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Posted by Vortiguantian on Tue Jun 30th at 12:43am 2009

Does anyone know how to make those electrical effects seen when a alien warps in HL1? I have tried a few different sprites so far such as env_laser, env_beam and even env_shooter but so far none have given the desired effect. Any help is as always very appreciated.



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Posted by tnkqwe on Tue Jun 30th at 11:34am 2009

Use WinBSP to conver a map with the Electrical 'warpping' effect so you can see how to do it.


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Posted by Vortiguantian on Tue Jun 30th at 1:44pm 2009

I would but for some reason when winBSP decompiles the map it just dissappears, meaning it doesn't put it into the folder I told it to and when I search computer for it it says that it couldn't find anything. Oh, and on a side note winBSP seems to be working fine minus the last statement.

EDIT: I just went and tried a few things with winBSP and it actually makes a linker address map file(which would explain why I couldn't find it last time)but I have no idea how to use it(for anything really).



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 Re: Electrical 'warpping' effect
Posted by omegaslayer on Wed Jul 1st at 5:42am 2009

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Its not a sprite. Its nothing too special:

http://www.snarkpit.net/snarkpower/articles/game/cat/pn/tp/10/Natural_Selection_-_Electric_Arcs





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Posted by Vortiguantian on Wed Jul 1st at 1:31pm 2009

Actually omegaslayer thats not quite what I'm looking for. I'm talking about the green electricity that shoots in seemingly random directions when a alien warps in in HL1 SP.



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Posted by tnkqwe on Thu Jul 2nd at 8:00am 2009

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Create a few lasers or beams in one place,with different targets.


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Posted by Vortiguantian on Thu Jul 2nd at 3:07pm 2009

Is that really it? It would seem then that it would take a heck of alot of info_targets to achieve what can be seen in the test chamber after the whole thing blows up(you know what I mean right?).



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Posted by tnkqwe on Tue Jul 7th at 8:26pm 2009

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Sounds hard but if you start it you can do it for an hour or two.It is all triggers,multimanagers,beams and more.


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 Re: Electrical 'warpping' effect
Posted by Gwil on Tue Jul 7th at 10:03pm 2009

I always thought that was a built in effect. Spawning vortigaunts, especially.



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Posted by Vortiguantian on Fri Jul 17th at 4:59pm 2009

Sorry I haven't been checking on my forum posts lately so it took me a while to reply to this one smiley , but anyway thanks alot tnkqwe I think I know what you mean now(I did some expirementing).




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