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Can it really be that complicated to record voice acting and lipsyncing? (I don't see how it could be) Maybe try contacting dudes from other mods and see how they did it?
Yeah i'm having trouble too urban, but that looks sweet so far = )
You could totally make them that way but could you possibly transplant cannon from the BG (battlegrounds) mod? I remember some of the cannons from that mod were pimp, but i don't know if they were tanks or coded in. If nothing else you could steal some of their pimp cannon models (but i know how you and i share the desire to make these things out of brushes!)
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God this just keeps getting better... Interiors and deck area starting to look good too! Jeez can't wait to play this... I CAN HAS BETA TESTER?
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no.
oh ok:
oh ok:
<took down the download for updates. will be back soon>
It won't be a problem, as long as it's compilable... it'll just get it's own map. Even if the ship doesn't fit in one map(LOL)we can still get the map in. That is, if you still want it part of the project? = )
Looks jesus-fuking pwn btw! ^_^
Looks jesus-fuking pwn btw! ^_^
All the doctors looked at me like I am some kind of walking miracle.Indeed your are. Plus, that scar is tough and gives you automatic "badass" status with the ladies. ^_^
Hell, after going through something like this in your life, you truly are a badass. I cry and think it's the end of the world when my laptop got stolen, but after reading your account it reminds me how unimportant things like that are really are. In a word: Perspective.
Cool Zeeba, can't wait to see your entry! = )
I'm fairly excited because besides the good turnout we've had so far, we still expect to get a bunch more, high-quality maps. A couple that I'm aware of:
Muzza
Tetsu0 (pirate ship!)
Urbanebula(due summer 2009 when his gfx issue is resolved)
Daub and his ultra-detailed mega-masterpiece
ATDestroy
Hlife_hotdog (2nd map)
potatis
CStriker?
(Am i leavin anyone out?)
Anyway still more good to come = ). I'm going through to fix up lighting and add detail here and there throughout the project, and I plan on adding some surprises for the final release, so, stay tuned!
I'm fairly excited because besides the good turnout we've had so far, we still expect to get a bunch more, high-quality maps. A couple that I'm aware of:
Muzza
Tetsu0 (pirate ship!)
Urbanebula(due summer 2009 when his gfx issue is resolved)
Daub and his ultra-detailed mega-masterpiece
ATDestroy
Hlife_hotdog (2nd map)
potatis
CStriker?
(Am i leavin anyone out?)
Anyway still more good to come = ). I'm going through to fix up lighting and add detail here and there throughout the project, and I plan on adding some surprises for the final release, so, stay tuned!
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i have it too (never got around to playin it yet tho!) THERE'S LIKE 30 MAPS IN THERE ZOMG! = )
yeah i can't complain about gmail too much but i would have no use for this feature--mostly because nobody emails me = )
Gmail's free hosting has kinda gone to shit tho and new users can't have space anymore... o-well it was nice whilst it lasted... ='(
Gmail's free hosting has kinda gone to shit tho and new users can't have space anymore... o-well it was nice whilst it lasted... ='(
Yeesh what an ordeal and you still have treatment to go I'm sooo sorry! = ( At least you're recovering and back in the land of the living now! = )
Are you going to be on the kind of chemo that makes you sick? If so i herd weed helps with that, or maybe, they already have you on some good drugs? = >
Welcome Back Man!!
Are you going to be on the kind of chemo that makes you sick? If so i herd weed helps with that, or maybe, they already have you on some good drugs? = >
Welcome Back Man!!
yeah you're right JeffMOD, but in the end, i think it's better that way--if not a bit more work to set up the duplicate hallways and changelevels. I don't mind doing it.
the only trouble i have is syncing the lighting from one level to another(it always seems to be noticably darker or lighter after you change, mostly due to differing light_environment values(i think). I've been trying to compensate by adding subtle textlighting throughout the rooms but still, most of the transitions don't match perfectly...
the only trouble i have is syncing the lighting from one level to another(it always seems to be noticably darker or lighter after you change, mostly due to differing light_environment values(i think). I've been trying to compensate by adding subtle textlighting throughout the rooms but still, most of the transitions don't match perfectly...
Jeez. way to add unnessisary details, Daubster. Now I feel like my mod project is plain, and I think I've added more detail than a lot of valve mapsI'd hardly call them unnecessary. The way i see it you can make your map interesting by making it have really great gameplay OR really good puzzles--like many of the maps in the previous compo--, OR, really good detail.
If you think your map isn't up to snuff you should by all means edit it.
@PB: I hope you're right.
Also btw, i never meant local harddrives or memory or cpus at home will be eliminated (quite the contrary), but what i meant is you will not be able to access or use anything unless you are connected and all your data is accessible to some big corporate entity.
Also btw, i never meant local harddrives or memory or cpus at home will be eliminated (quite the contrary), but what i meant is you will not be able to access or use anything unless you are connected and all your data is accessible to some big corporate entity.
I'll keep my data at home, personally, on my personal computer.While you can, anyway... Everything is moving towards(and has been for quite some time)being 100% online. When the time comes, you won't have a choice nor would you want to be unplugged(which will eventually be your only alternative to keeping private data).
Imagine having a sweet rig and no internet connection... It would be pointless, right? Well that time is coming soon when you will have to decide how important keeping your private data private really is...
Jeez Daub that screenie is so pretty i want to rub my man parts on it holy shitballz! = )
Hammer compiler. I tried using nem's for compiling today, but i've found nem's quits prematurely if it encounters certain errors, where with the same errors the hammer compiler will complete, and i have yet to complete a single compile with it yet(has anyone else encountered this?). I have yet to try VBCT by qUiCkSiLvEr...
I was looking at my compile log and found it INORDINATELY long, but then realized, it had cumulatively saved EVERY compile log i ever did for that map into the one logfile!
Is this normal?
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Additional comments:
Can you turn it off?
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Is this normal?
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Can you turn it off?
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I did the tutorial and played for like 20 minutes. It's really well-made an looks good, but i was getting bored. I'll go back later and play some more tho... can you eventually build vehicles?
ya kinda, for each author you could view a "profile room" maybe with a bio and possibly music too. the trigger camera would be activated as you entered that author's room... what do you think?
just use info_texlights as described earlier in the thread. here's a quick recap:
1. Take any point-based entity and rename it "info_texlights"
2. use smart edit to add the name of the texture in the first field and the color/brightness in the second
3. you can add as many texlights in that same point entiy as you want. Check rooms4.rmf or rooms5.rmf, and search info_texlights if you want to see mine as example.
NOTE: if you want to add effects like blinking or strobing, you must turn the brush that has the texture light on it and make it a func_wall (works on func_doors too). 2nd from the bottom of the list of attributes should be "texture light style". Pick the type of effect you want like "flouresent flicker" from the dropdown, and you should be good to go.
FINALLY: to make a texture light switchable, again you must turn the brush with the texture light to be switchable to a func_wall, and you must give it a name. Under "texture light properties" pick "grouped". Now create a pointlight with the same name as the func_wall with a brightness value of "1 1 1 0.1" Now, when that light is activated by a button or a trigger calling it's name, the light will turn on or off.
If i've left something out pleez someone lemme know. = )
1. Take any point-based entity and rename it "info_texlights"
2. use smart edit to add the name of the texture in the first field and the color/brightness in the second
3. you can add as many texlights in that same point entiy as you want. Check rooms4.rmf or rooms5.rmf, and search info_texlights if you want to see mine as example.
NOTE: if you want to add effects like blinking or strobing, you must turn the brush that has the texture light on it and make it a func_wall (works on func_doors too). 2nd from the bottom of the list of attributes should be "texture light style". Pick the type of effect you want like "flouresent flicker" from the dropdown, and you should be good to go.
FINALLY: to make a texture light switchable, again you must turn the brush with the texture light to be switchable to a func_wall, and you must give it a name. Under "texture light properties" pick "grouped". Now create a pointlight with the same name as the func_wall with a brightness value of "1 1 1 0.1" Now, when that light is activated by a button or a trigger calling it's name, the light will turn on or off.
If i've left something out pleez someone lemme know. = )
pretty boring project btw ..I want to add a puzzle to mine, or at least a simple sequence you must perform to move on, but yeah, simple rooms with no objective is a bit boring, but at leasst it's something everyone can be a part of and actually complete. (unlike mods that go on for years with and are never completed)
I was thinking of adding a trigger_camera to the beginning to each room that would show a picture/avatar of the author and maybe show a description or what not, maybe audio? I dunno it would add a little more dimension to it?
If you have any ideas how to "spruce" it up, lemme know! = )
One more map to go until we have ten. If we win, do us goldsource peoples get cake?no cake that i'm aware of = )
@Zeeba: Sweet! = )
@all: i'm having trouble preserving the same lighting level from one trigger_changelevel to another on some maps. I've tried using the zhlt light flag "opaque" and adjusting RAD values, but there are still major differences in the brightness levels going from one map to another. Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Yay latest rooms update now available:
Rooms Mappack
Rooms Hammer Files
Contributors include:
captain terror
JeffMOD
Hlife_Hotdog
raver
Rimrook
Tetsu0
SpaG
nefarious
TJB
Please let me know about any bugs or concerns you have with the level (authors especially), and i'll try to address them by the next release.
Rooms Mappack
Rooms Hammer Files
Contributors include:
captain terror
JeffMOD
Hlife_Hotdog
raver
Rimrook
Tetsu0
SpaG
nefarious
TJB
Please let me know about any bugs or concerns you have with the level (authors especially), and i'll try to address them by the next release.
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oh ya lol with all the crabs... 
Didn't have money, or put another way, i was saving my food budget to buy something else.
TJB: Your map has been added and i built your hallway:
but... you didn't give me your light data so your room is completely dark!
If you could include the textlight values you used that would be great, or even better include the lights data using info_texlights entity...
Here is your edited map with hallway should you care to update it. Really nice map btw i love Battlefront! = )
@JeffMOD: you can live on crackers and ketchup packets for a couple weeks... i've done it.
If you could include the textlight values you used that would be great, or even better include the lights data using info_texlights entity...
Here is your edited map with hallway should you care to update it. Really nice map btw i love Battlefront! = )
@JeffMOD: you can live on crackers and ketchup packets for a couple weeks... i've done it.
Hah that looks great!:) Good attention to detail and the scale/proportions look pretty good too. And agree the hl wood textures are uggs.
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Just don't eat for a couple weeks and the money you save will more than cover the cost of the new gfx card! = )
ATI fails get Nvidia. Now.
What urby is your new computer, is it vista or an ATI video card that is your problem. Are you saying you can't goldsource mod anymore?
TJB: Sweet! downloading now... = )
Tetsu0: I don't think it has anything to do with the grid, as i do tons of sub unit verticies all the time, which would be impossible to shift to a 1-unit grid... The best way i can describe hlfix is by it's results in-game. like if you use a railing on a stairway, and if where for example a post meets the railing are not a 45 degree angle, you will see a gap in the game--even if it shows flush in hammer. HLFix makes the the stuff you make in hammer look more or exactly the same in-game, and is useful for anything with weirdly vm'd joints that the hammer compile would normally fuck up and show those ugly gaps. This makes it a lot easier to create complex shapes without ugly visual errors. [/wall of text]
TJB: Sweet! downloading now... = )
Tetsu0: I don't think it has anything to do with the grid, as i do tons of sub unit verticies all the time, which would be impossible to shift to a 1-unit grid... The best way i can describe hlfix is by it's results in-game. like if you use a railing on a stairway, and if where for example a post meets the railing are not a 45 degree angle, you will see a gap in the game--even if it shows flush in hammer. HLFix makes the the stuff you make in hammer look more or exactly the same in-game, and is useful for anything with weirdly vm'd joints that the hammer compile would normally fuck up and show those ugly gaps. This makes it a lot easier to create complex shapes without ugly visual errors. [/wall of text]
Whoa. You just redefined detailed complex brushwork for me. 
The bevel on the cylinder is cool enough, but you extended the bevel to the teeth as well... just wow. = )
I only care about off-grid if you can see visible errors. It can be amazingly time consuming to labor to keep complex stuff like that perfectly on-grid, but it sure is a great way to sharpen/expand your brushing technique!
Can't wait to see it finished! =>
The bevel on the cylinder is cool enough, but you extended the bevel to the teeth as well... just wow. = ) I only care about off-grid if you can see visible errors. It can be amazingly time consuming to labor to keep complex stuff like that perfectly on-grid, but it sure is a great way to sharpen/expand your brushing technique!
Can't wait to see it finished! =>
*No absinthe: -6 points
*Raping the
spelling of
said sacred
drink
(i think?): -1 point
*No guest
bedroom: -3 points
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Grand Total: -10 points (fail)not joking.
hope you have a clean guest bedroom and some reel absinthe... the stuff over here is worthless ='(
hope you have a clean guest bedroom and some reel absinthe... the stuff over here is worthless ='(
Good Urby but i'm still booking my flight to Heathrow, to make sure you deliver as promised,
I can read jeez. Okey i'll try it <downloading>
call me old-fashioned but a 13GB demo!? what could be so amazing in it that it has to be that goddamned big?
Oh and btw for those of you don't know, Rimrook's entry, Riverpool, was featured on Podcast17!! Check it out it's a cool show if you've never listened before!
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ATDestroy: oh so you would see the outside of the ship at the beginning and the end?Freshed: No. Now shutup and make a room! = ) (seriously you are right, our definition of "room" is constantly changing, but i won't disqualify any maps that are submitted. This whole things just for fun really ne way
Daub:Looks like a good start and i'm so glad you are entering this i don't care anymore if Urby submits his map by next year or not--aw urby aww = ). I always liked your trim and detail work
ATDestroy: I'll figure out a way to link tetsu0's map don worry, i have some ideas already. If you made his map below decks you wouldn't be able to see best-looking parts of the ship so that idea would be no.
Daub:Looks like a good start and i'm so glad you are entering this i don't care anymore if Urby submits his map by next year or not--aw urby aww = ). I always liked your trim and detail work
ATDestroy: I'll figure out a way to link tetsu0's map don worry, i have some ideas already. If you made his map below decks you wouldn't be able to see best-looking parts of the ship so that idea would be no.
edit: Yeah you were right:
I'm compiling a testmap with a wider range, but i expect the results to be disappointingly the same...
Maybe with some further foolin around i can make this work the way i want to after all.
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edit: maybe more variation than i thought:)
Right I'm aware of that flag but it only works with the gravity gun afaik. Without it, anything bigger than a hatbox you can't pick up, regardless of any settings i've tried, specifically the "mass" setting.
btw i found making the "MinimumLightLevel" to a high number, i get the effect i wanted similar to goldsource textlights:
btw i found making the "MinimumLightLevel" to a high number, i get the effect i wanted similar to goldsource textlights:
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Seriously tho, i've never had any problem whatsoever with AdAware and i've used it for years... You installed it from the Lavasoft site so shouldn't be any problem...
I personally stopped using it when i stopped finding infections of any sort. (I could be wrong but i think newer sps for xp and vista make AA obselete. I depend on avast antivirus and windows defender now... Plus, i just looked at the current adaware website--which now seems to support 64-bit vista--, and am i correct in seeing they are only offering limited trials now through trialpay?
Seriously tho, i've never had any problem whatsoever with AdAware and i've used it for years... You installed it from the Lavasoft site so shouldn't be any problem...
I personally stopped using it when i stopped finding infections of any sort. (I could be wrong but i think newer sps for xp and vista make AA obselete. I depend on avast antivirus and windows defender now... Plus, i just looked at the current adaware website--which now seems to support 64-bit vista--, and am i correct in seeing they are only offering limited trials now through trialpay?
More newb q's:
func_physbox:
For func_physbox does it have any bearing to how this brush-based entity reacts with the gravity gun in relation to it's origin? (i notice wherever you create or clone the item it puts the origin there and leaves it there, and if you move it later, the origin stays put?)
Also is there a way to adjust the mass of a big func_physbox to make it pickupable without the grav gun? (i've tried but not luck with this, i can push big objects but not pick them up)
I've searched around for an all-things-func_physbox tutorial, but haven't found anything too great yet, so if someone knows of a good one pleez let me no = 0
Minimum light level:
I've looked for info on this flag but haven't found anything except the standard definition at VDC. I found a promising thread on HLFallout forums that seemed to describe it in more detail, but that forum is not responding right now (is it dead?).
I try bumping up the values to brighten brushes but it doesn't seem to do anything. Am i missing a step? = (
func_physbox:
For func_physbox does it have any bearing to how this brush-based entity reacts with the gravity gun in relation to it's origin? (i notice wherever you create or clone the item it puts the origin there and leaves it there, and if you move it later, the origin stays put?)
Also is there a way to adjust the mass of a big func_physbox to make it pickupable without the grav gun? (i've tried but not luck with this, i can push big objects but not pick them up)
I've searched around for an all-things-func_physbox tutorial, but haven't found anything too great yet, so if someone knows of a good one pleez let me no = 0
Minimum light level:
I've looked for info on this flag but haven't found anything except the standard definition at VDC. I found a promising thread on HLFallout forums that seemed to describe it in more detail, but that forum is not responding right now (is it dead?).
I try bumping up the values to brighten brushes but it doesn't seem to do anything. Am i missing a step? = (
I'm workin' on mine right now, and:
Rimrook said in his journal he's doin one
Tetsu0 submitted his--the first one i think?
Striker's still workin on his (striker yes?)
Strider is still tweaking and will submit sometime this summer
IMUS said he'd do 2 rooms
doodle said he was in
SpaG and Urby said maybe
RotorSplint?
If i missed anyone i'm sorry! I know some people in the goldsource thread were talking about doing the source version too..
Rimrook said in his journal he's doin one
Tetsu0 submitted his--the first one i think?
Striker's still workin on his (striker yes?)
Strider is still tweaking and will submit sometime this summer
IMUS said he'd do 2 rooms
doodle said he was in
SpaG and Urby said maybe
RotorSplint?
If i missed anyone i'm sorry! I know some people in the goldsource thread were talking about doing the source version too..
Looks superb, even the standard textures look fine (except i hate that HL wood texture... maybe the "mahogany fifties" one or try scaling it smaller/hitting face button for the angled parts?) You might also find some decent ship textures in BG.gcf(The Battlegrounds).
Anyway again, me likey = )
Anyway again, me likey = )
just do research. it pays off.wise advice, because i never read any articles besides on this site for a while, twhl seems to lack an abundance of tutorials on many of the aspects of source mapping. (i've recently been using VDC, but i find it very general, and frankly unhelpful sometimes)
And about the sky comment, it was just that. Saying there would be "no point" to implementing sky in hammer though is just stupid... it would be really cool! (as well scrolling textures, simple water effects, etc.) Someday they will have a real-time-editor... = 0
wow that would be a neat thing if you could load sky while in the editor though... = )
More newb question:
Why are model textures and skybox textures included when you browse textures in hammer 4? can you use them for anything? afaik the skybox textures you configure the same as hammer 3.x, and i have no idea what you would do with the model textures.
I'm reading the 3d skybox tutorial now... = )
Why are model textures and skybox textures included when you browse textures in hammer 4? can you use them for anything? afaik the skybox textures you configure the same as hammer 3.x, and i have no idea what you would do with the model textures.
I'm reading the 3d skybox tutorial now... = )
And don't forget brass monkeys for your cannonballs: so they don't stick to the deck when it gets cold! = )