All this looks very nice, but I'd never be able to do something like this in Blender.
I hope 3ds max will be easier to use.
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Modelling is fun.Oh of course it is:
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UV mapping is an art. Takes an hour or so to grasp the basics but then it's a lot of trial and error.Modelling seems to be not as fun as I imagined.
Some people just have very old PCs so he is making high poly and low poly variants. If under "Hi-Poly" models you mean even more detailed ones then I guess the engine is probably not optimized for them.
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You can scale the model anyway.
Oh, so darlplaces supports player shadows? You know, it looks too good for quake
Oh, so darlplaces supports player shadows? You know, it looks too good for quake
It's strange but I like the low-poly model even more! The hands and the torso look better than the high-poly ones.
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Am I the only one who loves his school?
Never wanted to kill any of the teachers, they all are good and interesting people. If one hates his school then in future he will probably realize how good it was.
Never wanted to kill any of the teachers, they all are good and interesting people. If one hates his school then in future he will probably realize how good it was.
Exactly what I wanted to say.
His head is so low-poly it makes me think it's a cardboard box :D.
Why would you need a low-poly model btw?
Why would you need a low-poly model btw?
When you launched your map with bots first time, did something like this show up?
Bots use waypoints to navigate through the map, and my cs 1.6 supports auto-waypoint placement ("my" because I pirated the game). Don't know does steam cs support that but you can always put waypoints yourself. There's a lot of tuts across the web.
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My dream game would be a game with great replayability, lots of content and which is super easy to create custom content for. The quality of the custom content would depend only on your imagination. Half-Life would be such a game but creating something other than maps for it isn't that easy, and original HL doesn't have a lot of levels, NPCs and gameplay features.
Maybe you need to increase the delay before the next game_text is triggered.
This thread should now be called "win10 laptop please buy".
I'd suggest you to also try to make a es_ map, as_ map or dm_ map. Those gametypes are dying out as far as I know. There are even some csde_ or asde_ maps I think, I saw two or three once.
Thank you both for your detailed explanations. However, I already googled everything I wanted to know but you explained it better.
Started making the second part of the map. It's gonna be some kind of GDI Research Facility I think:
The mappack has no any particular plot yet, I know only that it will be C&C-themed.
Started making the second part of the map. It's gonna be some kind of GDI Research Facility I think:
@Snehk
Oh... Impressive. Can't wait to play Quake 1 Darkplaces port with all those features.
Oh... Impressive. Can't wait to play Quake 1 Darkplaces port with all those features.
It supports also diffuse color + alpha, specular color + specular exponentOk, now I need to figure out what does all this mean...
@xawari
Ok then. I'll give it a try.
@Snehk
So Darkplaces supports bump-mapping?
Ok then. I'll give it a try.
@Snehk
So Darkplaces supports bump-mapping?
Gonna try this QuArK editor out. I hope it's as easy to use as VHE.
Thank you Archie, but it was very easy to make. The hardest part will be modelling and animating GDI and Nod soldiers (If I won't succeed at ripping them off from renegade 
).
).@Unq
Thanks, I'll find a use for it.
Tiberium is power!
Thanks, I'll find a use for it.
Tiberium is power!
@Admer456
I did but game_end just doesn't work, at least in singleplayer. Even in the ending sequence you're supposed to get disconnected from the server when the sequence ends. But after credits nothing happens. I think it's a WON Half-Life bug.
Also, you should include a cs 1.6 env_rain tutorial, since I don't get how does this damn thing work. When I put it in one of my map nothing happened. Then I tried to find something about env_rain at the web and found a tutorial at GameBanana but it didn't help. However, env_rain worked in the example map. Copy-pasting the env_rain itself didn't give any results but when I copy-pasted the whole room from the example map, it worked. Resizing and retexturing the room didn't affect anything at all. No idea what the hell was that, but if it wouldn't work then dm_ascension would have no rain at all.
I did but game_end just doesn't work, at least in singleplayer. Even in the ending sequence you're supposed to get disconnected from the server when the sequence ends. But after credits nothing happens. I think it's a WON Half-Life bug.
Also, you should include a cs 1.6 env_rain tutorial, since I don't get how does this damn thing work. When I put it in one of my map nothing happened. Then I tried to find something about env_rain at the web and found a tutorial at GameBanana but it didn't help. However, env_rain worked in the example map. Copy-pasting the env_rain itself didn't give any results but when I copy-pasted the whole room from the example map, it worked. Resizing and retexturing the room didn't affect anything at all. No idea what the hell was that, but if it wouldn't work then dm_ascension would have no rain at all.
if you'd be an enemy of this factionSo player will be able to select which faction he will belong to? I think Darkplaces engine is not good enough to handle this but I hope I'm wrong, since all this sounds interesting.
The sword looks nice indeed, but in my opinion it looks more like a heroic weapon than a common sword used by the guards, unless it's supposed to.
Interesting. Especially 6.3, 6.4 and 4.7. I wonder how do I make game_end work in WON Half-Life.
Maybe caves are nice, but I'm really bad at architecture. Play Smog map and you'll see what I mean. You can find it at the "Unfinished Stuff" category.
Some screenies for you!
Those tiberium crystals are models, right? They just look too good to be brush-based. Unfortunately my Blender skills are crap. And this map looks far more pretty than the one I'm making.
Added a fade-textured brush here. I think it looks a bit nicer now:
Edit: map is going through the first compile.
Added a fade-textured brush here. I think it looks a bit nicer now:
Almost completed the cave. Only need to add some tiberium crystals and figure out what's the purpose of this cave, lol:
Was just flying around the map and noticed this cool effect:
@Admer456
There's no such thing as Alt+Right Click or Shift+F6. There's just a menu with some buttons that move the texture by 16 or 32 in a specified direction. I don't even know is there a "Fit" button. It would be wonderful if you'd be able to edit Unreal levels with a different, hammer-like editor, but I know it sounds stupid.
There's no such thing as Alt+Right Click or Shift+F6. There's just a menu with some buttons that move the texture by 16 or 32 in a specified direction. I don't even know is there a "Fit" button. It would be wonderful if you'd be able to edit Unreal levels with a different, hammer-like editor, but I know it sounds stupid.
@Admer456
The problem is not the substractive space. I like it a lot and it's so bad HL lacks it. UnrealEd is just... Too complex. Also editing geometry is not as easy and quick as in hammer, that's why Epics even added 2D shape editor there. And of course some weird bugs. When I create a mover and compile the map, the mover has no collisions. UT is one of the best shooters ever, but the editor... I hate it. Now I only use it to change the music on a map.
The problem is not the substractive space. I like it a lot and it's so bad HL lacks it. UnrealEd is just... Too complex. Also editing geometry is not as easy and quick as in hammer, that's why Epics even added 2D shape editor there. And of course some weird bugs. When I create a mover and compile the map, the mover has no collisions. UT is one of the best shooters ever, but the editor... I hate it. Now I only use it to change the music on a map.
@xawari
I watched a vid on Youtube and... No offense but all those "memefaces" along with lots of strange weapons have ruined my expectations from this mod. I thought it turns Half-Life to some kind of an UT alternative so I'd be able to make UT-Styled maps without learning how to use the dreadful UnrealEd (this is the most inconvinient editor I've seen). Sorry about that.
I watched a vid on Youtube and... No offense but all those "memefaces" along with lots of strange weapons have ruined my expectations from this mod. I thought it turns Half-Life to some kind of an UT alternative so I'd be able to make UT-Styled maps without learning how to use the dreadful UnrealEd (this is the most inconvinient editor I've seen). Sorry about that.
I've discovered so many new words thanks to you lol. What's funny is that I didn't know the meaning of some of these even in russian. Yep, I seem to be that stupid xD.
Also, how do you apply a texture on a model? Do you, uhm, paint on the model itself?
Also, how do you apply a texture on a model? Do you, uhm, paint on the model itself?
Another door is opening as an area is being captured but needs to close ifI guess you want the door to open while players are in a specified area like trigger_multiple, and start closing when there's nobody at this area. As far as I know you can do this only in Source.
capture fails.
What about closing a door/activating an entity when the specified team wins... I've never mapped for DoD and never played it so I can't help you with this. Maybe it's even impossible without coding.
You should make the blade longer and scale down the handle.
@Snehk
You should strap the scabbard to the back I think since it's a longsword I suppose.
You should strap the scabbard to the back I think since it's a longsword I suppose.
@Dr. Orange
Uhh... How could I not think about that? Damn it, it sounds so simple and I haven't been able to understand how it works for a really long time until now.
What's interesting is there's no info at the web how it's done, except TWHL of course.
@Snehk
As always - nice. But can you use smoothing on a certain part of a model or you can only smooth the whole model?
Uhh... How could I not think about that? Damn it, it sounds so simple and I haven't been able to understand how it works for a really long time until now.
What's interesting is there's no info at the web how it's done, except TWHL of course.
@Snehk
As always - nice. But can you use smoothing on a certain part of a model or you can only smooth the whole model?
@Admer456
I don't think Gearbox had at least Zoners Half-Life Tools at that moment, but maybe I'm wrong.
And still, how did they make skybox to change during the ending sequence without changing the level?
I don't think Gearbox had at least Zoners Half-Life Tools at that moment, but maybe I'm wrong.
And still, how did they make skybox to change during the ending sequence without changing the level?
@Admer456
You can make a great map/mappack/mod without such effects like moving terrain.
You could make it move slower, then add an env_fade and trigger_teleport with master, and then make an another moving terrain near the first one, so player teleports there, so the scene will take more time.
Also, did you use ZHLT Lightflags for the shadows? Because I wonder how it was made in Op4 along with changing skybox at the ending cutscene.
You can make a great map/mappack/mod without such effects like moving terrain.
You could make it move slower, then add an env_fade and trigger_teleport with master, and then make an another moving terrain near the first one, so player teleports there, so the scene will take more time.
Also, did you use ZHLT Lightflags for the shadows? Because I wonder how it was made in Op4 along with changing skybox at the ending cutscene.
@Admer456
Yes, Half-Life indeed was supposed to have a coop mode. You can find some info_nodes on valve's hldm maps and even a level change on boot_camp which makes the game crash.
What about sven coop... I doubt I'll ever switch to it anyway because I will need to adapt my levels for multiple players and I just don't like sven coop. It's not as satisfying to play as Half-Life is. And I don't think that mapping for a game you don't like is a good idea.
I don't even know will my map compile without problems like missing faces anyway so first I need to compile it, fix all errors I can find and maybe then I'll think about SC.
However if I could make sp maps for sc with it's features I'd switch.
Yes, Half-Life indeed was supposed to have a coop mode. You can find some info_nodes on valve's hldm maps and even a level change on boot_camp which makes the game crash.
What about sven coop... I doubt I'll ever switch to it anyway because I will need to adapt my levels for multiple players and I just don't like sven coop. It's not as satisfying to play as Half-Life is. And I don't think that mapping for a game you don't like is a good idea.
I don't even know will my map compile without problems like missing faces anyway so first I need to compile it, fix all errors I can find and maybe then I'll think about SC.
However if I could make sp maps for sc with it's features I'd switch.