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Posted by Damic on Mon May 9th at 5:18am 2005

Bugs in search system smiley

if I search on tables for example then I get this

Search: Results

Searching for tables
Search limited to Half-Life 2, in All/Misc. related pages


Warning: opendir(editing/entities/HL2): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/snarkpit.net/httpdocs/index/query.php on line 71
Couldn't open entity directory
Glossary
tables:no words found

Entity Search
entities:
Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/snarkpit.net/httpdocs/index/query.php on line 73

Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/snarkpit.net/httpdocs/index/query.php on line 83
no entities found: search doesn't include mod entities, so try browsing manually

Tutorial Search:

no tutorials found

Forum Search:
(searching Half-Life 2 editing board)
prop_physics mass / weird behavior
prefabs
can i use the hl2 prefabs like chairs etc?

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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Mon May 9th at 8:41pm 2005

Leperous, here's a suggestion:

I think it would be neat if there was a place where people could request a tutorial. For example... If I'm looking for a tutorial about creating realistic canyons and cliffs, but can't find what I'm looking for, I submit a description of the tutorial I need. Eventually, enough people will make requests for different tutorials and a sizeable "Most Wanted" list would be compiled. Hopefully experienced mappers would browse through these and see something they know how to do well and then decide to make the tutorial and upload it to the site. I think more people would be interested in creating tutorials if they felt that people really wanted to know how to do the things they are explaining. Also, this feature would potentially be a good way to bolster the amount of tutorials we have on the site, by providing more communication and interaction between those who want to learn specific techniques, skills, etc. and those who already possess the experience and the knowledge.

There would definitely have to be some sort of administrative regulation/filtering, to make sure the tutorials being requested aren't too large in scope, or too crazy, or too unclear.

I think it would be nice if the Snarkpit became the authority on tutorials as that would potentially draw more mappers into the community.

What do you think?
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Posted by Leperous on Mon May 9th at 10:04pm 2005

Yes, I've been thinking about that a lot recently too, I'll see how other websites (e.g. Powertabs.net) do things.





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Posted by Andrei on Tue May 10th at 9:10am 2005

Just noticed that most model and prefab download links are borked and have probably been so ever since the site became .net.
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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue May 10th at 2:51pm 2005

This isn't so much as a suggestion as a question about the content.

I was just making a post in the editing forum and I wanted to color code all the entities, options, and values to make my post look all snazzy. I didn't know which color to pick for each, and ended up just pulling up one of Lep's tuts and trying to go by what he did. That got me wondering if there was a page somewhere with the standard for what to colorcode different things when you're talking about hammer and editing.

Does it exist? If so, can someone point me to it? I know that this kind of a silly thing to want to do, because it's not like most people color code their posts but I find it useful when reading tutorials.
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Posted by Leperous on Tue May 10th at 3:38pm 2005

All the model/prefab downloads work, please point one out to me that doesn't?

And I've been thinking about also allowing you to use the tutorial bbcode in your forum posts, but the way it's set up isn't quite so simple to apply :/





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue May 10th at 11:45pm 2005

Someone slow me down before I hurt myself, but I had another idea:

I'm not sure if this falls within the scope of this site (probably not) but I thought it would be pretty cool there was a little box near the bottom of the front page with a monthly (or whatever interval works best) spotlight on a member of the Snarkpit. The spotlight would consist of an interview written by a volunteer (or one of the head honchos if they have time) and maybe one or two choice maps (or models as the case may be) that the spotlighted member chooses.

Some sample questions:
Q: What's your favorite part of the mapping/modelling process? Conception? Building? Refinement? Release?

Q: Do you have any advice for the aspiring mappers/modellers out there?

Q: If you were offered a job in the industry would you take it? Who would you want to work for?

Q: What impact has mapping/modelling had on your real life and overall happiness?

Etc. Etc.

Hmm now that I think about it the interview would have to be pretty good to make this interesting. But it would be kind of nice to showcase some of the members I see around here. There's some great work just collecting dust on the member profiles. The member recommended map could be a great way for some newer members to see some of the good work that's been done in the past.

I don't know if adding original content is something frivilous and unnecessary considering that this site objectively seems just to be a support structure for mappers, but at the same time I sense that there is a strong sense of community.

*Shrug* It's just an idea I wanted to share. Thoughts?
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Posted by ReNo on Tue May 10th at 11:53pm 2005

I think its a great idea but I don't think, at this moment in time, we have the community to support it. A monthly spotlight on members needs a fairly large bank of members with sizeable and quality back catalogues, and these days we aren't exactly drowning in those. Much of the "old blood" has left the community and the "new blood" that has taken its place - mostly those brought in due to soure editing - don't have enough released work. Places like CGTalk and DeviantArt would manage due to being generic enough in their scope that they attract thousands of members, but I think its pretty hard for a relatively small community to have enough content for such a feature.
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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed May 11th at 2:52am 2005

Yeah, I was afraid of that.

Well, I'll keep the idea tucked away in the back of my mind and maybe sometime in the future it will become feasible and I'll bring it up again.
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Posted by DrGlass on Wed May 11th at 3:25am 2005

It would be neat if we could find some people in the industry to talk to. have some examples of ametures going pro? just a little something to a.) get snark pit some non-newbie-mapping-question traffic and b.) give us mappers hope for a better (payed) world.
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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 11th at 4:03am 2005

There's always DesPlesda's interview with KungFuSquirrel, chock full of insights into his creative process and getting a professional career... or not.

http://www.snarkpit.net/features.php?page=articles&id=68

I guess it could be cool to put up some non-DesPlesda style serious interviews with KungFuSquirrel and Finger since both have gone on to work in the industry.
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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed May 11th at 4:17am 2005

I can't believe I read the whole article. Although it was pretty funny in parts.

Refreshingly inane smiley
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Posted by Leperous on Wed May 11th at 7:27am 2005

Reno, Reno, Reno, always so negative I have a plan, and it's called the "2005 SnarkPit Mapping Competition."



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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 11th at 2:30pm 2005

Well it is getting to that time of the year smiley
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Posted by Loco on Wed May 11th at 4:29pm 2005

Here we go again
/opens up new valve hammer and starts on thousands of test maps
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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Wed May 11th at 9:24pm 2005

*takes off shirt* Yessss! 2005 Contest! Brrrring it on! smiley
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Posted by Loco on Fri May 13th at 4:16pm 2005

Here's a bug for you. Just checked the "users online" box as it's at 23 at the moment and it included the following:

habboi :: Just logged on...
habboi :: Browsing General Banter board
habboi :: Just logged on...
habboi :: Just logged on...
habboi :: Just logged on...
habboi :: Just logged on...

That's a lotta habbois...

Also, I can't seem to get past the first page of the Competition thread. It says there is only one reply and only one page, but I just posted on a second page!
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Posted by ReNo on Fri May 13th at 4:46pm 2005

More Habboi's than anybody could handle

I just noticed another bug. The competition thread has quite a few replies, but I noticed it said on the general banter forum that it only had one. I clicked it, sure enough there were loads of replies, and when I went back to the forum view again it had changed to say there were 0 replies.

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Posted by DrGlass on Sat May 14th at 8:09am 2005

site, running sooo slow. FF 4am EST -5

55sec load time on this page.
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Posted by Leperous on Sat May 14th at 8:57am 2005

I think the Habboi and topic-post-count things are related problems to do with the server, and not my dodgy coding. Hopefully it won't come back :/




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