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yeah, I noticed

Well, Jahzel posted the link to some of those pics, take a look at them before just saying they are fake. (I particulary like the little pieces that clearly show us its an American Airlines jet, lol)

I'm not really convinced about the "world police" theory either (Jahzel, you might be exagerating a bit)

-For example: If your father did something wrong, would you protest by not accepting his Christmas presents? Countries cant stop economic relations with the U.S so easily.
-it might me true I dont do anything to stop the U.S (I think we're talking about me, not Spanish people in general because I cant decide what they do) At least I'm trying to make people question themselves if this war for freedom is really a war for freedom, since all there is deaths and deaths everyday in that country.
-I wont show you the pentagon pics, since you would obviously say they are fake, no doubt. I would like to see a pic where we see parts of a 757... but I guess I have to beleive the official story: It evaporated at 2500 ?C... but that temperature was nos sufficient to degrade de DNA structure of about 90% of the crew and passengers they identified
I guess I'll have to stop using the word "proof" since you use the ambiguity of that word as an argument...

with all the terrorism going on in Spain lately, I think you should worry about what enemies you make, instead of so arrogantly judging the US. You cowered out of your commitments because you didn't want to make the terrorists mad, and now just look at you. You cant go a week without bombs going off or some buildings getting burned down

Lately??? Enemys??? ETA's terrorism has been going on for more than 30 years, no one has attacked the Basque people, so they have no reason or motive whatsoever to kill. We're not talking about insurgents whose relatives have been killed and want to take revenge on the world and blow themselves up, it's a different terrorism.
You probably missed it, but those commitments you talk about were decided by the former government on its own, without the approval of the people. So it's actually fair that they got kicked out for doing that. It has nothing to do with being coward, pulling out of Iraq was part of the Socialist's election program way before the train bombings, sorry . And the train bombings had been planned before Spain went to Iraq, so those things dont relate... Even if they did, Al Qaeda hasnt attacked since the train bombings... or did you think these last bombings were done by Islamic terrorists???? Maybe they say so in the U.S news, so people develop more hate towards
Islamic terrorism???
About that building getting burned (I can see the smoke from my window) it was a shortcircuit in a building that was being remodeled. It wasnt a terrorist attack and there have been no victims.

t's really sad what's happening to your country.

I said something like that on september 2001...

I had that same doubt, however, I think during the game, in Dr Kleiners lab, there were multiple screens with different images
Maybe my memory is playing with me, I'll have to check it out again

I searched it the other day, but I cant find anywhere where it says that map has won... I think VALVe should have emailed the contest participants, so at least we know they got the map even if it doesnt win a prize.
It sure looks better than other maps, but it's going to lag more than dm_overwatch in my computer... I guess I'll end un playing Steamlab, even if it really turns out to be a remake of datacore... as Rabid pointed out, datacore was good. I think HLDM is great, it's graphics are just... well... Old.

Bigger textures dont mean better maps. A good HL1 map is still better than a bad HL2 map, right?
I dont think using the source engine should give extra points, it just wouldnt be fair

We dont know who got picked yet...
It could be me, I submitted my map dm_resistance

Some people in the STEAM forums have recognized it as well... I dont know why Valve would need to use parts of the layout of a map they made more than 6 years ago.
I think datacore is a cool map, but still... I hope they are concentrating their mapping imagination on their HL2 expansion :

If you've read the latest Steam news, seems valve will be releasing a new DM map. Apparently they haven't decided the winner of the HL2DM mapping contest (which makes me a bit angry)
Is it my imagination, but doesnt this map look like a remake of datacore from HLDM??? I know the textures and lighting have nothing to do, but I've recognised the layout in these screenshots. See for yourselves:

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http://www.steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/Feb11.2005/img/steamlab_1.jpg
looks like
http://www.geocities.com/jm_ameyugo/datacore2.jpg

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http://www.steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/Feb11.2005/img/steamlab_4.jpg
looks like
http://www.geocities.com/jm_ameyugo/datacore1.jpg

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make sure you made your water with the nodraw texture and a water texture at the top. Remember it has to be a brush (not func_water) and remember to have a water_lod entity in your map
I dont think running a proper VIS has anything to do with how water looks. It's mostly a problem with the water texture

I'm working on a HL2 singleplayer set of maps, screenshots links can be found in my journal I think.
I might make another HL2DM map, since I've learned a lot since I made "dm_resistance".
I guess "Guardian" will be my last HL1 map for at least a couple of months, remember to check it out

Well, I'm disputing what you have said because you're still wrong.

What about those who were most responsible? What about those who were back in Spain giving the orders?

Absolutist kings giving orders do not represent the will of the Spanish people. Those things happend long ago (your country didnt even exist) and there was no democracy. I insist, people who vote Bush are indeed a bit responsible .Not totally because ignorance and 9/11 thirst for revenge (on who?) plays a part in all of this.

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About that proof and no proof thing... you are the one who doesnt understand it. Seeing an airplane over the skys of Washington D.C (biggest source of proof there is) only prove:
1)Planes exist
2)There is at least one plane in the air over Washington DC atm
Now, seeing a 2,7 meter hole in the walls of a building and no remains whatsoever of a boeing airplane only prove:
1)A boeing 757 did not crash against the pentagon
2)The government lied about flight 77

As you see, A can be right and B can be right as well, one thing doesnt really contradict the other. Eye witnesses recognising
an American Airlines jet flying at 400 mph hour does make me very suspicious...

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why the hell would you support it? I mean, if your "friend" decided to take a shit on your bed, bang your gf, eat all your food, steal your money, and kill your neigbor, would you still support him?

That is not the case since US has not invaded their allies, just their old enemys. And you can see that the new socialist government in Spain pulled the
troops out and has much less political and diplomatic relations with the U.S. Because that's what the people democratically wanted.

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I doubt 500,000 American children would die if the rest of the world sent the US a message by restricting trade. The US can produce more food than it needs.

Yes, the U.S does, but not Iraq. It's a poor country and that's why people can die of hunger. Comparing US food situation with the Iraq situation (which I repeat
the US created) is very arrogant, insulting and sad.

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So if Hitler made great films, you would support him by buying them, but hypocriticaly complain about him too?

I would probably download his films through a p2p network

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I dont know what words I've put in your mouth. You have repeatedly said that Spaniards have their hands stained with blood and I've given
you more than enough arguments that prove you wrong.
You started this thread with a good intention, and we appreciate it, really.

-Democracy in Iraq is a good thing, specially for the US because it means one less enemy
-It means American businesses can finally use Iraqi oil fields
-Freedom in Iraq is just a side effect of a war for more military and economic power. The government and media want to put it in the spotlight
since it's about the only "good thing" that has happened because of this war.
-Spanish are cool and their hands dont have a trace of blood. Only the basque terrorist ETA group kills (I dont know why some morons in international
press organizations keep calling them separatist when they've killed 817 people)

We've discussed your lesser points, I think I missed the bigger ones? If you can, please state them in an orderly fashion as I just did

Even though it'd be nice to have another compo (one in which I could finally participate), I don't think a mapper has to be waiting for this kind of thing. While you're waiting for another challenge, you should just map, map & map on your own and forget about guidelines and deadlines. Imagination is not only about inspiration, you have to exercise it
Compos are indeed a good way to see how different people come up with different solutions to a given proposal. Same thing happens with architects and buildings.

Hablo el espa?ol, el frances, el ingles, y, pues, el rooskey

7th, If you say "hablo el espa?ol", that would be exactly like "I speak the English", so "el" is not needed.

-Hablo espa?ol porque soy de Espa?a
-I speak English because I lived in California (I learned a bit in school before going there obviously)
-Je parle fran?ais parce que j'ai habit? a Paris
-Ich spreche ein bischen Deustch

I used to speak Galician, which is a regional language in a part of Spain:
Eu pod?a falar galego pero xa non me lembro... It's similar to Portuguese

I'm getting the AI disabled comment on my custom maps after level transitions...

I'll turn 21 this August
Country: Spain

A pity you're not mapping this for Hl2

Ok, it's getting kind of old and his arguments are always the same: Spanish are murderers, there's no 9/11 proof until the White House says so, etc LOL
You know what they say, ignorance is bliss .
I bet it hurts to accept your government tricked you. Denying it is probably a defense mechanism
(by the way, it's KasPerg, Jahzel :D)

How convenient for you all to so easily be able to wash the blood of millions of innocents off your hands.

Not our hands, the hands of the people who went there, stayed there, and are the ancestors of a lot of South Americans, not ours. I hope We dont hear anything else on that subject, I have explained it enough already. If you still dont understand it, I can make a diagram or something, I hope we dont get to that...

and after you die you get reincarnated as an ant, that's why there are so many of them. I'll give you $1,000,000,000 if you can prove me wrong

I dont see how those examples relate to anything... We are not talking about comparing speculation with speculation, we are talking about some facts the government has said, which dont match up and are more than very suspcious. Nothing suggests an invissible robot from the future murdered JFK, but there's so much that proves flight 77 didnt crash against the pentagon. There's your answer to that.

I think proof is something that is 100% undisputable

The only 100% undisputable thing we know is that we all eventually die some day. So lets imagine, someone says "A" and some says "B". There are 2 things that might prove "A" is right, but there are 10 things that might prove "B" is right. I dont think that "B" would be 100% undisputable, but al least I'de be much more convinced by "B", simple logic.

If you really see that there is a problem, do something about it, quit throwing rocks at America with one hand and money with the other

We are doing what we can, but the U.N is manipulated by the U.S
America is a friend, so its really dumb to think the world would stop economic relationships with the country just because of its political decisions. The U.S did that with Iraq, resulting in an economic embargo that has caused the death of more than 500.000 Iraqi children since 1990. Those are facts. I dont really know if Saddam has hurt Iraq the most
When It comes to friends, you also feel its your resposability to tell them when they make mistakes. Like they said in that Harry Potter film it takes courage to stand up to your enemies, but it takes more courage to stand up to your friends...
I still prefer American films over Spanish films, so I dont know why I would stop giving my money to American moviemakers, it's not their fault.

...pictures of missiles hitting the pentagon, recordings of meetings of US officials planning the attacks, etc.

I those existed, rest assured that the government would have done everything they could to stop them from reaching the public, its so obvious.

dm_rebar is good, for example, but it has some very serious performance issues in lower end computers (I hope they choose a well balanced map, like... mine )

Yes, I knew it was the envballs, but today I've had the chance to actually see them working. I know, its weird. I even unistalled Steam and everything else and made a clean install in my other Hard Disk, with no change.
But my maps look so much better with cubemaps now

it would take people at least a good year before they get to grips with hl2 and produce something that may be called ?HL2 standard?

The upcoming result of VALVe's HL2DM mapping compo are probably going to prove you wrong on that, since they said they are having an enormous problem picking the winners. For Hl1 mappers, moving on to Hl2 doesnt mean learning to map from scratch, in some cases it means the ability to make a map you had always thought of, but the old engine prevented you from doing so.

I just got it working, but in order to do so, I had to create some new folders and txt files, guiding myself by the paths of the error messages

for example: hl2/materialssrc/maps/sdk_cubemaps/c128_-384_64.txt

I had a hl2/materials folder, but I had to create the hl2/materialssrc/etc
As I said, the error happened everytime, even compiling the example map, which I trust had everything setup right. Also, impulse 81 didnt work but somehow it got fixed an hour ago...

While all those folders and files I created show that STEAM has still major folder path problems, at least I got my cubemaps working...

Thanks for caring anyway. Oh, and my card is a Geforce4 Ti 4200

Ever since I compiled my first source map, I've never gotten the cubemaps to work. Using the buildcubemaps command gives me an error message and the game crashes back to windows.
I know it has nothing to do with how I set the env_cubemaps, since I cant even use them with the example cubemap SDK map they have provided.
Has anyone had this problem? I've searched the web all over again and checked the STEAM forums. I found someone had a similar problem but no one offered help...
Any ideas?

Well, I think that the source engine improves design in things like the ability to make 3D skyboxes and experimenting with physics (lots of new options with that)
But its true, if someone makes bad maps with HL1, mistakes are bound to be more obvious with with the new engine (the game sets a higher standard in level design). Only time will tell

I firmly believe that the motive for the orchistration of 9/11 was to enforce the new anti-terror laws and martial law

I partially agree with Jahzel on that, but since I dont live in the States right now, I tend to look at the more global circumstances:
The U.S. government had foreknowledge of the World Trade Center attacks and chose not to stop them because it needed to secure public approval for a war that is now in progress.
It was designed to create a groundswell of public emotion so that the Wars of Crude Oil Acquisition that were already being planned could commence.

sorry, its 1898

Unknow Genious is implying that there were no Indians in the territory that is now the U.S, so since there were so very few, they were put in reserves, hehe nice try. Spain only came as far up as Mexico and some of the most southern states. Mmm, they probably used nukes to kill all the indians from New York to Utah, since they were never there.
It seems you really cant get it in your head that people in Spain dont feel related to those conquerors from 500 years ago. In a country with such a long history compared to others, it is very unlikely for anyone to be or feel guilty about things that some of its people did when they left Europe to satisfy their dreams, greed etc. Spain wasnt even a Democracy back then, so its really dumb to blame people for the decisions of medieval kings, but of course, you wouldnt have thought of that. Right now we are talking about free people in the US who vote they want their country to go to war, which has nothing to do with bloodshed, conquerings, adventure and greed in the 16th century. In a certain way, the part about greed is the same thing, but this time it's about black gold.
About the value of those meetings etc that are reported in web pages, I've said before that they offer thousands of dollars if you can prove them wrong (they have a lot of different sources from newsgroups all over the world). Of course, I think It's only happened once so far, and FTW Publications actually gave out the money they promised. But the rest are just facts.
And, Jazhel, I've been checking all the pentagon information. A flying craft did crash against the building, people did see an American Airlines jet flying in the are, but no witnesses actually saw that plane crashing. The size of the hole(s), the almost total lack of plane debris and many other things just prove that flight 77 didnt crash against the pentagon.
These things are not very surprising, if we remember that the US blew up their own battleship The Maine, so they could start a war with Spain around 1998. The explosion was done from the inside and Spain didnt and doesnt have suicide soldiers

I dont know if it's possible with the HL1 engine, but you could make floors be illusionary, while having the rest of the NPCs walking at a higher level in a fake floor. That would give you the POV of a shorter person while mantaining the right scales with the rest of the map

Actually I've heard of another hypothesis, the world in the future will be ruled by damn dirty apes!

Hrny Goat, check out a comment made about a book published in 1997

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html

What the author says, is that the US doesnt plan to be the only world power, it wants to be the last which is a very disturbing idea. Countries would eventually disappear, and the world would be ruled by big corporations and company's (hopefully not mcdonalds )
If you actually read this article you will find that he's not just making things up

MoP, If we say that without giving out reasons, our statements would be as consistent as Bush's...
There are weapons of mass destruction in the US, should the rest of the world invade them?

http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.html

As in many web pages, you can read about the sabotage of routine protective systems that happened on 9/11. These are facts. It only takes minutes to get the jet fighters in the air to escort hijacked planes. The amount of time since they knew about the detour until the planes hit the buildings was more than enough to get the jets on the air, like the emergency procedure dictates. But of course, the plan was to let them crash, so the already planned Afghanistan war could go on and no one would oppose to it.
There are so many undisputable facts other than these. Top CIA official meeting with his Pakistani equivalent, soon afterwards this Pakistani intelligence official puts 100.000 dolars into Atta's bank account (one of the hijackers)
Another CIA member meeting with Ben Laden in a Beirut hotel in the summer of 2001, when he was already responsible for the 1998 embassy attacks in African countries...

do we really need to go on, or can you just accept the fact that it was a setup? geez, I didnt know that the day it happened, but now I have no doubts.

3 - check the WAD tutorial by Atom, it's all there http://twhl.co.za/tutorial.php?id=29

There's a cheap way to get it working right, I just tried it.
You need:
-Your door, with the name 'door' for example, value of -1 so it stays closed.
-another door, with the same name 'door', and with the same size and texturing of what you want your button to look like. Also set to -1, and give it a speed of 5 in the direction that that button would move
-Your func_button, made with the {invisible texture, rendermode solid etc and placed over your fake button. This button needs a name, like 'button'.
Now, in the properties of the big and real door, set the killtarget to 'button'.

You press the invisible button, whic makes the door open and the small door move just like the button would. The big door kills the invisible button so It cant be pressed again and doesnt give any more trigger orders to the door

recheck the names and targets
before you pick a team, the game cycles through the cameras available in the map. Happens with all of them, its a CS thing dont worry

I havent gotten around to c++... I made some short games with Visual Basic where the backgrounds were scanned drawings, it was nice.
Then I learned how to render cool stuff in Bryce, and quit Visual Basic
Then I learned how to compile HL maps, and quit Bryce
Then I realized it was time to sleep, and I went to bed... zzzz

If timeofday>2:AM Then

kasperg.sleep=true

Else

kasperg.sleep=false
Kasperg.mapping=true

End if

Cubemaps dont affect shadows... they are cubic images used in reflections, depending on the type of shader the texture has. Shadows are done by RAD when compiling, while cubemaps are made once you are playing your map (although for some reason they dont work for all of us)

Maybe they thought that with Id's Doom III in the works and eventually on sale, there was no need to make the game so gory. Physics gameplay is one of the many things that make HL2 special

No one in my country claimed responsability for the train bombings. It was made by terrorist groups from Morocco, you're a bit misinformed.

There are countries that would take much less resources to free than Iraq or Afghanistan. You just proved me right by saying the US choses the targets that will give them advantage, which was my point, thanks

By the way, I dont think you understood what I said before.

Yes, you Spanish did

Those are not my ancestors, they are the ancestors of millions of South American citizens. Every European country that had the power to do so, went to America to conquer. Not just Spain. Spain was the first since it had the best navy when it all began. It was how things worked at that time. I've never said I agree with that. It's history.
As I've already said, some mixed with the population and others just exterminated them (you havent made a comment about the Indian situation in North America so I understand you accept the facts) If Spain hadnt been in Mexico, today it would probably be just another part of the US where indians would have been again exterminated and the rest put in reserves.

I personally do not believe anything until I've seen indesputable proof concerning it, not just speculation

Yes... like all those numbers of dead indians 5 century's ago... it's probably indisputable proof, TV stations probably were keeping record of deaths and stuff Stop contradicting yourself.

And I'm going to make my position clear.
I love the US as a place to live. I lived in California for 2 years and it was great. People are nice, people take their jobs seriously and all seems to work just fine. (Monterey rocks!!)
But the foreign policy of the US is one of the worst things that has happened in the last portion of the XXth century and the beggining of this new one. There's a difference between fighting hitler when he moves into Poland, than fighting Saddam who is in Iraq, it is an internal problem, and like it happened in Spain, it's up to the people to overthrow him. No one asked for a "freedom force", the U.N was against this war... the Bush administration has also fed the fire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict these last two years (we can talk about that too)
and a big big ETC...
Even though I dont support the current Spanish President, I'm glad he pulled the troops out. More than 90% of the population here was against the war. The former government actually participated because it signed gas and oil contracts... Maybe they hide these type of FACTS in your news, and just talk about how happy iraquis are to have daily terrorist bombings :/

Now I want to hear your oppinion, U. Genius. I'm actually learning some facts I didnt know

wouldnt that be a trigger_hurt with a very high value? It's possible

I used to like ol'fashion HL1 Classicness, but the amount of things I can do with source is overwhelming

Didnt Rimrook just post a similar story before you did????
this is weird... Maybe you two should talk about it and make a proyect together,
http://twhl.co.za/forums.php?pgt=1&action=viewthread&id=6650&pg=1

I dont even get that message, there's an error message of a missing txt file or something, then the game crashes. No cubemaps for me I guess...
The pathetic Steam file is probably responsible for my error, I dont really know what those messages you get mean

Making a mod work is easy, it's all about that file named liblist.gam. At least I got my mod to work perfectly. I didn't modify dlls or coded anything

I dont know about the trigger stuff, I guess using the source engine could give you much more control over physics and triggers

By the way, there are lots of countries still under dictatorships today. The problem is that some of those countries are very poor, they dont have oil or strategic value, so the US probably thinks their freedom isnt worth it. There are also dictators that get along well with the US, so there's no point in getting democracy there...
I know what I'm talking about since Spain was in that kind of situation for 40 years of the 20th century
No freedom force appeared to remove Franco from power. They even agreed with him to create de US base in Rota, because the US needed to be present at that strategic place (cold war reasons)
It's not about freedom or good intentions, it's about money and military presence.
Spain had a big terrorist attack last year (I was in Madrid that day) and no one said: "Lets go to war with Marocco!!, they are housing terrorists!!" (9/11 was an excuse for the already planned Afghanistan war, but it's not surprising since 9/11 was also planned, I no longer have any doubts)
You can't get rid of bees just by shaking their hive, its ridiculous

If the button stayed pressed it might have caused the looping trigger

I agree

For example, make a multimanager named "multimanager", name your light "light" and your panes "panes".
Make your func_button target "multimanager" and make the multimanager target both "light" and "panes", with the delay you feel necessary. The purpose of naming the panes and the light differently, even though the will activate at the same time is that doing so you can have a switch that turns off the light without activating the panes.
I dont know if you're looking for this type of answer...

Who cares about the moon landing? Wheter fake or real (i'm with the second) it proved that the moon was just what we thought it was. A big chunk of rock that creates the sea tides and looks good on a clear night sky... So much money wasted in space programs that wont get us anywhere, and at the same time so much poverty and injustice :
I admit its pretty to see what Titan and Mars look like, but there is also interesting stuff here on Earth.