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You need run game once before making mod/map for it. So, run HL2/CSS/etc - cache will be decrypted and mod will run fine.
Yep, BSP was good for 199x levels design (square blocks) but for now its kills process of creating detailed and complex geometry.
I send a letter, hope they answer 
Looks like its time to wrile a letter to Valve 
And this feature means more, than just fast VRAD - it means that brushes can loose (finnaly!) some of shape limitations.
And this feature means more, than just fast VRAD - it means that brushes can loose (finnaly!) some of shape limitations.
So, you can see this demo in action at http://www.geomerics.com/enlighten-media-develop06.htm - some videos.
http://www.geomerics.com/enlighten-sdk.htm - base description.
Epic games is a partner ("Enlighten will also be available for licensing for use in Unreal Engine 3") - so, maybe Source will fall after that :D. Maybe yhis technology will be used in source - anyway, looks perspective
http://www.geomerics.com/enlighten-sdk.htm - base description.
Epic games is a partner ("Enlighten will also be available for licensing for use in Unreal Engine 3") - so, maybe Source will fall after that :D. Maybe yhis technology will be used in source - anyway, looks perspective
^__^
Btw, in the galley most rulez Ghost Freemans's screenshots - http://projectd2.com/hl2screens/thumbnails.php?album=lastupby&uid=8 - unfortunatly he dont release his project, but hope someday he made it...
Btw, in the galley most rulez Ghost Freemans's screenshots - http://projectd2.com/hl2screens/thumbnails.php?album=lastupby&uid=8 - unfortunatly he dont release his project, but hope someday he made it...
WoW! Looks realy cool! 
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After summer depression i start moving brushes 
About sprites - may be env_lightglow better for this (imho sprites must die). Anyway - sprite entity have params, that define then sprite will be hidden by geometry.
About glass and opacity bugs - use "$alphatest" "1" parameter on metal celling vmt; "$translucent" "1" - it works with bugs, then one translucent material seen thry anower translucent material. Also you can use "$alpha" "70" parameter for glass - it dont uses alphachannels, just make texture opacity on 70% - may be it will work fine.
About glass and opacity bugs - use "$alphatest" "1" parameter on metal celling vmt; "$translucent" "1" - it works with bugs, then one translucent material seen thry anower translucent material. Also you can use "$alpha" "70" parameter for glass - it dont uses alphachannels, just make texture opacity on 70% - may be it will work fine.
And this compiling 2 hours oO? Something wrong here :D. On my old PC (AMD barton +3200 and 2gb ram) room like this take 10 min max :D, if lightmap scale not 1 or somethin.
Looks like Ehernal silense map
Looks like Ehernal silense map
Use external map compile tools and run VVIS,VRAD,VBSP with -low parameter - then you can work with hammer parallel to compile process
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/TCG_-_Batch_Compile_GUI - for sample.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/TCG_-_Batch_Compile_GUI - for sample.
Nodraw-texture ignored by vrad, as a texures with unlitgeneric shaer in vmt - so it improve compile speed a bit.
Btw - make lightmaps value big, as Kasperg says. 2 hours for small map too many oO
Btw - make lightmaps value big, as Kasperg says. 2 hours for small map too many oO
Some additional info:
1)Buy 4-core procesor (Core Quad 2.4 ghz- 400$). VVIS/VRAD effective use multicore systems as i know.
2)Overclock 4 core processor to 3-3,2 ghz
3)VRAD can be run with additional params:
-fast - realy fast VRAD, but lighning realy blocky and crap. Good for dev-mode.
-final - realy slow final light rendering for release. Maximum VRAD quality
, but hours and hours for compile.
-noextra - makes lighning bit poor, but speeds up VRAD. dev-mode.
4)Use VisGroups in hammer. You can group all what you need (if it non cause LEAK of course) and hide/unhide with one click. Objects, that hidden - dont render by VRAD and dont appers in game, it realy improve perfomance for VVIS/VRAD.
5)Of course dont compile with HDR - its makes 2x longer VRAD calculations.
6)Make good VVIS optimisation (by Hint-brushes) - its also speed up VRAD ambient lightning.
7)You can use cordon tool to cut little part of map and render it.
1)Buy 4-core procesor (Core Quad 2.4 ghz- 400$). VVIS/VRAD effective use multicore systems as i know.
2)Overclock 4 core processor to 3-3,2 ghz
3)VRAD can be run with additional params:
-fast - realy fast VRAD, but lighning realy blocky and crap. Good for dev-mode.
-final - realy slow final light rendering for release. Maximum VRAD quality
, but hours and hours for compile.
-noextra - makes lighning bit poor, but speeds up VRAD. dev-mode.
4)Use VisGroups in hammer. You can group all what you need (if it non cause LEAK of course) and hide/unhide with one click. Objects, that hidden - dont render by VRAD and dont appers in game, it realy improve perfomance for VVIS/VRAD.
5)Of course dont compile with HDR - its makes 2x longer VRAD calculations.
6)Make good VVIS optimisation (by Hint-brushes) - its also speed up VRAD ambient lightning.
7)You can use cordon tool to cut little part of map and render it.
For decompile protected mapz people use cracked vmex version ... it works fine, i use it sometimes.
I dont know
This "$selfillumtexture" parameter defines light illumination mask to your material. Mask - grayscale image in vtf format; it defines what part of your "$basetexture" will illuminate light (like alphachannel defines what part of image will have opacity). Btw, i dont works it or not.
DragonFly - use texlight for this type of lightning with selfillumination mask ("$selfillumtexture" "texturedirectoryl/texturename" ... maybe, i dont try it on practics).
Modern style =)
I played it - well, sometimes original, sometimes nice designed (i take some screens - i realy like this blue long hall). But nothing can change fact - i have no interst to walk in this residens 
and most part of mod is booring. Just weird place, but no story and interesting (logical) actions.
- i realy like this blue long hall). But nothing can change fact - i have no interst to walk in this residens and most part of mod is booring. Just weird place, but no story and interesting (logical) actions.Near this brush-building in hammer go to properties of env_cubemap entity and shoose resolution 256x256. It helps a lot; if you need more sharp reflections - you need to make custom six-sided vtf image file(six frames in one vtf-file) for reflection (in this case each side limited 2048x2048 pixels resolution; there a lot of tweaks with custom work but all possible).
Well, not so simlpe. Unreal engine is poor with realistic lightning (you can see some samples in this archive) - but mapz looks great :). Why? Of course - good texturing & modelling. Second - artistic lightning. And third - creative architecture; every single corridor is REALY detailed - there a lot of interesting architecture.
So, i can recommend to view.
So, i can recommend to view.
Weee! Great wideo! Sometimes evil, sometimes ironic - and good edited... one of the best
For inspiration in mapping it can helps ... a lot:
http://ProjectD2.com/2007/UT2004_1600x1200.rar - 102 mb, resolution 1600x1200
All screens taken from best standart(made by Epic) and non-strandart maps. Impressive, huh?
http://ProjectD2.com/2007/UT2004_1600x1200.rar - 102 mb, resolution 1600x1200
All screens taken from best standart(made by Epic) and non-strandart maps. Impressive, huh?
Player transport? Weee :P, 6D world become more complex.
Ship looks good.
Ship looks good.
chrispy - here some nice designed map overviews http://projectd2.com/topmap/
White variant was better imho... btw - mightly weapon
but it was fun 
, i lke demos! Hope future remade will be!
Also you can add "$color" [.x .x .x] parameter into six vmt files of each skybox (you need wxtract them from gcf before) and control tint & brightness of skybox textures.
'EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION' - this erro can point on everything imho. Too many polygons, syntax errors in QC, etc ...
env_cubemap - point entity; Source limits - only 1024 entities of all types per map. On practilce more then 500 env_cubemaps can cause troubles or not compile. Typical amount on map ~50-100 env_cubemaps.
Sweet light&texturing in level
Fps will be lower then now(high polycount & many textures with opacity and all this reflecting in water), but if it dont cares - why not 
Oh, i forget about fog... thanks.
Thats standard hl2 trees/bushes, i just replace leafs & brunches textures on white + add some distortion & scaling to models (big trees was realy big for my small map; distortion helps each tree looks unique).
For now i have no free time (i need a job -> need make good portfolio and this map part of it)...hmmm... but good tree model can be good part of my demoreel... well, i try :). What trees needed?
Thats standard hl2 trees/bushes, i just replace leafs & brunches textures on white + add some distortion & scaling to models (big trees was realy big for my small map; distortion helps each tree looks unique).
For now i have no free time (i need a job -> need make good portfolio and this map part of it)...hmmm... but good tree model can be good part of my demoreel... well, i try :). What trees needed?
Hope today i finish cs_abscond_pro. Here a lot screenshots:
It not so detailed, but minimum fps is realy high - same as standard cs_italy/cs_office.
It not so detailed, but minimum fps is realy high - same as standard cs_italy/cs_office.
http://projectd2.com/hl2screens/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=30 - water based mirror on floor (water only works on horizontal surface 
)
http://projectd2.com/2006/sample_for_CSS_demonstrating_2048x2048cubemaps.rar - map for CSS, were i use custom maded cubemap with 2048x2048 sides :D. Map is crappy (i was too lazy to rotate images to normal orientation), but looks coool - like portal in anower world
http://projectd2.com/2006/lighting_info.jpg
http://projectd2.com/2006/lighting_info2.jpg
Here 9 trees - one tree model. But as you can see - they all have different color tint. How that done - in second screenshot you can see some colored brushes in center of image. And in hammer i use 9 different Light_origin entities(with different names), that placed above that color brushes. So, in prop_static entity of each tree model i point different light_origin - and in game that cause this tint effect.
Btw, one texture can give only one color to model. I try to use one texture with some square colors on it - all trees have same tint. Then i make 9 different textures and put them on 9 different brushes - all works as you see. Then you generate vtf texture - dont off option "generate thumbnail" - this is that models using for tinting.
)http://projectd2.com/2006/sample_for_CSS_demonstrating_2048x2048cubemaps.rar - map for CSS, were i use custom maded cubemap with 2048x2048 sides :D. Map is crappy (i was too lazy to rotate images to normal orientation), but looks coool - like portal in anower world
http://projectd2.com/2006/lighting_info.jpg
http://projectd2.com/2006/lighting_info2.jpg
Here 9 trees - one tree model. But as you can see - they all have different color tint. How that done - in second screenshot you can see some colored brushes in center of image. And in hammer i use 9 different Light_origin entities(with different names), that placed above that color brushes. So, in prop_static entity of each tree model i point different light_origin - and in game that cause this tint effect.
Btw, one texture can give only one color to model. I try to use one texture with some square colors on it - all trees have same tint. Then i make 9 different textures and put them on 9 different brushes - all works as you see. Then you generate vtf texture - dont off option "generate thumbnail" - this is that models using for tinting.
No, just dont use value "1" (or "-1" or "0") for "$envmapcontrast" variable. Source have bug with that values - variable $envmapsaturation dont work, than "$envmapcontrast"= "1" (or "-1" or "0"). With "0.99" unstead of "1" all works fine oO
In Colt1911sheet.vmt i can recommend replace value of "$envmapcontrast" from 1 to 0.99 or 1.01 (then "$envmapcontrast" = 1 - sometimes $envmapsaturation parameter dont works).
You need to replace dll files in bin directory of your mod on latest versions.
Beautiful map, i can say! Water cool
Hmm, how usialy do stroryline's for games? May be exist some books or articles?
>>as modding Half-Life 2 won't let me override the existing script files in the .GCF
As i now - if you place sound(texture, model, etc) file in same directory with same name - Source will use this file, unstead of use GFC-packed file with smae path/name.
As i now - if you place sound(texture, model, etc) file in same directory with same name - Source will use this file, unstead of use GFC-packed file with smae path/name.
From HL2world topic:
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There are two solution to this issue:
1. Add the -novirtualmesh option to the vbsp.exe command line.
2. Re-compile your mod using the new SDK code.
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for now only 2 variant works - you need new client.dll & server.dll
From VDC:
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In the new SDK it is necessary to build the client and server DLLs before running the mod. Please build them if you see this message when trying to run the mod.
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I'm not a cool hacker, so i can do that - i just copy dll's from source sdk base.gfc - they works fine for my mod.
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There are two solution to this issue:
1. Add the -novirtualmesh option to the vbsp.exe command line.
2. Re-compile your mod using the new SDK code.
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for now only 2 variant works - you need new client.dll & server.dll
From VDC:
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In the new SDK it is necessary to build the client and server DLLs before running the mod. Please build them if you see this message when trying to run the mod.
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I'm not a cool hacker, so i can do that - i just copy dll's from source sdk base.gfc - they works fine for my mod.
Kasperg - yes, now i see... i try to reduce concentration (looks like move them closer to bush is good idea). And fix displacement seams too...
Here some WIP screens from cs_abscond_pro - my remake on original cs_abscond by kan3.
Don't comment weird square leafs on trees & bush, its just temporary:
Don't comment weird square leafs on trees & bush, its just temporary:
Tonns of sounds can be found here: http://www.fpsbanana.com/sounds
Also here (in "skins" section) i have get some pretty good looking gun texture files & vmt's.
Also here (in "skins" section) i have get some pretty good looking gun texture files & vmt's.