To the best of my knowledge iWork has never encouraged/supported/helped anyone on these forums. Don't let it get to you.

FelixGriffin wrote:
To the best of my knowledge iWork has never encouraged/supported/helped anyone on these forums. Don't let it get to you.

post103115.html#p103115

FelixGriffin wrote:
To the best of my knowledge iWork has never encouraged/supported/helped anyone on these forums.

Congrats. I have never lost more respect faster. Ever noticed that I rarely post my own maps, but rather help others? Team Citruz, Portal Stories, Portal Repercussions... Go ask 13aboon, shawy89, ram64, etc who taught them how to use hammer.

community-releases/vendetta-t4649.html

iWork925 wrote:
FelixGriffin wrote:

To the best of my knowledge iWork has never encouraged/supported/helped anyone on these forums.

Congrats. I have never lost more respect faster. Ever noticed that I rarely post my own maps, but rather help others? Team Citruz, Portal Stories, Portal Repercussions... Go ask 13aboon, shawy89, ram64, etc who taught them how to use hammer.

community-releases/vendetta-t4649.html

Owned

It's not baseless. I admit I overreacted, but the majority of your posts seem to be along these lines:

http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/post93513.html#p93513
http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/post95711.html#p95711
http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/post94712.html#p94712
http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/post94709.html#p94709
http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/post98869.html#p98869
http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/post98869.html#p98869
http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/post102206.html#p102206

EDIT: We're straying from the topic. Ace, you can also put your map on the workshop and give people a link to download the BIK file from TwP and install it manually. If you put a script with the video you can also check if it's installed when the map runs.

What lines? Ill grate you that post98869.html#p98869 was a little harsh. But I'm not seeing anything wrong with the others. Could you help me by specifically pinpointing your particular problem?

Spoilered so as not to derail the thread
||I agree with your sentiments, but the majority of your posts (referring only to the ones I've seen, so not including the one-on-one help you've given those mappers) seem to be negative and discouraging toward new members. "I'd rather set my computer [on] fire and kill myself [than] answer you[r] idiotic, inane question", "This mod sounds boring", "Your haircut make you look like a girl...Rate this 0/10", and "Its just some kid who need gratification for every little achievement for some reason" (after the OP had already been directed to a more appropriate thread) sound to me to be intended to anger people rather than give any sort of constructive criticism or help them improve. All of the posts I linked are in response to new or inexperienced posters, who presumably know very little about mapping and such. If I had gotten a similar response when I first tried to learn Hammer, I probably would have given it up immediately.

You're justified in your response to my post, but I don't want to drive noobs like Ace (who apparently want to actually learn) away from the site by telling them to "abandon it completely" rather than trying to help them get off the ground.||

FelixGriffin wrote:
I agree with your sentiments, but the majority of your posts (referring only to the ones I've seen, so not including the one-on-one help you've given those mappers) seem to be negative and discouraging toward new members. "I'd rather set my computer [on] fire and kill myself [than] answer you[r] idiotic, inane question", "This mod sounds boring", "Your haircut make you look like a girl...Rate this 0/10", and "Its just some kid who need gratification for every little achievement for some reason" (after the OP had already been directed to a more appropriate thread) sound to me to be intended to anger people rather than give any sort of constructive criticism or help them improve. All of the posts I linked are in response to new or inexperienced posters, who presumably know very little about mapping and such. If I had gotten a similar response when I first tried to learn Hammer, I probably would have given it up immediately.

You're justified in your response to my post, but I don't want to drive noobs like Ace (who apparently want to actually learn) away from the site by telling them to "abandon it completely" rather than trying to help them get off the ground.

I completely disagree; and you seem to have brought up the same points I and others have already disproven. I LOVE helping people, ask anyone who knows me. It is what I do for a living, and what I do here. Also, the examples you have provided do not adequately support you claims. In not one of those links am I commenting on anyones mapping skills. I fully support and encourage PTI user to start learning hammer; and I will even devote time to helping them and I have already done exactly that a few times. Having read your responses both in this thread and the ones you've linked to, I believe that you are just whiteknighting.

iWork925 wrote:
I LOVE helping people, ask anyone who knows me. It is what I do for a living...

That may be, but I don't know you and have no way to know what you do for a living.

iWork925 wrote:
In not one of those links am I commenting on anyones mapping skills.

"I'd rather set my computer [on] fire and kill myself [than] answer you[r] idiotic, inane question" was in response to a question about mapping.

iWork925 wrote:
Having read your responses both in this thread and the ones you've linked to, I believe that you are just whiteknighting.

Believe whatever you want.

I agree that I was probably wrong about your personality; obviously I'm acting on incomplete information here, as I've never met you IRL and haven't seen your private conversations.

Thanks for your response. I will take it under advisement.

To be honest, I've seen other responses by iWork925 before, and didn't expect anything really different. I do know he has a lot of respect with the higher-ups in the mapping community, and has his hands in great upcoming projects. I'm not really deterred by his lack of manners toward new people in the forum, but I mean, iWork925...If the only thing you're offering is a snarky negative comment, why not just ignore the post? What you're doing there isn't helping anyone, and isn't necessary. But hey, I'm sure you've heard it all before, and probably don't care.

ANYWAY: Felix Griffin, that was a good idea about just linking the .bik file in the description, I might just end up doing that, if all else fails. Thanks for your continued help

What if someone wants to play the map but neglects to read the description?

Maybe on the cover art it could say, "Read Description." or the title would include something on reading the description.

Arachnaphob wrote:
Maybe on the cover art it could say, "Read Description." or the title would include something on reading the description.

that's not too elegant and there might be a few people who wouldn't wanna mess with it that much. but of course the mapmaker could decide to not care about those people.

what are the limitations of making the video into an animated texture? like is there a maximum number of frames you can put on one, do they eat your memory if you have too many, or maybe they just look ugly? I also wanted to do something like this - I will probably never finish that project, but it doesn't hurt to know..

The file size of an animated VTF is proportional to the number of frames, which is added on to the size of your BSP file. The workshop has a very strict limit of (IIRC) 200 megs.

It's fairly easy to set up a script to bring up text on map startup if downloaded files are missing. You could try that. Just set up one script (packed in) which displays the text and closes the map when you leave the elevator, and another (in the download with the movie) which blocks the first one before it can have an effect.

24 frames per second though. It would have to be very short... I guess if someone fails to read the description, I would just let them play the maps without the setup... I agree it lacks elegance putting it in so blatantly... :S

Its actually only 100 MB.

Like I said before felix went all whiteknight on me, I suggest either doing some sort of trailer type deal with youtube or have a point_viewcontrol look at something in the map.

Alright. I guess that's as much as we can pretend it could have worked What I think I'll do is upload it only to TWP initially, so that it can be experienced in its intended way.

Maybe this is a bit much, but could your video be done with point_viewcontrols and prop_dynamics?

Arachnaphob wrote:
Maybe this is a bit much, but could your video be done with point_viewcontrols and prop_dynamics?

I have seen this done before in maps and it can be quite a nice effect. Remember that pbody easteregg in the later wheatley levels.