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what is it about ministeve??
Look on the FA website : they should help you out - after all, they made the thing!
aaaaaahhhhhhh...all is clear...
the cube is a mistake - its an error that winbspc makes
try making levels in the old worldcraft and old compile tools and decompiling them
try making levels in the old worldcraft and old compile tools and decompiling them
func_illusionaries (with specific properties and sky brushes will drow the player > the reason for this is, to get some of the other aspects of the game running bug free, thse things really have to be 'non solid' and at the same time contain something...
btw, fog is suppourted in software - have a look ath c2a5 water > FOG!
BUT - no one has been successfull in getting this fog to work 'outside'
i.e. -not in water without resorting to openGL
btw, fog is suppourted in software - have a look ath c2a5 water > FOG!
BUT - no one has been successfull in getting this fog to work 'outside'
i.e. -not in water without resorting to openGL
no way
if you make your server steam beta only i will strangle you
if you make your server steam beta only i will strangle you
...delicious, i tell they... 
Do NOT make a massive func_illusionary! You'll end up swimming in it and drown eventually for some reason. Dunno why though.
Innit! 
so u mean they couldve just started with a big cube the built inside it?
blue, im postin the stuff 2 ur email now
It also works but decompiling them is a lot more interesting!!!. I mean, it shows how it all was done and gives all kind of ideas... Did you know that most Hl maps are done so the outer walls form a big cube?.
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u didnt know about hl2??? points religious object at anthony BACK DEMON! GO BACK TO THE DEEPEST PITS OF HELL!!!
i do get emotional...
i do get emotional...
i dont decompile, i just use noclip 2 take a look behind the scenes...
will we need steam? :
right, i got a top secret project here and i got my hands full with the rest of the map, so 1 bit got neglected. i need sum1 2 design this bit of the map. 1st person 2 post WHO I THINK IS CAPABLE i'll email. remember 2 tell me ur email though.
ministeve -_-
big
steve
ministeve -_-
big
steve
bamf!
VERC and Handy Vandal have good tutorials on Hint Brush theory and application. Even I can understand them 
rofl
www.planethalflife.com/half-life2
www.planethalflife.com/half-life2
This is all news to me.... I didn't even know about a Half-Life 2...
LOL! 
I think the guy who stole the code should be hanged...
?!?
Thanks Andy, and kol. That cleared up a lot (and saved me re-doing a fair bit of work - I like being lazy)...
Anyway and as Ministeve has said many times, a wonderful inspiration and a source of mapping knowledge is in the original HL maps. Decompiling them and then trying to catch the sense of all things that are seen there is really a brain-breaking task, but deserves the time compsumed once you get to know a glimpse of how it works.
Yeah, yeah, I knew it :D. You?re very kind.
?nemas? ?qu? es 'nemas'?
I solved the problem another way. I renamed the textures and then changed to the original name, it sorted it self out. NEMAS PROBLEMAS
I think that last bit got the message through, if you knew me you wouldn't take anythng I say seriously.
Except for that, and this too.
Except for that, and this too.
of course you have to include that wad file with your map!
rofps, thought you were serious!
HINT: Sarcasm doesn't transmit well through text-only messaging without:
HINT: Sarcasm doesn't transmit well through text-only messaging without:
honest, no really, yes, COUGH, NUDGE, WINK, etc
But if you rename the textures, other people must use the same .wad file
because sarcasm isnt a word, honest, no really, yes, COUGH, NUDGE, WINK, etc
all hail our new king!
sounds good!
yeah
you might also need
copy ..valvecl_dlls*.dll ..mymod
copy ..valvecl_dlls*.dll ..mymod
You could use an elevator with it?s func_tracks (wasn?t it?, help!!!) below any monster and set the monster flag to "Prisioner" so it won?t move...
The elevator could be a platform with a totally transparent ("{blue", I think) texture applied (and with the render mode set to texture and 255) so it wont be visible.
If you make the elevator 1 or 2 units high it won?t block the player if he tries to pass below the monsters and if you make it from a 32*32 (I think it?s the size of Headcrabs) it won?t make the player jump if he passes near the monsters.
The monsters would keep on jumping if they are killed but if you trigger the elevator moving to the floor (and standing there) whenever the monster is killed it won?t give any problems.
There is also an entity that pushes things, Trigger_push, I think. I never used it, but you could check it out in the entity guide.
Sorry for my english, I?m sleepy...
The elevator could be a platform with a totally transparent ("{blue", I think) texture applied (and with the render mode set to texture and 255) so it wont be visible.
If you make the elevator 1 or 2 units high it won?t block the player if he tries to pass below the monsters and if you make it from a 32*32 (I think it?s the size of Headcrabs) it won?t make the player jump if he passes near the monsters.
The monsters would keep on jumping if they are killed but if you trigger the elevator moving to the floor (and standing there) whenever the monster is killed it won?t give any problems.
There is also an entity that pushes things, Trigger_push, I think. I never used it, but you could check it out in the entity guide.
Sorry for my english, I?m sleepy...
Why would Valve want to do this on purpose?
I downloaded it too (finally) . Nice mapping, SlayerA!!! But it could have been a little longer and included a few more elements.
For the rest. I liked it. And I don't usually like mods that use the normal hl weapons and models. I would rate it a 8/10.
. Nice mapping, SlayerA!!! But it could have been a little longer and included a few more elements.For the rest. I liked it. And I don't usually like mods that use the normal hl weapons and models. I would rate it a 8/10.
As soon as I get my hands on permanent DSL link, I'll set up a server every friday and so. Everyone from TWHL welcome. How does that sound?
And that would be Finland, Jobabob.
And that would be Finland, Jobabob.
Could you post the compiling report?
people have been doing that for years, and I might add it also doesnt work very well outside of opengl
HEY!!! did someone say FOG? 
I've been puzzling myself over that one for ages and I've come up with a few solutions! (unfortunately, none are as quite as good as "fog" fog, of course, buuuut we have to make do with what we've got)
Anyway, a super-cheap, reasonably-effective method is this:
(you may look upon this and frown, I don?t blame you, it is a bit ugly (-a bit??) but hey, give me a better way!)
Just make yourself a brush -textured WHITE all over, and slap on a good ol' func_illusionary! shape it so that you have a nice big panel, say... 1w, 512l, 512h would be nice dimensions.
Then edit these properties:
Render FX: Slow wide pulse (<-makes the fog* look like it's moving about)
Render Mode: Color
Fx amount: 100 (this just decides how "thick" your fog* is, play around here, I would recommend between 50 and 150)
FX color: 60 150 30 (good ol' "graveyard green" color )
lovely, you should now have a large, transparent panel!
now shift-drag it, and put another about 32 behind it (-or 64 if u want to speed things up). Now shift-drag that etc, etc, until u have a lovely row, back to back. Now group them, and paste them back on top of each other. Rotate this second group 90 on the Y axis, and, Volia! a cube of fog!*
OOPS! how did that tutorial get there? I dunno. It just started off as a posting...and...grew... sorry about that, but I hope it inspires the someone out there. I'm still experimenting with fog (and other methods of creating-AHEM er, faking) Sooo if any one thinks i should actually bother to write a decide fog* tut, encompassing the use of sprites, maybe?
*The "fog" mentioned in this explanation is entirely artificial and/or fictional and it should be understood that this "fog" is in no way, in whole or in part, related to real fog.
I've been puzzling myself over that one for ages and I've come up with a few solutions! (unfortunately, none are as quite as good as "fog" fog, of course, buuuut we have to make do with what we've got)Anyway, a super-cheap, reasonably-effective method is this:
(you may look upon this and frown, I don?t blame you, it is a bit ugly (-a bit??) but hey, give me a better way!)
Just make yourself a brush -textured WHITE all over, and slap on a good ol' func_illusionary! shape it so that you have a nice big panel, say... 1w, 512l, 512h would be nice dimensions.
Then edit these properties:
Render FX: Slow wide pulse (<-makes the fog* look like it's moving about)
Render Mode: Color
Fx amount: 100 (this just decides how "thick" your fog* is, play around here, I would recommend between 50 and 150)
FX color: 60 150 30 (good ol' "graveyard green" color )
lovely, you should now have a large, transparent panel!
now shift-drag it, and put another about 32 behind it (-or 64 if u want to speed things up). Now shift-drag that etc, etc, until u have a lovely row, back to back. Now group them, and paste them back on top of each other. Rotate this second group 90 on the Y axis, and, Volia! a cube of fog!*
OOPS! how did that tutorial get there? I dunno. It just started off as a posting...and...grew... sorry about that, but I hope it inspires the someone out there. I'm still experimenting with fog (and other methods of creating-AHEM er, faking) Sooo if any one thinks i should actually bother to write a decide fog* tut, encompassing the use of sprites, maybe?
*The "fog" mentioned in this explanation is entirely artificial and/or fictional and it should be understood that this "fog" is in no way, in whole or in part, related to real fog.
It could work but before I?ll re-check it all again, it?s the only way to learn :D.
Thanks, I would have done it myself (ahh, good old ms-dos days...) but you saved me the time for remembering those commands...
I?ll wander around to see how the statistics thing work.
I?ll wander around to see how the statistics thing work.
First q.:
Stick this in a batch file, if it's run from your mod's root dir [i.e. hlmymod] it should work; I can't test it though, got schoolwork to do
@echo off
copy ..valvedlls*.dll ..mymod
echo Done
should work, if not lemme know and I'll have another try
Stick this in a batch file, if it's run from your mod's root dir [i.e. hlmymod] it should work; I can't test it though, got schoolwork to do
@echo off
copy ..valvedlls*.dll ..mymod
echo Done
should work, if not lemme know and I'll have another try
Put it in the Problem Maps sectionnatha vault?
lol