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Major Contest #3 Final Voting Thread

Locutus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:10:53 GMT

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sgt.Sausage (Post 123662)

not hardly, Definitely not the maps fault.

Yeah, waffling as they call it is caused by whichever map was previous to it. The map that you played before it had custom particles, which messed up your particles for any map you play afterwards. D:<

Single CTF - Is It Possible?

Locutus — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:54 GMT

Sounds like an awesome idea. Also, your mention of "progressive spawn-points" gave me a neat idea for my KOTH map. >:3

So I have this cave...

.fortune — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:30:22 GMT

Awesome, thanks a bunch guys. Also:

Quote:

Originally Posted by martijntje (Post 123515)

1) no, the problems isnt the cave, making it a cave doesnt obstruct you a lot, even if you didnt make that a cave, it should be a least twice as wide

Advice taken, the upper path now extends out to where the lower one drops down. :)

Compile windows error

tehn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:25:30 GMT

try what Nutomic said, I know I get the ClientRegistry error with steam alone, though I'm not sure if it's the same thing, I usually delete the ClientRegistry.blob located in the STEAM folder of your computer. Then restart steam and things are off for me again.

Ian Boswell's map reviews

Fearlezz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:37:00 GMT

Hes a game developer, not so familiar with the source engine, thats all. Hes not the type that sits and play all the time, and thats why, these vids are very useful, so we can improve our maps so it also makes sense to this type of players.

Windows server will not work

MrBull3T — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:58:16 GMT

i dont think hes missing a dll. he seems to be starting it by clicking crsd.exe
you should start it by making a shortcut to it and go to the shortcut properties and replace the pathway with: XX\XXXX\orangebox\srcds.exe -game tf

mine is :

D:\TF2Server\orangebox\srcds.exe -game tf +maxplayers 32 -console

Area protal problems

strangemodule — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:42 GMT

They all look like they are set to start closed.

max number of allowed control points?

Nutomic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:27:33 GMT

Im not quite sure if it works, but i think you can just set all your cps except 1 and 2 to start locked, and as 2 is capped, you fire the output:
OnFullyCapped | cp3 | Unlock (not sure if these are the exact outputs or if they even exist)

Ultimate Mapping Resource Pack

Pseudo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:15:10 GMT

Quote:

Originally Posted by r3dw3r3w0lf (Post 123512)

can you like zip the files up and hand them out?

You can use 7-Zip to open the exe and extract the files.

Remaking valve maps

FireSlash — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:26:05 GMT

Quote:

Originally Posted by grazr (Post 123411)

Why not take that a step further and read them all out just to rub the ironic point in.

The full mind-numbing list

And it grows. Almost every day it grows. :crying:

[Tutorial] Areaportals - All you need to know

Psy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:57 GMT

Each areaportal would need a unique name if it is to be linked and controlled by a func_door. You don't need every areaportal in an area to be linked and so they can just remain open.

Checkerboard Shadows and a few other things

FaTony — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:57:37 GMT

1. vmt points to non-existing vtf for a normal map. Use another texture. That's a broken valve one.

take plr_animus_a8 off the rotation

MrAlBobo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:01:51 GMT

any word on why arctic seems to frequently crash clients?

[Tutorial] The complete guide to decompiling and recompiling models!

BoyLee — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:46:21 GMT

Not meaning to sound like an idiot, but how do I get the decompiled model into SoftImage?
It doesn't seem to want to swallow smd's via import or straight opening :S

Nerdboy's Theme Ideas

Stormcaller3801 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:40:11 GMT

One thing I've been batting around that's within the realm of possibility is retail. Supposedly RED and BLU are massive secret corporations that control the world, but there's no department stores out there with their names on 'em.

Here's some ideas:

Glass cases - jewelry, perfumes, watches, guns, whatever- set 'em up and then fill them; likely could use angled, straight, and round sections
Clothing racks - round, cross-shaped, and I-shaped versions, with varying amounts of clothing
Escalators - mostly just a matter of textures though a dynamic prop would be amusing
Wall racks - particularly freestanding wall sections with merchandise on rows of hooks
Soundscapes - The light, jazzy blues sort that goes on forever in elevators
Doors - Elevator doors, glass doors, revolving doors...
Merchandise - power tools, things in bottles, things in spray bottles, things in boxes, action figures of our nine classes, and so on- anything you can think of
Groceries - Same thing here, only fruits, vegetables, meat, and various salty (or frozen) snack foods
Cash Register - with several skins
Signs - Half off, Sale!, Clearance!, Only ___ Shopping Days Til Christmas, and so on