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Nobody knows a lot about this guy. Something about spinning shin-splints. At least i don't know a lot.

Can't find the leak huh?
Always look from beneath your map. AND.. i'd recommend making your floor larger than one unit. I always use at LEAST 16 units.
plus you have some nasty clipping from under-neath... noted here

So check out those problems, and get back to us. You may still have a leak only because your mapping is a bit sloppy (Everyone's is, really) but i'm sure if you take the time to clean it up it'll turn out just fine.

Yeah. The tools can only find about 80% of the necessary Wads to compile.
Make sure --

Warning: ::FindTexture() texture SAND1B not found!
Warning: ::FindTexture() texture -2ROUGH_WALL not found!
Warning: ::LoadLump() texture -2ROUGH_WALL not found!
Warning: ::LoadLump() texture SAND1B not found!

are in the correct directory.

You did get all top-notch equipment satch. I would be surprised if your card COULDN'T handle that res.

I substituted them for a life.

Atta boy

Are you fucking kidding, Striker?

obviously he isnt.
And yay for re-code.
It it going to be TWHL 4?

It's definitly funny as shit though.
My GF has a mac. I figured it out one day and she flipped a royal shit.
Serves her right for not using windows.
lmao.

jk
i dont care if someone uses mac or pc.
Fuck
i'm drunk
And i still love that guitar i posted

I love the cube movies and i did not ever hear about zero. Thanks for that Tidbit Pengy.

Ohh.. I like it. I like it a lot.

All that remains - "Two Weeks"

You forgot about TWHL
But those sites would help a lot. I wonder if we can get some of those slapped to the links page?

Sprites ARE possible. Just play ANY HL-2 map and look at a light source. I never got them working myself, but they do work.

As for the random teleporting, Random sequences are a bit tough to achieve.

I know a couple people from school who play it.
The part that made me interested: Stat logging.
Tells your k/d ratio, accuracy. so on so forth.

Hotdog, we don't sell hotdogs on every corner.
Not even in new york city is there a dog-vender on every corner.
Maybe one every 2 or 3 blocks, yes, But they tend to stay near parks and such.
And women just dont play videogames as much as guys do.
Nor do they develop games as much as we do either.

Welcome. You'll find a lot of sarcasm here. But we're helpful for the most part.
What do you map for?

When did you change your name though? i Just noticed it.

You're welcome.

Got a Map vault thing here.
I noticed when you're looking at a map by a specific user, and you click the " (See More) " link next to their name, it just links to the map vault instead of the user's maps.

Hi.
I'm Tetsu0
You pronounce the 0 like an o.
Like "Tet-Su-Oh"
Like The dude from Akira.
I've been here for 1611 days.
Quite a long time and i don't map much unless i have a deadline to loom over me and make me work.
I have gotten a 2nd place trophy which i'm quite fond about.
I look up to basically everyone here; Rimrook the most, but anyone else who can actually release a completed map.
Since Zero percent of my submitted maps are completed.

it would help if i knew what the helm was.
Did you mess around with the origin placement at all?
Oh yeah. I forgot.
you have to offset the entity by the number of degrees you want it to swing.
Say if you want a 15 degree swing from the middle,
rotate the entity 15 degrees and set the angle to 30 degrees.
So it'll start at one extreme, swing through the middle, go to the other extreme, and then back again.

They have func_pendulums for that exact purpose!
As for spirit, idk unfortunatley.
Never used it.

I'd try them but i have a Intel Dual core.
they probably won't work for me from what i'm hearing.
And how nice of you to drop by Amckern!

Idk.. I just googled " tetsu0 maps" and like on the second page it was there..

I have an amazing delay pedal that makes for some interesting 'mystery ambiance'
I'll throw something together over the next few days.

Btw.. anyone see this?? :
http://www.archive.org/details/RoomsHalf-life

Yeah. Just take a file that's already in the game, and open it up with whatever software you used to create your custom one.
See what settings it's saved as and just mimic those for the new sound wave.

Underwater?
It's a truck.

What type of music you looking for?
I've been playing guitar for 7 years i can lay down some tracks if you'd like.
I record straight into my computer. The sound quality is decent.

And once the mod is compiled, to save work, I think any further submissions should go to a rooms2 : combat mod

How's the transition to a new world editor going?

sorry it took so long to respond. lol

Anyway The transition is tough. It's difficult to make anything other than the basic primitives in unreal, and even if you still manage to do so. It's just as easy to make invalid structures in unreal as hammer. Even worse there's no vertex manipulation tool, and if you try to scale any brush that's already created, there's no grid snap with the scaling tool.

And whenever you scale a brush, it scales the texture that's applied to the brush. It's a pain in the ass to modify what's already been created.
But it's still wicked easy to compile and play a map.

Once the newer unreal comes out i'm gonna grab it and map for it. I love the engine, and this may be the death of my Half-Life mapping unfortunatley.

I do like making dm maps vs single-player maps. Less thought involved, and i'm damn lazy.

Fans generate a huge amount of electricity. Only thing is they need to be in a wide area, and if the blade brakes fail, all hell breaks loose, and you're out about 3 million dollars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA -Brakes failing to engague
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4HQv-UyUo&feature=related - Brakes locking
Nuclear power is great, all we need to do is eject the waste into the sun
Keep it burning for a few more seconds.

I don't really buy into global warming. It's all part of earth's 20,000 year cycle. It gets hot, then cold then hot again then cold blah blah blah.
It just so happens when we start to pay attention to the earth's temperature, we see this upward trend of C02 PPM, and everyone panics.

hmm
Only thing i can think of is re-making the brushes a different way and re-compiling

How are the faces cut?

currently available to the public does'nt support HLFix

forgot about that

Did you do an Alt+P? Those brushes don't look valid, You could also look into using Hl-FIX. The compilator supports it.

<3 Chrome.

Sounds good to me.
Thanks for letting us know you're actually stopping it!
Not a lot of people do that.
I'll look forward to Sims 3.
Until then, i'll just play Spore.
I plan on Destroying Every single Grox infested planet.
Been proving to be quite difficult.

You could use a light_environment
Or a light_spot and set "Sky emits light" to yes.

stick to the 16 or 8 unit grid for basic architecture.
Then fill in the details

oh urby, now that you're bandwith is fixed you can upload ch.3 of the sims correct?

Here's some screenshots of the team-deathmatch map i've been making for unreal-tournament. I scrapped the 'import brush from hammer' method and decided it was best to learn the tools myself. Very blocky, i know, but all the kids who playtest for me say they love it.

So... Yeah....

Then it's time to back it up!

Yeah. I'm using the one for unreal tournament. The 1999 game.

Yeah. What i've been doing is making the basic layout in hammer, subtracting it in unreal, then adding all the minor details.

It's like a Chibi version of Easter Island.
It's almost done amusing me.

Newegg.com is your friend.
So is newtechnology.get.now
heh
sorry

But seriously. You can find whatever you want on Newegg. That and tigerdirect

Well you CAN add blocks, so long as you subtracted an area first.
It's like carving a hole in a giant box, then creating smaller boxes inside the one you carved.

And M0P, you make a valid point. I never checked which version of radient i was using, so it could be possible, but those files and editor are long gone off my hard-disc and i really don't feel like tracking everything down just to test that.

Which brings me to my next point/ question/ pregunta.

Is there a way to export .map files (or .vmf files) into a format that 3DS Max can support? (Or on that note can 3DS MAX read .map files?)

I don't have it anymore so i can't see for myself.. But if i can do that, then i can just export a pre-fabricated hammer map from 3DS max, and load it into Unreal Ed. Then alls i would have to do is re-texture and light and place Actors (Entities)

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UBER EDIT

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It works!!!

Here are the instructions for anyone who wants to know.
Take any map you want in hammer, File >> Export as .DXF
Open up 3DS MAX, File >> Import AutoCAD Drawing (*.DXF)

A window will pop up with some settings. The defaults blow, and take every face and inverse it so by trial and error here are the working settings:

[X] Create one scene object for every ADT object
[X] WELD (Keep the weld settings to default)
[X] Unify Normals
[X] Cap Closed Objects

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[X] Include External References

Un-check everything else!! And the other tabs need not be touched.

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EDIT EDIT EDIT

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Even better, you can import a .dxf directly into unreal so long as it contains 500 or less faces. So i don't even need 3ds max as a stepping stone. Instead of importing a map, you import a brush under the brush menu not the file menu. So you might have to split up a map, but you can do it! Woot Woot

Side note. I mentioned before that importing the DXF sometimes caused the faces to be facing the inside, not outside...

Same thing happens when importing to unreal, and the fix for that is grouping the brushes you want exported, scaling them all by a factor of -1 (X, Y, and Z), re-rotating, to align, and you're golden.

Basically you're flipping the faces inside out in hammer so they are orientated correctly upon importation.

/end novel.

Yeah i noticed rims problem as well. Never got around to posting though. Dunno why. Try dividing the brush at that point.

Have you tried hint nodes at all?
Not sure if it'll help, but it's worth looking into.

And it also said try using a batch compiler?
Maybe use the compilator??

http://twhl.co.za/forums.php?thread=14161

Oh... and check your inbox, i checked the map and sent you a PM with some info in it.

You're nearing the edge of the grid, and hammer freaks out when that happens.
Move the separate areas inward towards one another.

You want to have a nice buffer-zone between your world brushes and the edge of the world

Mowgli, Take the sails, and use the null texture on every surface that you can't see. Then create a clip brush surrounding the sail. (in just a big block)
If you want, make the sails, func_illusionary. Same with the Ropes and such.
That's what i did for mine and it works perfectly.
Saves on all the clipnodes and such.