Hardstyle Megamix 3

LOL, Someone is getting the dickship from ATHF.

Beacause at Wongburger, when it's right it's Wong. (some customers may have their dicks ripped off)

Check. one big dick for (c)Striker.. =P

Dimbark is fucking with us, yes?

Noone begrudges your enthusiasm, but you should know by now nobody is gonna jump on board your mod unless you've actually accomplished some real content yourself.

You're still in the planning stages and have absolutely nothing. Seriously, if this is a joke and you are fffing with us, it is not funny anymore.

That would be cool after all this time, if they just released all the .rmf files.

I would try both decompilers though, and see which one gives you the best result.

Question: Has any mode team ever attempted redoing the whole game in GS like Muzza redid the Uplink Demo?

Truth hurts sometimes, well, usually most the time. =)

Yahoo! Great thanks to the judges, and congrats everyone who participated! ='P

Bruce can u explain those projected textures and dynamic shadows? Also, pleez explain how you got to learn so much knowledge about GS!?

Nah, NOT a moron. Ride that creative train wherever your inspiration leads it! =)

It will be fun trying to guess who hammered your gift together. =)

I see no reason to scrap MOTM just becasue there aren't video reviews and nice write-ups...

WE COULD simply keep MOTM minus the reviews, yes? The voting and nomination system are still in place, why not use them and continue posting the montly results?

Positively, most epic run-on sentence of twhl history. =P

Share holiday shopping deals you've found and/or what you are looking to buy this season.

I'd like to buy a new tv and a new notebook. Everything i've read says the best time to buy a new tv is september/october, but i don't think i can wait that long.

My friend just bought a new ASUS g53sx(with the quad core i7 2.9ghz and geforce 560mGT, plus 1 year accidental damage insurance) for only $899 on tiger direct. It's a pretty great machine for the money and i'm considering picking up one myself. It's just hard, because you know next week some new amazing deal is bound to sprout up.

I'm also right on the egde of the cliff to buy an iPad, but meh i probably won't.

zeeba that second shot looks wicked. what did you model the first one in?

Interesting about using the parti model. i should defintely try that sometime as well use floor plans, which sadly i don't think i've ever done yet.

THE NAY CHRONICLES OF DIMBARK

ACT I
SCENE I. Northern Dimbarkland. outskirts of castle Dimbark.

(C)STRIKER pilots his ship withing firing range of DIMBARK'S castle.

(C)STIKER: Computer, Activate ban cannon.

COMPUTER: Ban cannon activated. Please specify target(s).

(C)STRIKER: Target Dimbark's bum bum.

COMPUTER: Target confirmed.....

(C)STRIKER: Fire.

exeunt

I never fffed with bevel personally. Also, I ALWAYS use -cliptype simple, as it seems to give me more max clipnodes to work with, and i never seem to have any clipping errors in-game.

It's a fine map! =)

I only wish players could crawl through all the vents, and you could somehow kill yourself on that big generator

Maybe we can get bevel to redecorate my bathroom? GET IT? GET IT???

JAGA Jazzist - Airborne
TY Caboose!

i would guess since invisible tool textures are not rendered, that the texture scale would be irrelevant, but you could easily test this.

Dunno what the max text scale is, but i don't see it ever being an issue as anything much over 2.00 looks ludicrous.. =))

Question skals: what tools do you use(i think i'm using shlt)?

urby: can i haz some peeez? ^_^

Turn compicated brushes to entity
If I had to give one advice, it would be to change any "nasty" brushwork, I.e., any brush not a simple cube or tetragon, into a func_illusionary. Use simple clip brush to approximate brush size and shape where necessary.

NOTE: keep your clip brushes to simple shapes, or strange errors will occur.
NOTE2: visblockers should also be simple shapes, not clipping tooled or vm'd at all.
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Beware low texture scales
If I had a second, it would be keep your texture scales reasonable size. Low scales will cause your compile time to skyrocket. Imho newbs should not scale below 1.00 'till they are well-oriented with hammer.
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Both the tips above mostly concern optimizing your compile times, which will save you much misery in waiting between compiles if you keep them in mind.

Visibility Optimization
Visibility opminization is the #1 fundamental thing for map making, in terms of wpoly performance. It's very simple: use turns, large structures, walls and so on to limit how much the player can view of the map at any given time.

In a perfect world, only the immediate area surrounding the player, and a little bit beyond should be rendered by the engine at once, i.e., in a map portraying a house, if the player is in the foyer, only that area and part of the hallways leading to the other parts of the house should be rendered. (rooms like the back bedrooms, attic, backyard, etch, should all be blocked by world brushes and remain unrendered, until the player walks closer to these areas.

You can easily test this by enabling developer and running the map with r_speeds 1. As you walk from a hallway to a detailed room, you should be able to see the wpolys spike. If they remain the same all the time, it means you do not have proper vis blockers in place, and your entire map is being basically rendered or "shown" at once, which is not desirable.

NOTE: Some maps design are impossible to properly optimize without radically redesigning. for example a movie theatre, is a large, wide-open space with no chance to add visblockers. In a case like this, you must take others measures if you care about wpoly performance.

NOTE: Unless your map is Multiplayer, wpoly performance is largely unimportant with the speed of of modern cpu and gfx cards. STILL, good visibility optimization is good thing to always strive for, regardless.
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I tried 23, and i'm having no luck either. when i edit the pallete in wally as specified by the tutorial, my decal turns completely transparent fsr..

one thing i noticed i the hl decals are tga. maybe try exporting as tga and then adding it to the wad? idk i'm stumped, sorry!

Archie's advice sounds sound to me, but it still doesn't solve our problem. please update the thread if you get it figured out!

I'll try making one when I get home sir and get back to u.

^^^^
what the previous ma' f's said.

oh snap! these founding members of Queensryche?!

The change in facial expressions from the thumbnail above are priceless =P

Do you like to do it yourself?! =))

Rimrook: agreed, but i wouldn't feel smart enough to build even a beginners source tutorial, cuz i don't feel "smart" enough with it yet. (would be fun to help others compile their data tho for one)

stojkens: do you use source? whatcha think?

I agree with you bruce 100%. The only reason i still do anything in gs is for fun/nostalgic reasons.

BUT, i'm still willing to help stojkens on optimizaton guides or whatever just because, and it may actually help some of the very few poor bastards still getting into gs mapping.

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So does that mean you're part of the writing team Daub?!

I've found personally, i only can only grasp strange new material if it's a hands-on tutorial or physical example, but everyone's different no doubt..

Just wow. THANK YOU to everyone who commented on my map (my most popular map to date in terms of ratings).

I know I pm'd a few people to check it out, but many more than that gave me some nice comments and ratings, which i FULLY DID NOT expect, due to how unfinished it is!

who else entered who is not in the vault?
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malle: I agree, optional email notifications would be a nice reminder! =)

heck ya, i too would encourage everyone to submit your unfinished entries!

I'm gonnna playtest the goldsrc entries when i get home. Unfortunately, my ep2 is not installed atm, so maybe i can quick preview them in crafty or something?

i like the idea to keep things simple. Something any beginner will be able to understand, without having much experience with hammer.

Maybe something like limiting ourselves to a "top-10" list or similar, with number 1 being the most important.

Or perhaps 2 lists: one for optimization, and one regarding reducing your compile time, which seems to be the number 1 problem for many mappers.

Bruce is correct tho, you can only guide so much, and some things just have to be learnt by experience.

Sames here. I think I'll have 15 minutes of wiggle room to upload, I hope..

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Haha this is exciting =)

Shit typhoon is coming. We best haul in the jib before it gets covered in shit.

gonna make as many updates to mine as possible before the deadline. 'Tis excruciating tho, waiting an hour to compile, make 30 seconds of changes, and wait another hour, only to find it is still fucked up.

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Soon as i'm done i plan on running through all the entries in the vault so far.. can't wait! =)

put quick finishing touches on best you can and submit! you never know and you have nothing to lose! =)

It's one of those things: i know as soon as the deadline is up i will never, ever go back to this map to update it, and that is sad, because i am having so much fun with it ='(
(look at the tear!!)

i mean i'll finish, but there is so much more i'd like to do if i had the time... naw mean? Are you entering btw?

edit: Congrats to Deathan on being the first uploader to the map vault for compo 31!

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that looks sick doggybag.

@skals: afaik, "triangles" and tetrahedron are the same ;P

I'm almost done with mine, but dang; my kingdom for a time extension.... ='( ',',',',',',

Can't wait to see the final turnout though, as it seems like there should be a loot of top-quality entries!

Yeah, I double-checked and it's not doing it now. My badd sir!

i get a blank window opening in the background when i click the "downloaden" linken.

you want people to click on and download your mod, right? i believe not using crap hosting that forces popups and using .exe to install the mod will help you there.

I don't know about anyone else, but i would never use exe to install a mod, unless it's like afraid of monsters or something professional. Not trying to be a dick i'll shut it now.

This is pretty strange have you tried posting to interlopers? )There is not a lot of active users to answer source engine questions here usaully)

gah mediafail.

Allow me to introduce you to a free host, complete with considerably more awesome:

LocalHostrBeta

It's a "present" map, not some masters final project. If you can't finish by the 17th of december, seriously wtf are you even doing here?

can we use sprites? =)

Is that a plastic mag for the m4 i didn't know they even existed! Nice work btw especially something as obscure as the suppressor inards too.

joebama: nice work i'd tap that. =')))

This is good stuff i only wish i had a map to submit. =(

Cliff and Sancefar look intriguing! can't wait to play them.

)))

bump!

sure x-layer post the rmf and ill try compiling it if you want.

One thing you can try is copy/pasting the entire map into a new rmf and try compiling that. if everything works ok you can change the name back to the original map. (i always try this as a method of last resort)