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Musty, your dropship idea sounds pretty cool. Please give us a prototype soon!
Lay Lady Lay - Magnet (Dylan Cover)
Elon: you should actually look at the example map then. This is what your looking for.
Muzzle: looking forward to your example.
Muzzle: looking forward to your example.
There is one here already by BJ, called, amazingly:
Switchalable Textlights
I'm not sure if it's the same as Muzzle's method, because I've not tried it.
Switchalable Textlights
I'm not sure if it's the same as Muzzle's method, because I've not tried it.
Thank you Mr. Madcow! My admiration for you has increased tenfold 
[allcrazyblinky] I'M IN YOUR BASE, KILLING YOUR D00DS!!! [/allcrazyblinky]
[allcrazyblinky] I'M IN YOUR BASE, KILLING YOUR D00DS!!! [/allcrazyblinky]
Always worked for me. I just scrubbed and reinstalled recently, and it works like a dream.
go legit!Never!!!!!!
There are a million tutorials on switchable textures.
Textlights are really simple. Simpy edit your lights.rad file, which lives in the same place as your ZHLT tools.
GENERIC88A 255 100 100 1000
The first column is the texture name, second column contains color and brightness information.
The first 3 subcolumns are the color of the light to be emitted from your texture. I use MS paint to pick a color, and then transcribe the numbers, but you can use just about anything--including a normal light entity in hammer--, to do the same.
Then all that's left is the brightness. I would recommend starting with a low number--50-100--to start, and then work up to the desired brightness.
And that's it. Simple as pie.
Textlights are really simple. Simpy edit your lights.rad file, which lives in the same place as your ZHLT tools.
GENERIC88A 255 100 100 1000
The first column is the texture name, second column contains color and brightness information.
The first 3 subcolumns are the color of the light to be emitted from your texture. I use MS paint to pick a color, and then transcribe the numbers, but you can use just about anything--including a normal light entity in hammer--, to do the same.
Then all that's left is the brightness. I would recommend starting with a low number--50-100--to start, and then work up to the desired brightness.
And that's it. Simple as pie.
In 'ur base killin' 'ur d00ds!Great new av Mephs! What the heck is that from? I googled a bit, and only found people using it in their Live Journals and such...
Very funny...Also the bit about the HIV/cancer combined, and the contempt increasing tenfold; I laughed uncontrollably for both, disturbing many people in the process!
Simple, functional, Ashteticly pleasing imo.
Keane - Walnut Tree
Agrees with Seventh; using hints without running VIS is preposterous, since the whole point is to achieve more accurate VIS Calculations. 
No need for a multisource.
Just a trigger_multiple on one side, and a func_button on the other, both targeting your door.
Just a trigger_multiple on one side, and a func_button on the other, both targeting your door.
Google for a good, freeware registry scrubber. I use RegVac.
Mmmmm that is cool! I thought the colors were static...Thanks Rabid!
Re-installing does not work. A crack would be good but is it wise to send one over a forum!?Actually it does work, because I've done it. You just need to remove it from your registry.
Reinstalling it won't work, and if it expires, you can't save anymore.Sure it will, you just have to give your registry a little scrubby!
Wow that is awsome! Great tip Unreakable!
Now my damn fences won't magically 'disappear' anymore
Now my damn fences won't magically 'disappear' anymore
Oh Oh, you could make the camera a func_tank with no bullets. This way it will track on you--like a camera--, but no shooty.
Interesting ideas all!
Wow ZL, that is very nice! Does it work for the pr0n as well?
Try trigger_camera, or decompile cs_training to be sure 
Post them in the problem vault and I'll try running them.
Wow i never noticed those cams before, nor did i know you could put "player" in the target field. Mmmmmm interesting.
Willkommen!
1.Learn by doing: Try to figure stuff out as best you can, first by googling for tutorials and old threads. If you're still stuck on something, then ask.
2. Model a mapper: Find another level designer that makes maps you like; then, try to emulate the elements you admire; tempered with your own style and themes.
1.Learn by doing: Try to figure stuff out as best you can, first by googling for tutorials and old threads. If you're still stuck on something, then ask.
2. Model a mapper: Find another level designer that makes maps you like; then, try to emulate the elements you admire; tempered with your own style and themes.
Keane - Sunshine
Could be worse...but, it can always be worse. 
Just be nice to each other!Well said Hazardous!
Unbreakable: Your spotlights/spotlight textures look pretty damn cool to me!
Sweeta!
Tommy14's Hammer Errors described.
Among other things, too many brushes will also do it, as well as a damaged brushes.
I've not used it, but I think HLfix 'fixes' this sometimes too. Google it if you're interested.
Among other things, too many brushes will also do it, as well as a damaged brushes.
I've not used it, but I think HLfix 'fixes' this sometimes too. Google it if you're interested.
Very ineresting Muzzle.. Your post caused me to go back to tommy 14's site, to look over and try to understand--once again--exactly what leafs, planes, clipnodes, and such are, and their limits.
Damn You!
Damn You!
AV please...I'm hideously deformed!
Do you mean deforming a brush using Vertex Manipulation?
If this is the case, I'm no expert, but imo, VMing just takes practice to see what works and what doesn't. 2 good pointers from other's posts i've found useful:
1. Hammer does not like concave brushes or those that have sections 'turning inward'. Dandyli0n had a good analogy for this, which he said if you can imagine putting a rubberband around the brush, and it's not touching all sides, it's concave. concave = bad.
You can still make structues with concavity, like potholes, divits, bullet holes... just not individual brushes.
2. If you morph an object using VM and you get a 'invalid solid', you can clip the brush into pieces until the error is gone, or make the same thing by turing/flipping/rotating spikes and wedges.
If this is the case, I'm no expert, but imo, VMing just takes practice to see what works and what doesn't. 2 good pointers from other's posts i've found useful:
1. Hammer does not like concave brushes or those that have sections 'turning inward'. Dandyli0n had a good analogy for this, which he said if you can imagine putting a rubberband around the brush, and it's not touching all sides, it's concave. concave = bad.
You can still make structues with concavity, like potholes, divits, bullet holes... just not individual brushes.
2. If you morph an object using VM and you get a 'invalid solid', you can clip the brush into pieces until the error is gone, or make the same thing by turing/flipping/rotating spikes and wedges.
It's most likely if the changes are not occuring, that your map isn't compiling. You can try fixing overlapping, and/or otherwise bad brushes; and hit Alt-P, to check for problems; and make sure none of your textures are scaled below .30, as a start.
I compile a map every time there is a major change. 'Also save older versions that I can use, if the current version becomes uncompilable, and I can't easily fix the problem: A practice that you might consider
I also have tons of unfinished stuff--not like Andy though!!--, and've never uploaded anything to the 'completed' section, except the last compo map.
I compile a map every time there is a major change. 'Also save older versions that I can use, if the current version becomes uncompilable, and I can't easily fix the problem: A practice that you might consider
I also have tons of unfinished stuff--not like Andy though!!--, and've never uploaded anything to the 'completed' section, except the last compo map.
The pointfile is next to useless imo.
Does it compile if you cordon the whole thing off? If not, something else is going on besides the leaks...
Does it compile if you cordon the whole thing off? If not, something else is going on besides the leaks...
You could also use swithchable animating textures, distinguished by having +A in front of their name.
Make the off texture a dull grey--+0, I think--and the on texture a nice, bright red.
Make the off texture a dull grey--+0, I think--and the on texture a nice, bright red.
If you can't tell if it's convex or concave, imagine putting a extremely stretchable rubber band around it. If it touches all sides, it's fine. If it doesn't, it's most likely concave.Great analogy Dandy!:)
Neat. Didn't know that about that flag.
Wow, cerebral overload imminent...I think i get it! 
made me spit out the soda i was drinking at the timeAwsome...
US commercials are dirty too, they're just more subtle about it.
Now Canada on the other hand, not so. I recently stayed overnight at a small hotel there, and first thing I see on the TV, soon as I switch it on:
24-hour hardcore pr0n station!
WooHoo Canada Rulz!!!
No, I'm just curious why my WON HL won't run at all without that TFC sprite in the sprites folder.
JujitsuMan referenced SprView as the culprit somehow, but I can find no evidence of this. Anon and Steinin seemed to know what was going on--judging from the old thread--, but they don't hang around any longer TMK.
JujitsuMan referenced SprView as the culprit somehow, but I can find no evidence of this. Anon and Steinin seemed to know what was going on--judging from the old thread--, but they don't hang around any longer TMK.
Abuse a smoking, or your wife after the meal. If you do not have both handy, bore a hole and fi ** the wallTranslated from the original German, graciously by Google:
Nach dem Essen eine Rauchen, oder deine Frau missbrauchen. Hast du beides nicht zur Hand, bohr ein loch und fi** die Wand.
K. I was cleaning up meh HL 1.5 folders a little--deleting old maps, sprites, models etc...--and was unpleasently surprised to find my HL wouldn't run any longer. It would simply say something like:
ModNum...spritesshellchrome.spr not found
and then take a crap back to windows xp. I've recently learned this is from the TFC .pak file and not from the original HL. I copy/pasted it back into my valvEsprites directory and everything works fine againe.
So my real question is, just what the frick is going on exactly?
I googled and only found some obscure German webpages--with very funny translations BTW--that basically said just run with the latest version of HL. The only thing else I could find was from our very own fourms which you can read here, which references some SprView bugs, but goes into no great detail.
ModNum...spritesshellchrome.spr not found
and then take a crap back to windows xp. I've recently learned this is from the TFC .pak file and not from the original HL. I copy/pasted it back into my valvEsprites directory and everything works fine againe.
So my real question is, just what the frick is going on exactly?
I googled and only found some obscure German webpages--with very funny translations BTW--that basically said just run with the latest version of HL. The only thing else I could find was from our very own fourms which you can read here, which references some SprView bugs, but goes into no great detail.
Sounds with cue points loop regrardless of any flags/settings. You either have to edit it with goldwave and remove the cues, or as Rabid said, trigger it off.
Thanks very much for teh notes/feedback!
Did you not get the erroneous errors I had mentioned in the readme?
It may be because my .dlls were not updated, because after I updated mine -thanks to Trapt's entry that included them-, I've found all the sequences run fine , and now the chapter message is actually showing up--'Ho Ho HOOOO'--, which was only intended for testing purposes.
Is this a lesson to all the naughty people, who still use the WON version, that it's time to repent and use steam?
Did you not get the erroneous errors I had mentioned in the readme?
It may be because my .dlls were not updated, because after I updated mine -thanks to Trapt's entry that included them-, I've found all the sequences run fine , and now the chapter message is actually showing up--'Ho Ho HOOOO'--, which was only intended for testing purposes.
Is this a lesson to all the naughty people, who still use the WON version, that it's time to repent and use steam?
Me! Me too.
Public is ok, and was wondering, would it be possible to post all the entrant's maps, for those--SlayerA--who did not put them in the vault?
Public is ok, and was wondering, would it be possible to post all the entrant's maps, for those--SlayerA--who did not put them in the vault?
I'll do whatever, just send me as much reference material/instructions as possible.
rowleybob@hotmail.com
rowleybob@hotmail.com
I see people are uploading their compo maps, so I jumped on too! I wasn't going to release it 'till I got the bugs out, but it's there anyway.
I'm hoping everyone else who entered will put theirs up as well!!
I wasn't going to release it 'till I got the bugs out, but it's there anyway.I'm hoping everyone else who entered will put theirs up as well!!