yo, im pretty much a new member here but i have been using your HL mapping tuts alot, just never joined till now. I guess u can call me a "noob" in the mapping world but i love doing it and i want to become better at it because i love creating my own orriginal designs/maps. Anyway, i have a few problums i need some help with.

1. No matter what tut i read about Texture Lighting, i cant get the bugger to work :furious: any help would be great!! :glad:

2 > Got help from friend of a friend on the ZHLT! thx. (updated)

3. People tell me that a "External Compiler" is better/faster then the one that come with Hammer, but i cant seem to make a good .bat to compile my maps, i would like to get one or be directed to a good tut explaining how 2 do it. thx. :D

4. when making coustom models/sound files for my maps, what DIR do i put them in for them to work? Im confused on that too.

btw. im running the following to make my HL/CS maps:
Hammer 3.4
Got Zoners Working
Using Steam / Condition-Zero
I compile through Hammer -_-

any help with some/all of the above would be really nice, thank you for your time in reading my lame post. lo0lz! :sarcastic:

Gravis - Out~