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Captain Terror

Posted 7 years ago2016-11-05 06:33:28 UTC
in Competition 34: HL Re-Imagined Post #332200

How about Trempler you facilitate?

idea #1
You come up with a fun DM/SP/SC/etc theme idea, and den write up a list of jobs we can choose from to complete the map? Make the job list first-come, first-serve, and participants can also pick a second job once they've finished the first one.

idea #2
Map-from-base is always a fun option, and makes it easier for us lazies join up.
yes you have to make the basemap

idea #3
75 brushes compo--based on the 30 brushes official TWHL competition. You have 75 brushes to build a functioning DM or SP map.

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Posted 7 years ago2016-11-04 03:48:21 UTC
in Competition 34: HL Re-Imagined Post #332195

I'd be down, especially for a partners/collab contest. I've no shortage of ideas, but motivation is different story; a GS compo might be just the thing to refill the well

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Posted 7 years ago2016-07-08 08:26:42 UTC
in Leadwerks? Post #330743

All good advice thank you. staying far away from Leadwerks

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Posted 7 years ago2016-07-06 09:38:40 UTC
in Desktops of July 2016 Post #330708

If you have to ask, you can't afford it...

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Posted 7 years ago2016-07-06 06:43:40 UTC
in Leadwerks? Post #330704

Anybody play with Leadwerks yet?

Probably will pick it up for the sale, but don't know anything about it, and can't remember why I wishlisted it. Thinking about getting into mapping again, maybe this would be fun to play with?

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Posted 7 years ago2016-05-09 19:59:44 UTC
in VVIS get stucks Post #330080

I've been out of the game for a long time, but maybe check out some of these tutorials and articles by Will2K over at GameBanana. Will2K puts a lot of time and effort into these guides, HIGHLY recommended reading

If you still can't get it sorted and don't mind posting the vmf, we can take a closer look at it for you.

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Posted 8 years ago2016-05-06 00:11:41 UTC
in Driveable car Post #330055

nope

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Captain Terror

Posted 8 years ago2016-05-05 22:34:33 UTC
in Driveable car Post #330053

func_vehicle is a right not a privilege

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Posted 8 years ago2016-05-05 19:02:39 UTC
in More precise acceleration Post #330049

I never even knew you could do that with func_rotating, how cool.

Someone mentioned in the shoutbox recently, something about using a train/tracktrain to cheat to get the desired effect? (not sure how that would work exactly, but now it's intrigued..)

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Posted 8 years ago2016-05-03 00:16:14 UTC
in Monster properties Issue Post #330028

Another solution using cycler_sprite]cycler_sprite.

Use smartedit button to add

sequence

property to the cycler_sprite, with the 4 death animations being 18-21.

fun fact
You can use the slave model with cycler_weapon, carrying him around like a crowbar

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Posted 8 years ago2016-05-01 19:28:28 UTC
in Portalflow takes ages to compile Post #330010

What compile log say? My guess you are woefully out of resources OR you have not func_detailed things that should be func_detail; all non-visblocking brushwork should be func_detail.

edit
whoops I can read. glad you sorted it

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Posted 8 years ago2016-05-01 10:33:20 UTC
in Monster properties Issue Post #330005

It's been a long time for me, but can't u use a cycler or cycler_sprite or whatever, and den choose the death animation for the slave?

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Posted 8 years ago2016-04-29 13:30:49 UTC
in Strange Invisible Walls Post #329998

If the error is persistent, make that whole doorway func_illusionary and den use simple clip brushes to approximate the doorway. Also double check your compile log that there is nothing weird going on.

As a test, maybe try a different cliptype to see if it makes any difference. (not 100% sure, but think I always used

-cliptype simple

)

I'll check out your map when I get home from work if you haven't sorted it by then..

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Posted 8 years ago2016-04-23 20:34:16 UTC
in Rotate decals Post #329960

I remember a while back Archie or Urby talking about decals in GoldSrc, and I think the general consensus was just manually editing your texture was the best, fastest way to get the wall adornments you want in the game. (If you really still wanted to use the ugle HL decals, I suppose you could edit/copy/paste them over your textures as well)

In a limited way you can make signs and texts out of brushes--especially using Sledge's Text primitive--, though this won't look the greatest or be the most efficient from a resources perspective. If you opted to go this route, make sure you use Sledge or a HLFix-enabled Hammer, because it will allow you to make the brushes sub-1-unit thick, and/or nudge them at sub-one unit distances (Hammer compile by default snaps everything to the 1-unit grid)

Source SDK of course has overlays, which can be rotated/scaled every which way

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Posted 8 years ago2016-04-22 23:28:51 UTC
in Trigger when you recoil from a trigger b Post #329952

Maybe something like thiscould work for you?

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Posted 8 years ago2016-04-21 23:31:18 UTC
in Rotate decals Post #329944

I don't thinks so either, but does rotating the texture affect the decal? (or does it always face "east" or whatever?)

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Posted 8 years ago2016-04-19 21:29:46 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #329937

Star Wars Battlefront
Even though I recognize it's not the greatest nor together game, I still find I'm getting my SW fanboy fix playing it. While I'm not really too jazzed about the whole DLC situation--I don't see myself ever paying for it on principle alone--, you can still play all the gamemodes with people that have, minus playing the new maps of course.

I'll continue to play as long as the PC player base stays strong, and they don't go overboard pushing exclusionary DLC and additional weapon behavior changes..

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Posted 8 years ago2016-04-18 00:07:16 UTC
in make dark Post #329926

Oh I'm sorry, when you say "minimum light value" is that in map properties, or do you mean the light_environment?

If it's the former I don't think I ever messed with it.

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Posted 8 years ago2016-04-17 23:30:37 UTC
in make dark Post #329924

I don't think there's any way to make a pointlight a negative value nor emit "blackness" (although that would be pretty cool!)

If you want the room COMPLETELY dark, you're just gonna have to block the path of exterior light penetrating inside using world brushes. If you want only the slightest light in the room, use a texlight with a darker color like blue/purlple, at a very low brightness value. (pointlights in GoldSrc are not very sublte)

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Captain Terror

Posted 8 years ago2016-03-04 01:06:53 UTC
in Now Playing: ... Post #329180

Deadmau5 - Raise your weapon

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Captain Terror

Posted 8 years ago2016-03-02 13:27:59 UTC
in Dumb Entity Game Post #329116

momentary_door?

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Captain Terror

Posted 8 years ago2016-01-25 02:20:47 UTC
in Sledge (Hammer Alternative) Alpha Build Post #328478

Cyclers show up just fine for me:

Check your options/game-config-&-build-options paths. It's been a while, but I remember Sledge setup being much easier/faster than Hammer 3.x.

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Posted 8 years ago2016-01-24 19:49:40 UTC
in Sledge (Hammer Alternative) Alpha Build Post #328467

Aw Blender... It needs to start learning Blender

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Captain Terror

Posted 8 years ago2016-01-16 19:57:40 UTC
in TWHL World - Community Project Post #328305

That's how I would do it too Tet, leave the dlls and everything.

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Posted 8 years ago2016-01-15 01:25:29 UTC
in TWHL World - Community Project Post #328266

I've been totally waiting for something like this to get back into mapping. My vote would be GS SOHL, because I find EP2 tedious to map for with none of the improvements of CSGO SDK.

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Posted 8 years ago2016-01-10 23:49:25 UTC
in TWHL4 Suggestions Post #328175

Can we allow unicode characters in the member title?(can we fix that to work currently?)

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Captain Terror

Posted 8 years ago2016-01-08 23:44:08 UTC
in Sledge (Hammer Alternative) Alpha Build Post #328160

I think we noticed building de_subsanctum you can render a lot more stuff in Sledge, before getting in-editor lag vs. Hammer 3.x. If that's related to what you're talking about, you seem to be on the right track PB

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Posted 8 years ago2015-12-08 03:39:55 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #327682

^ Indeed! that is very neat Strideh

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Posted 8 years ago2015-12-08 02:28:25 UTC
in Dynamic lights in GoldSrc? Post #327678

Not possible afaik, because lighting is baked into the texture during RAD.

Maybe post a pic of the area and what you want to achieve, and we can think up some trickery, e.g., use sprites w/env_renders to crudley mimic a moving light, or possibly use a triggered func_door textured as volumetric light, to simulate movement.

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Posted 8 years ago2015-11-30 02:00:33 UTC
in Now Playing: ... Post #327561

Kurosaki Ichigo
Dass es gut ich liebe es!

Now playing
Girls Aloud - Merry Christmas Everybody
Los Cuates De Sinaloa - The Ballad Of Heisenberg
Solaris OST
Frightened Rabbit - The Woodpile

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Posted 8 years ago2015-11-26 01:29:10 UTC
in func_tanklaser? Post #327548

I don't remember that particular part of HL(I really need to replay it), but you may find your answer with one of these meantime.

If desperate: I'm fairly sure the all the rmfs for original HL are available now, so you could see exactly how they did it. (could also decompile the original map)

There also might be a player console command that labels in-game what entities are what, and find your answer that way.

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Posted 8 years ago2015-11-24 00:59:53 UTC
in Hammer Editor CS:S Map crash Post #327513

The fix I'd recommend is you switching to CSGO SDK

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Posted 8 years ago2015-11-20 23:02:09 UTC
in Goldsrc inventory Post #327497

You could do it crudely with a trigger_camera that points to a rooms outside your normal map, textured black. Then you could use env_renders and/or func_door_toggles to make "items" in your inventory appear. (this might work for things like keycards and such)

If you need to be able to select items, use a trigger_teleport instead, temporarily sending the player to a place he can physicallly pickup/activate/use things in the inventory.

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Posted 8 years ago2015-11-20 01:12:52 UTC
in Make grunts or player invincible? Post #327490

For the player, maybe you could place healthpacks everywhere & render them invisible?

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Posted 8 years ago2015-11-01 21:49:27 UTC
in Halloween 2015 Post #327381

Pedobear was our favourite costume we saw out last night(it never gets old)

Dimbark
That is quite spooky sir.

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-31 16:44:28 UTC
in Halloween 2015 Post #327370

Haha that stash is priceless Tet! Also, GREAT WORK on dems carvings :lambda:

I daydreamed about going to work as rollervader or a naughty police women drag queen, but thought better of both

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-26 22:17:50 UTC
in Sledge (Hammer Alternative) Alpha Build Post #327324

Clipping-a-brush-makes-it-invalid Bug
Not sure what is going on, but lately I seem to get a lot of invalid solid errors whilst clipping. First I thought it was due to RMF format bug and/or clipping off-grid stuff, but now it's happening on normal solids using VMFs?

Texture-Properties-Brush-Selection Suggestion
Maybe when you close Texture Properties dialog, have the brush(es) of whose faces you had selected, selected

Clip-Outside-Edges-By-Default Suggestion
When clipping, maybe have Clip brush choose the outside edges of the polygon everytime, since 95% of the time that's what you're doing.

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-25 19:43:55 UTC
in ambient_generic playing constantly no ma Post #327342

Until a better solution is found, I think your best bet is keeping the muffled sound low--maybe even one or two units lower than it is now--, so the splice is less noticeable walking room to room.

Since I haven't been able to make any headway using the ambient_generics constantly playing, will try triggers instead; I'm not quite sure how that will work yet, but we'll see

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-24 21:25:21 UTC
in ambient_generic playing constantly no ma Post #327311

edit
Tried a bunch of things Berto, but no luck yet.. =(

Sorry mah man been busy @work and in general, and my tasks are piling up.. All I did so far is re-texture and adjust the volume of the muffled clip, but again, I think the effect works ok as you have it

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-17 22:31:24 UTC
in Sledge (Hammer Alternative) Alpha Build Post #327294

Sure it's been mentioned, but it would be really nice to add a button I can press under Map Problems, that automatically fills in each missing material individually, with anything non-translucent. (currently fills everything with trigger texture)

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-17 22:16:58 UTC
in ambient_generic playing constantly no ma Post #327293

Well that is a very neat effect just the way you have it. Even with my volume turned up to max, I can barely here the muffled track; so, although the tracks go out of sync effect still works very well imo

I will mess around with it a bit, maybe boost the volume of the muffled track a bit so it's easier to playtest. BTW, great track choice for this type of thing & very well done!

<youtubes stripper music>

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-15 15:21:15 UTC
in ambient_generic playing constantly no ma Post #327281

Would you like to have an example map and try something out yourself?

Absolutely yes

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-15 03:55:39 UTC
in Need Funny Mapping Competition Maps Post #327273

Fair news, agrees there isn't much to build from. Maybe someone who played the map can fill in some gaps, I.E., Andy, Seventh?

You're no fun mister Stu. How can you be an architect and have such tame imagination?

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-15 02:57:21 UTC
in ambient_generic playing constantly no ma Post #327274

You're right Stu. The method I listed above would work for triggered sounds, NOT looped ones. (not sure what I was thinking there..)

My GS knowledge is waning majorly from disuse; Everything is so much easier to do with the input/output system and Source entities in general... [/lazy]

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-14 22:02:20 UTC
in ambient_generic playing constantly no ma Post #327270

Is there a way to make a sound to play constantly even if the client isn't in the sound's radius (and, of course, without setting it to "Play everywhere")?

Agrees with Jessie
One MM for each track to manually start/stop the song, and an additional one that loops them, --and they should play continuously. My knowledge of cue points in the track itself is rusty, so if your WAV files don't work as-is, try them with: no cues, one cue at the beginning, and one at beginning/end.

If you can't get it sorted, work up a quick example map, and we can have fun fixing it for you

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-14 20:19:39 UTC
in Need Funny Mapping Competition Maps Post #327269

Well, there are clues about the general layout and some of the structures in the map comments, AND of course we've that one screenie:

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-13 02:55:02 UTC
in Need Funny Mapping Competition Maps Post #327257

I contacted Seventh-Monkey and Andy, but no joy from either

Someone who played the map told me it wasn't that great, but yeah I'd love to make my own vision of cs_canbunk for a compo

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-13 02:08:25 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #327258

Urba, does it know if Battlefront be gettable on the tru-tru, Steam?

And yeah no, I didn't expect the game to look photorealisitc like that--I think I like the toonier style much better, e.g., Clone Wars, Rebels--, but I've been waiting for this game for a LONG time and will definitely buy it

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Posted 8 years ago2015-10-12 20:57:55 UTC
in Need Funny Mapping Competition Maps Post #327252

I highly doubt it on both Stu, and I'd be very surprised if it exists anymore [/urby]. Maybe If Seventh/Andy did a disk recovery of their old HDDs it might be found

Qwerty: I'll look soon as I have access to my laptop again, should have it...

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