Tutorial requests

As many of us can, or will soon be able to, begin mapping for the
source engine, there will be a large need for tutorials. If you have
anything you would like to learn to use, be it the displacement
surfaces tool, physics objects, overlays, or whatever, then put
your request here and somebody might take notice!

question, is it to early to request statics? .. should we begin a request thread for that as well?

i will personally be needing lots of pipes, fire plugs and mailboxes .. and anything else you can imagine on a street side.

Is there a way very slight cel shading can be applied to models?

Through shaders you could do it, but I haven't a clue how. Thats a
coder's domain really, and we are lacking in coders here. Better chance
of that sort of tutorial showing up at the VERC collective to be honest.

Darn. Well, thanks anyway :smile:

Er, getting my water to work properly I've been playing around with 3D skyboxes and they're actually quite easy to do, and should look good one day in a completed map...

I'm having slight water issues too Lep, so I don't think I'm qualified to write a tutorial on that just yet :biggrin:

I might write one on displacement surfaces this evening, depending on if I can be bothered!

Hmm, I just saw those in a screenshot, methinks a tut is definitely needed otherwise you could quite easily never know about them!

Shouldn't we wait for HL2, ahem, the non **taboo** HL2 to be released before making any plans?

Andrei said:
Shouldn't we wait for HL2, ahem, the non **taboo** HL2 to be released before making any plans?

no...

Tuts can also be found here:

http://www.hl2world.com/

think most of them were made for taboo HL2

Well since the SDK has been released, I think the sooner the better for
tutorials. We aren't writing these for the illegal version you know.

And it's good for the community. The sooner we have decent tuts up, the more new peeps we will have in the pit !

:smile:

Two tutorials written - one on the basics of displacement surfaces, and
the second about using alpha masking to vary between two materials on a
single displacement surface. I'll be doing a third one about advanced
terrain using displacement surfaces as soon as I get better at them
myself :biggrin:

I was rather thinking that, not being able to test the entities ingame to see if they DO work, it is possible for the tutorials to be inaccurate, even wrong and misleading.

I don't get what the problem is really, we ARE testing things in game to see that they work.

ReNo said:
I don't get what the problem is really, we ARE testing things in game to see that they work.

i agree with duncan.. but request that you guys save a few for the rest of us to write :biggrin:

the snarkmark lead is about reached its limit already

seriously though, i have not opened the taboo editor in a while for fear of getting bad habits started.. i was afraid the taboo editor would not be like the released version..

since the word trickled down about no released DM version, i have not been as keen on it anyways.. single player sucks with my affliction so.. anyways.. i will be working on some sort of a DM version even if i have no spawn points to add :/

Or maybe someone creates a HL2DM?

You guys are doing an awesome job with the HL2 tutorials. You're hitting my wish list items one after another. Keep it up!

Is it me or does all the hype and that about the new hammer etc make me feel noobieish lol.

I agree with orph on requests, but save that for site suggestions.

Wow, just got the sdk, :biggrin: hammer already sorta set up :biggrin:

$loth said:
Is it me or does all the hype and that about the new hammer etc make me feel noobieish lol.

Is it just me or am I the only one without the new hammer?! D:

I don't have it.

I like actually having a physical copy of games ... for reasons I wont go into here ...

Crono said:
I don't have it.

I like actually having a physical copy of games ... for reasons I wont go into here ...

I'm using a friends account as he is waiting for HL2, and doesn't really have time for CSS, I only got the SDK today :biggrin:

Crono you do realize you can burn a copy if you buy off steam right? Anyways I'd like to request an explanation of the input/output system. It's sorta confusing.

You can burn GCF files, but whatever account you place it under has to have the right to have that program otherwise it will not let you run it. I tried this with CZ, it doesn't work.

And I purchased it over a year and a half ago, which is well before the Steam options are offered. And I like having physical copies of games for more then one reason.

Crono said:
I like actually having a physical copy of games ... for reasons I wont go into here ...

Masturbation?

Yes. That's the exact reason. Self pleasurement with plastic discs.

Crono said:
Yes. That's the exact reason. Self pleasurement with plastic discs.

the question is, do you use the inside circle, or the outside circumference?

/runs

Orpheus said:
the outside circumference

OH MY GOD

now thats just wrong....

Doc B... :dodgy:

...dear god I'll never be able to touch a cd again without feeling dirty.

:O