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Posted by Orpheus on Tue May 2nd at 2:11pm 2006

Due to my endless whining, most everyone is aware of my 56k situation. I need to make web pages available offline. I cannot very well leave my phone line on all day. And I need certain pages available while I attempt to re-familiarize myself with hammer.

I know it used to be an option, but I cannot seem to locate it any more.

Anyone remember how?

Thanx in advance.





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Posted by Naklajat on Tue May 2nd at 2:43pm 2006

The only way I can think of to do it is "File > Save page as" for every page you need.

That being said, I seem to recall a "make available offline" somewhere.


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Posted by Orpheus on Tue May 2nd at 3:10pm 2006

? quoting Baron von Snickers

That being said, I seem to recall a "make available offline" somewhere.

Thats it, now where is it hidden?

/me cannot find it either.





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by reaper47 on Tue May 2nd at 4:07pm 2006

I've been on a 56k until about the time HL2 was released so I know the "offline mode" problem. It seemed to me that with DSL getting more and more popular offline features in the browsers disappeared one by one. I remember an option in the favourites that would download the site. This might be (one of) the "make available offline" settings. You're using IE, right?

Also a lot of sites are so "interactive" that they don't even work in offline mode anymore <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">



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Posted by Bewbies on Tue May 2nd at 4:14pm 2006

yea reapers on the right track. go to favorites > organize favorites. lick on a link, and check "make available offline".


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the marching band refused to yield



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue May 2nd at 4:15pm 2006

What I really want to do is, download/ look at the tutorials here and elsewhere and then be able to see them offline.

Tutorials shouldn't have issues with offline mode because most of the info you want is contained upon that page.

I will continue to look. I know that its here somewhere. (in my browser, and yes its IE)

[EDIT] Thanx a bunch Tim. You nailed it.

In favorites you set it for offline mode and synchronization. You can also set how deep to link the pages.. So if the page contains links to other tutorials and/or websites, it will also link there too.. I set it to 3 pages deep. I hope it doesn't over tax my dialup searching. smiley

Anyone else reading this and is on 56k... Its worth the effort.





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Posted by Loco on Tue May 2nd at 5:25pm 2006

The Firefox extension "scrapbook" is brilliant for this, and lets you do various things with the saved pages. It basically acts like a favourites/bookmarks section, but when you drag the pages in it saves them for offline use. You can also save snippets of text and the like.


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Posted by Forceflow on Tue May 2nd at 6:19pm 2006

I remember 'wget' was a tool to download complete webpages ... and 'netcow' and 'black widow' (although the last is a tool to download complete dir's and stuff)


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Posted by Orpheus on Tue May 2nd at 6:26pm 2006

OK, I have searched the site and come up with these tuts:

http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/Levels/displacements.html
http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL2&id=112
http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL2&id=113
http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=114
http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=124
http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=188
http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=123
http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=174
http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=181

Can anyone suggest any others on displacements?





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Posted by Crono on Tue May 2nd at 6:58pm 2006

Practice?

Really, all the tutorials in the world will not really tell you how to use them well. You need to just dive in there.

There's some cool programs out there, such as DispGen, which will generate a displacement "map" based on a greyscale image. Really cool stuff. But that isn't really suited for what you're doing (However, it'd come in handy for getting those rock faces around the dam pumped out <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">)


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by mazemaster on Tue May 2nd at 10:19pm 2006

Make one template cylinder with the outside diameter you want, then make one template cylinder with the inside diameter you want, then make a displacement surface, and manually move each vertex to the correct point on the template cylinders.


http://maze5.net



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue May 2nd at 10:25pm 2006

I made 2 64 sided arches. One really large for the dam, one really small for the inside base. This, when I vertexed it made a satisfactory representation of the dam. after removing the smaller arch.

Can I do the same thing with displacements Nick? It sounds like it by what you just typed.





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Posted by mazemaster on Tue May 2nd at 11:15pm 2006

Yep. You can manually vertex-push displacements if you set the radius of effect small enough that it only pushes the vertex you have selected. Its rather nice actually - like VM'ing brushes without worrying about getting stuff that is concave.


http://maze5.net



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue May 2nd at 11:23pm 2006

Thanx..

My confidence grows.





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Posted by FatStrings on Wed May 3rd at 1:56am 2006

i'm glad you made this thread orph, as i am also cursed with 56k and am planning on finally beginning my mapping "career"
i'm going to make a cs map of the camp i lifeguard at for my senior project




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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed May 3rd at 1:58am 2006

One idea I just found was to get Firefox ( :P ) and simply click on the "work offline" button under File, but it looks as though you got it sorted out <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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