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If your americam, you get a myspace, no questions asked. simply because it is what everyother american has.

and I agree m0p, it is full of stupid people, like me.

I know that haz, I really just need a way to make the player not be able to quicksave during it, becasue if he does, and fails, it will load the quicksave, which might end with failure again. so if we just have a save before it and a save if you complete it, well, problem solved.

oh, and hunter, could you email me the link to your beta again? id rather just give haz the link instead of attaching it to an email

Fallout boys - Suger, We're going down

45 minutes eh? let me see how fast I can do it

this is a shot to my heart here. I might not finish both Hostage Situation and this compo by the end of October. sucks for me. If I could have finished my idea it would have had a huge chance at winning

not really, its more of a shut up and finish because there is no damn problem kinda thing

Go URB...an...

*M_gargantua cries

goodbye URB, have a happy birthday

and thanks for having me continue the thread, ill try my best

*M_Gargantua makes the vulcan split finger symbol
"live long and prosper"

use brushes, TWHL lacks modelers

2: and func_breakables have a trigger only flag, which means they will only break when targeted by name

and if your in the Mood for a nice HL2 mod, let me recomend the new MINEVRA: Metastasis. its really good, but its episodic and only the first episode has been relesed. (it will still take you an amount of time to play through though

/me slaps saco.

dumbass

that is what the Landmark entiry is for, learn to use it and that won't happen, unless for somereason the area your changeleveling to and from are horibly mis-matched archetecture wise

thats how Muzzles example works BL

MonsterMaker that triggers sprites + sounds + beams.

and through his example I found the interesting thing that if you don't set an end point for a Env_beam it goes in random direction, along with some other env_beam tricks

Saco

So that means that our change_levels are not in the same place

thats not a damn problem. changelevels don't have to be at the same point in the map grid. I thought you knew something about mapping.

Muzzle, you could read back a few posts, but ill just give it to ya

MuzzleFlash, ive been wondering if there would be a way to put something in your map to disable saving via code. my entire part is timed to a song, luckly I have found a way so that currently, if the player saves and loads in my part it will generally pick up where it left off. but now comes the problem that if the player is being slow, he won't have enough time to disarm the bomb. and if he saved at a point where there was no possible way to get to the bomb in time, then the player would either be forced to cheat or find an older save.

so im just wondering if it would be a way to have an in-game entity coded in that could be triggered to disallow or allow quicksaving. it really doesn't sound that hard to do to me. so could you give it a quick thought?

ok, i pm'd urb a while ago, and he dosn't seem to have been on for a long time.

so if you guys think I should ill start writing for this. some of the guys here can attest to my writing abilities, especially those who saw my story for the half-way-to-fame Problem-Reaction-Kill(*M_Gargantua plots resurection)

I even included the thought of me writing for this if Urb can't in my PM, but like I said, he doesn't seem to be active

so muzzle, is that code possible?

and thats why the US people have so much fun further confusing the confused UK peeps

1: there is no damn change level problem

2: the Models aren't rip offs, were not going to use them until were granted permision

3: there is nothing to worry about(besides coldfeats absince), unless you give use news of worrys of your map

i have fun putting my subwoofer close to my monitor. its pretty big and hence has a big magnet, but then again, thats what deguass is for, rebalanceing you monitor for outside magnetic forces

only muzzles custom code. which im still unsure of whats in it. can we have a list.

and hunter, is that a yes or no on Haz testing it

why do you care? you open up steam to play a game or use Hammer 4, both of them can be moved to be on top of steam. and steam can be minimized when its not in use. its like any other program in the world

i don't care how much space it takes up, its not like its going to always be the top window. and if your useing a game through it, its not like steams size is going to get in the way of a full screen app.

and as long as i can use HL2 and (hopefully) the source SDK with it. im fine with whatever they do

rofl

hmm, that was odd

i just got kicked out of IRC and now when I join theres no one left there

Edit:
MuzzleFlash, ive been wondering if there would be a way to put something in your map to disable saving via code. my entire part is timed to a song, luckly I have found a way so that currently, if the player saves and loads in my part it will generally pick up where it left off. but now comes the problem that if the player is being slow, he won't have enough time to disarm the bomb. and if he saved at a point where there was no possible way to get to the bomb in time, then the player would either be forced to cheat or find an older save.

so im just wondering if it would be a way to have an in-game entity coded in that could be triggered to disallow or allow quicksaving. it really doesn't sound that hard to do to me. so could you give it a quick thought?

In complely unrelated news I saw the movie Unbreakable today. I thought it was good, but not a master piece for mr. Night Shymlan(sp)

check the build programs tab in options, make sure its still set up right, ive had it change vis and rad to csg and bsp a few times on me

progress is good, happy

and I wonder if Haz could test it. I was talking to him on IRC today, and he's interested

madcow

Some guy got killed by a 14 year old gamer..

no, no one has yet been killed by a 14 year old gamer, thats just the plot that Jack Tompson proposed to be made into a videogame.

now, check out the latest news post at CAD, and laugh. I really want to find that game

good luck trying to find anything nasty about it

1st Jan 2006

Unbreakable, why do you need names for the credits?

and saco, you really shouldn't use caps, we can all read. and like they all said, asking for permision is a given

GOD. plese silence Jack in a way that will totally contridict his view that all video games are bad

ah, ya, I would love to be the guy responsible for controling the VOX

Dr...Breen...Will Be...On the...Toilet...Today...Monday...and Friday

Will all...Green...Shift Members...report too...Sector...X...for HazMat...Emergeny response...test

Will the people...who designed...Black...Mesa...Plese shoot...yourself for...the many large falls...you incorperated...into it.

nice, the blue looks good.

although I think Black looked more Urban/Industrial Camo, maybe you could use the accuall Urban Camo Pattern that is used, preferably not the old bloch kind(aka the kind that you see in HL's grunts and your blue grunts), but the new digitaly made 'dot' patch camo that they have.

like so

In other news:
My map is really begining to scare me, it feels like it is some kind of ultra powerful monster or something, it just creps me out. and the whole reason for this is the numbers
1310 Solids
8138 Faces (luckly about 5/6 of them are NULL faces)
247 Point Ents (many more to come)
293 Solids Ents (same)

and yet the compile times are still under 1/2 an hour. and I havn't dared to look at the r_speeds yet for fear that software users would have a heartattack at the number.

I really just hope I won't have to go back and do some major hinting, becasue I suck at using Hints.

luckly, no matter what I have to do to get it below 1500 Wpolies (I can't be that far above that). my part will turn out great. a 2.8 minute rush through battle, explosions, grunts, aliens, missle storage rooms, and into a missle silo. by which time the average person should have about 15 seconds left to disarm the bomb

don't cover there faces then, it looks fine without the ski masks

nice, although totally covering there forearms might not look great, it will make them look like there wearing sweatshirts or something. if anything, I would say go for outer forearm pad/armor things.

but the way you have them now is cirtainly good enough

what I meant was I couldn't get a grenade up far enough to take out the turrets with out losing at least 50 health

hey Vox.

ya, i think that is the old phpBB exploit, so update your forums

review sent to you hunter.

welcome SEThorian, from what ive heard your a 'oldie on VERC', so im guessing your good, at least compared to some of the people here.

its good to have some compitition for the compititians besides Kasberg, Seventh-Monkey, RabidMonkey, MuzzleFlash, CaptainP, and any of the other estemed mappers here, who sadly don't enter compos alot do to time constraints, like me.

M_gargantua raises hand for sacos map

Hunter, ill send you my review of your map once i get back to my house

and im thinking of showing my friend the alpha build of HS when its done, that way we can have a completely objective anylisis from someone whos never played HL before.

If you do the Ctrl-alt-del method, make sure you switch to the processes tab, then watch it for anything thats eating up resources and/or having erratic processor usage

so DEC 8 it will be a year old?

the major is back!

good to see ya, TWHL 3 comming soon

its not illegal as long as its not sold

can we have a full list of custom code changes?

and now I accually need your answers to the questions I asked eairlier.

so, i want anyone who wants to contribue opinion's

1: Should the Bomb be in a random silo when the map loads

and

2: What HL2 song do you like better? Song 16, 20(submix 0), or 29.

And MuzzleFlash, what level of credits do you plan to have in the beginning? like just our TWHL names or like the whole shabang of credits. I plan on having everything at the end but with the:
firstname 'TWHL name' lastname
thing(unless you don't want your name attributed to a great game )

email is probably better, no time zone difference and all. just pop me about whatever it was that you wanted to ask and/or know, and ill get back to you quickly.

(what was the pun?)

and im almost finished with HS6_B !!!!!!

[random/anything/read it fools]

My current english teacher is a notoriously hard grader when it comes to reports. today he gave us a copy of one of the best reports he ever recived. the paper was about how Tom Sawyer is and antihero/user/bad role model/Idiot/ and a way of seeing how Mark Twain looked at society. the exert is Mark Twains apperent message/view, but modernized.

...
So too, in a similar fashion, is society purile. It offends and downgrades people for selfish reasons. Advancing society's ideals is its area of greatest interest and concern. For example, if glamour is promoted by society over inner beauty, then the relatively few who are physically beautiful will be glorified, while the great majority will be rejected and cast aside. And yet, most of those who are cast aside do not criicize society for relegating them. This is because society has a created a amoral but foolproof plan for the gullible people in society (the majority) by making them strive in vain to attain that ideal, in this case of physical attractiveness. The media in America blazons and glorifies a certain image that it expects all people to desire and strive for, but the fact remains that not everyone can be the most beautiful person in the world. The results are often hideous, with people not only looking like someone else but acting as another individual as well. This pillages the common person of their unique personality and creates a generic attitude that most people within a society agree with. This attitude is logically the media's attitude. It is a Brainwashing, and a severe one. Someone with reason and logic would say that society has placed itself in an unfair win-win situation, baiting the gullible people into beliveving they can be what they are not meant to be and leaving the minority of wise people without a great voice to make a difference. Withing this cunning scheme is the underlying motive of cowardice.

...

now wasn't that a beautiful gem of writing?

[/stuff]

fine then

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would it be possible to use the TWHL server as the IRC server as well?

ah, people of the team get it reguardless if they want it. so, ill just send you an email, and i get to see it and you get another person to tell you how many things you did wrong

not really, you just have to get it right. then they work. you should try making a test map where you generally follow the camera tut and see if you can get it to move

The specimen thing really means the test subject right? so you could have a specimen scanned, or a test item teleported, etc. right?