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• it's immediately giving players a 15-seconds double-damage bonus when they spawn, instead of initializing the bonus-expiry time to -1.0f.
• it's not giving a double-damage bonus when the damage-doubler item is touched, it's only checking whether the player currently has a double-damage bonus.

targetname   intromm -- the name of this multi_manager
intro        .5      -- someone at Valve forgot to remove this, because there's no entity with the name 'intro'
td1          15      -- the door to the HEV suit room
td1l         14.5    -- the light above the door to the HEV suit room
holo1light   0       -- the hologram light
sent_intro   0       -- the scripted_sentence entity for the hologram welcome speech (sentence: !HOLO_WELCOME)
sent_button  14.5    -- the scripted_sentence  for the hologram speech about buttons (sentence: !HOLO_BUTTON)
butlight     15.1    -- the light above the button in front of the hologram
butsprite    15.2    -- the twinkling sprite that shows up above the button

{
"origin" "-1328 -1484 -4"
"butsprite" "15.2"
"butlight" "15.1"
"sent_button" "14.5"
"sent_intro" "0"
"holo1light" "0"
"td1l" "14.5"
"td1" "15"
"intro" ".5"
"targetname" "intromm"
"classname" "multi_manager"
}

void BarneyFirePistol( void );

virtual void BarneyFirePistol( void );

Do both maps contain an info_landmark with exactly the same name? And does each trigger_changelevel match an open, walkable space in the other level (relative to the landmarks)?

And just in case you haven't seen this yet: Tutorial: Changing Levels.

• ...that must enable A: add a trigger_relay TR and make it toggle multisource MS, then make func_button B target trigger_relay TR. (if you let B target MS directly, you'll hit a bug where MS won't be triggered one out of every 4 button presses)
• ...that must disable A: same as above, but also add a trigger_auto that triggers trigger_relay TR as soon as the level starts. This inverts the relationship between B and MS. (give the trigger_auto a small delay, otherwise it might fire before TR has been spawned)

• ...that must enable A: the most common and easy setup: just make func_button B target multisource MS. (buttons don't trigger their target when they auto-reset, unless their target is a multisource - so this scenario was designed to be easy to do)
• ...that must disable A: add a trigger_relay TR that toggles multisource MS, and add a trigger_auto that triggers trigger_relay TR when the level starts. But instead of making func_button B target trigger_relay TR directly (which you would do if B were a toggle button), make it target a multi_manager MM. Then make multi_manager MM target trigger_relay TR twice: first with a delay of 0, then with a delay that corresponds to func_button B's auto-reset time (or slightly lower, just to be safe). (the problem here is that auto-resetting buttons do not trigger their target when the reset, so we'll have to use a multi_manager to simulate that behavior)

Cache_??? Cache memory is for objects that can be dynamically loaded and
can usefully stay persistant between levels. The size of the cache
fluctuates from level to level.

MESS 1.1 is now available!

• MESS 1.1 - The compile tool itself.
• example maps - Updated example maps. Be sure to check out the new rathunt example, and its use of the custom rh_rat and rh_message_system entities!

• Readme - An introduction to MESS, and instructions on how to get started.
• Entity guide - Like TWHL's entity guide, but for MESS' macro entities.
• Rewrite rules - For creating custom entities, and telling MESS to rewrite them to template-inserting entities.
• Scripting system - Documentation for MScript, the scripting language used by MESS. See the functions section for a list of functions, many of which are new in 1.1.

• Added a 'rewrite rule' mechanism, for creating template-based entities.
• Added support for J.A.C.K. template map files (.jmf).
• Added several string, math, trig, color, flags and directory-related MScript functions.
• Added a not operator to MScript (alternative for !).
• MScript now converts none function arguments to the default value for the parameter's type, for non-optional parameters.
• Added a 'REPL' mode, for interactive testing of MScript expressions.
• The special spawnflag<N> attributes now start at 0, not 1.
• The template_name attribute is now a target_destination, so J.A.C.K. can show links between macro entities and the templates they're using.
• Added MScript documentation.

• Fixed that .rmf files without cameras failed to open.