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Stick with Win98, Win XP and Win 7. Zero problems in 17, 14 and 7 years. XD

For 5$ you can buy an old Athlon 1 Ghz with win98 system and put it on a new pc case, it´s a true pleasure to play old games for such a cheap budget!.

Remember how you find the solution to remove from memory the ent from monstermakers

http://twhl.info/forums.php?thread=19142

Wow!!, like putting INT_ASM 3 into the code!! (I think that was the line of code).

Devastator = Nail gun from DeathMatch classic and the projectiles explode on touch like rockets or hornets. Problem will be the model and making the projectiles come from different attachments , I think I can share some code for it, though it is a bit dirt, I am no expert coder at all. XD

Unreal rocks... Love that map

Yes. That´s the one I use, and I only have had trouble with one of my models (14000 tris if I did remember well O_o), but I fixed it with the method I mentioned above .

Hmmm, looks a bit worst than it happened to me. With what program did you decompiled the model?, with MS3D or with Half Life Model Viewer?

Wait, if you are modifying a model,as you are doing, no matter what its name is, first you must DECOMPILE it, also,you can only do it after decompiling it no matter what program you use... unless you have the source files in smd format, of course.

I did check your picture, of course, you are into the group menu in MS3D, there´s where you must select the groups and then delete whatever polys/verts are not desired.

I did find somethig similar with some of my hi-poly models once I decompile them. Probably all that stuff is unnecessary polys genearted by the mdldec program. To get rid of them, as I did, select the groups in the group window, probably what you will see is the model´s groups highlighted in red with all the other stuff (the polys that look as a cloak) not highlighted, press "Control + i", delete all that crap, and I am almost sure that the model will lok as it should.

But they count as brushes anyway, no?, I remember trying to do a bunch of pipes (6x cylinders) and the compiler crashed (Vluzacn´s Tools). :/

+1 vote for "Quadmer". Hope to see it some day.

I know, I know, Admer. I was just adding my wishlist for the future "ADMATRON: the Quake 1 Mod", hahahaha!! sorry

Man, you can map... O_o I repeat... do a good map pack and pack them as a mod, I am sure we all will love it. ^_^

Sorry, my damn smartphone don't let me edit... I can not zoom to the edit button...

Read this...

http://twhl.info/forums.php?thread=19170

What I guess is that you don't read al the replies, haha!! XD

I don't know what are you trying to do, but if it is a HL mod, you can do it using tutorials. Of course it is VERY important to LEARN C++, but what is more important is to UNDERSTAND how a program written un C++ works. Look, I never learned C++, I swear, but I did understand very few things that, If you don't plan to make very twisted things, let me did the v1.0 of my mod. What I managed to understand at a very basic level is how functions work in C++, I used MSVC++ and the find-in files tab ALL the times, so I did searched for things like "shoot" or "walk", etc. and then make the needed modifications until I got what I wanted. It is a very slow method, trial-error, the most slow method, and very frustrating, but enough to let you see the first effects in game. Ir you persist, you will find that making things get easier, pity is that things will not be code 100% ©you, but it will be conde that works and ley you make your own game. Oh, another good thing is that almost anything you want to do is already done in the HL SDK, justo think in what you want to do and try to remember ir something similar is shown in HL, then use the magical find-in files tan, and then start goofing with the code... I bet you can do tour first mod quick. Oh, also do not forget the tutorials scattered in the WEB forma those things that did not appear in HL, like Teamplay system, Halo weapon switching, particles, etc. Don't suffer, al of that is already done . Oh, the last one, if you can, make a printed copy of the SDK, at least the cpps and related h files you think you will need.

Tope I helped.

PS: I hate smartphones auto-correction. X( Sorry for the mistakes...

PPS: If you get stuck, as I did years ago, take a rest, ask here, and probably you will find the way again. Alzó re-think what you need and find the right example in the SDK...

I don't know much of C++, I am not able to write the "hello world" program, I can only read english, I did a mod with help from TWHL experts and good tutorials... Don't be a coward and give yourself a chance.

Hey!, you are making me feel old...

Yes, but I think a good map pack it is a mod too. Coding will not be a problem if you do not intend to make a very twisted monster or weapon, models are not a problem (I can model pretty fast), so, I think that a Quake mod made by you could be cool if some day you decide to do so.

Admer, please, do a quake mod... one like soa or doe.

I want to see SCORN finally released... even if I will not be able to run it with my PC.

Thanks!, as I could see, I have to make the "from hip to face" animation, call it with "send weapon animation" in the "secondary" attack function, and let the rest work as normal, I mean the primary attack, of course, right?.

As the Mod will have the halo weapons-switching method for weapon carrying so you can have only 2 at a time (1 primary, 1 secondary) and I have planned to add only a very few of them, probably 2 melee (will be present always), 2 types of pistols, 1 type of SMG, 1 type of SG and 1 type of grenade, the coding part for this will be very quick as all of them are based on pre existing code.

Mmmm, could it be done with the crossbow as a basecode?, what I don´t know since it been almost two years that I don´t play HL, is that if the zoom (right mouse/alternate fire) is a toggle key or not. :/

you'd be surprised how mow code from HL2 can be ported and shoved into GoldSource.

Oh, I must pay more attention, maybe I can exract some useful info from that tutorial (and others)

Hi. I am working again on a new mod, it is far simpler than ZWC, and this time it´s full original. It will be done with GoldSource, no Xash between, probably EHL from Solokiller :). It will have very few new code, mostly for enemies and, of course the weapons, the rest of the development will be Mapping. Don´t have a name yet, but the first scratch book has the name "ROWEN" on its pages...

After seeing some tutorials using scripts for this feature, I want to know if someone of you can point me to a good tutorial about how to code ironsights for HL (Goldsource) Weapons. The modelling part will not be a problem as I can learn how it is done through decompiling an existing "ironsighted" model. I found a tutorial form Jorg40 (coder for a Natural Selection Bot) at ValveDeveloper but it is for HL2 (Crazy stuff there) so I am sure it won´t work for standard GoldSource.

Thanks in anticipation.

Try what rufee said. Ages ago there was a book that teach you how to build a Doom engine based on the idtech1 engine, all almost from scratch. Why re-invent the wheel?

Or make the ceilings and walls func_walls, put a light environment with white color, it should work and gives you neat shadows if you put the right command options in HLRAD.

Yes, but, why is it present in the SDK?, also, you can compile it and insert it in the fgd. Do you mean the even if I do that it will not work?, what a pity!!

I have had the same problem, finally I have made a barney clone and used it to make "actors" that walk, patrol, etc. The monster_generic just teleports from A to B. Also, but not tested, I found the playermonster entity in the sdk, is is suposed to be used as an "actor" model in scripted sequences, but, I repeat, even If I know it is present in the SDK 2.3, I did never tested and prefer to create a copy of barney, that I know will work 100%.

You are right, I can model hings pretty fast, uv mapping is way boring.

you can't do mapping without modelling, can't you? xd

Oh, yes, but I discover that making things with models looked better un certain situations. Actually, I think I will not be able to do a very detailed map without model props...

Use plain green texture in the front of the left...motor?. The lenght of the barrel is too much, maybe a bit shorter , but I like it so much!. Also the screen is a touch of good taste, I love the way it is built between the fire handles. Those could be, btw, less like the ones of the Browning MG of the 2nd. World War.

Abaddon is that Zion (the docks)?

Yes, and that´s an A.P.U!!, you can pilot it and hunt sentinels until the Mjolnir breaks the gate 3 and shhot the E.M.P to win the battle

Haha, then you noticed how GOOD is Quake1 in comparison. Maybe it has not OpenGL render natively applied, but the atmosphere and the monsters are scarier and challenging than Quake2´s.

Admer, man, you can map...

Thanks , It looks much better in "movement" with all the APUs firing, the Gargoyle turrets firing the hole, the infantry shooting their lightning guns, the trolley guys running to give you ammo...

The day I finish it I will give a link for it for the TWHL members who will like to play it

Don't forget my 1-decade-old GPU.

What model it is?, old AMD or nVidia GPUs still rocks!

Oh, no, not at all, the sprites folder and the code is untouched since it worked 100% in 2015. The only thing that has changed was the Xash dlls...
Also, additive sprites now show the black parts instead of being transparent when usted as sprites for effects in explosions of NPCs like the turrets, the Hornets, and the overheat effect of the weapons of my mod, but they worked fine if used as env_smoke.

Transparent (alpha) textures behind another transparent textures are not rendered, even solid meshes disappear and are not rendered if they are behind an alpha texture. :/

Admer, Quake 1 and its oficial expansions are to the gaming history like the Quixote is for the literature history. I always play Quake 1 at least 1 time each year...

As I told you before my PIV throws (with this final version) 16 fps during gameplay, your core2 is way powerful

Don´t suffer

Yes, the shockwave effect of the houndeye shows a plain blue-ish color instead of the shockwave sprite :/

Man, that´s insane!!, a pity you can not make those props with models, modelling with milkshape is easy.

Is there the sourcecode for that?

Quake 2 Ground zero... if you want to desperate, try it, it is the worst planned game I have ever played (even compared with "Codename:Outbreak"!!)in terms of npc placement; the creators mistaken difficulty (needs coding) with absurd npc locations, and absurd amount of npcs in a tiny level. Their concept of gameplay design it´s like a continuous "surprise!!, don´t know why and how it have reached this place but, hey!!, here´s a grunt!!".
In the first two levels it piss you off and gives you some challenge, but after one hour of playing you know where those "brilliant" level designers have think and decided to put the enemy and the game becomes reeeeeeally boring.

Also I am re-playing Firefight, a ship´s game made in isometric perspective. Quite fun... if you´ve got a W98 PC because it does not work on systems over that OS. :/

programming would be more useful than mapping

Coders are god.

I'll be a failure in life.

Man, with only 15 years of age, doing the maps you do... I doubt it seriously.

Will try, thanks!!

Yes, I think of that, I made a big HitBox in the qc file, but what I have obtained is the thirdperson camera worked bad.

Hi people.

My question is simple, but let me explain myself. I want to add a secondary fire for the "crowbar" weapon on which if you press the right button you can protect yourself from damage.

How can this be done?, I have tried to make that the player turns into a hologram but it does not work, in fact, game crashed. Other intent was to make the damage when the secondary fire is pressed reurn a zero value, but it does not work either. Any ideas? :/