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look at the code that starts dealing damage to players when they spend too much time underwater
which compilers are you using? ZHLT is very old, try using VHLT 3.4 (vluzacn's tools)
Posted 3 years ago2021-03-16 08:37:34 UTC
in Need help to finish my animated reinforced door Post #345437
in Need help to finish my animated reinforced door Post #345437
use func_door_rotating + env_render instead of func_wall_toggle
server needs allow_spectators to be 1
then client types spectate
then client types spectate
meticulously texturing exterior with null is useless, since those faces get discarded by the compiler anyway
That's what Penguinboy meant. Your button should turn on the multi_manager. multi_manager can act like a timer to perform multiple tasks, first it turns on your ambient_generic immediately and then it turns it off after 10 seconds. If your ambient_generic is named "coolsound", then keyvalue pairs on your multimanager should look like this:
coolsound 0
coolsound#1 10
The #1 should appear by itself when you use a name more than once. Read the tutorial to learn more.
coolsound 0
coolsound#1 10
The #1 should appear by itself when you use a name more than once. Read the tutorial to learn more.
Here's some stuff from Karen Laur, the texture artist at Valve, who, to my knowledge, made nearly all textures in HL.
http://rib.quakeroach.net/HLsource.zip
http://rib.quakeroach.net/HLsource.zip
Apple (the company)
I have touched very few Apple devices. Once in a school a classroom was populated with certain Apple desktop computers and I think the keyboard and mice were Apple too. The mice had these tiny balls which I thought were for scrolling but they seemed to be impossible to use, either they were clogged or just plain bad design. I also witnessed a rather recent iPhone, it seemed very difficult to set up after you buy it and it didn't seem very intuitive with just a single physical button. I know once on a certain Apple presentation with Steve Jobs, John Carmack displayed his Doom 3 technologies and I've read Steve asked John to remove all the scary stuff from the video. I find it kind of funny, Apple is all pretty and white while Doom 3 is the complete opposite, dark and scary.
off-grid vertices in HL1 mapping
I have touched very few Apple devices. Once in a school a classroom was populated with certain Apple desktop computers and I think the keyboard and mice were Apple too. The mice had these tiny balls which I thought were for scrolling but they seemed to be impossible to use, either they were clogged or just plain bad design. I also witnessed a rather recent iPhone, it seemed very difficult to set up after you buy it and it didn't seem very intuitive with just a single physical button. I know once on a certain Apple presentation with Steve Jobs, John Carmack displayed his Doom 3 technologies and I've read Steve asked John to remove all the scary stuff from the video. I find it kind of funny, Apple is all pretty and white while Doom 3 is the complete opposite, dark and scary.
off-grid vertices in HL1 mapping
what is that ugly creature? is that a dog, a cat, an albino fox?
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have you tried emailing him?
Posted 3 years ago2020-07-11 06:12:42 UTC
in Help, the shotgun ammo or ammo_buckshot just sinking into the ground Post #344525
in Help, the shotgun ammo or ammo_buckshot just sinking into the ground Post #344525
make sure it's not to close to the floor or the walls
Posted 3 years ago2020-06-26 21:27:42 UTC
in Recreated a scene from the Matrix in Goldsrc. Post #344473
in Recreated a scene from the Matrix in Goldsrc. Post #344473
cool!
Posted 3 years ago2020-06-20 08:43:34 UTC
in Uncle Mike. A Series Of Articles On Internal Structure Of Quake Related Engines Post #344436
in Uncle Mike. A Series Of Articles On Internal Structure Of Quake Related Engines Post #344436
That was an interesting read.
Posted 3 years ago2020-06-05 08:07:33 UTC
in Uncle Mike. A Series Of Articles On Internal Structure Of Quake Related Engines Post #344363
in Uncle Mike. A Series Of Articles On Internal Structure Of Quake Related Engines Post #344363
This seems to contain quite a bit of information:
https://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/
https://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/
oh yeah, stay as low as possible with this mod, the watchowskis are nasty people, theres a story on the net about them threatening to kill the actor of the "operator" cause he refused to star in the sequels
i think it's best for people to experience that map themselves and to find what's lurking in that map, that is, I hope you know about it...
abbadon can't just you make an "additive" type overlay for those bright areas and give that texture an additive flag?
I started mapping way back in 2005 when I was a little kid pretty much, I would name my maps de_something but they didn't have a bomb spot because I didn't know what de_ meant. I also made a "first map" tutorial which was a single 20 megabyte sized, 20000 pixels tall picture, the tutorial stated that light_environment has to be high enough so it can light the entire map... Also later on I would obsessively NULL every single surface that's invisible or outside world, which now I believe is quite meaningless.
Posted 4 years ago2020-01-21 07:33:13 UTC
in After compile some models cycler_sprite missing Post #343663
in After compile some models cycler_sprite missing Post #343663
there is an entity limit, and all entities add up to the limit, models, brush entities, point entities, except light and light_spot entities which i think is around 512? not sure about that
Posted 4 years ago2020-01-17 09:52:46 UTC
in Model wont light up (cycler or cycler_sprite) Post #343631
in Model wont light up (cycler or cycler_sprite) Post #343631
Compilers generate a few game variables sv_skyvec_x/y/z and sv_skycolor_r/g/b and models which are "in the skylight" use those variables, rather than the lightmap below them. This is so they could have more accurate shading. vluzacn made an entity for VHLT called info_sunlight, if you set it's Brightness to 0 0 0, then models won't use those variables and will be lit from the lightmap below them.
there are several options:
- separate the model into two models of the lamp body and the glass, and for the glass model, give the model additive texture mode and brightness of 255, just make sure the glass texture is bright and precolored, that should work.
- just make the glass from brushes and then you have many ways of making it bright, whether func_illusionary with various render modes like additive, texture or color, or use texture lights. This method would be easier for the second lamp model since it has only 4 flat pieces of glass.
seems like undertow water only pushes you if you hold E, which seems strange. Cant remember if it always was like that
CLIP brushes are part of the compiled map it's just that visible geometry and player collision geometry are separate and decompilers can't tell apart from CLIP generated from ordinary brushes and CLIP brushes
Agree Youtube is becoming a monstrosity. It's getting bigger and bigger, probably thousands of times bigger than it was 10 years ago and the search system haven't advanced at all to accommodate it. All you see on it these days are users paid by Google to keep doing useless crap. I would definitely choose anything over Youtube
Jessie, Valve gives the game as a bonus to everyone who buys their headset. I think they made a very good decision making it VR only. To make it support both they would have to water out the VR experience to the point where neither way would work well. I haven't ever tried VR but it's pretty obvious a game designed from the ground up for VR is a completely different beast.
Oh and what's this?
Posted 4 years ago2019-11-12 14:07:09 UTC
in half-life still updating with necessary features Post #343352
in half-life still updating with necessary features Post #343352
Just ask valve to remove HL altogether from it's library, there's no point to reinvent the Source engine, it already exists. God...
Posted 4 years ago2019-11-11 12:07:32 UTC
in half-life still updating with necessary features Post #343345
in half-life still updating with necessary features Post #343345
It is not random. If maps are well made, as in not enclosed in a skybox so the ground doesn't have a thickness and the player takes his time to make sure there are no rooms below it, it can be almost fully avoided. HLDM is taken seriously enough and was taken even more seriously back in the day before Valve ruined it's netcode in favor of CS. And rufee is absolutely correct. One classic scenario is a battle between two players armed with gauss in an area prone to that self-gaussing. The player better at taking the aforementioned considerations will have an advantage. Hundreds of maps are built on these assumptions. Thankfully the server-client model should prevent all the weepers and noobs from undermining all the good work and all the fun.
Loulimi, you probably need to manually add "-threads 4" parameter to every vhlt tool, whatever number of threads you got
Posted 4 years ago2019-11-10 13:02:37 UTC
in half-life still updating with necessary features Post #343335
in half-life still updating with necessary features Post #343335
lol, that auto death with gauss aka selfgauss is intentional and has been a critical part of hl deathmatch since the beginning of time and most of the time its very predictable, depending on the thickness of the brush being shot at. I think they should leave hl alone and just release the code so people can do whatever they want without messing up hl itself
double check if you are really using vluzacn's tools, this seems really unusual. are those bugged areas "world"? or maybe you accidently made them func_detail or some other entity?
are your vhlt 3.4? perhaps youre using JACK and the tools that came with it? i might be wrong but i think they are modified, if so, try using original 3.4 vhlt
also it seems like youre using direct3d mode, or is it opengl?
and give us your compile log
are your vhlt 3.4? perhaps youre using JACK and the tools that came with it? i might be wrong but i think they are modified, if so, try using original 3.4 vhlt
also it seems like youre using direct3d mode, or is it opengl?
and give us your compile log
admer, look closer lol
Yu, are you using default compilers that come with hammer?
Yu, are you using default compilers that come with hammer?
You have two options
1. Learn C++ and code it or borrow the code from another mod and squeeze it in your own (which still needs learning C++)
2. Find a coder
In essence this effect works by lagging the viewmodel in relation to player's eyes/camera.
1. Learn C++ and code it or borrow the code from another mod and squeeze it in your own (which still needs learning C++)
2. Find a coder
In essence this effect works by lagging the viewmodel in relation to player's eyes/camera.
also when models have controllers for pelvis, torso, mouth, usually when you use such a model with cycler_sprite, for example a dead sitting helmet, the guy will be twisted to one side with all controllers to the maximum. You can use "controller" keyvalue to set them, but you have multiple controllers and only one controller, so theres some weird formula to turn those three values into one value. I can't find how it looks right now, but it should be possible to figure out from the hl sdk
decompiling maps to see how things are done is the easiest way
Posted 4 years ago2019-09-01 09:57:05 UTC
in Previewing models in the official (obsolete) Hammer? Post #343090
in Previewing models in the official (obsolete) Hammer? Post #343090
VHE 3.5 (the last official by Valve) supports it, and needs something in the .fgd like Admer mentioned
make a backup?
thats a good way to stop mapping by losing your fingers
Posted 4 years ago2019-07-01 08:54:07 UTC
in Trying to make a song swapper on GoldSrc Hammer Post #342822
in Trying to make a song swapper on GoldSrc Hammer Post #342822
use multiple ambient_generics with "start silent" flag and then play around with trigger_changetarget. I done it once, not very hard
Stojke, hardware causes are possible but in this case I think it's more related to software. It's even happening to me on linux HL. As for ps/2 you are probably right, afaik its easier on cpu than usb. Also the unlimited key presses at once, I really struggled with usb keyboards on hldm when sometimes I had to use like 5 keys at once.
GoldSrc is not a very stable engine, the same thing has been happening to me every once in a while over many years, on different versions of HL and different OSes.
how about a bigger picture? a huge xen tree grows in black mesa and protrudes through the surface of the desert and grows all the way into the sky and at the very top is the xen command base, like some kind of biomechanical castle 
give some rotation variation for them trees cause all look same
youre not disappointing me. I had a 10 year gap between map releases. No need to worry about what others think of you
well they did remove the _special command people used for decades for bhopping and the like, windows players will just downgrade, linux players are stuck. There are alternatives but its still stupid. They already did some stuff blindly
changing game mechanics of a 20 year old cult classic is like changing the shape of mona lisas nose or changing the tone of guitar in a remastered album because someone doesnt like it. Sometimes i really dislike github
stop breaking and ruining half-life for f**s sake! Whether its a feature or a bug it doesnt matter, thousands of maps have been made according to these mechanisms and people played for 20 years this way, it is the way it is and it should be! im getting annoyed of this bullshit
its not a bug, its a feature. It happens when walls are thick. Walls behind which there is void doesn't count because you need an opposite face for the game to measure the thickness. In crossfire many buildings actually have inaccessible interiors with thin walls to minimize selfgaussing, modern compile tools automatically remove such inaccessible areas, which can be disabled with a certain compile paramter. Something like -nofill, not sure exactly.
If your floor is a thick brush and your entire map is enclosed in a big skybox textured cube, thats why it happens.
If your floor is a thick brush and your entire map is enclosed in a big skybox textured cube, thats why it happens.
There are numerous tricks depending on what you are trying to achieve. One is this:
https://twhl.info/vault/view/6204
The other one is having the moving object lit elsewhere in the map and controlling switchable lights. One good example is subtransit deathmatch map from Valve. The train becomes darker when it's inside the tunnels and become brighter when it's outside. This is done by lighting the train in a separate room outside the map and controlling switchable lights with the "Target on pass" keyvalue in the func_tracktrain.
Also take a look at VHLT specific light_shadow entity.
https://twhl.info/vault/view/6204
The other one is having the moving object lit elsewhere in the map and controlling switchable lights. One good example is subtransit deathmatch map from Valve. The train becomes darker when it's inside the tunnels and become brighter when it's outside. This is done by lighting the train in a separate room outside the map and controlling switchable lights with the "Target on pass" keyvalue in the func_tracktrain.
Also take a look at VHLT specific light_shadow entity.