Yeah people just seem to like comenting on the screens you post without actually playing the level on this website.

/shoots self in the head

If by "released onto cs" you mean as part of the mod download, here is a handy-dandy list of possible ways

• Send copious amounts of strippers (female variety only) to Cliffe's place
• A bribe of around the distribution cost doubled - since CS is so big this equals 75.6 bazillion dollars
• Make sweet love to n@rby (note: there is no link, the board just doesn't like his name much)
• Be one of the luckiest bastards in the world
• Put together the map of the century and then have Cliffe decide against it at the last minute
• Put together the map of the century and then have Cliffe actually decide to put it in for one release but then pull it back out again during the next release because too many players found the layout 'confusing'

/smacks doggie for setting max view distance impossibly high

1)Do not include .max, .rmf, or .map files inside the .zip for your map.

Why?

• A .max is merely an export for 3DS Max to import [Me thinks.]
• .rmf and .map are the source files to your map...Unless you want people stealing your map and editing it all crazy, dont include them.

.wads are textures compressed into a document, which Half-life can read [Instead of having thousands of .JPGs]

Max view distance is a default 4096, and you should not change it until you have a big map, and a better understanding of 'R_Speeds'.

As for default lighting..Id say dont mess with it. I havent, but im pretty sure its kind of useful...Just dont touch it for now.

A readme file is a .txt file telling people about your map, and you dont NEED it, its optional. A .bsp file is the compiled version of your maps .rmf or .map

www.planethalflife.com/wadfather << Good site for Half-life .wads

Wave Heigh...Havent touched that either, and I dont know what it does. My guess (and its a retarded one at that): It sets the default Wave Height for all func_water's. The Enviorment map setting is the sky you want. Here are some helpful links..

• Counter-Strike Sky list
• Half-Life Sky list
• Team Fortress Classic Sky list

1) Stop running in software mode. Switch to opengl or directx.

2) Reduce r_speeds. If you're not already, get Zoner's Compile Tools 2.5.3 (build 17 if you like) and make sure you're doing HLVIS.EXE -full.

You sound like you don't know what r_speeds are, but I'll let someone else fill you in on the details. Or, check the tutorials section on the site, I believe there's tutorials for how to see them, how to see where they are being drawn, and how to reduce them.

EDIT: Vash, max_view_distance makes no difference on r_speeds. Try playing a game in gl_wireframe 2 with max_view_distance set to like... 128. The problem here is simply that he has more than 800 polygons being drawn at once (it sounds like a whole lot more) and in software mode the engine chokes and won't display more than that.

Alternately, the problem is that he hasn't remipped his textures which can make them black from farther away than about 10 meters. There's another post on the editing forum about that.

Well... OpenGL is only a solution on your end. I suggest you look more into the r_speeds issue, perhaps search the forums or wait ten minutes and I'll help you figure 'em out.