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@Windawz
I found a good texture from chateau.wad, did some colour-balancing, and forged it into this:It needs a few slight adjustments, but it looks OK for now.

@Snehk
Actually, it looks much much better in-game:(those are old screenshots, but you get the idea)
I basically put 4 sprites around each lamp (one for every edge) and it works very well. Render Mode is Glow too, so it gives an extra layer of awesomeness.

@Crollo
I don't make maps for them. This is my first time, lol.
Hmm, he did show me some screenshots inside J.A.C.K., but even if he does make maps, he could probably use the expertise of an external agent.

Edit:
To actually answer your question: It's because of money.

Well, Slade (the co-owner of GSU) said that it's OK if I put detail in the map. Whatever happens, I'm OK with lowering the detail. I mean, I'd then just make a separate map.

Custom textures - yes, a WAD given by Slade and a few made by me
Windows - well, the window:It's actually more than one texture. 2 wall textures (brick and indoors), 1 window texture and 1 white colour texture. And of course, Null. XD

Mm, also, you're right about the arches. I should use a different texture for that...

Alright, I've decided to, finally, finish de_kobbl.
And, I went mad about the detail:Yeah, if this doesn't hurt my GPU, then I'm a good mapper.

I also put this up:And, since the 'hall' was very boring and dull, I added some decorations:I'll add a light or two there, too, so don't expect darkness there.
Man, I'm so excited because I haven't been mapping for a while now.

Yep, this will be a hit in no time.

In fact, it looks ugly and derpy right now. xd

Now it doesn't look so cute. :/

"I rescued a bee"

In my country, some primitive people would just kill the poor bee or let it drown. ;'(

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Aww, that's adorable and cute. =3

I didn't mean cel shading, I meant actual cartoon stuff, child-friendly things etc. not bloody monsters.

Now I wonder why Quake never had cartoony mods. Or had it?

Aww, it looks so cute! =3

Hmm, de_storm textures, eh? Fun fact: my map de_kobbl uses de_storm textures. :3

Also, darn... I forgot to upload some of those screenshots about the film. I'll do it tomorrow after I spend some time programming that robot.

"imagine a voice of a 14 years-old nerd with heavy russian Red Alert-like accent."

Sheesh, imagine the voice of a 15-year-old Bosnian guy with a somewhat German accent, who sounds like he's twice his age. Truly, I haven't played a multiplayer game with someone other than my brother for a very, but very long time. Hmm... :]

Yeah, Shift+F6 was my idea.
I just had to find a way how to copy the projection of one face to another. J.A.C.K. had this option, though I'm not sure whether Hammer 3.x.x supports it. :/

I also always use Null for my untextured faces, and I've rarely used Bevel. No clipnode problems whatsoever. Maybe it's my compiling tools, lol. Or should I have used "-cliptype precise"? I don't know...

Remember my destruction sequence? Well, the map demo_1 is done and now I'm working on demo_2:The platform is just a placeholder for the helicopter which I will borrow from ts_untergrund. =3

@Cd5ssmffan
Looks like I've finally found a working layout, thanks!

@Windawz
That's soooo Quakestyle... <3

@Shepard
Yay.
That's at least considered abandonware like VS6.0, hahaha. I actually used that as my first software to compile my first hl.dll. (I just changed some weapon ammo capacities, lol)

"Programmers have an awesome (secondary) girlfriend in common: the debugger ^^"

You're saying that as if I've never heard of the debugger. My problem was my laziness so I didn't even think about touching it.
Of course, I'm not a programmer yet, so it's not unusual that I've never used one before.

Speaking of girlfriends:
My girlfriend, though, could've helped me but she has an odd policy of not teaching me anything nor pointing out my mistakes during my work. Jody wants me to learn from my mistakes, lol. What a sly fox. =3

"VS6's debugger isn't so great though. I'd switch to the newest version if i were you."

Fine, fine, fine...
How about Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 9 Express? I mean, I'd do the code writing and compiling in VS6.0, but your knowledge about that is x³ of mine, haha.
Also, I doubt I could run the latest one well on my 10-year-old laptop. -_-

@Windawz
Use a reference photo, that's what God said!

"So what are you better at - modelling or coding?"

Coding is my least developed modding skill, sadly.
(lol, right after animation)

So yeah, I'm better at modelling. Not far better, literally just "better".This is a not-yet-fully-textured tactical shotgun model for my Far Cry mod. :3Look at those ATVs.

Also, my first 2 models in Far Cry:

"Sometimes I even forget the date of my own birthday, lol."

Yeah, I sometimes forget which side is left, and which one is right.

"I know that everyone started somewhere, but he should consider learning the proper techniques/terminology if he doesn't want his project to be a laggy and/or crash fest."

Exactly.
In fact, let me launch VS 6.0 (after an entire year of not using it xD):"#define PDRONE_MELEE_BOTH ( 6 )"
THIS thing wasn't defined, and adding THIS LINE ended my 2-month-long problem. XD
Oh, the good old days.

The game would crash as soon as this little PDrone would see me. :3

And that's partially why I'd like to learn all that stuff so I can at least understand the problem a little bit better and hopefully solve it a little bit easier.

Edit:There we go, I at least learned how to add comments. :3

@Windawz
Correction, I used to work on a mod. (if you want an explanation of "used to" and what it means, then feel free to ask)

Yes, I worked on a mod in my good old days.
Basically, that's the time when I first met the concept of furries. I wanted to add new characters to fit this new setting and I thought that (at first) human-like gamer foxes co-existing with humans would be a cool idea.

Later I thought I should add human-like wolves etc. and I also met Jody in the meantime, but the truth is, I've never implemented ANY of those. XD
It's because my modelling skills were the ones of a 13-year-old.

Then time passed on as I kept toying around with mostly meaningless maps (i.e. test maps nobody except me cares about) and I eventually dipped into coding. Funnily enough, despite having 0 experience in C++, I was able to copy-paste some tutorials' codes and fix the errors which came with them after compiling!

And mid 2016 was really the time when I admitted to myself that I should give up on it due to my low skills. Later I confirmed that by announcing the mod's stop of development.

The development, however, got carried to another mod and it has much more potential (and success). Basically, I'm talking about Quest for Burek, the sequel to An Unknown Game (pr.k.a Admer: The Game). It's a WiP mod for Far Cry 1. I.m.o. CryEngine is a bit easier to mod for because of the way how it works and coding is much easier with Lua scripts. :3

Of course, the only downside to it is the complexity of types of models (even though there are only 2 model formats: .cga (animated) and .cgf (static)) and the software you work with to make the models. But I can cope with that!

So yeah, that HL mod gave me a lot. It made me establish my foundation for my modelling and coding skills, and I improved in mapping as well as texturing. I started composing in FL Studio, too.

Overall, it was surely fun but I eventually got bored of it and I'm hoping I'd return to it someday, at least to finish that story because the story is perhaps the most beautiful thing about the whole mod - even if it's about me saving L.o.G. (L.o.G. is a parallel, programmable universe accidentally discovered by dropping a big crystal into a concentrated proton beam, thus forming a portal into it, lol) from total corruption and collapse.

Yeah, An Unknown Game: Quest for Burek won't be about me this time, but rather about someone else. I just wish Jody was real so she could help me make the mod. :3

Edit:
Darn, she's so cute when she wags her tail and gives me that look, hihihi. :3
But seriously, if she had been real, I could've made her player model more easily. But I still didn't because I don't even have the time nor a reference photo of her (the last of which I'll never have, hahaha).

So, what if he doesn't update it as often?
My mod's ModDB page hasn't been updated with photos or articles in a year, I think. Something close to that. XD

That reminds me of ts_untergrund. :3

I wouldn't have limited myself if my Turkish knowledge had been richer. XD
I had to keep my sentences short and simple. The scripts will, in fact, be a voiceover, rather than plain text in the video.

But yeah, it's a very short documentary-like film. I just need to get that A, ahaha, otherwise I wouldn't have made this.

I've never completed HL1. Like, never. I'm in the process of doing that, though, but I don't have the time to play it these days.

My school project about CS 1.6, for Turkish class:So yeah, this is the one in English. Basically, I translated it into Turkish afterwards:It's kind of ironic how I listened to anti-Kebab songs while doing all of this. The luxury of recording in 800x600 at 24fps. :]
Finally, I got a new recording app (Camtasia Studio 8) and it does the job far, far better than HyperCam 2. I hope the classmates won't complain too much about my resolution, ahahaha.

Screenshot #1 reminds me of that section in ts_untergrund.
Nah, a map can never be detailed enough. What matters is the balance of detail. E.g. you shouldn't have a super-detailed room with 6666 polys connected to another room with only 660 polys.

@Snehk
Paused in the middle of my school project and 1 presentation in chemistry.

@Windawz
Moy dedushka i moya babushka! xD

"Dede" in fact means "grandpa". And "Yaşlı" means "old", pronounced like "Yash-luhh" (the "uhh" is totally deaf, don't even pronounce it, lol).

So, I'm making a CS 1.6 documentary, for Turkish class. I know it's odd, but I just want to do it since my "Yaşlı dede" (Old grandpa) movie for GMod is too late to ge made now.

Screenshots coming soon...

Wiremod and coding, hmm...
Well, they have a few things in common:

A problem
Basically, you want to make a car. That's the "problem".

A solution
Every problem supposedly has a solution. There are many solutions, and if there aren't any, then we have workarounds.

In order to imagine a solution to the problem, you need to know how things behave, and what each of them does.

In Wiremod, for example, I used an Eye Pod Controller to make the rockets controllable only when the player is sitting in a specific chair. Of course, I don't know coding enough so I can't explain how anything works there.

The rotating machineguns, however, are a bit more complex, haha. The hardest part was making the rotating mechanism. Basically, it's 2 wheels strapped to a box. One wheel provides up/down rotation, and the other one does left/right.
And to actually move the turret, I used a pair if thrusters and I wired them to the tablet. Yeah...
Of course, this is far from a perfect system, but I hope I'll work on it.

But before I made that destruction sequence, I had made a little Wiremod contraption in Garry's Mod:I don't know why, but I just love making these things, as well as twisted pillars and entity setups in GoldSrc.^ From the back side you can see the rear gunner's seat. The rear gunner is the only one on the ship who controls 2 rotatable machineguns.^ This is what it's controlled with. Basically, if you place the cursor up, the turrets aim up.
Clever, isn't it?
The side bathtubs also have that feature, except they control 1 turret each and have a limited cone of aiming.This is the Central Measuring Unit. It doesn't do anything yet, but it's supposed to display the angles (Pitch, Yaw and Roll, and the speed of the space-cart). Hmm, if I figure out how, I might implement a stabilisation mechanism, maybe...

Yes, it does fly:(sorry for the small size, but I had to keep the filesize short)
So yeah, it can fly, although I will certainly need to change the control scheme. Controlling it can be messy sometimes, especially if you hit something then it starts tumbling around. It's really disorientating.

I wish I could have more appropriate solutions, but I guess it's enough for now.

Well, it actually has collisions.
env_render just modifies its Render Mode and Render Amount parameters (it can also modify an entity's Render FX and Render Colour or whatever, but I didn't need those 2 for this setup).

That's a problem, since the 2nd one is already touching the floor and the player might hit it.

Those were 2 env_renders and 2 func_door_rotatings, if I remember well. I'm in school now, so I can't check what it's exactly made out of.

Who needs models these days... I'm used to seeing coloured boxes. Ah well, I guess I should do something about it.

If I remember well, the pre-configured Half-Life in J.A.C.K. is feature-full. We could use that and merge it with one of those CS Expert FGDs.
Muahahahaha. >:D

Also, to stay on topic:Looks like I am applying env_renders and func_door_rotating's very well.
(referring to the falling support beams)

I thought that FGDs for J.A.C.K. work as well as with Hammer. Is there something I don't know? xD

Well, I am still scared of Slender Man, yet I'm 15.

And, dude... I'll just send you a part of my tutorial where it explains how to set it up manually. Yes, it covers Sven Co-op.

Nuh uh, still good, old Slendy. He could just grab the AA-12 with his tentacles and either shoot you or grab you too. XD

Snehk, that looks like Slender Man without his suit.

Now that I think of it, somebody should make a Slender Man mod for Half-Life! XD
Slender-Life.

Though, that's a dead urban (or should I say Internet) legend, so I'm not sure if making that would be worth the trouble.

For some reason I just can't resist doing this:Boom, boom, boom, crash! And then the game crashes.
Explosion sequences and collapsing stuff will always be my among favourite things in mapping, next to this:(not sure if I had shown this before, lol)
So I was doing some stuff for my tutorial (the big one), and I needed some screenshots to show what can be done with the tools used for brushwork (Select, VM, Clip, Block).

@Windawz
Well, I did use 3DS Max while making these:3DS Max 6. ;]
(yeah, it's because Far Cry's most problem-free model exporter is the one for 3DS Max 4 to 6)

Modelling really is fun. I remember modelling my first tree:And then the second tree and some presents:OK, we get the point.
Texturing those was easy. If I remember well, on the other side it took me several hours to UV-map my quad bike model and to tweak the texture, after which I converted it into the .dds format. :3

I don't know, some people just like beating a dead horse, hahaha.

@Windawz
Haha, you're definitely not alone. In my school, the teachers like me more than my classmates like me. Though, I've got much more familiar topics to discuss with my classmates than with my teachers.

In fact, I demo'ed my school map in class and everyone was kind of positive.

There's one teacher in particular, though. My Bosnian teacher. She just hates video games and believes that games directly ruin people. But we've never made each other angry about that topic.

@Tetsu0
In my opinion, it depends whether someone should or shouldn't make a school map. It depends on some things.
I'd not recommend anyone to make a school map where you kill teachers, haha.
But if you want to impress your classmates, maybe do a school project like that, then definitely yes, lol.

But then wouldn't his anger be gone if he spends time and effort into the map, realising that the semester is over?
That's what happened to me.

@789
But the problem is the fact that some girls will just yell at you not to confront the shooter, and then when he comes, one might go back and pull you and you'd both be dead, haha.
One of the reasons to make a school map is to simulate a school shooting (some might do it for positive stuff like practicing evacuation, while most will just do it to kill their teachers in-game, lol).

Though, my reasons to make a school map were:

• the will to impress my classmates
• 'hate' towards school (I was in 7th grade, lol, there were still some bad grades)
• simply for fun, I like destruction but I didn't know what to make

Maybe the low-poly model is for me, hahahaha.

@Archie
I thought that "furry" as a noun refers to either the ones who are into it, or the anthropomorphic animals depending on the context. :/

Edit:
Big facepalm for me, I rushed and originally wrote @Urby instead of @Archie. Lol.

My dream game would probably be like this down here.
Let's see some characteristics from these games:

Grand Theft Auto 5. Ragdoll physics, a lot of stuff to do, big open-world map (not SO big, but still...) and you've got 3 characters to play with.

The ragdolls - I'd spend hours pushing people just to see how they tumble down a mountain, lol. Poor NPCs.
More than 1 character to control - I don't know, this seems like Lego Star Wars all over again...

Next up: Crysis
You can pick up turtles, boxes, crates, barrels, grab people and throw them.
And, the thing which makes it not a generic shooter is the nano suit. It's cool.
Getting a nano suit equivalent (in my dream game) during a level in the second half of the campaign could be thought of. After finishing that mission, the nano suit can be left in a closet or something, and could also be re-used later.

And, of course, I'd love to experience mapping for the game. I'm a mapper and I'd gladly map for that game.

Then, something with a nice addon system + the Workshop integration (a good example of this is GMod) wouldn't hurt either.

Also, a good deal would be having a singleplayer campaign, and a multiplayer with co-op missions included (as well as being able to create co-op maps).

Now, the game's genre would be along the lines of first-person shooters. I'm saying that because it wouldn't be a 100% shooter game. Hmm, maybe something like a mix of GTA and GMod but without the crime, the adult content, the Physgun and the Tool Gun.

Regarding adult content I meant sexualised stuff etc.
I'm fine with violence, lol.

Now, the character design. I'd love to see furries co-existing with humans there, haha. Don't call me a furry, I just like the concept of anthropomorphic animals and maybe a few more things about them.

And the story would be set in the near future (10 to 20 years from now).
Also, since the furries would be there, an alternate history to it would have a purpose.
Valve's way of telling stories would also be nice instead of cutscenes.

So, that's how I imagine my dream game. I might have left out some things but I think that this is enough info.

Let me just explain all that stuff...

Diffuse colour - the fundamental, base texture
Alpha - transparency layer
Specular - basically, those are half-reflections. They reflect lights only:Basically, the white glowing thing on the floor is the reflected part, thanks to specular mapping.

Specular exponent - Well, I'm not sure. I think it's a... erm... like an alpha (transparency) but for specular? Basically, it defines which areas on the texture will reflect stuff etc.

Edit:
Darn, Snehk answered it earlier than I was able to write this. xD

Try J.A.C.K. I wonder how it runs (or if it does at all) on Vista.

"Really crappy models!"

Still, better than what I could do, lol.