How do you make fog in half life?

I would like to know how you put fog in CS maps because i wanna make fog in them

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you cant. or at least not to my knowledge.

Jinx seems to be good with special effects, and I think he did fog (no not the ground-level stuff).  I don't see him around here anymore though.

Yes, look up Jinx's website.  Sadly, the only fog-effects I've come across use several layers of sprites and absolutely kill framerates.

Unless, that is, you wish to use the wonderful Spirit of Half-Life mod., which has excellent global fogging.

*warning: Spirit doesn't work in multiplayer (but I have a special ultra-secret copy that does.  Oh yes :biggrin: )

*EDIT: fat lot of use Spirit will be if you're making maps for CS

/slaps self

CS should include Spirit.  Hell, every mod should include Spirit.

Haven't seen this question in a while.

If you have a sprite of one 'fog', you can place lots of fog sprites in your map and then make them wink(or something), I made my rain like this, it wasnt for MP btw

I think the best you can do is to place sprites that have been set to only rotate around the Z axis (see jinx' tutorial) along corridors, using a fog type sprite that has been stretched. This looks ok on some corridors but only if it's dark, and you have to make sure you don't use too many sprites...

Good idea, Jeff.  I saw an NS map that used that same idea, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.  Make sure you put the "fog" in dark rooms though - I tried to darken a bright pit with this same effect once, and it didn't work at all.

Hornpipe2 said:

Good idea, Jeff.  I saw an NS map that used that same idea, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.  Make sure you put the "fog" in dark rooms though - I tried to darken a bright pit with this same effect once, and it didn't work at all.

ns_hera

You could put a bunch of sprites everywere, of you do that then might I recomend making the sprites vary big and to use the ballsmoke sprite.

Methinks Gollum's answer requires an 'in the right direction' category for answers...

Leperous said:
Methinks Gollum's answer requires an 'in the right direction' category for answers...

like i said before "incorrect" and "rejected" are not the same :sad:

Or I could just change it back to a comment from an answer and then it won't look like he's wrong or something. I think. Gonna try. I've done the reverse to close a few unanswered threads a few times.

Edit: There we go. That way half-right answers won't be marked wrong, at least if a mod happens to notice.

Second Edit: I like Scary_jeff's answer.

Also: The old flf_qcity used a few scaled up, mostly invisbile, smoke sprites to create a foggy city; I think the most recent one had em removed to make things easier to see but it looked half-decent, which is the best you can do really. Better than the Hera technique IMO (though that could be due to which sprite was chosen and density of the sprite)

True Orph, but they still don't give you the answer so they're pretty 'useless' still.

Leperous said:
True Orph, but they still don't give you the answer so they're pretty 'useless' still.

yeah, i know you are right, but somehow it hurts to see that big red box :sad:

at least it doesn't count against you in the polls :smile:

What does this accepted answer stuff mean... it all seems very advanced Lep... not seen it on any other forum.

It means that I get to spend my time making sure questions in this forum actually get answered. It makes it more useful for people to reference old posts, because they can easily see through color which posts answer the question posed in the beginning of the thread. When you post to a thread with an unanswered question, there is a drop-box where you can choose if your post is an answer or a comment. It defaults to comment. Since you gave the million dollar answer, I edited your post to make it an answer, and then the poster and mods of the forum see YES / NO buttons above possible answer posts which they can use to make thje post red for rejected answer, or blue for accepted answer. Suggested answers (before anything has been marked YES) are gold.

Ohh thats cool.... do I get bonus SnarkMarks as well?

scary_jeff said:
Ohh thats cool.... do I get bonus SnarkMarks as well?

yus

If you get it right, yes, but if not it doesn't matter. Seems to be working fairly well though, so far avoided a torrent of the same old noobish questions :smile:

Leperous said:
If you get it right, yes, but if not it doesn't matter. Seems to be working fairly well though, so far avoided a torrent of the same old noobish questions :smile:

or,...

we have fewer n00bish questioneers :wink:

with, or without a snarkmark reward, i think the new system is a success.. nice addition lep :smile:

I've seen the method of using ballsmoke sprites scattered about used in a 1player mod once. It worked reasonably well, but I think it's only going to look right in more linear areas (ie not a big open room etc.). Not sure how laggy it could get, either. I don't know that you would need to fix the axis for this effect, in some situations it might be better not to.

What I had used a sprite to do was create a low-lying or ceiling-clinging fog effect. It's pretty limited, but it can look really nice in some situations. There's a tutorial on that here, as well as on making fixed-direction sprites etc.

I've created a few neat special effects for some of my new maps; it can take a lot of experimenting to get something just right. For what you are doing sprites and func_illusionaries are probably the way to go. I would make a small test map of the area you want foggy (so it compiles super-fast) and slowly tinker around with these to see if you can get the effect you want.

(btw, I might make prefabs of the water fountain, 3d lightbeams, and spark-spitting fires from Temple once AHL v1 is out.)