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Fixed! My Shipment of win has arrived, in Source!I still have no idea what was wrong, i just kept rewriting the vmt and qc until it worked. Models coming in hot! =)

Thanks againe to Rimrook for writing the Modeling for goldsource tutorial, which helped refresh me how to do things in max.

I continued Rim's goldource modeling tutorial and tried compiling for source, following this tutorial, about exporting max models to hl2.

My models show up in wireframe, and i can see/touch the collision model in game, but the textures show invisible. If i delete the materials directory in the qc, the model shoes up perfectly in pink and black triangles, but with no texture at all.

Here is a copy of my qc, smds, max file, textures

I know i've seen this problem brought up in the forums, but for the life of me i can't find it ='(

Lol holy crap, Zeeba is off the chains

Wait. i can fix it.

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Beach House - Better Times

agreed, but the more time you have the more time you procrastinate. 1 or 2 weeks doesn't really leave for any fucking-around time. =)

But everyone is different. Some people may be able to cope with time restrictions and procrastinating better than others. I'm the textbook procrastinator, that starts everything late and then rushes at the end. It's in my blood. =)

you can do a lot in a couple hours, but of course, none of these levels are going to be gigantic.

I think as an exercise, it's a fine idea. If i didn't have any current projects, i'd do it myself.

The only thing i would say is, try to make a complete level, everytime, regardless how small it is. This will help condition you to finish projects, something i really need to do myself

I wanted to ask but didn't: could you copy and paste-special the ammo 100 in the same location? I know it doesn't solve the logical problem though.

Some really cool content on that moddb page.. the weapons and concepts look pimp sir.

Moaby: I just finally played through ur mod(finally have ep2 installed) and I thought it superbly done, except i feel the setting was a bit overly-generic. (You would have swept with a more well-defined theme imo) Also while the texruring was great, I feel they could have been more creatively/adventurously applied.

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BTW, that grinder was sweet, and I really enjoyed the initial combat area, 'twas perfectly done. It's apparent u put a lot of work into the maps, I'm sorry u didn't place sir ='(

I test all my maps in won, because i have HL/CS on a seperate steam account than my primary, and there is no way to merge accounts afaik. In my experience, if the map runs in won, it will definitely run in steam, but not necessarily vice-versa. (i'm sure it can happen the other way, but this is just my personal experience)

Archie: yes the photo sir, SORRY.

LOL i'm pretty sure he WAS NOT being sarcastic; notice he also uses the word "clever"

It's a great concept and it's small, so anyone can do as much or as little as they want to do, and still submit an eligible entry. Really cool! =)

Cool idea! i'm in, but i'm giving myself a limited time budget so i can stay focused on c32 and the kepeler contest. Oh and btw, i'd be willing to forfeit my entry if you can't find a judge.

Nicely done Hotdog!

Idk, hlfix works virtually perfect for me along with compilator, so i really feel i shouldn't try to f with perfection, e.g. i can currently build any sturcture i can think of in hammer, and hlfix will make sure it looks that way in the game, every time.

What i really wish tho is they could make hlfix for source. that would really be something since as it is now, i have more freedom of brushwork in goldsource, which doesn't seem correct.

I will download the utility and play with it sometime tho, and i have to say, it's a exciting to see peeps still developing awesome stuff like this for Goldsource mapping.

I should have a workable layout in a couple days, hopefully! Will we be able to test source maps eventually as well?

Skals: ya, that sucks, but how could you possibly think you were calling command paramaters to the tools through there?!

oh also btw, i tired rescaling those textures to 1024x512, and they still crahsed hl. ='(

Your last screen looks blocky arch and needs more trims. lighting is quite bleh as well..

So basically they have to be a square, or a rectangle where one side is double the size of the other? gay. Ok i will resize all the textures and try again, but now alignment is going to be a bitch with all the extra space...

I don't use skip or hint texturers, so idk. I've tried using hint brushes a bunch of times but I could never get them to work with my maps.

Yeah HL.exe just crashes. I'm using WON also so i don't know if that factors in.

How do you get the values of 2 correct? I seem to remember reading something about this, but i don't quite remember what it means. In the past, i've only ever made textures with both dimensions divisible by 16 and never yet had a problemo.

Nice Thanks!

Idk what sparse is for it's been there a while, probably because somebody recommended it a while ago, and i just did it without even testing what it did.. +)

BTW, i tried some big textures(960x816), but half-life refused to open it. Looked pretty sexy in crafty tho. Is there something else i have to configure to get them working?

OH, i didn't even think of messing with the RAD paramaters. here are the rad data i used:

-extra -sparse -bounce 1 -chop 72 -texdata 8192 -low -chart -estimate

Gonna fuck around with some big textures right now and see what happens

AW! i was excited by the prospect of importing a huge texture into hammer, and texturing large items in one shot, without stretching it. ='(

So the whole point of boosting the max sized is to allow for REALLY high-res textures? (i wonder if this can be applied in any way to the env files, which would be awesome)

I'm gonna try compiling my compo map with vhlt right now, can't wait to see the results!
Edit: Results compiling with VHLT:
First, i would like to say i like the vhlt lighting better for most situations. It would be fun using some ironic-looking textures in some rooms, just to see what sort of texture reflections you'd get. =)

Recompiling my unedited final map from C31, here are the resutls:
Compile time
Full VIS time was negligible, but RAD took about 20 minutes longer. (i never compiled my map on full vis with the old tools, so i can't make a full-vis time comparison)

The look
My lighting for this map was originally really shit, so i wasn't expecting vhlt to perform a miracle, but it does a really neat job reflecting colors off other textures as skals said.
The following slideshow shows the original image first, and with vhlt second. (the fade effect from Imageshack relly blows, but it's the only one of 4 you can use, and afaik you have to use one of the effects)

ImgShack Slideshow

Notes
I had one visual error where i could see outside world that i did not have in the original map, but i don't consider that a big deal.

I did however try an experiment with a second compile, changing all my func_illusionarys(i uses illusionary to cut down on clip budget) to func detail and i didn't really like the results: The map was very dark, took a full extra hour to light, and there were a few more visual dissappearing face errors.

This is not to say i will never use func_detail for goldsource; i will definitely play around with it some more.

I agree 100% with daubster and Spag, If you are worring about someone stealing your stuff you are worried about the wrong thing; you should focus more on building a better map.

If you're really worried about someone stealing your work, then really the only way to protect your ideas are not to map. =/

Sure, i'll say SpaG did the rules of twhl? (or tetsu0, or daubster)

Sweet baby Jesus, I just attained omnipresent-supergalactic-oneness looking a those, Archie.

Nice Archie! Should code this up an add it to tutorial section, since it seems lots of people(myself included) have trouble with these.

Whoa that first one looks sick. I'm really tempted to stop work on my c32 and GameBanana compos to play with these new tools a bit; I'll think i'll wait until i hit mapper's block and then experiment a little.

Weird! how did you fix it?

PM me a link if you like and i'll try compiling it if you are still having trouble.

How awesome Manionsen!
Google Translator seems to work well enough; i read the tutorials though i haven't tried them out yet:

HL Worldbrush conversion to prop model, english
HL 3d skybox worldbrush to model conversion, english

Thanks for posting these! Can't wait to try this very-useful addition to the Goldsource toolset! Also if you need help proofreading i'd be happy to help.

Looks cool Striker! would love to help test if you need it.

I'd need some bracket models for that, I'm not making such small details in brush geometry. Have any idea where I could find some?

You could make them out of geometry and then propper them into models?

Makes me want to keep mapping for Goldsource, well almost!

The iPhone is mine, i'm in deservement ofthe iPhone. #whatinthefuck

Since i didn't get my iPhone, i'm not reconizing xmas. #fuckmylife

Yes Arch i agree. Maybe they can explain how the shuffle order is the same every single time you load the same playlist? Plus I blame them for introducing this wretched touch technology. Kidding but really...

Have to catch me on heer or stteam at captain0terror, then ill have to switch to my cs/dm account

My friend Mark said, Apple going out of business like next year, because basically they blow =/

Congrats Striker! Was that for a mapping competiton?

hit me up on steam or on here and i'll join you sometime. I have cz and cs on other accounts, so i will just have to switch over quick.(unfortunately, you can't merge steam accounts i guess =<)

LOL have you been playing online or with bots? I'm guessing you're mapping for cz?

I've been spending most of my time running test maps, since i am still so unfamiliar with the source engine.

I finally played my present by brendanmint,and it was great!

Four maps of a fun story and gameplay, great scripting and voice acting, plus tons more.. just astonished at the amount of work that went into my present!

Thank you sir!

52 minutes until EP2 finishes downloading, then i can view my present

Agreed, Pictures people!

Would like to see pics of:
-survival knife(luke)
-striped socks(DiscoTzu)
-chess set(jeffy)

Yea, brendanmint had to spoil for me as well when i complained of no gift, so i'm guessing there were some snafu on Tet's side when it came to distributing the presents?

Wow PB, Nintendo Whore(hooor). how do you like the 3Ds?

Though it's disappointing and a bit annoying, i can't be too hard on people that opt out of projects for whatever reason.

If anything, i kinda feel bad because they are really missing out on the fun and satisfaction you get participating in projects like this.

Also, i've found competing in compos and group projects are about the best mapping tutorial you can ask for, since you usually seem to push yourself a little harder and further.

Yoohoo ty sir!
Edit: Linkie say 403 forbiddne for me fsr