Quote from Sleepwalker on June 4, 2008, 3:07 pm

Quote from Hober on June 4, 2008, 6:18 pm

Ricotez wrote:

Everyone else, I can understand you get pissed off if Portalboat keeps doing this, but still, it's no reason for everyone to immediately respond in such a hostile manner. ...

I think it's worth pointing out that this thread came after a week of posting individual threads for simple questions and a 24-hour ban in recognition of this.

Hardly immediate, is all I'm saying.

Quote from Bulska on June 5, 2008, 2:34 am

slightly pointless to point that out, I'm sure he didn't mean immediatly.

I made some newb questions at start too, but now I know when I need some basics, I look up at the links the guys here sended trough.

For more advanced stuff, I mostly post here, as searching for advanced stuff takes (mostly) longer then posting it here.

For instance, I needed the 'Forcefield allowing players trough but nothing else.'
If I went searching for that in a search machine, I won't get anything useful. Here however, I got fast and good answer without bothering the people here too much.

So do post your questions here, but for the basic Hammer things along with a few basic Portal things, please take the effort of looking it up on your own and just use Google

Quote from Portalboat on June 5, 2008, 11:13 am

Bulska wrote:

So do post your questions here, but for the basic Hammer things along with a few basic Portal things, please take the effort of looking it up on your own and just use Google

But when I use a search engine, it just looks up the words. i.e:

I want to search for "Making an autoportal frame"

It searches for "|Making| |an| |autoportal| |frame|" and not the whole phrase.

And a lot of times people put it under a different title, like instead of "Making an autoportal frame", they call it a "Triggerable Portal" or something like that.

Quote from Hurricaaane on June 5, 2008, 11:28 am

Portalboat wrote:

But when I use a search engine, it just looks up the words. i.e:

I want to search for "Making an autoportal frame"

It searches for "|Making| |an| |autoportal| |frame|" and not the whole phrase.

And a lot of times people put it under a different title, like instead of "Making an autoportal frame", they call it a "Triggerable Portal" or something like that.

Add quotes to your search, like:

Portal mapping "autoportal frame"
Portal mapping "autoportal frame" make
Portal mapping "autoportal frame" create
Portal mapping "autoportal frame" tutorial

Those 4 ketword groups are those which I would use for that kind of search, and I would try each of them.

Quote from Duffers on June 5, 2008, 12:29 pm

Or just go to interlopers.com. Or any hammer help site really. There's probably a lot of links on interlopers (and here, if you read the bloody stickies) that point to a bazillion hammer help sites. I'm sure at least one of them will have what you're looking for.

Quote from msleeper on June 5, 2008, 2:49 pm

Or quit bitching because you have to make more than 1 search, or you have to look at more than 1 article, or you have to do some research that takes more than 5 seconds.

Quote from Megadude on June 5, 2008, 2:55 pm

Or alternatively, as you have been told several times before, just look in the example map to see how to do it!

Quote from Ricotez on June 5, 2008, 4:05 pm

Oh, please, don't start this discussion again... we can continue with it for 100 pages and still don't get one fucking inch further. Or we can move on and stop this. Portalboat has learned how upset this forum's members can get if he violates the rules. He won't do it again (will you, Portalboat?). So stop this pointless bullying.