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The project has been around for a couple years. It's been a lot of work, but we are getting close to starting rehearsals with our actors. Right now we are focusing on the mod that will be using this map, and setting up custom models for the map.

I assume you are referencing the background music in the HDRI Walkthrough video. The song is "We want your soul" by Adam Freeland. /Chris

The map is for a machinima show we are working on, titled "The Complex" There will also be a mod associated with the show, that will allow us to perform live with our actors and control things like gestures and expressions in real-time. Right now both the mod and the map are being worked on...

The only problem is that would only work with NPCs. We need multiple actors to be able to log in as players. Also, they will be speaking in real-time, not playing back recorded files. In the end what is really needed is a mod. I'm still in the process of searching for a modder with the...

Right now it's about 3 months worth of work by one person. But much of that time was spent playing with the new features of Source, and getting a taste for hammer again.

I have run into an optimization problem with my map, and I'm hoping someone here has the answer. I've had to remove _all_ area portals from my map, because they (some how) mess up water reflections. The water still reflects the world, but when you move around, the reflection moves with you...

botman:: Thanks for the suggestions. I figured it would be best to ask broad questions and have those who know routes to possible solutions share them. There are modders out there who have done some of these things before, the problem is that many are not on this forum, or reading/posting...

Somehow I don't see valve going out of their way to help modders whos final product would not be lucrative to them. So it looks like I'm stuck at sarcasm filled forums for now. At the moment it looks like I will need to create a simple multi-player mod for this project, since hl2dm does...

Yeah, I got errors when loading the map as well. This was yesterday so I don't recall the exact errors, but something to the effect of nodes being too close to the ground. And when I stepped into the trigger, about 500 crows (literally) were spawned. This was play tested using hl2dm, so...

You don't need to do anything special. Just check the "start on" flag if you want it to start its life throwing sparks. If not, trigger it with a button or some other entity.

Yeah, their site is a great resource that I use for tutorials. I do like this forum, but I have a hard time ever getting answers to more "advanced" questions. I guess I'll hit them up over at the other forum. Thanks.

This will not sound very nice, but I mean it to help: It's a box... a mostly empty box. Where in the world would you find an environment that looks like that? For a first map it's not too bad, but it would never be playable. When you start work on your next map, draw it up on paper...

As far as I know, if you have 20 players and 20 spawn points, a 21st person would not be able to connect, or at least not join as anything other than a spectator. Spawn points are just points where characters are spawned, so an unused spawn point will be no different than a used spawn point...

...you need one for each player you want 20 players, you need 20 spawn points.

Greetings all, I am a designer out of Los Angeles, and I'm working with a Hollywood improv comedy troop doing a live-on-stage machinima project using the HL2 engine. So far I have been focusing mainly on the creation of sets and other "minor" tasks, working my way up to the real editing...