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Oooo, post an example map.
Ok ok, stop. if you want to talk about Counert Strike make a sepearte thread PLEASE.
Seconded.
Download a batch compile, preferably Nemesis's compiler. With that its really easy toinclude wads in the map, observe:
Batch compilers are also much faster.
Here is Nemesis's compiler: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=3
Use thumbnails! - Seventh
Here is Nemesis's compiler: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=3
Use thumbnails! - Seventh
The only thing missing is the different player models, which they're finally sorting outExcept they are doing to best terrorist skin last!
Now stop talking about CS and why you hate it or why you hate valve or why you hate Steam or why you hate Source or why you hate gay or why you hate maggots blah blah blah, this isn't a CS thread. Its a recognition.
By the way, I call the drumstick in that plate of chicken.
This is weid. try installing an older version and see if it still happens. if not, you might be stuck with 3.3.
Uh huh.....
I think the best thread ever was the original "cool avatars" thread.
The love is hidden within the geezer users like me and Zombie, who have no grown old and grumpy and we just want to shoot people with our boomstick whenever they step onto our property.
The love is hidden within the geezer users like me and Zombie, who have no grown old and grumpy and we just want to shoot people with our boomstick whenever they step onto our property.
2006 will never be considered the golden era for TWHL simply because it was the year after Jimmi's Reign of Terror. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN
Steinin, I believe, is who G_kid was talking about.
Tlax is here a lot, he's just not very active.
It still sucks that most of the users fro the "golden age" aren't here anymore, now all we have are stories that we can tell to our grandchildren
Anyway dwelling upon this clash between old TWHL and the current one I have decided to try to go back to my origins for a while and make a map purely for fun and see what happens.
Steinin, I believe, is who G_kid was talking about.
Tlax is here a lot, he's just not very active.
It still sucks that most of the users fro the "golden age" aren't here anymore, now all we have are stories that we can tell to our grandchildren
TWHL doesn't feel different except that I joined when there were only 250 maps in the completed vault.When I submitted my first map there were 4 pages of maps
Anyway dwelling upon this clash between old TWHL and the current one I have decided to try to go back to my origins for a while and make a map purely for fun and see what happens.
Uhhh whats going on here? You guys scare me, Id rather go with a nice bunny gerbil hamster bear.
Remember this topic?
http://twhl.co.za/forums.php?action=viewthread&str=Nihilanth&type=1&pg=3&id=2745
Quite a popular discussion back in the day, even if it wasn't really on topic. Other than the fact that it was bumped and later closed, what would most of you consider a topic like this as today? I bet I know some of your answers COUGH*MOP*COUGH, phew. Sorry, had to clear my throat
I cant safely say that back during "old TWHL" I spent the majority of my forum browsing time in the help section either asking a question of answering one. Now I hardly ever go there.
PS: Crystalman, old TWHL ended long before you joined.
http://twhl.co.za/forums.php?action=viewthread&str=Nihilanth&type=1&pg=3&id=2745
Quite a popular discussion back in the day, even if it wasn't really on topic. Other than the fact that it was bumped and later closed, what would most of you consider a topic like this as today? I bet I know some of your answers COUGH*MOP*COUGH, phew. Sorry, had to clear my throat
I cant safely say that back during "old TWHL" I spent the majority of my forum browsing time in the help section either asking a question of answering one. Now I hardly ever go there.
PS: Crystalman, old TWHL ended long before you joined.
No they won't stay as noobs, they will turn into people who just question everything and call spam on everything, it will cripple the whole community.
To recognize our growing amount of flaws I have decided to hold a grudge match.
Old TWHL:
-Mappers mapped for fun
-Mappers were more than willing to help someone
-Anonymous posting
-"Spam thread" was not something loked down upon
-The phrease "good times" comes to mind
-Fellow mappers gave constructive critisism on other maps
New TWHL:
-Mappers only care about a good looking map
-Experienced mappers either ignore posts by those who need help or give them a link to google
-Lack of anonymous posting has overrun the website with incoherent noobs
-Anything attempt at making a fun thread is deemed a "spam thread" and is either ignored or closed
-The phrase "roughin' it" comes to mind
-Fellows mappers say other maps suck
The winner! Old TWHL! Screw all you jerks who used to make TWHL fun! now you just talk crap and get angry with people, celebrate!
One of Andy's journal entries:
Old TWHL:
-Mappers mapped for fun
-Mappers were more than willing to help someone
-Anonymous posting
-"Spam thread" was not something loked down upon
-The phrease "good times" comes to mind
-Fellow mappers gave constructive critisism on other maps
New TWHL:
-Mappers only care about a good looking map
-Experienced mappers either ignore posts by those who need help or give them a link to google
-Lack of anonymous posting has overrun the website with incoherent noobs
-Anything attempt at making a fun thread is deemed a "spam thread" and is either ignored or closed
-The phrase "roughin' it" comes to mind
-Fellows mappers say other maps suck
The winner! Old TWHL! Screw all you jerks who used to make TWHL fun! now you just talk crap and get angry with people, celebrate!
One of Andy's journal entries:
Having cleaned out my Journal I figured I should put something in it.
Recent discussions around the community involve "Mod teams going Pro".
Good or Bad?
Bad as far as I am concerned.
Ages ago someone said that with the source engine we would be able to produce brilliant maps without much skill.
That is almost right, sure the eye candy is there, but a map needs to be playable and fun to be considered successful.
So I have to ask myself where all these brilliant maps are? And where are all the brilliant mods?
When I first found TWHL, I mapped for fun... I made rooms that had a metal shelf so I could bang my crowbar on it.. That was the joy of mapping.
Somewhere along the line I got far too involved in design and forgot about fun, I chased the 'look' rather than the play.
I have critisied peoples maps, and now am embarrased by my judgement, after all.. Who am I to judge?
I have written tutorials and articles, not just here at TWHL but in the wider community and none of them mention the most important aspect of Design...
Regardless of what it looks like, if the person playing it is having fun then you have created a great map.
Time to tell the Purists to FarrrkOfff. That includes me
So what has that got to do with the percieved professionalism of Mod teams?
If you have to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement before they let you in, then they are obvioulsy missing the point.
ALL the Non Valve mod's that have been successful were started by a bunch of guy's having fun. They built levels and got them out there to test them with the people that really mattered.. the players.
Your peers may judge your design work and call it crap, but if the punters are playing it and having fun, who gives a toss?
After scrapping GTLS, I decided to map for fun. I created a small DoD War map and got it on a server. Two weeks later I released the second version...that ironed out the really bad bugs that the players pointed out.
That map remained on the No 1 rated server in Australia for two months, was a permanent fixture in the rotation and proved a clan war favorite.
Why didn't I post it here?
It was crap poorly designed and lackluster...
So next time someone tells you your textures are badly aligned... ignore them, and let the players not the mappers, judge your work.
J.C. that list of posts made baby Jesus cry.
WTF NOOBS AIM MAPS ARE FTW! LEIK TOTALLY
If someone was about to kill you and you had a gun, what would you do? Sad story indeed but what was done had to be done.
Visuals aren't everything. Although they help a lot the real reason people like maps like that is because of gameplay.
Delete it and make a whole new scientist in its place and see if that works. I know it seems stupid but its worked for me a considerable amount of times.
Those are some pretty sad statistics, nothing much to say though.
Is it even possible to be all of those at once?
Here's the list of forums I browse and how they rank in hospitality:
-Bagelwood (forum run by a bunch of my friends)
-TWHL
-AMX Mod
-Clan IV. (Clan run by some pretty cool people I know)
-Sven Coop
-CDG (Clan of the Dead Goat)
-And of course in dead last is HIT
-Bagelwood (forum run by a bunch of my friends)
-TWHL
-AMX Mod
-Clan IV. (Clan run by some pretty cool people I know)
-Sven Coop
-CDG (Clan of the Dead Goat)
-And of course in dead last is HIT
Agurably one of the most uniquie musicians around is Mmodule. Mmodule is my favorite techno artist along with several other 409 members. Why do I like them? They just sound great, nothing more to say.
If you want to talk bands, though, I really like Dream Theatre. I can thank my brother for telling me about them in the first place, they are an amazing band.
If you want to talk bands, though, I really like Dream Theatre. I can thank my brother for telling me about them in the first place, they are an amazing band.
Hey Saribous, did you hear something?
not in the good ol' USA!
Hello, welcome to TWHL.
Beautiful new screenshots!
If you could, please put an info_player_start with every info_player_deathmatch so I can run it in my cs server with cs deathmatch. There is no ripping, decompiling, or manipulation of the map required.
If you could, please put an info_player_start with every info_player_deathmatch so I can run it in my cs server with cs deathmatch. There is no ripping, decompiling, or manipulation of the map required.
Looks like your MOM got pwned by a beverage!
Look at my profile for 2 seconds, man.
No, not OMFG. OMFjollyG, old chap! Don't you know how to be civilizied? pffff noob.
When you "use" him make it trigger a multimanager that first covers him in sprites, then deletes/moves him, then creates/teleports something else in his place.
Magic sticks for the win, pull a bunny out of your hat!
Magic sticks for the win, pull a bunny out of your hat!
You can thank me for that.
Are you saying you want something that spins on its own axis while also spinning on a central axis like the Earth around the sun?
Don't think its possible.
You could probably fake it with a well designed train that is set to follow a circular path of entities where each path point turns the train a certain number of degrees.
Don't think its possible.
You could probably fake it with a well designed train that is set to follow a circular path of entities where each path point turns the train a certain number of degrees.
Righto, old bean. Would you care for a spot of tea and crumpets?
Now onto business. 7th, start making song parodies and market them.
Now onto business. 7th, start making song parodies and market them.
WOAH! I just realized that Tycell WAS a moderator on HIT, I never made the connection.
Yeah, Wolf-kain is an ass. Probably the worst choice for a moderator I've ever seen.
CDG is pretty bad too but thats just out of strictness, people aren't mean they just run a tight shift.
TWHL really is probably the best online community I've ever been to, but then again I haven't really been anywhere else but Half Life related forums.
Yeah, Wolf-kain is an ass. Probably the worst choice for a moderator I've ever seen.
CDG is pretty bad too but thats just out of strictness, people aren't mean they just run a tight shift.
TWHL really is probably the best online community I've ever been to, but then again I haven't really been anywhere else but Half Life related forums.
Think about a place that you think looks cool or check the spell checker for inspiration.
Water-Pheonix's reskins of Ambient.Impact and Romka's models.... ohhhh they are amazing. Him and h4wk.
[I haven't really seen any good HL1 G-men, but that Barney-ish fella looks excellent.]
Do a search on their forums for gman, you're bound to find something you like. Just don't post in someone else's thread they will be like "OMFG BUMP! WTF NOOB MUTED!!!!!!!"
[I haven't really seen any good HL1 G-men, but that Barney-ish fella looks excellent.]
Do a search on their forums for gman, you're bound to find something you like. Just don't post in someone else's thread they will be like "OMFG BUMP! WTF NOOB MUTED!!!!!!!"
You might want to fix that direct light error. Sounds like you have a bunch of lights packed into a little area. Take out some of those lights.
Bye and in case I don't see you for your coming-back cremony, welcome back.
You mean you wouldn't want to play with this?
Yeah, the moderators on HIT are horrible. Mainly Wolf-Kain.
No, I'm with J.C.: make a proper serious map instead.Mapping isn't all about making a good looking "proper" map.
Read Andy's journal entry on this if you haven't already
http://twhl.co.za/userprofile.php?user=Andy
5th November, 2005.
Looks good Rimrook. I look forward to its release.
Maybe at this point I should state that discontinuing a map isn't a sin.
Finally, some new screenshots. Still looking forward to this mod, I anticipate its release with great..... anticipation.
Usually its easier to come back to a map after you put it aside to start on a small side project. Or just leave it alone period like I said before .
Well then why are you still here?! WTF NOOB!
Man i hate that word "bump". Such horrible communities use that its made it such a bad word. Just say don't post in such an old topic. But yeah it would have been eisier to start a new one.
Thats certinaly an orignal proverb to say the least.
When you get bored with a map leave it alone for a while and force yourself back to it later. You'll make some progress on it, usually just enough to wrap it up.
I never give up on a map unless I run out of ideas.
I never give up on a map unless I run out of ideas.
I trash maps all the time. usually I have this great idea for a part of the map but can't think of anything else for it so it ends up being one or 2 rooms before i just delete it.
Its not frowned upon unless you make a big hype over it.
Its not frowned upon unless you make a big hype over it.