ambiance

Hey its me Half-dude.

Hey, I'm making a map thats in and office complex pritty much like the office complex episode. My problem is that the level sounds boring but I cant think of any ambiance to put in it since it is a office, there are'nt any mechinces around. what should I do?

a radio on someones desk, the air conditioning whining, phones ringing, a modem connectiong, traffic outside, screaming brats in the waiting room. i could go on. offices can be pretty noisy places. :smile:

How about some soldiers chatting behind a locked door, so when the player goes to it they think a load of bad guys are going to burst through.

If you look in the C:/Sierra/Half-life/valve/ambience you can always nick sounds from other peoples maps and any defaults in there.

If you've got a microphone you could always make some of your own up or record strange noises or something.

If you have opposing force, try looking there for a wav file (I can't remember what its called, something like neon.wav) which sounds like those humming strip-lights. That could help matters...

if i may....the only real way to make the ambience of your map "sing through loud and proud" is to do your own sounds.....its really not that complicated, and a hella lotta fun to do.....actually, fun for the whole family if ya do it right.... :heee:

and there are plenty of free sites on the net with tonage of sound effects....personally, im pretty fond of sound forge 4.5 to do my editing on....very user friendly... :wink:

Dr Brasso...dodgy:

We did a short module on soundforge at uni here, seems like a cool program. Only thin I could make from scratch was s**tty explosions and gun shots, but it was fun to muck around in :smile:

Well I guess I should have told you at the beginning that the office complex is in black mesa and it's in the future so black mesa is really old and under ground. so hardly anythings running.

And thats another thing how could I make it look 500 years old with out making new textures? and if I really have to make new textures what program would you recomend? :smile:

half-dude said:
Hey its me Half-dude.

I love these nice reminders of who's talking, in case I'm too lazy to, I dunno, look five inches to the left.

I'd recommend photoshop for making textures, or if you can't ahem afford it then you could go for Paint Shop Pro which is notably cheaper if thats a concern :smile: Alternatively, there is the humourously titled "GIMP" that you can download for not even a penny, and its supposed to be quite a decent tool.

If you dont wanna make textures, and need a 500 year old look, then I really suggest you look for some already made custom textures, take a look at the wadfather...

http://www.planethalflife.com/wadfather

(Hey its me Half-dude) is like my catch frase

and the is supposed to be like a funny picture of me

Not much of a catch-phrase really, is it?

Thu-thu-thu that's all, folks!

Gollum said:
Not much of a catch-phrase really, is it?

Thu-thu-thu that's all, folks!

perks up

catch phrase? like "orph touches himself repeatedly" ???

Just make sure in your 500 year old building that there aren't florescent lights and Coke machine prefabs everywhere.

:rolleyes:

doc rock, its black mesa but you travel 500 years in the future so thus its 500 years old

....well in that case, just make sure the coke machines aren't still working :biggrin:

Now lighting this map will be funny.

imagines huge tech robots shooting light beams down on you

sees lamp down the hallway

....well in that case, just make sure the coke machines aren't still working :biggrin:

And if they are, stay the f**k away from the coke. :wink:

Alien_Sniper said:

....well in that case, just make sure the coke machines aren't still working :biggrin:

And if they are, stay the f**k away from the coke. :wink:

after 500 years, its prolly back in powder form anyways

Gordon: Go on, drink it.

Scientist: No, that's absurd-

Gordon: Not a chicken are you?

...

close up of tombstone
screen fades

<em> ? What the hell kind of crappy HTML tag is that, and what's it doing on my website?

What the devil are you talking about? Has the pressure got to you?

I think Lep took a drink of that 500 year old Coke...maybe that's what happened to his face too

/runs

Cash Car Star said:

half-dude said:
Hey its me Half-dude.

I love these nice reminders of who's talking, in case I'm too lazy to, I dunno, look five inches to the left.

Is that you, CCS? I'm not sure...

....well in that case, just make sure the coke machines aren't still working :biggrin:

This madness!

It was me.

Hmm, doesn't seem to happen when I quote my message

I think <em> is "emphasis", and it just makes stuff italicized; according to that board of idiots (W3C), you should use <em> instead of <i> in certain situations. I forget why.

I thought there was also a <strong> tag to make things bold.

It's point is... to help blind people surf the web? (So people know when there's meant to be an emphasis on something) Being in the UK, I am actually legally obliged to make this website easy to navigate by blind people- or else I can be prosecuted- which is odd, given the illegal porn, spam, etc. which are 'doing the rounds' these days. Bwahahahaha, me as a criminal mastermind, dedicating my efforts towards making life harder for blind people, surely that <em> stripping code I wrote will confuddle them!

Lep, you have a civic duty not to discriminate against all those blind mappers and gamers :biggrin:

Leperous said:
It's point is... to help blind people surf the web? (So people know when there's meant to be an emphasis on something) Being in the UK, I am actually legally obliged to make this website easy to navigate by blind people- or else I can be prosecuted- which is odd, given the illegal porn, spam, etc. which are 'doing the rounds' these days. Bwahahahaha, me as a criminal mastermind, dedicating my efforts towards making life harder for blind people, surely that <em> stripping code I wrote will confuddle them!

i hate to point this out, but being able to see or not, never stopped sexual encounters, so IMO using porn as a definitive against such an action as "suitable to the blind"

I'm sorry, but the image of porn in braille just popped into my head and has me in stiches. :biggrin:

Alien_Sniper said:
I'm sorry, but the image of porn in braille just popped into my head and has me in stiches. :biggrin:

good one dave

Wow, feel the arrangement of dots on her!

Hehe, discovering what you thought to be a woman was actually a man, in braille Er, is this topic answered yet?

Come on, you guys all saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Of course blind people have porn.

Alien_Sniper said:
I'm sorry, but the image of porn in braille just popped into my head and has me in stiches. :biggrin:

lol reminds me of the idea we had to make a giant woman using the terrain editor in UnrealEd.

back to the actual subject, I made a big sound pack that you might find useful, you can get it here:

http://www.cryotank.net/maps/textures/index.html