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I highly dislike the message Hunter conveyed to him (I think new mappers should be welcomed here), but I do have a problem with people who come here asking for somebody to make a map for them, and I find that people who are willing to go along with it just perpetuate the problem.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! This is too much! You've started two threads in about 30 seconds, each with pretty much the same topic.
Please, come up with your own ideas, and if you're too uncreative to even do that, then nothing you make is going to turn out good. You can be told what to map, but you can't do anything without some creativity of your own.
If you just need to get started though, you can always do some image searches (on Google, or whatever) and find some interesting architecture that may inspire you.
Please, come up with your own ideas, and if you're too uncreative to even do that, then nothing you make is going to turn out good. You can be told what to map, but you can't do anything without some creativity of your own.
If you just need to get started though, you can always do some image searches (on Google, or whatever) and find some interesting architecture that may inspire you.
Dude, we don't really want you doing this here. This site is here to help people learn how to map, not to get free mapping services from some newbie who has one fullbright map under his belt. We want people to learn how to make their own stuff, so they don't need others do it for them.
I may have some media up soon (in the next couple of days), but it probably won't be what anyone's expecting. That's a good thing, in this case. 
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The face is really great, but everything else is pretty blurry... That's just what you get for using the low def models. I'd say you should make the blood on his shirt more opaque, and darken his hands until they're the color of his face.
I clicked on it last night, and it worked then, but it's not now. Maybe it's just a problem with ImageShack. :
You might want to check out Blue Shift and Opposing Force, if you haven't already. They both have interesting tram sequences in them. Combined, they use about as many effects/ideas as anyone's going to be able to come up with. It's not really that hard, and there aren't that many possibilities.
And yeah, I've actually made one myself (you can see the beginning of it in one of my problem maps), but I never used it, and I didn't try anything really groundbreaking.
And yeah, I've actually made one myself (you can see the beginning of it in one of my problem maps), but I never used it, and I didn't try anything really groundbreaking.
And n00bish and buggy. Did I mention they were buggy?
I thought it was impossible to completely smooth things out in Goldsrc. I suppose you could get fairly close, though.
Wow, that's just so amazingly 1337, Kasperg. I love you now. 
Still, I'd like to see a slightly bigger picture.
Still, I'd like to see a slightly bigger picture.
RICIN', BABY!
Wow... You've got a long way to go, unless you're just planning on releasing the front bumper! 
Can you add in the cigar marine with the heavy machine gun?I was gonna ax the same thing! That would be really 1337 if you could.
Nope, doesn't work in either for me.
Kasperg: Your first link no worky.
Agreed. There's n00bs that can be turned into good mappers, but then there's just people like this...
DO YOU SPEK ENGLESH?
That's not really that bad, is it?
Or something else you're too embarrassed to tell us about.
True, true! GOLDSRC SHALL RULE THE LANDS WITH AN IRON HAMMER FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY!
Creating a custom texture?
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Make things that are square in triangles? How would that help?
Dave... You fail. 
Wow, I really love that community, Zombie! I think I'm starting to fit in! Love all the pics you post of your own work, too. 
Hey, whatever you say. I've never tried either method.
Ohhh... Gosh. Either I never even read all of the first post, or I entirely misinterpreted it. You're actually right, espen180. Sorry about that.
However, as explained in this thread by rowleybob, you can decompile the map, and then recompile it with only the entities changed. Technically, the map properties are within the worldspawn entity, so you may be able to change the view distance and recompile it. This would be a different map though, and you wouldn't be able to use it interchangeably with the previous version.
However, as explained in this thread by rowleybob, you can decompile the map, and then recompile it with only the entities changed. Technically, the map properties are within the worldspawn entity, so you may be able to change the view distance and recompile it. This would be a different map though, and you wouldn't be able to use it interchangeably with the previous version.
You've got the wrong forum, I think. You said you were using func_details, which are nonexistent in the HL1 engine.
Anyway, if you actually are using HL1, then it could take a long time if the map is really expansive. But if it's taking hours (or even 30-40 minutes), then you've probably tried to do what we warn so many people about not doing in HL1: Making gigantic outdoor areas.
Anyway, if you actually are using HL1, then it could take a long time if the map is really expansive. But if it's taking hours (or even 30-40 minutes), then you've probably tried to do what we warn so many people about not doing in HL1: Making gigantic outdoor areas.
D: What are happening to this thread?
espen180... You're plain wrong. Go to the map properties and set "max viewable distance" to whatever you like. It's in units.
Ouch.
Here's your linkeh, rowleybob:
http://www.half-lifecreations.com/
It just started up a little while ago, and has little over 20 members!
http://www.half-lifecreations.com/
It just started up a little while ago, and has little over 20 members!
Oh yeah, FOUR POSTS IN A ROW! Three of them with (possibly identical) compile logs in them! w00t! 
Good idea, not taking too many screens. A lot of mods mess up at that, and release screens of every little area, completely spoiling the mod.
Hunter, you designed one yourself (I think.) You linked to it much earlier in this thread, maybe even in the previous one. I remember it was really small and tabbed...
cans maybe 16 x 8.Haha, that's not even valid for Goldsource.
Hmmm... Mapping is looking fairly decent, but I'm not seeing too much detail there (except for the railing, which I can see needs to be func_walled). The texturing is a little weak, too.
My unlinked list:
PlanetPhillip
Ten Four
Half-Life Creations
FPSBANANA
VERC
I don't really post much in any of these, but I do visit them all fairly often (except FPSBANANA, I rarely even visit there.)
PlanetPhillip
Ten Four
Half-Life Creations
FPSBANANA
VERC
I don't really post much in any of these, but I do visit them all fairly often (except FPSBANANA, I rarely even visit there.)
I said, use a monster_generic, not a monster_furniture.
Your NULL texture is in zhlt.wad, which should come with your copy of ZHLT. No, you shouldn't "make it the tree", because that would raise the w_polys really high and look shitty. If you're looking for good shadows, you shouldn't be using Goldsource in the first place, because it would be pretty damn hard to get any shadows looking like that in HL1.
Your NULL texture is in zhlt.wad, which should come with your copy of ZHLT. No, you shouldn't "make it the tree", because that would raise the w_polys really high and look shitty. If you're looking for good shadows, you shouldn't be using Goldsource in the first place, because it would be pretty damn hard to get any shadows looking like that in HL1.
BLOB IS TEH BEST EXTENSION EVARI'd have to agree with you there.
No, not back to brush trees. Where there's a will, there's sometimes a way. All you have to do to get shadows around your trees is build a box around it using the null texture. This will cast shadows correctly, but you have to make sure not to have it intersect with the tree, or it won't work.
The yellow flies are an indicator that you placed your model inside another brush. Is your monster_generic placed into something?
The yellow flies are an indicator that you placed your model inside another brush. Is your monster_generic placed into something?
Goddammit, I can never remember which is which. 
Kinrah: I'm not sure there is a way. I've thought of doing it myself, and it may be possible, but it really depends on how you want to use it. I guess you could carve out (you know, without actually using the carve tool) an area in a water brush, and fill it up with another that would move up/down with the elevator. Still, I'm not sure if this would work, simply because I haven't done much experimenting with water at all.
Kinrah: I'm not sure there is a way. I've thought of doing it myself, and it may be possible, but it really depends on how you want to use it. I guess you could carve out (you know, without actually using the carve tool) an area in a water brush, and fill it up with another that would move up/down with the elevator. Still, I'm not sure if this would work, simply because I haven't done much experimenting with water at all.
I don't know either, but Rimrook kindly provided them to us.
Either, but I much prefer monster_generic, because its origin will stay where you put it. If you use a monster_furniture, the origin of the model will drop down to ground level, and there's nothing you can do about it. This can lead to some models being sunken into the ground, because sometimes modelers will have the origin in the middle of the model.
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Check out the ones in Day of Defeat. They're really well made and realistic, and you don't need to add any credits for them if you don't want to.
Glad I could help.
For the water, you could just lower your brush, or change the lip. The lip property basically lets you fine tune where your door/water/button stops, so it won't move as far as it normally does, or it'll travel farther. So if you enter "8" into it, it's going to move 8 units past the normal stop point for the door, and if you use "-8", it's going to stop 8 units before the normal stopping point. By default, a door will move across its entire length and stop there.
No, you won't fix it, because you don't have the ability to do that. And he wasn't talking to you in the first place.
Ant: Why couldn't you just change it to a link yourself? Maybe it's some way to try and get us to all switch to Opera?
Ant: Why couldn't you just change it to a link yourself? Maybe it's some way to try and get us to all switch to Opera?