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I'll look at it for you, right now
Aren't I nice

I don't play MP HL - what kinda mapper do you think I am??
HOORAY ~2.7GHz CPU tommorow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! from a PIII 500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

badgers badgers badgers

pimp time

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Custom maps.
http://docrocksmaps.homestead.com/docmaps.html
Server sounds.
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No rules.
Usually have 15-20 people fragging there nitely, and NO BOTS!!

Come on by for a frag or two

You'll need some sort of trigger (a button, invisible place on floor, etc) to start the music.

Make a folder in the sound folder of your mod.
Name the folder whatever you want.
Find the wav file you want (has to be 22.025hz 8bit mono)
Name the wav something simple.
Place the wav in the folder you made.
Now place an ambient_generic in your map where you want the music.
Name the ambient.
Browse to the wav file in the folder you made.
Set it's properties.
Flags: start silent / not looped
Now make the trigger to start the music.
Have the trigger target the name of the ambient.
Set time limits, making sure it won't overlap itself.

Hope this helps.

Nope, didn't work. But as a note, i have compiled, left hammer open and tried to run the map to no avail, but then (with hammer still open) go back into half-life and run another map that I know works, like avanti or 2fort, for example, and those work fine. This leads me to believe that it is specifically a problem with the map. As for the textures, i may have gotten rid of them, but i'm not positive, i'll have to re-compile and check then. But this problem is fairly recent, and I'm pretty sure (though not positive) that at least one of those texture errors were present before the map completely stopped working. Can any one look at the map (it should be in the problem maps here) and try to fix it, cause i've tried everything that I can think of and even things that i didn't think of and nothing has worked.
the name of the map again is traincomplex.bsp.
-panda
alienjon@juno.com

Gday

Does anybody know how to make music play from one or more points in a map, such as the radio playing "can't touch this" in ts_hammertime

the bots are included with the mod, the instructions only tell you how to place regular nodes (waypoints), but i want to add more advanced such as jump, camp and ladder.

cheers

Well, many people seem to find that they have to compile, close Hammer, then run HL - tried that?

Command line would be something like:
d:hlhl.exe -console -game tfc +map traincomplex

You don't even need -console (that's just so, well, you can use the console)

The Map Brightness doesn't seem to do anything - why not turn up the light_environ? Badger badger badger

Wow! Good going SlayerA
badgers badgers etc Clicky!

I use normal mode, and I tried compiling with the specs that you listed, but to no avail. I'll try the expert mode and hope for the best. As for the textures, I'm not quite sure how to find them, I know that a few of my entities were simply 'white' instead of a texture, so I turned them into a aaatrigger. But I don't see any more!
-panda

I am building quite a large cs map at the moment. I'm currently trying to do something at the lightning. My is way to dark. You can't see one metre in front of you without using a flashlight. I'm using a light_environment for the sky and lots of light_spot to produce extra lightning effects. But I need the map far brighter. There's some areas where I can't really put light because that would spoil the scene. In map properties I have set Map brightness to as far as 9000 but yet no effect. I'm using zoner hl tools. What can I do to get every texture brighter.

I think the links that seem to have popped up all over the world might have helped along the downloads

Maybe d/load probs...maybe they just love d/loading. Also, you don't need to be a member to d/load.

lol, fue mal

And I'm only 13, bit young for kids! I hate skyboxes too. Secret agent HQ....AAAARGHH!

lol

Wow! There aren't that many members :

lol, I'll remember

I'll have it! You pay p&p?

If you are just compiling in Normal Mode (F9) and have all the "Normal" option boxes ticked and, -game tfc -dev -console ,entered in the top line called "Additional Game Parameters" then this shouldn't be happening??
If you are using Expert Mode team Fortress (full) then check the very last line in the list, it should be something like: $game_exe +map $file -game tfc -dev -console -toconsole +sv_lan 1 . If it isn't and that is the compile you are using, then that is where your problem is. If you want a screen shot of either compile option let me know and I will send one.

Also, you have a few textures that you used in making the map that are not available when you are compiling it?
1E2U1/FMET1_2
E1U1/SUPPORT1_1
E1U1/SUPPORT1_1
These three textures are no longer available in the textures you have listed in the Hammer Textures Tab. Find out where they where and add them before compiling next time and the Warnings will go away.

Waypoints depend on the type of Bot your using. Unless of course Specialist is using some new entity types, Note to self: I must read the .fdg.
Waypoints are normally added after the map has been compiled, if you find out the type of Bot, then download that program, as they normally have pretty good instructions included.

So you found ISSUES, PQL or PQL2 whatever. Actually it was such a good concept I thought I would try it out here at TWHL.
The biggest problem with merging maps is that complex ones do not like to be transformed (rotated). I actually joined all the compo entries up a few months ago, to see if it was a viable project. Interesting results, but not such a good idea. If anyone is interested in hosting a project like this, please let me know and I will send you the list of stuff I encountered just putting the compo maps together.

Oh, you want to see the final product? Lost when the machine went down

By calling it lights.rad you automatically make it a .rad file, no need to do anything else. But as you can see from the little screen shot I sent, your lights.rad works perfectly well on my machine. So there must be a problem at your end, and it isn't your lights.rad that is causing it.

The only other thing I can think of is that you are not actually finishing the RAD compile...or another problem is occuring before RAD. Email the log of any compile where you had the problem please don't post it here just yet, as I haven't got admin rights and can't edit it to just show the problem.

I did notice that, ministeve. And I must say it was a very accurate rating! I am absolutely blown away by the number of times minimicus has been downloaded... 460 !!!! Thanks again to all who played it!

Yes, look at the line located just above the last line. When it should be executing hl.exe, it is executing hlRAD.exe.

spoon. take my piano. plz! its so old the keys r made of ivory!

ye and a forum 4 sp and mp maps.

...u do realise i gave it 6 not 5.

if u make a map u hate, my door is always open! ministeve1@hotmail.com

kool. i think that rooms map shouldve been on it.

kol saves the day again.

ok, its there if any one wants it..

sorry... good luck with the mod though... if you need any help, you know where to ask

you have to activate spirit throught the costum game menu

Yellow phase : A Spammer in the forums!

This is the report, note that i changed all of the actual directories for privacy purposes but I am almost definately positive that those are correct and I don't see how they could conrtibute to crashing the game.
-panda

** Executing...
** Command: Change Directory
** Parameters: -----gamesHalf-Life

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "-----Valve Hammer Editormapstraincomplex.map" "-----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex.map"

** Executing...
** Command: -----DesktopZonerhlcsg.exe
** Parameters: "-----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex"

hlcsg v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
--- BEGIN hlcsg ---
Command line: -----DesktopZonerhlcsg.exe -----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex
Entering -----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex.map

Current hlcsg Settings
Name | Setting | Default
--------------------|-----------|------------------------
threads [ 1 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
null texture stripping[ on ] [ on ]
clipnode economy mode [ on ] [ on ]
onlyents [ off ] [ off ]
wadtextures [ on ] [ on ]
skyclip [ on ] [ on ]
hullfile [ None ] [ None ]
min surface area [ 0.500 ] [ 0.500 ]
brush union threshold [ 0.000 ] [ 0.000 ]

Using mapfile wad configuration
Wadinclude list :
[zhlt.wad]

0 brushes (totalling 0 sides) discarded from clipping hulls
CreateBrush:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (26.30 seconds)
SetModelCenters:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (0.00 seconds)
CSGBrush:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (11.59 seconds)

Using Wadfile: gameshalf-lifetfctfc2.wad

• Contains 10 used textures, 22.73 percent of map (395 textures in wad)

Using Wadfile: gameshalf-lifetfctfc.wad

• Contains 28 used textures, 63.64 percent of map (279 textures in wad)

Using Wadfile: gameshalf-lifevalvexeno.wad

• Contains 1 used texture, 2.27 percent of map (264 textures in wad)

Using Wadfile: gameshalf-lifevalvehalflife.wad

• Contains 2 used textures, 4.55 percent of map (3116 textures in wad)

Using Wadfile: gameshalf-lifevalveliquids.wad

• Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (32 textures in wad)

Using Wadfile: gameshalf-lifevalvedecals.wad

• Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (222 textures in wad)

added 3 additional animating textures.
Warning: ::FindTexture() texture E1U1/SUPPORT1_1 not found!
Warning: ::FindTexture() texture E2U1/FMET1_2 not found!
Warning: ::FindTexture() texture E1U1/TRIGGER not found!
Warning: ::LoadLump() texture E1U1/SUPPORT1_1 not found!
Warning: ::LoadLump() texture E1U1/TRIGGER not found!
Warning: ::LoadLump() texture E2U1/FMET1_2 not found!
Texture usage is at 1.16 mb (of 4.00 mb MAX)
38.28 seconds elapsed

--- END hlcsg ---

** Executing...
** Command: -----DesktopZonerhlbsp.exe
** Parameters: "-----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex"

hlbsp v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
--- BEGIN hlbsp ---
Command line: -----DesktopZonerhlbsp.exe -----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex

Current hlbsp Settings
Name | Setting | Default
------------------|-----------|------------------------
threads [ 1 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
nofill [ off ] [ off ]
null tex. stripping [ on ] [ on ]
notjunc [ off ] [ off ]
subdivide size [ 240 ] [ 240 ] (Min 64) (Max 512)
max node size [ 1024 ] [ 1024 ] (Min 64) (Max 4096)

BSP generation successful, writing portal file '-----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex.prt'
34.48 seconds elapsed

--- END hlbsp ---

** Executing...
** Command: -----DesktopZonerhlvis.exe
** Parameters: "-----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex"

hlvis v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
--- BEGIN hlvis ---
Command line: -----DesktopZonerhlvis.exe -----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex
7627 portalleafs
26411 numportals

= Current hlvis Settings =
Name | Setting | Default
------------------|-----------|------------------------
threads [ 1 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
max vis distance [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

fast vis [ off ] [ off ]
full vis [ off ] [ off ]

BasePortalVis:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (426.67 seconds)
LeafThread:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (1796.78 seconds)
average leafs visible: 324
g_visdatasize:901925 compressed from 7276158
2225.00 seconds elapsed [37m 5s]

--- END hlvis ---

** Executing...
** Command: -----DesktopZonerhlrad.exe
** Parameters: "-----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex"

hlrad v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
--- BEGIN hlrad ---
Command line: -----Zonerhlrad.exe
-----Half-Lifetfcmapstraincomplex

= Current hlrad Settings =
Name | Setting | Default
-------------------|---------------------|------------------------
threads [ 1 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

vismatrix algorithm [ Original ] [ Original ]
oversampling (-extra)[ off ] [ off ]
bounces [ 1 ] [ 1 ]
ambient light [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 ] [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 ]
maximum light [ 255.000 ] [ 256.000 ]
circus mode [ off ] [ off ]

smoothing threshold [ 50.000 ] [ 50.000 ]
direct threshold [ 25.000 ] [ 25.000 ]
direct light scale [ 2.000 ] [ 2.000 ]
coring threshold [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
patch interpolation [ on ] [ on ]

texscale [ on ] [ on ]
patch subdividing [ on ] [ on ]
chop value [ 64.000 ] [ 64.000 ]
texchop value [ 32.000 ] [ 32.000 ]

global fade [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
global falloff [ 2 ] [ 2 ]
global light scale [ 1.000 1.000 1.000 ] [ 1.000 1.000 1.000 ]
global gamma [ 0.500 0.500 0.500 ] [ 0.500 0.500 0.500 ]
global light scale [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
global sky diffusion [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]

opaque entities [ on ] [ on ]
sky lighting fix [ on ] [ on ]
incremental [ off ] [ off ]
dump [ off ] [ off ]

colour jitter [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]
monochromatic jitter [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]
softlight hack [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]
diffuse hack [ on ] [ on ]
spotlight points [ on ] [ on ]

custom shadows with bounce light

[               off ] [               off ]

rgb transfers [ off ] [ off ]

21827 faces
Create Patches : 53740 base patches
0 opaque faces
340192 square feet [48987772.00 square inches]
46 direct lights

BuildFacelights:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (94.14 seconds)
visibility matrix : 172.1 megs
BuildVisLeafs:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (219.33 seconds)
MakeScales:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (337.45 seconds)
SwapTransfers:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (115.73 seconds)
Transfer Lists : 68723324 : 68.72M transfers

Indices :    41310156 :   39.40M bytes
   Data :   274893296 :  262.16M bytes

Bounce 1 GatherLight:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (12.03 seconds)
FinalLightFace:
10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%... (12.92 seconds)
795.80 seconds elapsed [13m 15s]

--- END hlrad ---

** Executing...
** Command: -----DesktopZonerhlrad.exe
** Parameters: +map "traincomplex"

huh? quintupple echo? thats a first! oh and while i'm here:

ISSUES IS GREAT!!! - and not just because i done a map for it

I'll try that. Also, here is my compilation report. If anyone sees anything that they think could be the problem please let me know.
-panda :

What? Doesn't matter, as long as it's lights.rad - it's just a text file with that extension (the .rad bit is the extension).

lol, dodgy server

not very nice, blue. Not nice at all. chuckles

'fraid not, but apparently they play with bots anyway, guess they have triangulation etc. Dunno how well though!

Try running without compilng RAD (lighting)?

Hi, I am having a problem running my map. For some reason when ever I try to run the map, the entire game crashes. Where could I look to find the solution to this problem? I think that it is a lighting problem, but i'm not sure. Is there anything I need to know about environmental lighting?
-panda

video clips of the camera finding and identifying problems with brushes.

heres a other tip: if you wnat outdoor textures use the search: out. i use it a lot it helps me when iam making a outdoor level

a link to tomyy compile site that will solve a lot of problems

entity 9 brush 0 side 3 has a coplanar plane at 10000.

cylinder problems. makes compiling last SO much longer. i think it happened when i made a cylinder touch another brush. :

thx 4 the help andy but...it is called lights.rad. should it be a .rad file? if so, how would i make it that.