I'm not gonna mess up with my brightness settings for one little screenshot...
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Nope. It's black for me too. If it's black for multiple users, YOU have to scale the brightness of the screenshot up...
I'm not gonna mess up with my brightness settings for one little screenshot...
I'm not gonna mess up with my brightness settings for one little screenshot...
Making textures seamless doesn't go with just blending, or rotating, or whatever. Some will do but for the better textures you waste the whole texture. Use a program that has a tiling option (Wally), look at the seams, use offset on it and tweak those seams in other programs. It depends on the texture how you would fix those seams. Copy'n'pasting bricks if it's a brick texture can help, going over it with a smudge tool, repainting little parts, it's all up to you. After a while, you'll get some experience with it.
After all, I found texturing to be much more dependant on experience and tryal'n'error than mapping. It's no exact rules that make a texture look good. It's having a feeling for it I guess...
After all, I found texturing to be much more dependant on experience and tryal'n'error than mapping. It's no exact rules that make a texture look good. It's having a feeling for it I guess...
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I suggest you:
1. Read some books.
2. Watch some movies.
3. Take a stroll outside in the city.
4. Don't force yourself to think up an idea.
I often find inspiration coming when I least suspect it. For example, during my exam Dutch I got some nice idea's. Or while watching a movie I though up on a nice setting for a map. Often, combining these idea's greatly helps making a map unique.
Store up on idea's, make sketches so you don't loose these idea's. At this moment, I have several scenario's to try out. Too bad I can only handle one or two at a time...
1. Read some books.
2. Watch some movies.
3. Take a stroll outside in the city.
4. Don't force yourself to think up an idea.
I often find inspiration coming when I least suspect it. For example, during my exam Dutch I got some nice idea's. Or while watching a movie I though up on a nice setting for a map. Often, combining these idea's greatly helps making a map unique.
Store up on idea's, make sketches so you don't loose these idea's. At this moment, I have several scenario's to try out. Too bad I can only handle one or two at a time...
Search trough the .pak file, the sprites folder. Put your custom sprites in the sprites folder (in your mod folder of course).
You can create your own sprites with for example SpriteWizard, downloadable on the VERC:
http://collective.valve-erc.com/data/docs/1047496381-02062100/files/sprwiz.zip
You can create your own sprites with for example SpriteWizard, downloadable on the VERC:
http://collective.valve-erc.com/data/docs/1047496381-02062100/files/sprwiz.zip
Maybe because you oriented the tank wrong, so it turns untill it face the direction you face, yet you think another side is the front?
Experiment some with it, you'll find out...
Experiment some with it, you'll find out...
There are some articles on this on the VERC. Search for elevator. Nah, I just found the one you need:
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1047964377-43297800
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1047964377-43297800
I always used a master that was set to off by an env_global, and use that master for all locked doors in my level. Nice to see 'locked' as a name also works.
Texture sizes are recommended to be powers of 2. Length/width ratios can be 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, and so on, although too high ratio's can give problems with some video cards.
As for distributing the .wad file with your level, you can put the line '-wadinclude wadname' into the csg compile line.
For example, to wadinclude esmajor.wad into your map (only the used textures from that wad are put into your .bsp), modify the line:
'$path$file'
into:
'$path$file -wadinclude esmajor.wad'
As for distributing the .wad file with your level, you can put the line '-wadinclude wadname' into the csg compile line.
For example, to wadinclude esmajor.wad into your map (only the used textures from that wad are put into your .bsp), modify the line:
'$path$file'
into:
'$path$file -wadinclude esmajor.wad'
In Wally the last color is automatically made blue when you name your texture starting with that {.
It's not the color blue that makes those parts transparant. It's the index of the color. Usually, when I create a texture I paint those parts red or purple. Only in Wally I repaint it with the last color of the palette. Why not first make it blue? Well, that can be very confusing... was this part the right blue (last color) or another blue? Get it?
It's not the color blue that makes those parts transparant. It's the index of the color. Usually, when I create a texture I paint those parts red or purple. Only in Wally I repaint it with the last color of the palette. Why not first make it blue? Well, that can be very confusing... was this part the right blue (last color) or another blue? Get it?
It's all in the Hammer help-files, Creating Solids...
Toddler, do some more investigation. Even I found out how to create brushes, without any form of help from the internet. Just the helpfiles of WorldCraft at that time. You can find these basics out yourself, there's a ton of newbies tutorials at several sites.
Toddler, do some more investigation. Even I found out how to create brushes, without any form of help from the internet. Just the helpfiles of WorldCraft at that time. You can find these basics out yourself, there's a ton of newbies tutorials at several sites.
HL textures use 256 colors, e.g. 8-bits. The last color is the 256th color, number 255 since the first color is number 0.
When you paste your bitmap into a wad file using Wally, it's automatically changed to 8-bits. Wally will ask you to give it a name, and when you start the name with the '{' sign, the last color of the palette will automatically be made blue and reserved for transparant parts. If you have blue parts in your bitmap, it doesn't make them transparant since that blue is not the last color. You'll have to apply the transparancy color to those parts in Wally.
When you paste your bitmap into a wad file using Wally, it's automatically changed to 8-bits. Wally will ask you to give it a name, and when you start the name with the '{' sign, the last color of the palette will automatically be made blue and reserved for transparant parts. If you have blue parts in your bitmap, it doesn't make them transparant since that blue is not the last color. You'll have to apply the transparancy color to those parts in Wally.
Select the brush (entity) then change the entitie name. It's a scroll-down list so you can choose what other entitie you want it to be.
This can sometimes lead to 'unused keys' but as far as I know this doesn't lead to any compile or game errors. If you want to be totally sure, move it to World first and then again to Entity.
To add other brushes to an existing entity, select the entity and the brushes to add and move them to Entity, you will be asked if you want to add the selected brushes to the entity. Just say Yes.
This can sometimes lead to 'unused keys' but as far as I know this doesn't lead to any compile or game errors. If you want to be totally sure, move it to World first and then again to Entity.
To add other brushes to an existing entity, select the entity and the brushes to add and move them to Entity, you will be asked if you want to add the selected brushes to the entity. Just say Yes.
Modeling skills? Yes, it's a different skill from mapping. I suggest trying out Milkshape 3D, found here:
http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/ms3d/index.html
It's a 30 days trial, after the trial time the save option gets blocked. Costs only 25 dollar so it's affordable, I've bought it.
http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/ms3d/index.html
It's a 30 days trial, after the trial time the save option gets blocked. Costs only 25 dollar so it's affordable, I've bought it.
To change the HUD color, you'll have to code it. It's easy to change the colors, it a bit more work to make that triggerable though.
5 entries only!?!
What the...
and I thought I couldn't finish it because of my exams...
I am stunned... I had suspected more opposition (entries)...
What the...
and I thought I couldn't finish it because of my exams...
I am stunned... I had suspected more opposition (entries)...
When I was 15, I first played the game. That was about 2.5, 3 years ago. After a while I discovered the WorldCraft editor and since I've always been interested in game-design, especially 3D-design, I started and since that time I never stopped designing levels.
Scripted_sequence again. A monster with a name can be teleported at any time when a scripted_sequence that is triggered, only specify the name of that monster in the scripted_sequence and have it's movement set to 'Instantaneous'. Just experiment some with it.
@ Rileymo: While you're waiting in a cue you can do some mapping... At least that's what I often do while waiting for a download...
@ Griffin: It's right, Half-Life isn't really tweaked for this sorts of terrain... too bad...
@ Griffin: It's right, Half-Life isn't really tweaked for this sorts of terrain... too bad...
Probably not, no.
Just sick behaviour, just sick...
Just sick behaviour, just sick...
Yes, search around in the options a bit...
Tools -> Options... -> General
Tick the 'Automatically run Messenger when I log on to Windows' flag.
Tools -> Options... -> General
Tick the 'Automatically run Messenger when I log on to Windows' flag.
I'd give it a high rating too when it's getting implemented.
See, it's just a sick thing to do so. When you dislike me or my maps, just say it. Don't do something like this. I have little respect for people doing such things.
See, it's just a sick thing to do so. When you dislike me or my maps, just say it. Don't do something like this. I have little respect for people doing such things.
I just found out someone rated my map 'Detention' over a hundred times with 1 star.
First, it had been rated 8 times, 5 stars and downloaded 146 times.
Now, its rated 114 times, 1 star and downloaded... 147 times.
I'd vote for a rating system that allows only logged in users to vote, ONE rating per person. Doing silly things like this is just annoying.
First, it had been rated 8 times, 5 stars and downloaded 146 times.
Now, its rated 114 times, 1 star and downloaded... 147 times.
I'd vote for a rating system that allows only logged in users to vote, ONE rating per person. Doing silly things like this is just annoying.
It's perfectly possible to replace a player or hostage model from CS with your model. However, you'll have to give it the same animations. I'd advise to use the skeleton of a CS player model and attach your vertexes to that skeleton. The mesh can be changed without having to reanimate the model, but once the skeleton is changed, all animations have to be made again. And believe me, that's not what you want to do...
Just place your model, once it's ready for use, in the models folder and give it the same name as the model you want to replace. You may want to backup that original model, bytheway...
Just place your model, once it's ready for use, in the models folder and give it the same name as the model you want to replace. You may want to backup that original model, bytheway...
Just place an armoury_entity were you want the weapon to be, and select the type of weapon and the amount of weapons. That's all.
As for pistols, I don't know how to place these. It might well be that that requires coding.
As for pistols, I don't know how to place these. It might well be that that requires coding.
Guns on the ground? In CS or HL?
HL: weapon_... entities do the job.
CS: armoury_entity does the job here.
HL: weapon_... entities do the job.
CS: armoury_entity does the job here.
One info_player_start should work. AJ1288, have you tried creating a new map from scratch and insert the info_player_start yourself?
Otherwise, it might be handy to upload the .rmf or .map file into the Problem maps section so we can take a look at it.
Otherwise, it might be handy to upload the .rmf or .map file into the Problem maps section so we can take a look at it.
Or did you use a more complex technique? I've taken a look at that .rmf of yours and it's well, quite more complex than necessary. So I'd like to know how you solved it now...
Then how did you finally do it? By letting all the buttons target a multisource and have that multisource target the door?
That's just the intention of the mapper. Whether to create a singleplayer map or a coop map. There can be found lots of reasons to create either a single- or coopmap. None is 'better', they're just different and can be made better or worse by the mapper.
SC fgd can be used for HL but since the game dlls don't recognize the new entities it won't work. Remember, it's all about the game dlls. Fgd is just a reference to that.
SC fgd can be used for HL but since the game dlls don't recognize the new entities it won't work. Remember, it's all about the game dlls. Fgd is just a reference to that.
Or, you could just put some monsters in a box somewhere far away from the level, and have them teleport in using a trigger_sequence, with the option Move to Position set to 'Instantaneous'. In that way you can give your monsters names, set their more advanced options like what gun a grunt uses. In my opinion more handy for tweaking the specifics of a monster. In the fact of a massive alien onslaught, a monstermaker will do a better job...
Both the camera as the camera target can follow path_corners. That is, when you use a func_train as the camera target.
Nope. You'd better create several brushes and shape them accordingly.
Learn to fix leaks yourself, and even better, learn to avoid them. That's the way you get experience, just doing it...
Align the sides of the piramid normal to the axis?
Yes, the axis rotation system in HL is very simple. There seems no way around this. Unless you use models and trigger their animations but then again, it's a bit hard to do the clipping for that too...
Yes, the axis rotation system in HL is very simple. There seems no way around this. Unless you use models and trigger their animations but then again, it's a bit hard to do the clipping for that too...
Like the Cabal process article, wich I found very interesting and helpfull:
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991210/birdwell_pfv.htm
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991210/birdwell_pfv.htm
Since it's so extensively used it could better be coded in my opinion. IF you have a coder of course...
The skybox-method means one puts a large box around his level covered with the sky-texture. You'll see sky, that's not the problem. And you made it exactly fitting you say, that's not the problem too. What happens, is that a lot of space is between the outside of your map and the skybox. Space where the player never comes, what the player never sees, but what is being compiled since it's not in contact with the void. Wich results in unnecessary extra VIS and RAD work. Why compile it when it's never seen or noticed?
I've uploaded a little .rmf to show the good and the bad way to do it:
http://www.websamba.com/captainp-home/custom/skybox.zip
Compile it and see that in the area where the player starts, that the outside of the room the player is in is also compiled. Look at the second room (noclip to it) and you'll see the outside of that doesn't exist in-game. Now, modify the map so the box exactly fits the room. Then take a look from the outside and you'll see the outside of that room is still being compiled. That is because any face that touches a skybrush is being compiled, resulting in unnecessary work for RAD.
You must admit the second method is easiest and works best.
I've uploaded a little .rmf to show the good and the bad way to do it:
http://www.websamba.com/captainp-home/custom/skybox.zip
Compile it and see that in the area where the player starts, that the outside of the room the player is in is also compiled. Look at the second room (noclip to it) and you'll see the outside of that doesn't exist in-game. Now, modify the map so the box exactly fits the room. Then take a look from the outside and you'll see the outside of that room is still being compiled. That is because any face that touches a skybrush is being compiled, resulting in unnecessary work for RAD.
You must admit the second method is easiest and works best.
Just while I was browsing trough the VERC articles pages I found this particularly interesting article:
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?go=ideals
It may well mean the difference between a boring, silly level and a vivid, active environment.
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?go=ideals
It may well mean the difference between a boring, silly level and a vivid, active environment.
But you might experiment with them, it may be a nice touch for a fun map if used within it's limitations...
might...
might...
It's highly disliked as far as I know. It works pretty bad as a vehicle and isn't very often seen in a popular map. Clipping and such are quite laggy so far I've seen, vehicles driving trough each other, half trough the terrain...
So, to say that it was a very good addition to the gameplay, no. Works far too buggy to be of real interest for serious maps.
So, to say that it was a very good addition to the gameplay, no. Works far too buggy to be of real interest for serious maps.
Scientist ride an elevator? Sure, just place the scientist on the elevator floor, he will move along on the elevator just fine.
Unless he gets stuck between the elevator and something else off course... So, I don't know what you're doing but that may be a point to remind.
Unless he gets stuck between the elevator and something else off course... So, I don't know what you're doing but that may be a point to remind.
Nope. Since Milkshape works way different than Hammer, you shouldn't load map files made in Milkshape. Hammer works with brushes, Milkshape works with faces. I'll go do some testing on this but I think it's a bad idea to exchange the two.
There are some terrain generators that create terrain suited for Hammer. Use these instead. Nem's terrain generator:
http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Nemesis/index.php?c=76#p76
As Griffin says, be very cautious with open terrain as it easily leads to high poly counts and a very slow VIS process. Movement on such terrain is also a bit strange sometimes as the player seems to get obstructed by the small edges between triangles sometimes. Personally, I create terrain like this manually in Hammer. More work but IMO a better overview of what's happening.
There are some terrain generators that create terrain suited for Hammer. Use these instead. Nem's terrain generator:
http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Nemesis/index.php?c=76#p76
As Griffin says, be very cautious with open terrain as it easily leads to high poly counts and a very slow VIS process. Movement on such terrain is also a bit strange sometimes as the player seems to get obstructed by the small edges between triangles sometimes. Personally, I create terrain like this manually in Hammer. More work but IMO a better overview of what's happening.
They're actually going pretty good. 4 done, 3 to go. And I'm at 90 % of my compo entry so there's even a change of getting in...
I do THINK Half-Life 2 will be better. But, as I stated, we'll see before we can truly say so.
Just a week untill I'm done with my exams... so stay tuned!
Yes, the timing for this compo was, well, very bad...
Still, I hope to get it finished before the deadline... there's actually a change of entering the compo AND getting my diploma...
Still, I hope to get it finished before the deadline... there's actually a change of entering the compo AND getting my diploma...
Give the func_water a name and trigger it. It's movement behaves the same as a func_door.
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?ent=func_water
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?ent=func_door
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?ent=func_water
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?ent=func_door
Set the render FX to 'Solid'.
As long as the dlls the mod uses do recognize the entity name, you can use it. Whether it's in the fgd or not.
Once I coded a new weapon, called it weapon_cafar, and gave a point-based entity that name. It wasn't recognized in Hammer since I hadn't added it to the fgd yet, but it worked perfectly well in the game.
Once I coded a new weapon, called it weapon_cafar, and gave a point-based entity that name. It wasn't recognized in Hammer since I hadn't added it to the fgd yet, but it worked perfectly well in the game.