanebula:
Updated the Human Grunt severed leg. It is now a pair of severed legs with the guts exposed.
You may need to check cenoff3 Archie.
7th Dec, 17:54
Archie:
More cendark wankery
10th Dec, 19:34
Archie:
Added a hole in the wall. A hole for fucking.
12th Dec, 13:01
Urbanebula:
Adding new textures to cencom2. This is going to be a ball ache...
23rd Dec, 21:10
Archie:
Updates to cendark. Holla.
Also todo.txt has a new entry. Get your shit together, Digi.
29th Dec, 00:21
Archie:
More Core2.wad nipplage. By which I mean there are new textures. And they are good. And you are a nipple.
29th Dec, 22:01
Archie:
Updated to take advantage of vulcan's HL compile tools. Seriously use them. Shit is off the hook.
30th Dec, 03:21
Archie:
Minor fix of a sound which wasn't looping properly because it's a dick.
I must say I'm enjoying seeing the progress I've been making over the past week. I've done several all-nighters just working on The Core (you might have seen my complaints about it in the shoutbox) but the absolute best part are the SVN log updates.
For those who don't know - SVN is a system we (Urby, myself and Digi [our coder]) use which updates everyone's files for The Core when any one of us changes them. For example, if Urby needs some textures and asks me to make them I can add them to the core.wad and he'll get them automatically without me having to send him the whole .wad again.
When you commit your updates (apply them to everyone's folders) you get asked to write a short changelog so that updates can be kept track of.
Writing these after ~40 hours of no sleep produces some hilarious results.
Here's a few from the past month.
5th Dec, 21:49
Archie:
cendark intro reworked. Soundtrack added.
6th Dec, 03:12
Archie:
Get yer fuckin cendark tae fuck
6th Dec, 19:58
Urbanebula:
Updated the Human Grunt severed leg. It is now a pair of severed legs with the guts exposed.
You may need to check cenoff3 Archie.
7th Dec, 17:54
Archie:
More cendark wankery
10th Dec, 19:34
Archie:
Added a hole in the wall. A hole for fucking.
12th Dec, 13:01
Urbanebula:
Adding new textures to cencom2. This is going to be a ball ache...
23rd Dec, 21:10
Archie:
Updates to cendark. Holla.
Also todo.txt has a new entry. Get your shit together, Digi.
29th Dec, 00:21
Archie:
More Core2.wad nipplage. By which I mean there are new textures. And they are good. And you are a nipple.
29th Dec, 22:01
Archie:
Updated to take advantage of vulcan's HL compile tools. Seriously use them. Shit is off the hook.
30th Dec, 03:21
Archie:
Minor fix of a sound which wasn't looping properly because it's a dick.
I'm aware you've seen this area before, but this is it in a (probably) final state.
Textures have been dirtied by popular demand, lighting has been tweaked, brushwork and entities have been excessively optimised and it's been compiled with VHLT.
Textures have been dirtied by popular demand, lighting has been tweaked, brushwork and entities have been excessively optimised and it's been compiled with VHLT.
but official tutorials don't have wacky angled screenshots :3
I did guess!
Had a certain c-striker style to it, but I'm not 100% sure.
I disagree with the claim that compile times decrease. RAD takes significantly longer on a sparse compile, but the effect is definitely worthwhile.
wally only works with indexed bitmaps. if you import any other image format it converts it to indexed bmp and its method of doing so is terrible. It'll make textures grainier and lose colour information. If you've managed to get a non-indexed image to work as a transparent texture after wally has converted it then it was a total fluke.
In combination with the tiled paths, a solution to your lighting problem might be to raise the paths on struts from the rock/dirt floor by around 32 units and have angled spotlights pointing up and out from under the path. It'd be quite a dramatic lighting theme.
If you have the high-res textures, give the players the option to use them rather than forcing the low-res ones on them. Bad console ports don't have scalable graphics settings, PC mods should.
And using the low-res versions in your official media is bizarre.
And using the low-res versions in your official media is bizarre.
If you set it to indexed colour in Photoshop you won't need to take it through Paint.
If you have more blue indexes it's probably because your image has undergone compression at some point. This happens if you save it as a JPEG or take it through MSPaint.
B. Peter Archer was my favourite character. Disappointed he's dead.
<£100 covers a lot, including some pretty awesome semi-pro gear.
You can get my mic, the Samson CO1U for only £70 and I can tell you it's bloody fantastic. Unfortunately to get the best out of a studio mic like that you'll need to shell out £30 for various accessories like suspension mounts and pop shields. Full details of the accessories I use in this journal.
The most popular podcasting mic is currently the Blue Snowball. It's great quality right out the box. No need for any fancy suspension mounts or anything - this will sit quite happily on your desk being quietly awesome.
Backing away from the fairly expensive semi-pro range is the Blue Snowflake coming in at only £35. It's ridiculously portable and is light enough that you could probably mount it to something with nothing more than bluetack making it extremely practical. The tone isn't quite as open and rich as the semi-pros I mentioned, but for the price you won't find something better and again you don't need to spend further cash on a stand, suspension mount and pop shield.
Hope this helps.
You can get my mic, the Samson CO1U for only £70 and I can tell you it's bloody fantastic. Unfortunately to get the best out of a studio mic like that you'll need to shell out £30 for various accessories like suspension mounts and pop shields. Full details of the accessories I use in this journal.
The most popular podcasting mic is currently the Blue Snowball. It's great quality right out the box. No need for any fancy suspension mounts or anything - this will sit quite happily on your desk being quietly awesome.
Backing away from the fairly expensive semi-pro range is the Blue Snowflake coming in at only £35. It's ridiculously portable and is light enough that you could probably mount it to something with nothing more than bluetack making it extremely practical. The tone isn't quite as open and rich as the semi-pros I mentioned, but for the price you won't find something better and again you don't need to spend further cash on a stand, suspension mount and pop shield.
Hope this helps.
iPhones are alright. You're totally restricted in how you use them and what you install on them, but they're quite sleek to use. Still massively overpriced and liable to break after less than a year, but better than most apple products.
Edit:
Your friend mark is dumb. Apple are genius when it comes to marketing. How do you think they've managed to sell billions of ipods when they're absolutely terrible at the only function they're designed to do?
Edit:
Your friend mark is dumb. Apple are genius when it comes to marketing. How do you think they've managed to sell billions of ipods when they're absolutely terrible at the only function they're designed to do?
Just played mine. Loved it.
Haha, apologies to santa for getting emo about my gift not being in my inbox!
Thankyou very much whoever made it! Some really nice mapping in the exteriors - the displacements were great.
Had a certain c-striker style to it, but I'm not 100% sure. Loved the objective, but the end broke my heart. No companion cube can replace my urbeh.
Haha, apologies to santa for getting emo about my gift not being in my inbox!
Thankyou very much whoever made it! Some really nice mapping in the exteriors - the displacements were great.
Had a certain c-striker style to it, but I'm not 100% sure. Loved the objective, but the end broke my heart. No companion cube can replace my urbeh.
- Replica shortswordVery intrigued! Possible to get some pics? Sounds interesting!
A set of dumbells.Fuck yes finally. Get muss you fat shit. What's the total weight of the set?
- MaglightSO USEFUL. I have 2 in my camera's floor-bag. Couldn't live without them.
- Got the aforementioned ATH-T500 headphones.
- Boxers.
- Socks.
- Paco Robanne 1 Million cologne (shit is like catnip for girls).
- 4 Discworld novels I was missing from my collection.
- ~£100 from various extended family
- More food than is imaginable.
i'm genuinely a bit gutted i never got one. Oh well, i guess I'll just forever associate xmas with bitter disappointment and sadness from now on...
:'(
no?
Why are you trying to use textlights in Source? They're useless.
Fourthing, because undercutting urby is my life mission.
B)
If The Walking Dead has taught us anything, it's that fat people can be used as fodder to give you time to escape.
Good start. Couple of grammatical and spelling errors here and there which distract from the story a little bit, but a good introduction none-the-less.
My only real critique would be that you broke one of the most important rules of writing: never start a paragraph with the word 'suddenly'. It feels so cheap.
Even a replacement like "without warning" or "a coldness seemed to descend upon the room" would improve it tenfold.
The suddenness of an event should be apparent by the writing style, and should not have to be explicitly narrated.
If The Walking Dead has taught us anything, it's that fat people can be used as fodder to give you time to escape.
Good start. Couple of grammatical and spelling errors here and there which distract from the story a little bit, but a good introduction none-the-less.
My only real critique would be that you broke one of the most important rules of writing: never start a paragraph with the word 'suddenly'. It feels so cheap.
Even a replacement like "without warning" or "a coldness seemed to descend upon the room" would improve it tenfold.
The suddenness of an event should be apparent by the writing style, and should not have to be explicitly narrated.
It's a known error.
1. Open up the Run Map dialog (File -> Run... or F9) in Hammer.
2. If not already in "Expert Mode", click the "Expert" button in the bottom left of the dialog.
3. Select "HDR Full Compile" from the Configuration pull-down.
4. Select the 3rd item down, it should say "$light_exe -both -game $gamedir..."
5. In the text box labeled "Parameters", along the right of the dialog, change the switch "-both" to "-ldr". It should now read "-ldr -game $gamedir $path$file"
6. Click the "New" button to create a new command in the configuration and select the new blank command at the bottom of the list.
7. Press the "Move up" button twice to move the new command to right under the command you just edited.
8. Enter into the text box labeled "Command": $light_exe or use the "Cmd" button to the right and select the "LIGHT Program" option for the drop-down menu.
9. Into the Parameters text box enter: "-hdr -game $gamedir $path$file"
1. Open up the Run Map dialog (File -> Run... or F9) in Hammer.
2. If not already in "Expert Mode", click the "Expert" button in the bottom left of the dialog.
3. Select "HDR Full Compile" from the Configuration pull-down.
4. Select the 3rd item down, it should say "$light_exe -both -game $gamedir..."
5. In the text box labeled "Parameters", along the right of the dialog, change the switch "-both" to "-ldr". It should now read "-ldr -game $gamedir $path$file"
6. Click the "New" button to create a new command in the configuration and select the new blank command at the bottom of the list.
7. Press the "Move up" button twice to move the new command to right under the command you just edited.
8. Enter into the text box labeled "Command": $light_exe or use the "Cmd" button to the right and select the "LIGHT Program" option for the drop-down menu.
9. Into the Parameters text box enter: "-hdr -game $gamedir $path$file"
Very large sheet of white paper, curved not folded so that it is under and behind the product. Diffused, bounced light to avoid harsh shadows but maintain a sense of depth and pinpoint accurate focus.
Bloody well done, Stu.
Edit:
ninja'd.
I disagree with you saying "overexposed," crollo. For the purpose it was exposed perfectly.
Bloody well done, Stu.
Edit:
ninja'd.
I disagree with you saying "overexposed," crollo. For the purpose it was exposed perfectly.
Daubeh isn't giving himself enough credit. This isn't an exact transcript, but it went something like this:
Daubeh:
Sup Valve, my numero uno homeslices.
Any chance of a few CS:GO beta keys for me and my brahs?
Valve:
Naw fuck off
Daubeh:
HERE YA WEE SCROTE, I DON'T THINK YOU KNOW WHO THE FUCK I AM OR WHO THE FUCK I REPRESENT.
Valve:
Excuse me?
Daubeh:
I AM NOT ASKING. THESE KEYS ARE FOR THE COMMUNITY AT TWHL. GET YERSELF TAE FUCK AND GET YER BOSSES TELT.
Valve:
Oh shit, TWHL? I am so sorry, exulted one! How many keys do you need? Can I get you anything? Free Portal 2?
Daubeh:
Get off your knees, boy. I only require the keys... For now...
Can winnars of this competition get a youtube map review thing?video reviews? how novel.
thread was made 20th september.
We had 2 months...
It's incredibly frustrating. A lot of seemingly simple things are hidden behind a hundred different useless menus. AI waypoint creation was what eventually made me give up. Most retarded process I've ever come across.
Here are the highlights of the retro HLDM tournament, painstakingly edited from five hours of footage.
Commentary by Daubster, Urby and myself.
Clickitypoo
The running order of the maps is in the video description along with links to skip to that part of the video.
Commentary by Daubster, Urby and myself.
Clickitypoo
The running order of the maps is in the video description along with links to skip to that part of the video.
Plenty. Thanks <3
Also Dimbark, take your screenshots with the "tm" and "tfc" console commands applied (toggle menu, toggle free cam)
A lot of those models are looking really nice! Good work.
Consider doubling the standard texture resolution you're working with, though. Modern PCs can handle it and the low-res textures you're using at the moment look a bit outdated.
Best of luck.
Consider doubling the standard texture resolution you're working with, though. Modern PCs can handle it and the low-res textures you're using at the moment look a bit outdated.
Best of luck.
enjoyed it... Mostly. 6 hours is a tad too long 
Good game and congrats joebama - you deserved it!
Unlucky x-layer, all of us in the shoutcast took bets on who would win and I picked you.
Also can I just say that I have most deaths because half the time I was checking the scores or getting info about the maps to commentate!
Video with commentary from daubster, urby and myself coming soon. Possibly within the next few hours, but probably tomorrow. Done 2 maps so far and it's working out at about four minutes per map, so it'll be a pretty long video.
Good game and congrats joebama - you deserved it!
Unlucky x-layer, all of us in the shoutcast took bets on who would win and I picked you.
Also can I just say that I have most deaths because half the time I was checking the scores or getting info about the maps to commentate!
Video with commentary from daubster, urby and myself coming soon. Possibly within the next few hours, but probably tomorrow. Done 2 maps so far and it's working out at about four minutes per map, so it'll be a pretty long video.
120GB of footage. FML
Mine is playable, but could certainly use a few extra days' polish.
And certainly before talking about bugs making it unplayable. The legit version is remarkably stable for a Bethesda title.
So how are you releasing them?
How about making a new "Santa" account that can be used again next year, releasing them maybe a week before xmas then letting people guess until the authors are revealed at new years' or something?
How about making a new "Santa" account that can be used again next year, releasing them maybe a week before xmas then letting people guess until the authors are revealed at new years' or something?
Also, please: no dicks.Ugh, now I gotta start again
make em with love, they dont have to be the next Sistine chapelUgh, now I gotta start again
Is it buying some biscuits?
I thought you were making an RPG, not a platformer.
sigh. sail past the point, why don't ya?
cs was released, what, 11 years ago? And it was massively popular and genre defining. It gained a huge following many of whom still play it to this day.
What i said was that a new goldsource mod can't break into the market because goldsource is nowhere near popular enough anymore for it to have a high enough number of active servers.
cs players play cs. they don't migrate.
cs was released, what, 11 years ago? And it was massively popular and genre defining. It gained a huge following many of whom still play it to this day.
What i said was that a new goldsource mod can't break into the market because goldsource is nowhere near popular enough anymore for it to have a high enough number of active servers.
cs players play cs. they don't migrate.