IN THIS THREAD I WILL ANSWER YOUR SOURCE QUESTIONS

[kleinluka]

pre-compiled

[Tequila]

pre-compiled

Yeah, but you can have dynamic spotlight-esque stuff that swings about etc.

[Skjalg]

then learn how to model

its essential!!!!!!

True!

But there is no good tutorials for us mappers, its like hard to learn how to model... I think some super wise mapcorian guy should make like 2-3 tutorials, made especially for ol' mappers such as us, written so we understand it... with some basic tips and hints.. "how to make a chair" "how to make a pipe" etc...

and we could put it into a new section called guides, where posts that also has guide-like stuff in them goes...

I want a guide forum :D:D (every decent design communties got one)

[Pericolos0]

the model viewer has a show parallax mapping option?

so you can have parallax mapping in source? like virtual displacement maps?

[DD]

Does anyone know where some good tutorials are on the basics of displacement maps?

I figured out how to create them, and sort of paint the heights. But it sucks! I can't find out how to paint multiple layers of terrain on a DM. I can't figure out how to view the terrain in wireframe, editing terrain in textured view sucks!

Sometimes I manage to alter the angle of the height paint tool. So it pushes at an odd angle.

Zaphy?

Also, how to make glass? I tried func_breakable but my brush keeps reseting to brush. !

[zaphod]

god I'm such a pushover. I'm writing some docs.

http://www.marshmonkey.com/tuts/

[zaphod]

I'll see if I can find time to write a terrain tut after I finish my shader tuts.

[zaphod]

the model viewer has a show parallax mapping option?

so you can have parallax mapping in source? like virtual displacement maps?

there is support for this written into source, but it was added at the last second, and it is currently disabled becuase it is not used anywhere in hl2 or cs:s.

[zaphod]

DD I started a tut for the terrain, and noticed what you were tlaking about, the overlay for the grid of triangles is fuct, making it pretty tough to edit terrain.

[Bic-B@ll]

edit: i was jsut able to use hammer on my dads steam accout and i did a quick configure and then it said:

unable to find gameinfo.txt relative to *.solutions

and then hammer closes, can i somehow fix this?

[this is the clown]

edit: i was jsut able to use hammer on my dads steam accout and i did a quick configure and then it said:

unable to find gameinfo.txt relative to *.solutions

and then hammer closes, can i somehow fix this?

I had that too so I copied the gameinfo.txt from sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content to where it was saying it needed to go

[Schmung]

My terrain seems to be working reasonably well, stiched some together earlier and that worked ok, but what does the smoothing group stuff do? Doesn't seem to have much of an effect that I've noticed..

Edit : On and this is a supremely stupid question which I will probably work out the asnwer too once I've psoted this, but how do I scale models?

[zaphod]

you can't scale models.

[Schmung]

eh...

I'm sure it said somewhere that you could. Fuck. That stuffs me over slightly. :x

[Bic-B@ll]

http://www.romeojguy.com/hl2world/CSSHammer.rar

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