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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 23rd at 9:02pm 2005

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Many mappers for the original Half-Life may have already been introduced to DevCompiler, a program that enables users to compile Half-Life maps. With the release of DevCompiler 1.2 Beta, DC now supports users to compile not only HL maps, but HL2 maps as well.

DevCompiler makes compiling maps a simple task by providing users with a friendly graphical interface that includes several options, well, for compiling maps! So if you are interested in compiling maps, go and check DevCompiler 1.2 Beta out here.


Source: www.halflife2.net [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Apr 23rd at 9:27pm 2005

LONG LIVE HLCC!!! [addsig]



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Posted by Andrei on Sat Apr 23rd at 9:53pm 2005

Are these alternative compilers or a simplifier?
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Posted by Crono on Sun Apr 24th at 12:36am 2005

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Are these alternative compilers or a simplifier?



It's just an interface. It uses the same compilers you'd use through hammer, just that, most people claim "front ends" are better because Hammer doesn't need to be running (saves resources) and most front ends will give you all the options for the compiler upfront as opposed to you typing in all the command line arguments your self.
Nothing huge, to be honest. The ideal "front end" can be easily done by writing some batchfile lines (which is what most front ends do, but there's the whole interface aspect). You can even have a batch file kill hammer for you and launch HL. It can store variables and everything.
In short, people are lazy and want all the work done for them. smiley [addsig]



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Posted by Dark Tree on Sun Apr 24th at 1:22am 2005

Crono....I must say....you must be one of the most negative people at the Snarkpit.....almost every post of yours is shooting down SOMETHING!

I was checkin' out this new vid card...it looks sweet!

Crono: Nope, its s**t.

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Check out this compiler!

Compilers are for lazy people

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I just got this new computer and it is AWESOME!, here are its specs!

Crono: you are going to suffer eternal pain.

(note: these arent ACTUAL quotes, but pretty close)

Maybe you just don't like to sugarcoat your responses with bulls**t, but I just thought it was funny. And maybe I am just mistaking negativatity for something else...you are like the Simon Cowell of the SnarkPit!

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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 24th at 1:40am 2005

Everyone has their niche in life Dark Tree. Our lives would be less rich without the Crono's in them.

Learn to treasure them for what they truly are. He is not what he appears to be. Trust me on this.

/exits philosophical mode.

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Posted by Leperous on Sun Apr 24th at 9:50am 2005

Crono, if people were lazy they'd just do a Hammer compile- that's what I do these days <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif"> Programs like this are useful for telling you what options there are, though (but this program is in Spanish?!)

Pray tell though, how do you kill a running app with a batch file?? It would be quite cool to have an online batch file generator here (with a link in your map's profile, so you don't need to type anything in except the paths, which you could save anyway) though my MS-DOS skills aren't what they used to be <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">





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Posted by Crono on Sun Apr 24th at 8:36pm 2005

I meant "lazy" because you don't need to look up the commands the compiler(s) take and mess with the values. Personally, if I made a "front end" it would give suggested values.

Compiling through hammer is almost as lazy, unless you want to mess with options. I figured that wouldn't be understood.

To kill a task you do like "taskkill" then use one of the options for identifying it. I usually use "/IM" or something as such, it's the "image name", then you put in whatever the application is. If it isn't running, no harm no foul. It would look something like this: "taskkill /IM hammer.exe", but that's from memory, so it may be a little off. Goto dos (cmd) and type: ?taskkill /?? for all it's options, it's just a dos command (You can use any dos command in a batch file... obviously).

I was thinking about writing an online batch file generator, but I never had enough time.

The one really nice thing about front ends is that it saves all your path information. I was also trying to make it so hammer calls the batch file with the file parameters. I know in a batch file you can have up to 9 command line arguments or something like that, so, I'm sure it'd work just fine. It'd be something for the truly lazy, I'd say smiley

However, you could also write a Perl script or something as such to be ran on any platform to compile and it'd be just as easy.

I think if everyone knew what I was talking about whenever I commented I wouldn't appear "negative", but helpful. I'd also like to see the instances where I ?basically said? that someone's new computer sucks. But, whatever. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 24th at 8:52pm 2005

/Me still wuvs you Adam smiley [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sun Apr 24th at 10:02pm 2005

Early days, but worth completing? http://www.snarkpit.net/cp.php?mode=batch



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Posted by Crono on Mon Apr 25th at 1:43am 2005

Yeah.

However, it'd make more sense to create a downloadable one. Simply because automation is much easier for the eventual user.
But, a link up through Snarkpit would be very cool. Something, if people were interested, like an automatic online upload when you compile so your map is always up to date (something that would be set locally on whatever computer you're using) Hell, even auto-screen upload (I'm sure there are command line options that could be used for some resizing program that could be called before the upload as well)

I'm mostly thinking outload though. Don't mind me. [addsig]




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