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#11 · October 15, 2007, 2:57 am

Cameras are surprisingly easy to make your cameras move and look at you. A simple flag.

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#12 · October 15, 2007, 7:22 am

Also tested it for a bit. I dunno what the term 'leaking props' means so I just summed up a few things i noticed here:

- Map looks the most 'portallish' of any custom map I've played so far

- Had a weird window glitch. Screenshot to explain: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dianajo/challenge10000.jpg

- Button won't open the door:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~dianajo/challenge10001.jpg
But I think that was already mentioned.

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#13 · October 15, 2007, 8:05 am

Robinson wrote:

Also tested it for a bit. I dunno what the term 'leaking props' means so I just summed up a few things i noticed here:

- Map looks the most 'portallish' of any custom map I've played so far

- Had a weird window glitch. Screenshot to explain: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dianajo/challenge10000.jpg

- Button won't open the door:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~dianajo/challenge10001.jpg
But I think that was already mentioned.

Yeah, i CANNOT figure out how to get that glass to process properly, i origionally thought that it was because of the cubemaps being missing, but any time i add cubemaps everything turns purple and looks really bad, so i'm not sure, in the next day or so, when i totally finish the map (now that doors actually work , I'll probably be asking people if they can figure out from how it looks, to fix the cubemaps

#14 · October 15, 2007, 9:36 am

It is cubemaps. Cubemaps aren't simply placed and that's it, you must go to console and type 'buildcubemaps' then you'll see faces and angles of the cubemaps building the lighting.

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#15 · October 15, 2007, 2:45 pm

Grudge wrote:

It is cubemaps. Cubemaps aren't simply placed and that's it, you must go to console and type 'buildcubemaps' then you'll see faces and angles of the cubemaps building the lighting.

When i run buildcubemaps, it crashes my game. this is the following response to buildcubemaps:

] buildcubemaps
Can't load vtex_dll.dll

After this, I can no longer move and have to recompile the map.

Any suggestions?

#16 · October 15, 2007, 3:17 pm

You have to compile it in hl2dm/css/whatever you are currently using in Hammer to make the maps in. TF2 mapping has the same problem, and it will be resolved when the SDK is updated.

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#17 · October 15, 2007, 3:18 pm

cool, yeah, i just tried that out of shear desperation and found it worked.

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