CS Mapping

[Michaelo]

Anyone got an interest in CS Mapping...? Mike

[Helter]

I started a few, back in the 1.3 days, but I never finished it and ran out ouf time. The new editor for source is totally different and looks to have a steep learning curve. Do you have any playable? I do have a 1.6 server as well as a CS_Source.

ps. Just got a new dedicated server to host my 64 player Battlefield2 on.

[Michaelo]

Have latest CS but it does not come with the new map editor so I will have to wait untill I buy the complete halflife 2 game. Shame I did enjoy building them and yes I have some (very simple maps but no way-points defined)... Never seem to get enough time these days.

Use worldcraft and hammer but not latest as you can't buy it standalone

Mike

[Helter]

I thought it was free. If you had steam installed, you should be able to dl the Source_sdk. Gotta warn you though, I think it was 100+mb in size. On your dialup, that could tie up your phone lines for days You gotta get High speed internet so you can play on my servers here in Seattle WA USA

[HBAndrew]

I made a CS map once, a redo of assault, never did get round to finishing it :/

I tried using the source tools, got a map half done before getting annoyed with the huge memory leak in hammer.

The face poser is cool, got gman to say a line from the simpsons, all synced in about 5 mins and put into a map to walk along a path and say it. Bit harder to do the face animations and body movements though that would take a long time.

[Michaelo]

"I thought it was free. If you had steam installed, you should be able to dl the Source_sdk."

Have a million friends with broadband but when I tried to download it (some time ago) via stream got no link... :(

Think I will check to see if I can access the link.

Mike

I could be wrong... There's always a first time :)

[HBAndrew]

If you bought HL2, then you have all the Source_SDK programs in your steam Games list. Without buying HL2 you get none of that. You have to download Hammer/Worldcraft for HL1 seperatly I think unless the new one can handle that aswell.

[Michaelo]

Did not buy HL2, bought CS Condition Zero!

The main advantage of the new version is the terrain generator. There may be more but that?s the main reason I wean the new version and will probably but it this week or next?

Mike

[HBAndrew]

Do not get HL2 bronze, get silver at least so you get valves back catalog, every game they have made available on steam aswell as DOD: Source when it comes out of beta, also silver is almost the same price as bronze, buying it from a shop will mean no DOD: Source or back catalog of all their games.

So if your on 56k, you may want to get the ~4GB of .GCF files off someone else on DVD lol

[Michaelo]

Appreciated.