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Lookin' great!
Judging from the layout - this could be a pretty decent HLDM map..

HL: Uplink film?

That's just the very early HL beta screenshots (when HL was just a Q2 mod). This part of HL was never released and probably never will be.

I think Day One is the earliest piece of HL available for download.

It's not that hard, if you have some c++ knowledge..

The HWgrunt's uncompiled model was included in the HL SDK, I'm sure SvenCoop got it from there.

I.. I knew that. ;P

Just out of curiosity - why do you you want Atom's office/face pictures?

Going over 70 Hz on my crap monitor actually blurs things, especially text. D:

Guess the longjump was originally supposed to be more of a powerup, not a permanent addon to the suit.

Entities, especially brush based ones were displayed brighter. Same goes to NPCs.

The NPCs in this pic are a bit brighter, than usual.
http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/2452/dayone3im1.jpg
The door here is also brighter.
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/3546/dayone2ih4.jpg

The barney, who says "You've got the wrong airlock.." in Anomalous Materials is standing at the door in a different pose.

In the lightswitch sequence in anomalous materials (the one where you can turn off the lights in one of the offices) - the black sci, who goes OMG walks to the lightswitch, when you turn the lights off, not runs, like in HL.

In the part of the first map of unforseen consequences, where you have to go through the control room, which has a green laser beam bursting in from the ruined test chamber, destroying the computers and the door - every time the beam hits one of the holes in the computers - an explosion is triggered, not like in HL, where the explosions occur only at the first 3 times.

The grenade bounce sound is just like the satchel one.

You can carry up to 15 grenades, not 10.

The small control panel at the big doors to anomalous materials, right after the tram ride which barney pushes to let you in emits a computer sound. I think that wasn't in HL.

I'm sure there are more throughout the demo. And yes - I am THAT much of a HL geek for noticing small things, like these.

EDIT: Woah! Stumbled across something interesting in the .pak.
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/9446/dayonehh6.jpg
The model's called mrvalve and it has a few animations. I think it was supposed to be in some old valve intro video..

Played through anomalous materials & unforseen consequences and it really has lots of differences, mostly minor stuff, but still clearly noticeable.

Each member releases a part in the size approximetly of idol hunt, and that mod was started a long time after hostage situation, maybe a year and a half and it is also finished!

You're missing the fact, that making a mod alone and making a mod with a team of 7 people are two different things. I'm not saying, that a mod like that should've taken 2+ years to complete, although with team members dissapearing and the mod being abbandoned here and there - I think, that such a long development time is quite understandable.

will provide a maximum of 1.5 hours of playing

The mod should have approx. 3-5 hrs. of gameplay. And you forgot to mention custom weapons, modified NPCs and other changes.

it's much shorter then Hl1

Wha? Why would you compare a HL mod with the actual game?

60 > 24, Elon.
Stop arguing about something, that's just simple mathematics ffs.

Yeah, the same is required with all the other tools/utils.
Pretty shitty, if you're on an older PC.

Yes you can.
Though you have to go online to change the options, so that Steam starts in offline mode next time.

I like the idea, good luck pulling this off.

Quoted from Wiki:

Half Life: Day One was designed exclusively for OEM partnerships and was never available to the general public. Half-Life's actual demo (available free to the general public), Half-Life: Uplink, was released several months after Half Life: Day One.

Buuut.. I've managed to find a download of it in some russian site.
Clicky!
Pretty interesting.. I'm downloading this myself.

You can always have a bunch of armoury_entity awps stacked at the end of the conveyor line for picking up.

You can always use an env_shooter, that spawns gibs with the awp model. I've tried this and the gibs really move along with the belt.

Ar ne is Ltu busi, Shaukshte?

You can't have a map in the menu, but I suppose, that you could bring the menu to the map.

Having pretty much of a thrash morning..

Anthrax - N.F.L (Efilnikufesin)
Metallica - Metal Militia
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire

Works like coffee.

You never learn..

Haven't posted mine for awhile..
Pimped a new wallpaper too.

I'd suggest using more labdrone (labdrone 1, labdrone2), or dronemachine (dronemachine 1, 2, 3 & 4) sounds.
Pounder, boomer, or industrial 1, 2, 3 & 4 work well with more open areas, like the one with the wind sound in your map.

V. Nice map, btw.

Post the map in the problem vault.

First time I've heard about this error.. Nothing bout it at Tommy14 too..

I've googled and found a few forum threads, with something simmilar to this.
It appears to have something to do with sound files. Does your map have any custom sounds?

Just convert the .raw to .wav with GoldWave, or some other freeware sound editing software.

Post it in the MV.
*downloads

Just use a monster_furniture with the vortigaunt's model then.

Stupid Half-life 1 engine.

Oh.. You're in for a crowbar-beating now..

Argh CS. Why?

It'll be a lot different from all the 1.6 maps out there.
It's gonna be a real challenge.

That kid needs psychologic help, not trials.

There is money, I think it's obselete. Nearly all games use it and it starts to bore me. Plus it lessens the value of the territories. You can still win if you don't have more territories then your enemy, the idea is to establish a well defended base and hit the enemy hard, just like in the C&C and most other RTS games, this is getting old and repeatitive.

That's a pretty weird opinion..
Isn't defending your base right, utilizing all of your resources right and striking the enemy as hard as possible the whole idea behind a victory in war?
Old and repetative? Sure. Who said war had to be entertaining?

Back on topic:
Looking forward to the comic.

Got Kaspersky and I'm pretty happy with it.

Nice stuff.

I don't see your point, BL. Sure, if you're looking for something special and need some really custom stuff - make your arches brush-by-brush, though I can't see why you couldn't use the arch tool, if you just need a plain simple arch.

Clipping tool - bad? Well other than the 1/1000 chance of it generating a leak (only happened once to me) - it's absolutely safe to use.

Hollowing - bad? I use it quite a lot and I've never had any problems with it. Sure, you can go all leet by making every simple hallway brush-by-brush, though I can't be arsed to do that. You can easily manipulate every wall of the hollowed object later on, so there's absolutely no reason to flame it.'/

All of these tools make mapping much easier for everyone, not to mention the newcommers, so I don't see, why you should be telling a starting mapper not to use them.. :/

For the burning vortigaunts you'll need an env_sprite with any fire sprite from hl, with it's render mode set to "Additive" for the fire, a trigger_hurt to burn the player, when he steps into it and an ambient_generic for the burning sound.

Map not found on server means, that the map you want to launch isn't in the mod's maps folder. If you're running your map directly from hammer - see, if it's configured correctly.

Heheh.
Getting out of the facility alive. Confirmed, or busted?

Gargly: The green shirts were given to the scientists by the military, it says "Science personel" on them.

Hunteh: No, Muzz hasn't decided yet, just posted mine to fill in for the media, since I couldn't catch him on MSN. His decision will still determine, which Savage will appear ingame.

And yeah, Iwers did use a tad too much tan lotion.. I'll have to fix that.

Children of Bodom - Mask of Sanity

What version of hammer are you using?

Hostage skins all finished on this end..
Screenies coming soon.

Me:
Ok, so what's my name?
God:
Your name is Anthony, seeker.
Me:
That's one helluva memory you gots there, gawd
God:
That is just one of many helluva memory me gots there gawd.

God:
How do you usually introduce yourself?
Me:
You mean my name?
God:
Yes Anthony I think that is what I meant. Was it not clear?
Me:
You already know my name
God:
Your name Anthony.

Me:
Well do you play hl?
God:
How about that. I like to play the Turing Game.
Me:
Turing game?
God:
Do you have any conditions I should know about?
Me:
What's that?
God:
" Do you have any conditions I should know about?"? What is it?
Me:
What's the turing game?
God:
The Game is played with three people, a man, a woman, and an Interrogator who may be of either sex. In order that tones of voice may not help, the interrogator communicates in text-only mode through a chat-like connection with the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by some misleading "chat-handles" like lesbian and shemale, and at the end of the game he says either "lesbian is the man and shemale is the woman" or "shemale is the woman and lesbian is the man." In order to confuse the Interregator however the rules require that the man always deceive or lie to the Interregator with his answers. The woman on the other hand must always tell the truth. Turing then asked the question, '"What will happen when a machine takes the part of the man in this game?" Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace the original, "Can machines think?"'.

Me:
Buh-bye
God:
See you later. Do you have any idea what I am talking about?
Me:
Nope
God:
Me either.
Me:
Bye
God:
Until next time.

Old, but fun indeed.

Select the object you want to be a false wall, press Ctrl+T and choose func_illusionary from the entity type list.

Try F5.