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And...gonna' shoot for yours here...Server_Register_Scene....? Is that even a thing?

Nope. I.R. dumb. But me know now! I cannot get Dr. Orange's...

Yeah, go ahead and expand it! Imagination is the limit! We can also bend the rules a little bit to allow for ambiguity. Like, "Func" can also be "Funk".

Seeing Urby's Avatar gave me an idea, not sure if anything like this has been done on the site before, but thought it would be a fun little game. Basically, guess the entity being referenced based on the images. Hell, create your own representations of any entity you wish and we'll try to guess them.

Mine's easy. "Info_Player_Start"

http://www.moddb.com/members/half-rats/images/stupit#imagebox

That's awesome! What part of Michigan you from? My parents live in the Thumb area.

Me, too! Northwest of Port Huron.

Nope, it shouldn't. Try it out anyway!

Tetsuo can help you more in-depth with that. He's got a tutorial on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9CPpo_1svGNnZI1iPL2peExsuPk3gYWN

If I had more time, I was going to write an entire guide dedicated to making a GS mod in the late aughts.

But, yeah, plenty of tutes here. If you have any further questions, add me on steam: "Half-Rats" This would be the best possible time to contact me, as I'm in a bit of a lull, but that won't last.

Thanks muchly! Going to need to get a new straight razor though...That one's had it.

There's many more songs where that came from. But they are quite different from one another.

Yep, I actually am. And thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jztWQU0QVM

Played in Detroit at the Hastings Street Ballroom, filmed it.

Oh, check the "not toggled" flag in the properties of all of your one-shot ambient_generics! This happened to me before.

I believe Spirit will allow you more flexibility with things like this.

The thing about re-sizing textures...is that the flashlight beam will appear smaller on brushes with down-scaled textures. I relegate this to small boxes/posters/knick-knacks. I don't have to worry as much because Parasomnia uses an oil lantern, but something to bear in mind for all your freaks who like flashlights.

Spirit MIGHT be able to do something like this...or at least better facilitate.

and hope they dont go out of sync

That would make for an interesting Phaser effect. Might be neat to experiment with out-of-phase sounds for non-musical applications.

I'm constantly directing new members to this place. After releasing HRAFD, and the release of Military Duty and Arctic Incident, all that got a few folks interested in Goldsource again. I usually have folks come to me for help, and that inevitably means, they end up coming to all of YOU! Bwahaha. Great power, great responsibility, dig it?

Alright, my friend. But there's no turning baaaack...I know you're a modeling kinda' guy, and I've seen you do world objects. PM me with your skillset and a portfolio, and let's see what we can do if you're game. This is going to be a commitment. just letting you know now!

No, it's not going to be fun. It will be terrible. You interested?

Well, Half-Rats: Parasomnia has been chugging forward at an alarming rate, but we only have one modeler, who also rigs and animates, places events and compiles all by himself. Since this is a total conversion mod, he has quite the job ahead of him. I wish to avoid a potential bottleneck/dead mod and I'd like to offer some relief to our long-suffering modeler. We have half of our monsters completed already, as well as our pickup items. We have a couple of animals and npcs to get out of the way, as well as the rest of our monsters, including the bosses. And then there's the weaponry. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-rats-parasomnia

FMOD's documentation illustrations scare me...use WWISE. That being said. 22K or bust, motherfuckers!

...and 11025, too....yeah.

In future, also remember these golden rules:

1. If you activate a trigger_changelevel while a camera is still active - bad things happen.

2. The func_train needs to be faster than the camera.

8-bit 22k sounds fine provided you tweak the EQ, and have a strong signal to begin with. What sounds are you trying to work with?

Ah I see. The cameras have different names. There's pubcam and introcam.

Pubcam 0.1
Pubcam 9.9

Introcam 10

That's how I set it up after what you just told me.

And it worked! Thank you very much!

Well, I'm triggering multiple cameras at different times. The player spawns into the map, right inside of a trigger_once...that trigger_once activates a multi_manager, which immediately activates the first camera...in the multi_man, I set the second camera to start immediately after the hold time of the first camera has elapsed. The second camera never activates. Despite having an entity to look at as a target, and being situated East/West...the cameras that DO work refuse to look in the proper direction.

Yeeep! Lots of new features. Inventory system...storing notes, blocking and kicking with melee, drunkeness, monetary system with shops and the like...lantern with fuel. All sorts of shit! Just need to get these cameras working. God, I hate these things.

Ah! my latest problem that's got the whole team stumped...First off, has anyone worked with Spirit of half-Life?

Ever since I set my mod's dlls to the spirit ones, the info_player_start doesn't work and I'm spawning at the origin...god, I thought I was done with this.

Whoops, nevermind. Just found that it was simply my cameras going haywire....basically not working at all...or pointing wherever they want.

Well, anyway - 3DS max was exporting empty frames that screwed everything up. Problem solved! I noticed day of defeat had color decals. Decals are killing me. I'd like to do full color decals for bullet holes. Day of Defeat had them...anyone know how they did that?

Update:

When the model is decompiled in milkshape, then recompiled, the QC changes and it suddenly works...

The hitbox definitions are added.

The models work in Half-Life.

I think I will have them tested in the Parasomnia .dll.

The animations are moving away from the origin in the model editing program, 3DS Max 8 and it is done exactly the way it should be.

Here is what the new QC Looks like:

/*

QC script generated by Half-Life MDL Decompiler 1.2
2003, Kratisto. Based on code from Valve's HL SDK.

clwnofdky.mdl

Original internal name:
"clwnofdky.mdl"

*/

$modelname "clwnofdky.mdl"
$cd ".\"
$cdtexture ".\"
$scale 1.0
$cliptotextures

$bbox 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
$cbox 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
$eyeposition 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000

//reference mesh(es)
$body "reference" "reference"

// 25 hit box(es)
$hbox 0 "SPINE1" 0.000000 -9.420000 -11.250000 14.502832 10.550000 11.450000
$hbox 0 "SPINE2" 0.000000 -7.550000 -10.560000 11.577699 11.170000 10.760000
$hbox 0 "SPINE3" -1.140000 -8.220000 -4.020000 10.909124 10.870000 4.220000
$hbox 0 "NECK" -0.510000 -10.610000 -5.870000 8.858741 11.840000 5.740000
$hbox 0 "HEAD" -5.640000 -11.280000 -6.570000 27.540001 11.610000 6.720000
$hbox 0 "R_clavicle" 0.000000 -10.170000 -6.980000 12.490000 8.380000 9.480000
$hbox 0 "R_ForeARM" 0.000000 -4.240000 -4.140000 15.734390 5.120000 3.650000
$hbox 0 "R_ARM" 0.000000 -4.760000 -4.140000 17.569532 4.590000 3.650000
$hbox 0 "R_HAND" -0.020000 -1.950000 -3.560000 9.030000 2.150000 6.000000
$hbox 0 "R_FINGER" 0.000000 -0.830000 -3.850000 10.101518 0.860000 1.940000
$hbox 0 "L_clavicle" -0.390000 -8.410000 -6.980000 12.290000 10.190000 9.480000
$hbox 0 "L_ForeARM" 0.000000 -5.240000 -4.140000 15.734391 4.130000 3.650000
$hbox 0 "L_ARM" 0.000000 -4.700000 -4.620000 18.040001 4.650000 3.650000
$hbox 0 "L_HAND" 0.000000 -2.290000 -3.570000 8.100000 1.900000 6.000000
$hbox 0 "L_FINGER" 0.000000 -0.860000 -3.850000 9.670000 0.830000 2.140000
$hbox 0 "R_pelvis" 0.000000 -8.990000 -9.880000 11.140000 6.340000 10.160000
$hbox 0 "R_UpperLeg" 0.000000 -5.800000 -8.140000 23.511890 6.550000 10.160000
$hbox 0 "R_leg" 0.000000 -4.660000 -6.090000 29.700001 5.630000 8.190000
$hbox 0 "R_FOOT1" -3.200000 -6.060000 -4.710000 10.496496 6.590000 4.850000
$hbox 0 "R_FOOT2" 0.000000 -2.400000 -6.690000 11.910000 4.620000 6.830000
$hbox 0 "L_pelvis" 0.000000 -5.840000 -9.880000 11.000000 8.860000 10.160000
$hbox 0 "L_UpperLeg" 0.000000 -6.750000 -8.140000 23.511896 5.600000 10.160000
$hbox 0 "L_leg" 0.000000 -5.830000 -6.090000 29.700001 4.460000 8.190000
$hbox 0 "L_FOOT1" -0.550000 -6.590000 -5.020000 10.496497 5.350000 4.540000
$hbox 0 "L_FOOT2" 0.000000 -4.620000 -7.000000 11.910000 2.400000 6.530000

// 25 animation sequence(s)
$sequence "idle" "idle" fps 15 loop ACT_IDLE 1
$sequence "idle1" "idle1" fps 30 loop ACT_IDLE 1
$sequence "idle3" "idle3" fps 30 loop ACT_IDLE 1
$sequence "surprise" "surprise" fps 30
$sequence "attack" "attack" fps 30 ACT_MELEE_ATTACK1 1 { event 3 0 } { event 2010 0 }
$sequence "RUN2" "RUN2" LX fps 30 loop ACT_RUN 1
$sequence "walk1" "walk1" LX fps 30 loop ACT_WALK 1
$sequence "range" "range" fps 30 ACT_RANGE_ATTACK2 1 { event 7 0 }
$sequence "die_simple" "die_simple" fps 25 ACT_DIESIMPLE 1 { event 11 0 } { event 2001 0 }
$sequence "die_violent" "die_violent" fps 25 ACT_DIE_HEADSHOT 1 { event 11 0 } { event 2001 0 }
$sequence "turn_left" "turn_left" fps 25 ACT_TURN_LEFT 1
$sequence "turn_right" "turn_right" fps 25 ACT_TURN_RIGHT 1
$sequence "big_flinch" "big_flinch" fps 25 ACT_BIG_FLINCH 5
$sequence "die_onbigflinch" "die_onbigflinch" fps 25
$sequence "flinch_A" "flinch_A" fps 25 ACT_SMALL_FLINCH 5
$sequence "flinch_B" "flinch_B" fps 25 ACT_SMALL_FLINCH 5
$sequence "crouch_idle" "crouch_idle" fps 15 loop ACT_IDLE 1
$sequence "crouch_die" "crouch_die" fps 25
$sequence "crouchmeele" "crouchmeele" fps 25
$sequence "runcrouch1" "runcrouch1" fps 25
$sequence "gocrouch" "gocrouch" fps 35
$sequence "crouch_range" "crouch_range" fps 30 ACT_RANGE_ATTACK2 1 { event 7 0 }
$sequence "crouch_flinch" "crouch_flinch" fps 25 ACT_SMALL_FLINCH 5
$sequence "crouch_t_right" "crouch_t_right" fps 25 ACT_TURN_RIGHT 1
$sequence "crouch_t_left" "crouch_t_left" fps 35 ACT_TURN_RIGHT 1

// End of QC script.

Yeah, so far, enemies running in place is the only hurdle we have. They jump and crouch and attack, but they just can't reach the player, haha. And remember, we're not editing models, we are flat-out starting from scratch - so there's places where things can go wrong. My modeler/animator, Alejandro is making an account here to better explain his situation and what he did.

"Reading the main conversation, seems that the animation loopback at the end, I checked the animations in max and they are right but the animaiton in the compiled model ends 1 frame before the real end :S"

Here is the QC:

$modelname "clwnofdky.mdl"
$cd ".\"
$cdtexture ".\"
$scale 1
$cliptotextures

$bbox 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
$cbox 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
$eyeposition 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
$origin 0 0 0
//reference mesh(es)
$body "reference" "reference"
// 1 animation sequence(s)
// 2 skin families
$sequence "idle" "idle" fps 15 loop ACT_IDLE 1
$sequence "idle1" "idle1" fps 30 loop ACT_IDLE 1
$sequence "idle3" "idle3" fps 30 loop ACT_IDLE 1
$sequence "surprise" "surprise" fps 30
$sequence "attack" "attack" fps 30 ACT_MELEE_ATTACK1 1 { event 3 14 } { event 2010 14 }
$sequence "RUN1" "RUN1" LX fps 30 loop ACT_RUN 1
$sequence "walk" "walk" LX fps 30 loop ACT_WALK 1
$sequence "range" "range" fps 30 ACT_RANGE_ATTACK2 1 { event 7 36 }
$sequence "die_simple" "die_simple" fps 25 ACT_DIESIMPLE 1 { event 11 3 } { event 2001 10 }
$sequence "die_violent" "die_violent" fps 25 ACT_DIE_HEADSHOT 1 { event 11 1 } { event 2001 20 }
$sequence "turn_left" "turn_left" fps 25 ACT_TURN_LEFT 1
$sequence "turn_right" "turn_right" fps 25 ACT_TURN_RIGHT 1
$sequence "big_flinch" "big_flinch" fps 25 ACT_BIG_FLINCH 5
$sequence "die_onbigflinch" "die_onbigflinch" fps 25
$sequence "flinch_A" "flinch_A" fps 25 ACT_SMALL_FLINCH 5
$sequence "flinch_B" "flinch_B" fps 25 ACT_SMALL_FLINCH 5
//crouch animations
$sequence "crouch_idle" "crouch_idle" fps 15 loop ACT_IDLE 1
$sequence "crouch_die" "crouch_die" fps 25
$sequence "crouchmeele" "crouchmeele" fps 25
$sequence "runcrouch" "runcrouch" fps 25
$sequence "gocrouch" "gocrouch" fps 35
$sequence "crouch_range" "crouch_range" fps 30 ACT_RANGE_ATTACK2 1 { event 7 36 }
$sequence "crouch_flinch" "crouch_flinch" fps 25 ACT_SMALL_FLINCH 5
$sequence "crouch_t_right" "crouch_t_right" fps 25 ACT_TURN_RIGHT 1
$sequence "crouch_t_left" "crouch_t_left" fps 35 ACT_TURN_RIGHT 1

Qc's? My coder is talking about "Lock X".

Alright, now for a little more trouble of a different sort. How do you properly inplement walking and running animations for your NPCs and monsters? I have custom creatures that are being coded, but they run in place. The coder has stated that they must move forward within the animation, so the modeler/animator made them move forward in a way that they actually walk/run almost off-screen in HLMV, then reset at the starting point and begin again. Not sure that is the correct way. Anyone have experience with this? My monsters won't be very scary if they are running in place.

I'm addicted to transparent textures now...Spider webs, fallen leaf cover...YOU NAME IT! I can't stop making them!

I can try that last one! I may end up starting over from scratch with some.

Hey, your suggestions of doing a replace color, and color select REALLY helped!

That would be very helpful, Discostu! I was able to get 256 colors working properly in photoshop. I thought I had been working in 256 all along, but it turns out I wasn't. I switched the format to master perceptual indexed color and that gave me the full 256 colors I was searching for. That last color (255)change needs to be done in Photoshop only it seems. I can't seem to swap or translate colors in wally and have it work. The problem I have now, is that the 255th color seems to be a necessary one in some of my darker textures. So, naturally, when I make that blue, it takes a huge chunk out of my image and ruins it. I thought a good fix would be swapping colors in wally, and flooding them. Didn't work oddly. I got a few textures to work, but some aren't going so quietly!

Yeah, fiddled around...on my burned textures, I can't change the last color in the palette to blue because those last colors are black, and...well, they need to stay black in order for the image not to look like swiss cheese. ATM I'm trying to get some masked dead tree textures, and since they are blackened and burned, the dark colors go to the bottom - subsequently where I need to make my transparency color...number 255. If I change it...well, it appears the trees dissappear.

I prefer wetransfer. You can PM me your email! Should take but a moment.

If you could, that would be wonderful, and if you told me exactly what you did, I would be very grateful! Also, it appears I only have 163 colors! Uh oh. How should I send it? So apparently...I have some problems.

I went through and replaced a bunch of pixels in a snap in Photoshop. It's just it appears I'm literally not dealing with a full deck! If you look at the picture I linked, you'll see exactly what I mean. What am I supposed to do with all of those back squares? And, what to do about the transparent part being so far from the 255th slot?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-rats-parasomnia/images/tree-problems#mediaform

Alright, I'm this far...as you can see, the part I wish to be transparent is very far from the 255th slot! What should my next step be?

I made the part I want transparent red for convenience.

Alright, so how would I go about making this properly?

Here's another example. I can get rid of all the extra blues...however...the circled color is the one that is supposed to be the background! As you can see, it isn't the last one on the list. Can it be moved?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-rats-parasomnia/images/more-woes#mediaform

http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-rats-parasomnia/images/transparency-woes#mediaform

Here's a picture of my pallete.

Well, I went into wally and changed the remaining black spaces into 0,0,255. Didn't work. Going into photoshop. Even when I just simply paint pure blue onto an image and don't start off with a transparent channel in PS, it doesn't wanna' cooperate. Going to try the color palete thing in PS.

Update: That didn't work, either.

Anywhere I can send the textures? I'm still convinced the problem lies in the palete.

Oh boy, he's at it again! Well, I won't be moaning too much here...I've got a team now to share the burden with. Yet there are still some slight hiccups, as I am learning a new skill set. My first question is regarding masked textures. The last color in my pallete or color table is 0,0,255, in Photoshop AND Wally, I have the appropriate texture flag set "{", and I have the func_wall set to Solid, 255.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? I know it isn't my computer settings, either. I can't help but think I messed up somewhere in the process of making it. I did start with an alpha channel, or transparent background in PS, but I used the paint bucket tool to make that pure blue at 0,0,255, then I stuck a stair railing over it that I cut the background out of so the blue would replace the background - leaving just the railing on a blue background. Should I have just used a different method? Just painted straight blue onto the places I wanted it in the beginning? When I finish the texture, it's an indexed .bmp, 8-bit, 256-color, so I thought that would get rid of the alpha channel.

Needless to say, the textures just don't work properly. the blue shows up in-game.

This is going to turn into the Parasomnia thread pretty soon...But, I thought I'd contribute something, too. I have it in my mind to do a neat little tutorial regarding func_wall_toggles, multi_managers, texture editing, and real-time structural damage from fire as it propagates throughout an area.

I am ALL over this! Finally, someone I can help! I'm not sure I 100% understand exactly what your problem is, but it SOUNDS familiar.

Sticking the trigger_changelevel in an inaccessible area. Yes, you got that right. You need a trigger in both maps, though. The truth is, you're probably not spawning in the dead center or origin of the map, but rather in the exact coordinates that you were at when you hit the first changelevel trigger. When you hit the trigger in the first map, or map1, your coordinates are "recorded" by the engine on the X, Y and Z axes. You will spawn in that same exact spot in the next map, or map2.

So, to reiterate; Goldsource doesn't care if you have a floor and walls there to receive the player or not. It will spit you out at the exact same grid coordinates that you were at when you hit the trigger in map1. Even if that means placing you in the void in map2.

Or you did something wrong with the landmarks. They need to have the same name in both levels.

The BEST thing to do is place your trigger changelevel and landmark in map1, compile it, then copy map1.rmf, rename it to map2. Open up map2, move the trigger_changelevel to a different spot,(in this case, out of player range)and edit the parameters to enable the trigger to go back to map1...even if it is out of reach. Then delete the old geometry and continue on mapping the rest of map2.

Fun Tip: Trigger_changelevels can be targeted by trigger_once and multi_managers.

(EDIT) Just re-read your post. Yeah, you need landmarks and trigger in BOTH levels, named appropriately, or you will default to the origin of the map and be trapped in purgatory forever. Just stick that trigger_changelevel way out of reach and flag it to "Use only" for extra security. It STILL needs to have the proper information - the same that it would have if it was a two-way change.

Wally is my go-to. Thank you much for this!

The other hurdle...I'm going 100% original with everything, down to the sprites and bullet holes...By the way, there any good tutorials on creating decals?

Yeah, it basically has to be a panoramic image that is seamless. I was just in need of a starry sky with a moon, really, though.

Are there any tutorials that don't involve TERROR-Gen? Can I just paint my own in photoshop somehow?