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NOW WHAT ?!

I've never seen this in source ever before...Come on, my map is not that huge, nor does it have a so many entities(I believe this is related to some kind of entity error, but I don't know exactly what).

I feel I'm going

What's this error about ?
Posted here for the sake of forum space.

I don't get that error. It's not that problem :). Vrad just... freezes(I said crash but it doesn't show up any error, it's just the freezing and doesn't do anything).

Come on this is ridiculous. I was expecting it to fail at big maps compiling(when it doesn't fail, all the compile takes no more than 10 minutes on the upcoming gm_abandonedfield).

But I made a test map for something( it's basically a room).

Guess what? Vrad crashed(task manager showed me 00 CPU activity, and hammer just froze).

What can I do to avoid this? What's causing vrad to do this?

Starcarft 2 is not for consoles .

i forgot to specify this is for hl1/tfc. also i dont have gold source.

That was funny

Benny Benassi - Satisfaction (Afrojack Remix)

This has got to be the most ridiculawesome remix I've ever heard yet

I still hate these things. I don't consider them anything else but pure gadgets.

Some may say it's the true way to play games, if you consider yourself a gamer.
No. It's the true way of earning money, it's not good for us, it's good for gaming companies. There's virtually no piracy at all on consoles.
But think of that: you can make your own "play-station" from a computer. Besides, with a computer things are much more flexible.

PS3 = Graphics, long exclusive games.

Quote from Wikipedia:

The PlayStation 3 was first released in Japan on November 11, 2006

Seriously, PlayStation3 and ShitBox just stop the evolution progress of the games. They just set a standard that last for too long, and gaming companies are forced to lower the grade of realism in their games. Of course, I only talk about the graphics evolution here.
Still, I believe buying these consoles is a waste of money. And electricity

I know that you didn't use Photoshop\Gimp\whatever.
The truth is that the cat is continuously growing right?
Stop it before it's not too late! Put it in the washing machine NAWO!

Wait... what's the fur I see in the distance? There's something resembling a huge tower with a donut at its base. mhhhoooo OOHHH SHIIIIII......

Interrupted transmission
17.05.2010
10:45 PM

End Of Data

...........

Some WIP screenshots from my upcoming gmod map 'Gm_AbandonedField'.Here's a "garage" where I'd need some suggestions. What should I add to it to make the atmosphere less "empty" ?

I'm still getting the white 3D skybox! And I have no leaks, and I placed a light_enviromment(which seems to have a "minimum" lighting no matter how low I set the intensity, and that ruins my ambience, so I'll delete it).

Here's the log:
[quote]
** Executing...
** Command: "f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk\bin\source2007\bin\vbsp.exe"
** Parameters: -game "f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\half-life 2 episode two\ep2" "F:\Steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (May 19 2009)
2 threads
materialPath: f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\half-life 2 episode two\ep2\materials
Loading F:\Steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.vmf
Patching WVT material: maps/gm_football/nature/blendsandsand008a_wvt_patch
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
Chop Details...done (0)
Find Visible Detail Sides...
Merged 1784 detail faces...done (0)
Merging details...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (1)
writing F:\Steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.prt...Building visibility clusters...
done (0)
Creating default LDR cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox materials:
skybox/sky_borealis01*.vmt
! Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.
Creating default HDR cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox materials:
skybox/sky_borealis01*.vmt
! Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (1) (869039 bytes)
Error! prop_static using model "models/props_c17/lamp_standard_off01.mdl", which must be used on a dynamic entity (i.e. prop_physics). Deleted.
Error loading studio model "models/props_c17/lamp_standard_off01.mdl"!
Error! prop_static using model "models/props_debris/concrete_chunk03a.mdl", which must be used on a dynamic entity (i.e. prop_physics). Deleted.
Error loading studio model "models/props_debris/concrete_chunk03a.mdl"!
Error! prop_static using model "models/props_wasteland/prison_bedframe001b.mdl", which must be used on a dynamic entity (i.e. prop_physics). Deleted.
Error loading studio model "models/props_wasteland/prison_bedframe001b.mdl"!
Error! prop_static using model "models/props_c17/furnituredresser001a.mdl", which must be used on a dynamic entity (i.e. prop_physics). Deleted.
Error loading studio model "models/props_c17/furnituredresser001a.mdl"!
Error loading studio model ""!
Error! prop_static using model "models/props_lab/reciever_cart.mdl", which must be used on a dynamic entity (i.e. prop_physics). Deleted.
Error loading studio model "models/props_lab/reciever_cart.mdl"!
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9.Material NATURE/BLENDSANDSAND008A uses unknown detail object type coastline_grass01!
Material NATURE/BLENDDIRTDIRT001A uses unknown detail object type citygrass01!
..10
Compacting texture/material tables...
Reduced 4458 texinfos to 2743
Reduced 400 texdatas to 303 (16425 bytes to 12543)
Writing F:\Steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.bsp
18 seconds elapsed
0.351219 0.813041 0.000000
-0.351219 -0.813940 0.000000
-0.403459 0.813041 0.000000
0.403459 0.813041 0.000000
make_triangles:calc_triangle_representation: Cannot convert

** Executing...
** Command: "f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk\bin\source2007\bin\vvis.exe"
** Parameters: -game "f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\half-life 2 episode two\ep2" "F:\Steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (May 19 2009)
2 threads
reading f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.bsp
reading f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.prt
384 portalclusters
808 numportals
BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (3)
Optimized: 84 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 27190
Average clusters visible: 70
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 120
visdatasize:21278 compressed from 36864
writing f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.bsp
3 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk\bin\source2007\bin\vrad.exe"
** Parameters: -game "f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\half-life 2 episode two\ep2" "F:\Steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football"

Valve Software - vrad.exe SSE (May 19 2009)

Valve Radiosity Simulator

2 threads
[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[48 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.bsp
Setting up ray-trace acceleration structure... Done (14.99 seconds)
9421 faces
9 degenerate faces
2140082 square feet [308171840.00 square inches]
13 Displacements
99252 Square Feet [14292384.00 Square Inches]
9412 patches before subdivision
160438 patches after subdivision
911 direct lights
BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (246)
BuildVisLeafs: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (89)
transfers 25592216, max 1111
transfer lists: 195.3 megs
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #1 added RGB(1237038, 959535, 545217)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #2 added RGB(357611, 232541, 122791)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #3 added RGB(108704, 59368, 28617)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #4 added RGB(33675, 15461, 6737)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #5 added RGB(10533, 4079, 1595)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #6 added RGB(3310, 1084, 378)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #7 added RGB(1043, 290, 90)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Bounce #8 added RGB(329, 78, 21)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Bounce #9 added RGB(104, 21, 5)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #10 added RGB(33, 6, 1)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #11 added RGB(10, 2, 0)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #12 added RGB(3, 0, 0)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #13 added RGB(1, 0, 0)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #14 added RGB(0, 0, 0)

Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.1303 sec>
FinalLightFace: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (46)
FinalLightFace Done
497 of 769 (64% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.
ThreadComputeLeafAmbient: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (42)
Writing leaf ambient...done
Ready to Finish

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
---------- ------------- ------------- ------
models 38/1024 1824/49152 ( 3.7%)
brushes 2258/8192 27096/98304 (27.6%)
brushsides 19884/65536 159072/524288 (30.3%)
planes 14072/65536 281440/1310720 (21.5%)
vertexes 15460/65536 185520/786432 (23.6%)
nodes 1864/65536 59648/2097152 ( 2.8%)
texinfos 2743/12288 197496/884736 (22.3%)
texdata 303/2048 9696/65536 (14.8%)
dispinfos 13/0 2288/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_verts 3757/0 75140/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_tris 6656/0 13312/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_lmsamples 201269/0 201269/0 ( 0.0%)
faces 9421/65536 527576/3670016 (14.4%)
hdr faces 0/65536 0/3670016 ( 0.0%)
origfaces 6548/65536 366688/3670016 (10.0%)
leaves 1903/65536 60896/2097152 ( 2.9%)
leaffaces 11026/65536 22052/131072 (16.8%)
leafbrushes 4053/65536 8106/131072 ( 6.2%)
areas 3/256 24/2048 ( 1.2%)
surfedges 71390/512000 285560/2048000 (13.9%)
edges 43638/256000 174552/1024000 (17.0%)
LDR worldlights 911/8192 80168/720896 (11.1%)
HDR worldlights 0/8192 0/720896 ( 0.0%)
leafwaterdata 1/32768 12/393216 ( 0.0%)
waterstrips 838/32768 8380/327680 ( 2.6%)
waterverts 0/65536 0/786432 ( 0.0%)
waterindices 16179/65536 32358/131072 (24.7%)
cubemapsamples 47/1024 752/16384 ( 4.6%)
overlays 3/512 1056/180224 ( 0.6%)
LDR lightdata [variable] 8900796/0 ( 0.0%)
HDR lightdata [variable] 0/0 ( 0.0%)
visdata [variable] 21278/16777216 ( 0.1%)
entdata [variable] 102819/393216 (26.1%)
LDR ambient table 1903/65536 7612/262144 ( 2.9%)
HDR ambient table 1903/65536 7612/262144 ( 2.9%)
LDR leaf ambient 6629/65536 185612/1835008 (10.1%)
HDR leaf ambient 1903/65536 53284/1835008 ( 2.9%)
occluders 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder polygons 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder vert ind 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
detail props [variable] 1/12 ( 8.3%)
static props [variable] 1/58748 ( 0.0%)
pakfile [variable] 4243075/0 ( 0.0%)
physics [variable] 869039/4194304 (20.7%)
physics terrain [variable] 5964/1048576 ( 0.6%)

Level flags = 0

Total triangle count: 26010
Writing f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.bsp
7 minutes, 34 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "F:\Steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\sourcesdk_content\maps\gm_football.bsp" "f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\half-life 2 episode two\ep2\maps\gm_football.bsp"

** Executing...
** Command: f:\steam\steam.exe
** Parameters: -applaunch 420 -game "f:\steam\steamapps\samurai_jack_force\half-life 2 episode two\ep2" +map "gm_football"

[/quote]

Please help :(.
[EDIT] Yes, I have some prop errors, but those don't matter.

You actually have to do it reversed. Light comes from the top and fades to the bottom( so you inverse the textures, black in additive means transparent)

Nope.

Switch to Source 2007 in the SDK, it's stable. Some of (or all of) the Source 2009 games are still buggy from Valve's awesome updating skills.

Was compiling with Source 2006 :D.

I will try and see if it works, and if it does, try making the sensor with a filter_activator_class.
[EDIT] Just when I began to be happy :|. Now it didn't crash immediately, it worked, and at some point of time vrad.exe crashed(00 at cpu). This begins to get on my nerves, as the map is for source for fucking sake, not goldsource to have this stupid problems. It's even optimized(func_details and such..).
[EDIT2] Recompiled and went outside. Came back... it worked(odd... after all these tries...). But why is my skybox models white?

This discussion begins to remind me of year 1054.

Why can not we see your noble action here?

Perhaps because TWHL(TWHL=Penguinboy) still refuses to let us embed videos. I don't understand this...
On his site he can do what he wants. It's easier for him.

You know what's funny? Some of the repulsive ideas posted here can be from jealousy. Seriously now, if any of you wanted to make a community of his own, wouldn't you be happy to have a lot of members?

How do I build in source a "presence" sensor?

What I need is something like this: whenever in the entity volume(was thinking about trigger_multiple, but it triggers not "senses") there is buggy, a light turns on.

[EDIT] Also, why does vvis crashes? :(. There is no sort of sign of the crash, I just open task manager and I see vvis with 0 CPU.

[EDIT2] I set vis to fast vis and it compiles, but now vrad halts!
I'm sick of this. I had this problem too at gm_buildmania and gm_beachplay. It was a "chance to get a compile" case. I don't know what to do, really pisses me off.

Perhaps you should change the requirement to maps with an average rating of 4 or more in the TWHL vault?

Or 3 ?
Nah, you're right. But from my point of view, he's done a good thing for me at least. Gm_BeachPlay is kind of crap, I know, but it was the best to offer for a review from me. He pointed out some strong points that will help me make my maps better. Isn't that good? Aren't we trying to focus on making the novice mappers better? Motivate them for the best?

I'd even be willing to let the videos be embedded somewhere on the site if they aren't full of advertisements.

...

let the videos be embedded somewhere on the site

...

videos be embedded

videos

On TWHL?

Trapt's internet personality reminds you of Stephen Hawking? If anything, that's a compliment, he's one of the most brilliant people alive

My "subtle" suggestion was that even intelligent people have negative sides. Well, Trapt is a little too nervous and irritated as if Huntey touched his privacy or something.

Also yes, it's obvious that I support Huntey. I'm not a wealthy guy, so my cake for him will be supporting him.

However, coupling it with 'YOU MUST POST 25 TIMES ON MY AWESOME FORUM!111!' is just downright bullshit promotion of your site which you have already pimped far too many times on this site.

It's a "scratch our back and we'll scratch yours" situation. They don't do it for free, but the fact that you only need to have 25 posts on their forum is a very low cost for a mapper's delight.
You only need a walk in the park. Huntey already said:

If you're not interested - just don't post, because I'm not interested in your opinion either. The thread isn't harming you in any way.

Also,

but hey I can't expect everyone to be as intelligent as someone as brilliant as myself.

When I read, different phrases can affect my mind in different ways(like seeing images that are in some kind of relationship with the context).

In this case,.

So I can say, yes I hope not!

Huntey is da' shit!

Check this out:

Gm_Beachplay review by Archie

I'm so switched to turbo mapping after my math semester test now
I feel like buying Huntey a cake :D.

I think it's superb, but something tells me it won't share the same success with Starcraft1.

'Till then i play 1400x900/medium settings, and my temps stay below 77 degrees C.

Hah, I can only play this max res: 1280x1024(which my AtiRadeon HD4850 runs fine...). At least, until I by a 24 inch monitor(23 or 24, that's what I'm aiming for, I also need this size for editing programs like blender)

I am so posting my maps there now :D.

Perhaps a FullHD CG sunset?

The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army

Old, but good.

Ok, now I just saw "Funny Games".

I remembered watching it on TV in some night(watched it real late, at about 2 am the film finished), so I wanted to watch it again.

In one word, sick. This film is fucking sick, a lot more disturbing than a horror could be. I found it real hard to watch it, even though there's nothing really scary about it, but it fucks your mind. Those psychopaths come from another world. There's also an interesting scene where one of the guys gets shot, and the other turns back the time with a remote control (?!?!?!). Then, on the boat, they talk strange things that kind of show their psychopath intelligence.
Of course, at a deep level the film makes me think about strange things.
I do believe though that the remote control scene is just cheating, and it really brakes the rules of "the game". The music is sick also, the ending too.
Bah! I deleted it. Yes, in a way it's a masterpiece, but an evil one.

[EDIT] Today I saw The Road. It pulled every single tear out of my eye... Just makes me think about how mad and evil are some people, and how much love there is in others, and how much we take the life for granted...
The child is a beautiful representation of the good, that fights for life for the human race to go on.

I didn't see this film right now, but I watched it a couple of years ago and I remember it, I was just browsing the internet after something and saw this.

I must recommend you,

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

It's a very impressive film set in the medieval age about an orphan boy that develops an unusual sense of smell. He will begin to love "storing" smells, so he'll eventually learn about perfumery. But he's not satisfied. He will eventually kill women to store the perfume from them.
An interesting fact is that after each "master" he leaves, that master dies.

CCR - Lookin' out my back door

Hah, wouldn't expect a member from this site to listen to these kinds of songs. Especially from Luke, not. But hey, I listened to it and it's actually not bad!

In the mean time(I'm into music discovery these days):

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps

I discovered this band recently. It has some cool tracks, like the one from above, "Y control" and "Heads Will Roll".
Apparently, the lyrics form "maps" have no sense. After some search I found out they do after all...
They have some strange sounds which makes me feel... somewhat strange. It's a feeling I've never experienced before, and I couldn't explain it anyway. Btw, the drummer suffers from some kind of disease, he sees colors when listens to music.

Are there female admins?

Yes; PB

I now suspect Penguinboy of actually being Penguingirl.

I played krieger too and I have to say, it's impressive from the point of view of the textures and custom sounds. But everything else takes space: that's DX.
Which makes me think why other games have to be ridiculously big like a couple of gb.

Thank you very much THWL. I now have a lot of hours of studying on Wikipedia ahead me .

When you get to that stage, you should think of a career in something other than teaching

Don't get me wrong, but at a point in time I actually thought about being a teacher, I'd love to teach. It's a beautiful activity.
Expressing my thoughts about that man doesn't mean I'm like him :). I too believe that he should be in jail by now, it's totally unacceptable what he did, but what I'm saying is that it's not 100% his fault.

I do not like the way you judge these things. Pretty disturbing yes, but the teacher must have had enough. It's just an exaggerated case of what regularly happens with teachers that get pushed to the limit.
In my school, a classroom colleague of mine did this to a teacher, and was really getting annoying until the teacher came to him and pulled him by his hair with such force that the hair just snapped out of his head.
There were pretty intense discussions, but it was mostly my colleague fault.

So don't get angry for me, I'm not sustaining this teacher, but cases like this when arrived on mass-media are just bloated with bullshit(the "die, die, die" thing... I just believe the kid was such a nuisance that the teacher got over-enraged).

I think I have to get some money from the bank to buy it.

Well that's odd, I didn't have any problems starting the SDK, and it's the same old style.

I like the new steam a lot more than the old one. Really improves the interface and looks how a 2010 interface should look.
I haven't even tried to start the Source SDK yet, are there modifications there too?

Strider, where do you get custom skins from?

Understood.

For C++, I use DevCpp at the moment. It works perfect with the allegro library.

Wait, visual studio is for free?

Who doesn't like them? They're tasty!

You're hungry. Where's the "i" from the title?
Rimrook, "hear" not "here" :P. [LE] Here's another one: "Lets".
Soup Miner, don't worry, I'm not a grammar nazi. That's your position

Well here's one cool tip: whenever you want to ignore the grid and smoothly adjust the position of a prop\brush, just hold Alt while dragging the object with the mouse.

Yeah, I have horrible handwriting ... I guess :D.
Scanned with my new printer\scanner

I'll do so in the next days... when my new printer+scanner comes.

Either it happens, either the site will be shut down by when it should happen :P. But if you're talking about just a couple of years, yeh, it's not gonna happen

And there is not really any point in creating a website that uses two different types of code. You're only making things complicated for yourself.

Let's not forget that not Penguinboy makes the community, he helps it to exist.
What I was trying to say though, is not really integrate PHPBB3( ok I said that in the most direct mode possibly, but it was just a "stupid suggestion"), but have some features borrowed from it. Example, to be able to post videos. Yes, it's a basic feature that every forum has nowadays.

Your face is exploitable

Well that's a pretty stupid suggesting, considering we already have a working, custom-coded forum solution. phpBB is crap, anyway. Produces horrible, messy code that's a lot larger than it needs to be.

Hmm... I think you're right. It's the most unpopular platform anyway...