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Those are good gimmicks for the actual 'jump' but the build up is as important. Hell YES half life can terrify you (playing WITHOUT cheats). First person is VERY scary given the correct situation
Nihilanth isnt atmosphreric, but his sounds ARE bloody horrific. It wont fit in where your looking but I find them VERY disturbing if you loop em in a map!
Quiet noises are scariest in the dark anyways.
oh....that was for the last post on page 1.....didnt see the [2]. but I'm glad it works well for your post too jazhel!
So?
uhhh.....beamer....ive NEVER seen a room at has ONE light encompass an entire classroom. texture lights are the absolute best unless you want them to switch on and off. (env_render wouldnt work with a big room im guessing)
Isn't it great when people come on to someones website, suggest the major things wrong with it, vvlunteer themselves as a mod, then ask where the hell atom is????
Nah, I guess the community moves in the shape of the box its put in, and a hl2 shaped box willl be noob central, regardless of the hl1 presige ppl think they hold
And yes Atom.....I AM available for weddiings, bar mitzvas, forum/channel moderation
..... jk
Nah, I guess the community moves in the shape of the box its put in, and a hl2 shaped box willl be noob central, regardless of the hl1 presige ppl think they hold
And yes Atom.....I AM available for weddiings, bar mitzvas, forum/channel moderation
..... jk
Theoritically custom sprites could be very good for horror. I've never tried it but I was thinking about the film the Exorcist, where if you look carefully, when the mother is walking through the house in darkness, you see faces and eyes appear for a few seconds in the black. With sprites in a game you could do this and make it most terrifying.
Isn't 'trendy' what grandparents say you look like when you are forced to wear some knitted crap they got you for christmas?
Haha! rabboi, im not a forum moderator, you dont HAVE to do anything i say, but its good you moved it.
Personally I like the idea of one main monster that kills lots of people but you never really SEE it. As in, you see grunts fly past you etc as if the monster did it, but you dont see the monster itself untill the end. (think of the first Alien movie. How many times did you actually SEE the alien in full view? and THAT was the scariest one!)
Not having a lot of ammo also adds to horror (a trick brilliantly used in the resi evil games).
Darkness is used an awful lot in horror, but you can make things just as (if not MORE) terrifying in good lighting, because you dont expect them! Good sound effects in the background and constantly keeping thev player thinking that there is something around the next corner (with trails of blood, scratches etc) are other brilliant ways.
Its probably MORE difficult to make a 3d game scary, since you cant push the plot along in the same way a film does, but horror in games is FAR worse!
Personally I like the idea of one main monster that kills lots of people but you never really SEE it. As in, you see grunts fly past you etc as if the monster did it, but you dont see the monster itself untill the end. (think of the first Alien movie. How many times did you actually SEE the alien in full view? and THAT was the scariest one!)
Not having a lot of ammo also adds to horror (a trick brilliantly used in the resi evil games).
Darkness is used an awful lot in horror, but you can make things just as (if not MORE) terrifying in good lighting, because you dont expect them! Good sound effects in the background and constantly keeping thev player thinking that there is something around the next corner (with trails of blood, scratches etc) are other brilliant ways.
Its probably MORE difficult to make a 3d game scary, since you cant push the plot along in the same way a film does, but horror in games is FAR worse!
If it wasnt so philosophical that'd be a good tut. Is that your mappers manifesto then kol? 
We're 'adequate'?
sniff Thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me before!
sniff Thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me before!
Frickin' Steam....frickin' shabby old computer....frickin' dial-up....I think I'll have to wait a while before I get Half-Life 2. Curses!
The way you type is like body language for computers. And I just happen to be of the opinion that the "w00t"-ing conjures the image of a scruffy preteen and lacking any professionalism. That isn't a snipe at anyone in particular or their maps, its a general statement that applies to all instances where crappy grammar is used, even in IRC.
Grammar critisism seems to be 'in' this season. But hey! Did it ever go OUT of fashion?
But I agree with kol. Imagine if all the documentation and in-game text was put together like this: "weelcome 2 blak mesa w00t!!1!" and so forth... I would have burned my CD and salted the earth thereafter, brilliant game or no.
But I agree with kol. Imagine if all the documentation and in-game text was put together like this: "weelcome 2 blak mesa w00t!!1!" and so forth... I would have burned my CD and salted the earth thereafter, brilliant game or no.
surrealism is a joke now. All you have to do is put something where something else should be. Thats why surrealism as an artform died, it was too easy. But Twin Peaks was good!
Dred.....SURREALISM not REALITY
Dred.....SURREALISM not REALITY
have a no gib invisible func_breakable wrapped round the pipe area you are supposed to shoot then. It wont be noticed at all if you put it close enough to it.
Will the player be able to open the door any other way swiv?
I was drunk last night...i dont want to be a part of it (sorry).
Actually........the story needs a MASSIVE ammount of tweaking. Fix that and ill join (lol.....as if im THAT bloody indespensible!)
Alright....go on, I'll join in too, floater!
And furthermore http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/comment/story/0,6903,940125,00.html you'll note that why "ever elusive" is hyphenated by some people, The Guardian does not, so I have them at least to back me up. You tit. 
(I can't beleive I looked that up!)
(I can't beleive I looked that up!)
Yeah...but i chose to ignore that, in favor of SlayerAs post. ("Seventh-Monkey" why the hell is THAT hyphenated?)
Well....func_breakable has "target on break"...other than that i dunno.
Still, community activities and all that! Sounds fun. Dunno if I could be bothered personally, mind
hrm....what happens if they are noclipped at a distance though? I take it they'd just run about wouldnt they?
unc_rot_button can be set as NOT SOLID....so use it. I had to look that one up actually!
oh, and give the button 1 health
oh, and give the button 1 health
I think thats a wally question (which could be answered in help files etc). Just DONT COMBINE ANY WADS from the existing half life installation. HalfLife wont like it, no siree!
*sets monster_kols gag flag on....then sets his face as func_breakable :D(
The scripted sequence tutorials are infallible, seriously read through each step and check your map that you have done EXACTLY that. There's no better way to help you than to get you to run a checklist.
BTW the
isn't scaring anyone
BTW the
isn't scaring anyone Will that not cause the screwed up account/cd-key effect we all know and love?
looks round to thank SlayerA but he's dissapeared into the shadows again
I'm gonna make a SlayerA signal and stick it on my roof in case Gothem city needs him once more.
I'm gonna make a SlayerA signal and stick it on my roof in case Gothem city needs him once more.
Which is a subsiduary of The Confederacy of Ruined Half-Lives.
Who are you? and what have you done with the REAL m0p?? jk
Then you dont know how to set up a script. Read about it in the tutorials
I didnt see the point of typing hahaha. And "what jahzel laughed" doesnt sound right. I also dont see the point in posting this. oh well.
A truck/train full of ammo and weapons with a noclip at the back sounds like the best bet for a minimod/map/map-pack as opposed to a mod proper. Its just as plausable to have a truck full of ammo and weapons as it is to have a big ass gun, so its the cheaper alternative.
you dont need to worry about crediting me for helping you. Thats the way the forums work...any info I get about mapping is from this site anyways. Hooray for TWHL! Thanks though Or....make a glass entry involving an osprey/train.
Thank me by checking through entity guides and tutorials before asking stuff! Saves typing whats already there, in more intelligible language
What Jazhel said. People will tell you that your time in school is the happiest time of your life. It isnt. Being on the dole is. I miss those dole days so much 
It works! hurrah! I have to say i've never bothered with env_beams before, but I dont really see the point of hammer/hl having func_lasers now!
use the light entity and give it a name (triggering it will make it go on/off) (look it up)
Use a monstermaker for the zombie behind you. (look it up also)
change_audio_cd (or whatever its called) (look it up)
Stick them all together with a multimanager viola.
I checked and ALL these things are explained in the HL entity guide/tutorials.
Use a monstermaker for the zombie behind you. (look it up also)
change_audio_cd (or whatever its called) (look it up)
Stick them all together with a multimanager viola.
I checked and ALL these things are explained in the HL entity guide/tutorials.
a yes...render amount 255....and render mode = solid. That should make the blue transparent
Funnily, I had problems with blender3d and truespace not rendering in 3d UNTILL I intstalled my half life onto this puter. Wierd, no?
Yeah....steam made them strip and make wierd human pyrimads whilst it took pictures.
So, to recap habboi, if you want to make an invisible brush you simply browse for the "clip" texture (looks like a guys face in hammer) and when it is run in half life it is physically there but you cant see it.
Confederacy of Ruined Half Lifes
(I think that was an eyehategod album title (-half of course)
(I think that was an eyehategod album title (-half of course)
Its never a good idea to think about making a mod untill you can do just about anything possible in mapping.
Start off small. Learn to walk before you can run...a bird in the hand...and so forth.
Though vehicles are always nice.
Start off small. Learn to walk before you can run...a bird in the hand...and so forth.
Though vehicles are always nice.
clip texture.