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Compilers will cut it for you and discard all faces that arent visible, cutting it manually so that things arent stuck in each other could help avoid some bugs and lower poly count but what you did is still a pretty good way to make random interesting shapes, nothing bad with it
drugs are good, its you thats bad
what about making a limited but reasonable set of construction materials, prefabs like beams, pillars, pipes, lamps etc, pretextured probably, and giving everyone the freedom to build anything they want out of it
have you heard of a stinky company called google? there is a typical korean mmorpg on source called Vindictus
GoldWave is a good tool
I think there are MMOs made on Source, don't know if they are open world but it's possible I guess, Lineage II has a huge world and is built on a variant of Unreal 2 engine utilizing what is called "map streaming" to seamlessly join maps, however that would require big modification of the engine or a great deal of reverse engineering. Your best bet on Source would be a non open world, with perhaps faking the distance like someone mentioned before, using multiple servers or something like that.
lets hope hl3 gets leaked once again
"bevel the edges without being off grid", what you mean? you can extend them inside the wall a bit further, so you wont see them, or you can just make use of floating point coordinates, ive heard Sledge does have "sub-unit" coords, right? U can also do sub-unit stuff in hammer by building it huge and then downscaling to the required size, which preserves the preciseness, but you need to patch hammer with vluzacns float enabler, so .rmf is converted to .map before compilation without converting the floats to integers (units) or smth
That's very cool Alberto, though you'll probably reach light data limits pretty soon. Btw, since you got that stained churchy window, you might wanna try reshaping those doorway arches into gothic arches?
shut up orange
No need for this.
No need for this.
hmm its probably info_translucent with 0.5 (or 1.0 if u put a different tex on the inside so it isnt black on inside)
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you dont have any luck or you dont have any money? or brain? ive heard the pirates in the ships got everything you need
visual c++ 6 works great with hl
So you are an one armed mapper? Well you should start with one of the things you described, like an elevator. You will also be able to make the rocket in a very similar way you would make an elevator. Learn how to put monsters in a map and how to control them, like monster_scientist in your case. Play with env_sprite to learn to make the flames and smoke effects. The earthquake (env_shake?), roaring (ambient_generic) and so on. Don't try to make everything at once, make many small maps and learn how to create certain things then it will be way easier to make a larger project. I suck at mapping but well that's my advice to a beginner. Good luck =P
Modifying the satchel remote into a remote that triggers an entity in the world could be really good coding practice for a beginner I think
How to rotate a world brush perfectly: haven't tested throughoutly but think should work. First find vluzacn's modified 3.5 hammer which converts .rmf to .map retaining "float" precision coordinates (like what 32-bit or something allows, one millionth of a hammer unit i guess), then u turn the texture lock and rotate it manually in the grid viewport with those circles that appear when you click a few times on a brush. Not with ctrl+m because that snaps coords to 1 grid (useful too), if u hold shift it rotates in 15deg steps, i think you can change this in hammer options if u wanna a specific angle. Also you might want to manually subdivide intersecting brushes, turn certain surfaces into triangles (like terrain) to avoid flashing pixels and stuff when compiled. btw I think Jackhammer, the hammer clone, can rotate with ctrl+m without snapping to grid. U might wanna turn the whole mess into a func_detail. Oh and.. whats that ... hm.. theres some kinda parameter to bsp.exe?.. or csg?.. damn. like -tiny or something, like tiny 0.01?.. that removes faces smaller than that.. you should make it smaller if u get tiny see-through faces after compiling. Oh this was for another topic.. for scaling objects down. Basically same way you can scale world geometry to thousands of a unit, probably to the precision of models.. original hammer's scale fuction doesnt snap to grid tho yey! blablayeah, steam half-life is a total piece of shit
now its better
low poly+hi res tex=pain
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Yep Jeff, light_surface, if it calculates averages for subdivisions rather than planes, it should work too lazy to try
i might be wrong but vluzacns tools might be able to cast light correctly off that first texture in your first screenshot, without any additional invisible stuff
Penguinboy, if those columns of yours would be all cut diagonally (made of triangles) and skew lock worked well then you would be able to distort it the way you pictured it, in quite a shaggy way though, there would be a huge distortion on the line where triangles join, however the pixels would indeed be seamless and if wisely divided into triangles it could work quite well, probably for organic textures the most, I think I've seen this on many older games. Might be good enough to make truly seamless curved water flow and stuff like that
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valve doesn't even really admit they made a game called half-life, though you sometimes hear about cs and team fortress, which they didn't make well nevemrind
no we will never get over this! we are doomed for eternity!!!!!
orange, is that a baby-suffocator in your avatar?
you realize you misread what i wrote :z
wow orange youre such an idiot. thats the whole point of func_detail - not to contribute to visibility/not to seal maps. do you know why maps have to be sealed? so visibility can be calculated lol
entity is not an entity because whore is not a virgin because gabe is not carmack and carmack is not dmr
Kaner, did u fix it?
woaw such c+++++ classes and phases god damn phrases but cant read simple letters!>_<
Kaner, did u fix it?
woaw such c+++++ classes and phases god damn phrases but cant read simple letters!>_<
thats what i said
i explained it ^
or try having like 8 edges instead of 16, then if smoothing works itll look even smoother than 16 god damn it lol
func_detail is not an entity, it just instructs compilers which faces not to contribute to visibility calculation
well i told you how to fix it. the only other way is to light it well from all sides
well i told you how to fix it. the only other way is to light it well from all sides
If VHLT doesn't help then make the pillar with less edges or of larger diameter or scale down the texture, because lightmap grid size is 16 units for texture with scale of 1 so you want faces no smaller than 16 units to avoid smoothing bugs
anyway better not map your school u can get arrested ^^
anyway better not map your school u can get arrested ^^
i prolly wouldnt resist to crawl thru darkest depths of la and detroit and get robbed raped and killed ten times before reaching ur place
i see these all the time when mapping. take any random shape and mirror it, symmetry kinda makes anything resemble faces
holysmokes
doubt that rufee, I think we're scattered all over, with the least in US
as i said its something new in cs game dll, theres no such effect by default in hl, but source for cs is not released
funny ive been wondering about this too recently, this is probably something generated for specific textures by some code in the dll blabla prolly
that or info_sunlight
that's what texture lights are for, they simulate light coming from a surface/an area rather than a point, avoiding harsh shadows
My plan would be to "grow" a slight pyramid on the opposite side of every face, in most cases you would end up with tetrahedrons and then you should be able to smoothly import it in VHE. I've never done but this I think I've seen a Quake .map export plugin for Blender once.
Lighting can be preserved if you bake the lighting onto the textures.
Lighting can be preserved if you bake the lighting onto the textures.
I meant they are too scaled down.
How did you manage to use 500 entities? 500 wpoly is what some of ur screens are worth IMO
How did you manage to use 500 entities? 500 wpoly is what some of ur screens are worth IMO
the textures are too high resolution in some places and use sprites for those light effects