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Just put the Hammer splash screen on a shirt if you're gonna do something like that.
i don't know...
The text i threw that together in Flash using the mask features and some photoshop.
Yeah, the blocks more/less flipped rather than rotated, much like tetris. Its hard to see in that video. I'll add a voice-over to the next one.
Also, I modified some things so Left Click is "Shoot Weapon" and Right Click is "Swing Weapon"
I removed the "Scope" feature that was adopted from some Turnstile scripting. It was in there to help sight in on switches, its not needed and its causing very bad glitches. It will likely be removed from Turny as well.
Also, I modified some things so Left Click is "Shoot Weapon" and Right Click is "Swing Weapon"
I removed the "Scope" feature that was adopted from some Turnstile scripting. It was in there to help sight in on switches, its not needed and its causing very bad glitches. It will likely be removed from Turny as well.
Neat music too (where from?)I wrote that quickly for the video. Since then i developed a music style for the mod and spent much time composing. I'll release a new video after I finish my current project.
I've also throught of different kinds of pieces. I'll explain it in the video.
Add physics to HL1 and you have HL2. The graphics don't have much weight on anything to me. I see the use of the power to compute large amounts of gameplay components we coudln't have before. Like thousands of enemies in a single scene, or the ability to view a emersive and seamless world. Even physics for that matter. 
EDIT: Lets not forget portal... I don't think that game was very pretty, or at least from the splash and trailers. I haven't played it yet... well sortof, they had it going at a circuit city... in an infinite fall... bastards...
EDIT: Lets not forget portal... I don't think that game was very pretty, or at least from the splash and trailers. I haven't played it yet... well sortof, they had it going at a circuit city... in an infinite fall... bastards...
Did the idea for more preview screenshots of a map in the map vault dissolve yet? or will we be able to post pics in the map description by linking them?
Like threads for members and threads for visitors, and based on rank or by mod team? 'tis interesting, i like it but there could be unforseen problems.
All = Awsome.
But thread subscription? What is that? I may know but can't think of it by any better description.
But thread subscription? What is that? I may know but can't think of it by any better description.
no
Half of the screens are of a nothingful desert!
If I was doing that, I'd make a helicopter fly overhead and point out which direction you need to go in.
Looks alright though, i think the squarish pipes has to do with your lighting...
If I was doing that, I'd make a helicopter fly overhead and point out which direction you need to go in.
Looks alright though, i think the squarish pipes has to do with your lighting...
OMG AN UPDATE!
Yes! But the rules are a little different now, and the format is much easier to understand, but it will get much more complicated. I found a way to use rotating button to slowly rotate the islands, however, they only rotate so far and can only be rotated back. To fix this, each island will be made of several parts, and you must rotate each piece and climb around to reach your goal.
THE GOOD:
Less glitchy and easier to study the rotation of the pieces. Less risky choices and movement. To move a piece, you shoot the piece you want to rotate, unless otherwise specified.
THE BAD:
Rotating pieces can squish you, knock you off, and so on. Also, the way you can jump while its rotating is difficult but fun when you make a seemingly impossible move. During a test, I missed a jump and it felt like I fell sideways and died. It was awsome!
THE UGLY:
Rotating a piece can clip you and get you stuck. I think I can make an anti-clip for this, needs testing. Also, when the pieces overlap, it looks glitchy with the texturing and you have no idea which piece will move if you target that area.
OVERALL:
The new finding are much more effective and fun to play than the original. It will be something to invest time into for sure. A demo will also be released much later.
A new video will arrive when I can get some decent testing done.
Yes! But the rules are a little different now, and the format is much easier to understand, but it will get much more complicated. I found a way to use rotating button to slowly rotate the islands, however, they only rotate so far and can only be rotated back. To fix this, each island will be made of several parts, and you must rotate each piece and climb around to reach your goal.
THE GOOD:
Less glitchy and easier to study the rotation of the pieces. Less risky choices and movement. To move a piece, you shoot the piece you want to rotate, unless otherwise specified.
THE BAD:
Rotating pieces can squish you, knock you off, and so on. Also, the way you can jump while its rotating is difficult but fun when you make a seemingly impossible move. During a test, I missed a jump and it felt like I fell sideways and died. It was awsome!
THE UGLY:
Rotating a piece can clip you and get you stuck. I think I can make an anti-clip for this, needs testing. Also, when the pieces overlap, it looks glitchy with the texturing and you have no idea which piece will move if you target that area.
OVERALL:
The new finding are much more effective and fun to play than the original. It will be something to invest time into for sure. A demo will also be released much later.
A new video will arrive when I can get some decent testing done.
Hahaha.
Disney will buy Google, then Microsoft will buy Disney.
...ZL will buy Habboi probably, as the stock market shows.
I need a youtube account, i hope there isn't a membership price or something. Large corps, like to charge you for stupid stuff like that. But if there is a steady income, it can only imporove.
...ZL will buy Habboi probably, as the stock market shows.
I need a youtube account, i hope there isn't a membership price or something. Large corps, like to charge you for stupid stuff like that. But if there is a steady income, it can only imporove.
Flat shows the lighting more clearly you nubs. Lighting is as important as the geometry itself!
awww.... 
Granted: You're a nuked whale. 
Show a wireframe, flat, and textured version of each map, include the poly count, and show some pics of the textures used. Video is probably the most appealing so try that, you can always use fraps to record in-game stuff and don't worry about the fraps.com thing on the top.
Still images (prints) are a good thing. They can be dished out quickly. Also, make a contact card with all of you information so they can get back to you.
Also display any other talents that support this. Employers like to see flexibility, and as well if you can be flexible with the fast paced technology now-a-days, you can move around in the job-place a little bit. This is very essential, and it makes you look good.
With your video, grab a really catchy song, believe it or not, you can be remembered for it.
ultimately, stay cool. Don't spaz out. That's noobish.
Still images (prints) are a good thing. They can be dished out quickly. Also, make a contact card with all of you information so they can get back to you.
Also display any other talents that support this. Employers like to see flexibility, and as well if you can be flexible with the fast paced technology now-a-days, you can move around in the job-place a little bit. This is very essential, and it makes you look good.
With your video, grab a really catchy song, believe it or not, you can be remembered for it.
ultimately, stay cool. Don't spaz out. That's noobish.
red faction?
If you can model and animate for HL1, you probably have a huge advantage at this point.
I might enter.
I might enter.
you only apply additive to certain texture or skins. Much like the chrome effect.
i think "she" still has a boyfriend tho.
crete 3 sucks. crete 1 is a one-hit wonder. the other 2 just suck.
what about the turnstile alpha demo? not to self advertise or anything..... 
Ok...
I map for the joy of it as a release from the work I do for money. If you can map and make money, go for it. Just be careful not to burn out on inspiration and ideas. That gets you fired.
I map for the joy of it as a release from the work I do for money. If you can map and make money, go for it. Just be careful not to burn out on inspiration and ideas. That gets you fired.
yeah what did i say. anyone can be anything on the net.
Some of us whom we already know could be girls. never know, like in chat rooms where perverts prey on little children and such.
Some of us whom we already know could be girls. never know, like in chat rooms where perverts prey on little children and such.
start with the easiest things you know.
I would get Barney Zombies by making a barney-zombie model and using that. cool that it has its own enity tho
I would get Barney Zombies by making a barney-zombie model and using that. cool that it has its own enity tho
well, at first i thought your were going to change the steam balls into 360's so the noobs online can fire them at each other.
i have the same problem, only now my steam account was deleted due to absence, along with my hl2 registry key and a tag on my credit card so i can't just buy it. let alone have the internet to reinstall it.
bastards.
if you find a way, i'd like to know to.
bastards.
if you find a way, i'd like to know to.
Maybe there will be a CS MMO where everyone owns a slice of the world, and the terrorists and ct's would have to plan and strike a whole lot more stategically than usual, take hostages and make demands for money and weapons and all that. Or blow up a target and get paid by a boss man or something i don't really know...
You wrote the music for Turnstile?From scratch. In fact, I updated the soundtrack since then. I'm getting really good with my sound stuff.
Also, thats an aspect often overlooked, if you can edit the music yourself, you can adjust it as needed. I often tone down the bass for clarity on the upper parametrics.
I like music. I write my own music and take a consider amount of pride in it. However, i believe music can easily ruin a scene. Instead, (like in Turnstile) music is played to introduce each new area with a big fanfare of ambience and art-like mapping. Once the gameplay elements fall into play, the music is done and the mapping is a little more form=function and all that. Never use music as a filler instead of ambient sounds, thats lame.
Halo 2 was mentioned. it pwns. hard. they hired a gregorian choir. as mappers we don't do that last time i checked.
Metroid Prime had music that had almost too much music theory to psychology put into it. Perhaps thats why it was good. Like how certain sounds and styles of music remind you of certain areas. I'm aware of the theories and I strongly try to add this essence to turnstile. Kinda failing tho.
Halo 2 was mentioned. it pwns. hard. they hired a gregorian choir. as mappers we don't do that last time i checked.
Metroid Prime had music that had almost too much music theory to psychology put into it. Perhaps thats why it was good. Like how certain sounds and styles of music remind you of certain areas. I'm aware of the theories and I strongly try to add this essence to turnstile. Kinda failing tho.
Saying Emo is non-existant is like saying I'm actually a group of skilled Bermudans... yeah...
well actually its more like me and joe.
'tis kewt. :3
well actually its more like me and joe.
'tis kewt. :3
no, but its things like this have inspired me. I never knew of such a place that was so purely Gyradell-like.
These images are somewhere in the Borderlands of Germany. I stumbled across them while researching on the internet. Lucky Find!
Edit: Also, they give a much better idea for textures and how the plants really are on the machinery. There are so many aspects I have overlooked in the past.
These images are somewhere in the Borderlands of Germany. I stumbled across them while researching on the internet. Lucky Find!
Edit: Also, they give a much better idea for textures and how the plants really are on the machinery. There are so many aspects I have overlooked in the past.
Well, here's some images to inspire us all.
I would just trace the shape with a Isospline and have it auto-build the main shape. It would take 5 seconds, rather than box-modelling the whole thing.
'tis educational tho.
EDIT: After seeing it, I would check the vertexes you welded in case you trapped faces inside your model. Which results in extra polies.
'tis educational tho.
EDIT: After seeing it, I would check the vertexes you welded in case you trapped faces inside your model. Which results in extra polies.
is this mod dead?
my boyfriend CrystalmanHahahahaaaa,haahahaha_gahaahaha!hah. hahaha. hahahahahahaha. hAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
get modding rights of Gyradellthere is no rights to Gyradell, only the name, not the concept. the concept is public domain.
as far as sucking up, i kinda don't like it. its noobish and kinda immature. Friendship is a better term than anything i guess.
everyone has different tastes, stop arguing over it already.
... or is hunter sucking up to me again? i'm confused....
... or is hunter sucking up to me again? i'm confused....
Ben
1. Lamb
2. Chicken
3. Pork
4. Beef
5. Duck
Has anyone ever had lamb? Gyros ftw!
1. Lamb
2. Chicken
3. Pork
4. Beef
5. Duck
Has anyone ever had lamb? Gyros ftw!
there's this group called the Frag Dolls and they will do ANYTHING if you beat them. i. mean. anything. but no one ever has. So don't get your hopes up. 
dicks.
...yeah, my vote was for ZL's alyx thingy. 'tis a good idea.
...yeah, my vote was for ZL's alyx thingy. 'tis a good idea.
Rimrook has too much time... lolNo, I really don't. I made that in 20 minutes during class.
so... am i disqualified?
That or they weren't converted to indexed 8bit.
my bad...
my bad...
Interests: Boyfriend, Mapping etcBoyfriend before mapping. Stop kissing ass.
EDIT: hi, btw.
Gawd that was the worst fake i've seen yet. Crappy CGI, Sound, and that Gordon actor looked like a lonely college weiner.
Edit: What if VALVe did a full cgi movie, much like when Blizzard made a Starcraft Feature using all of the models from developement, only tweaked up and nice.
Edit: What if VALVe did a full cgi movie, much like when Blizzard made a Starcraft Feature using all of the models from developement, only tweaked up and nice.
Well... i noticed this a while back.
Noob maps have bad proportions, but anyone with a sense of procedure can use this.
for HL1, if you scale textures to 0.75, they look and feel correctly proportionate. In fact, 12 units = 1 foot. Gordon is exaclty 6 feet tall (72 units or so), and view height is at 5 feet 6 inches (64 units i think). even if you don't like mapping in this manner, still use this as a reference to scale objects to the correct proportion to the player. Valve and Sierra made HL1 in perfect proportions to real-life. Even better than that, the generic units used in hammer (as well as 3ds Max, Maya, and many other 3d proggies) are equal to 1 inch per 1 generic unit.
Personally, I build my walls to the basic powers of 16 because hammer supports that grid more readily. But as for prop models and the like, this has become a very important issue.
...oh and another peave of mine is when you download a prop model and its origin is off so you have to position it weird so it lines up with the ground evenly. LEARN TO BONE YOUR MESHES PEOPLE! 3ds Max will throw a bone/origin at what it thinks is the dead-center of the model. This is bad for trees and object that have a definite base. I have a troubling time working with the trees when i did Pristine Beach. Many of the models I downloaded, I fixed.
Noob maps have bad proportions, but anyone with a sense of procedure can use this.
for HL1, if you scale textures to 0.75, they look and feel correctly proportionate. In fact, 12 units = 1 foot. Gordon is exaclty 6 feet tall (72 units or so), and view height is at 5 feet 6 inches (64 units i think). even if you don't like mapping in this manner, still use this as a reference to scale objects to the correct proportion to the player. Valve and Sierra made HL1 in perfect proportions to real-life. Even better than that, the generic units used in hammer (as well as 3ds Max, Maya, and many other 3d proggies) are equal to 1 inch per 1 generic unit.
Personally, I build my walls to the basic powers of 16 because hammer supports that grid more readily. But as for prop models and the like, this has become a very important issue.
...oh and another peave of mine is when you download a prop model and its origin is off so you have to position it weird so it lines up with the ground evenly. LEARN TO BONE YOUR MESHES PEOPLE! 3ds Max will throw a bone/origin at what it thinks is the dead-center of the model. This is bad for trees and object that have a definite base. I have a troubling time working with the trees when i did Pristine Beach. Many of the models I downloaded, I fixed.