I hate bumping old post but I need to ask you superjer again how would cover up the hole from being seen in the skybox like the top is nulled , in this map

A lot of my dreams lately have just been super incoherent, to the point where I can barely even remember them because there's nothing to organize them, so I'll submit the dream I had last night because it actually had a story.

I had a dream that I was working out of my house as a freelance movie reviewer. The trouble with this is that the studios would send me promotional materials all the time for their movies and each one of the movies was absolutely terrible. At the beginning of the dream, I was waking up to find a small animatronic doll having wandered into my room and begun staring at me as part of the promotional material for a movie that was a blatant Child's Play rip-off. I ignored it, thinking to myself, "okay, this doesn't work anymore because everyone acknowledges now that dolls are creepy and to be avoided. Video games, movies, TV series, everyone has exploited the evil doll thing now. It's no longer scary!"

With that I went downstairs and turned on a pre-screening copy of another horror movie called Magic Poncho (yes, that was the name of it). The plot of it was that this woman owned a cursed poncho (it was actually more of a bathrobe, but that's how stupid this movie was) and whenever she put it on, everyone around her would immediately start to have blank emotional expressions and then she'd experience a weird adrenaline surge and black out after a short period of time, not remembering anything, but waking up wearing the poncho and covered in spatters of blood and mud. I watched this for a while until I just started screaming at the TV, "STOP PUTTING ON THE PONCHO! YOU KNOW YOU'RE BLACKING OUT! YOU DON'T EVEN NEED THE PONCHO! IT'S INDOORS AND YOU ARE STILL WEARING THE PONCHO! WHAT THE HELL?" at which point my rage woke me up.

I still fucking hate that poncho.

Hey guys, the new alpha version of SAH, rewritten in NodeJS, is now playable at: http://superjer.com/forum/sahdev

Updates from other players and the server are now almost instantaneous. The server is much more efficient and can support lots of concurrent games and players.

It is not as complete as the old version yet. The game will not end at the goal score, and there's no automatic timeouts or abandoning, and there's no voting yet. But it should work otherwise.

Let me know if you find any problems b/c it's hard typo test by myself!

I'm kind of stoked to play around with the revamped game now. I know that some of the black cards we found to be a bit deficient and not-exciting when they came up, but I think that there's also an issue of familiarity. We have far more cards than the original CAH, but if certain ones keep coming up, then their hilarity potential is diminished. I suspect that we'll probably keep on fine tuning it, suggesting a bunch and then removing most of them. There are certainly a few of my suggestions that I'd cull from the bunch because I don't find them to be all that funny.

I was thinking about this earlier and considered that me riffing off a Pixies lyric, "If man is _, then the devil is _ and God is _" actually turned out to be a pretty decent card for the relationships available to it and the kind of story it was capable of telling. It doesn't seem like much on first blush, but it's effective. By contrast, the more highfalutin philosophical black cards I tried to create from Victorian novels didn't work out well, because while it was funny to conceive of certain things in grandiose terms, it was too much of a mouthful to go on with each new iteration of it. I like the idea of over-the-top cards, but I've found that shorter generally plays better and I think that this is an issue we've had with both types of cards lately. Really elaborate white cards can play well, but they need to be used more sporadically so that it retains the surprise when they're deployed.

Good one! XD

White Cards:
My "turkey baster,"
Apple butter

Black Cards:
_____ is the new inside joke amongst the 6th graders.
you'll find _____ around back. go put em' in the truck.
congratulations! you are the winner of the _____ challenge! you win _____!
Wait! why did you put _____ on the internet!?

So basically, I find out that my uncle has died and that we (my mother and I, my only immediate family) have been invited to his mansion for a week-long celebration of his accomplishments during his life.

I know very little of my uncle, other than that he is very wealthy and quite favors a distant relative of mine--a second cousin twice removed or something--who is about my age and whose interests and accomplishments closely mirror his own.

I bring my boyfriend as my +1 and the two of us enjoy the comforts of high society during day one. As the day draws to a close, I overhear a conversation between my mother and a few other family members about inheritance. Since my mother is his only sibling and women can't inherit (thus ruling out his wife and daughter), I realize that I'm the blood heir to his fortune.

However, I also know that his favoritism of my second cousin, along with the fact that his lingering sickness gave him much preamble to his death, means that he's likely to have left him everything.

So, my boyfriend and I make it a mission to sneak out at night and find his study, to burn the will and leave me as the sole heir.

However, as we're handling the will, my cousin shows up. He knows what's going on and threatens to tell. Before I can react, my boyfriend grabs a display flintlock pistol and kills him. We flee the scene, destroying the will in secret later.

The remaining days of the celebration become a murder mystery in which I plan to implicate his younger brother, by pleading that I thought it only natural that my cousin deserved the inheritance because I knew how close my uncle and cousin were.

However, my boyfriend grows weary of the lying and his deteriorating psyche in the aftermath of killing someone starts to grow apparent.
The dream ended as I was planning to kill him, too.

Here's a little thing I wrote about a nightmare that I couldn't get out of my head. I made it a wile ago but forgot about it until now. Enjoy, or don't.

Nathan Jenkins
2 – 25 – 15
That Nightmare
How bad are your nightmares? What are they about? Gore, isolation, small places, monsters… there are many horrifying categories. Well I’ll bet you they’re not like this. If you aren’t good with gory thoughts then for the love of god don’t read this. Got it? Good. Then let’s begin. Yesterday night I had nightmare, but this was like nothing like I had seen or even thought up before. It looked like I was watching through a medium quality cam - quarter. It took place in a school, but it was not mine. I remember four scenes, one person in each. All of them were kids about 13 -15. They were wearing blue school uniforms. I will now tell you how it started. Earlier that day I had watched a popular youtuber talk about how people that knew who he was walked up to him and talked to him and gave him presents and letters. He talked about how he was honored to receive that kind of treatment. Well, I dreamed about that video and then stopped seeing it. If I saw anything at all after the video cut out I don’t remember it. But I do remember a girl starting to talk, like she was narrating a letter to that person. She talked about how much she liked to watch him on YouTube for a while. It was actually kind of touching. And then everything went wrong.
The girl’s voice doubled like two or three people reading from the same script. I started seeing empty classrooms through that cam – quarter view I was talking about. At first I felt suspicion and confusion about what I was seeing as the “screen” flipped through cameras in different classrooms, and then I felt undeniable, crippling fear for no reason. Then I saw her. The “screen” flipped to a camera in a classroom with no people in it, except for a single girl writing on a piece of paper. I immediately assumed this was the girl writing the letter and I was hearing her say it in her head as she wrote it. The voices were still talking. Then a long hanging light directly above her head silently came off its wires and started floating down very, very slowly even though it was still turned on. I didn’t hear it unbolt, but I noticed it alright, and so did the girl. As soon as she somehow realized the light was moving the voices stopped immediately and the girl looked up in surprise. The light just floated there as she examined it. Even though it was at least a yard and a half above her she slowly reached up towards it. She didn’t reach it of course but her hand just hung there for a few moments as if she was reaching out to a lover, wanting them to hold her hand in theirs. Suddenly the light shot down so fast I didn’t see it until it landed on her head so hard it broke the chair and her body fell to the ground. The light smashed strait though the desk and hit her body. I heard the crack of bones and looked at her head, wondering why she was just laying there. I didn’t see any blood on the ground, so it didn’t smash her brain. I then realized that the impact must have snapped her neck and had killed her instantly. As whatever was controlling the light continued to attempt to crush her body more and I assumed to draw blood, the “screen” switched to a different camera, as if bored with the carnage.
The camera I was now looking out of was in another empty classroom, but was in a different place, somewhere in the front of the room, possibly behind the teacher’s desk. I had no idea if this was at a different time or just after I watched the first horrifying event. Before I had a chance to think about what I had just witnessed, a boy in the hall outside the room walked by the open door, completely unaware of what was about to happen. I was still feeling more scared than I had felt in the entirety of the nearly fifteen years of my life. Everything was completely silent, even the boy’s footsteps. At least that is until the head of a small lamp flew across the room quite fast and relocated the boy’s brain and skull. There was a lot less blood on the wall than I would expect. The boy was, of course, completely limp and had a blood splattered hole in his head. As I watched these events I wasn’t even thinking anything, just watching, unable to do anything, I couldn’t even blink. I wondered if I even had a body. These thoughts didn’t help with the fear. All of this crossed my mind in a few milliseconds as the “screen” switched to a different camera.
The camera I was now looking out of was in a classroom similar to the first. It was in relatively in the same position but looking in a different direction: straight ahead to the front of the room. It was also empty until a person walked in (I couldn’t tell if it was a boy or a girl) and strolled to the front of the classroom behind the teacher’s desk. The “screen” flipped to a closer camera to get a better look at them as something small flew towards them and hit them in the back of the knee. They fell to a quick kneel in shock and pain and confusion just before the teacher’s desk flew at them with no warning, slammed into them and pressed them to the wall rather hard, keeping them pinned down. They suddenly let out a high-pitched scream of what I now assume to be either pain or fear. They sat there for a full second screaming until the head of the projector camera shot at bullet speed at the kid’s head and suddenly replaced what used to be their brain. They went limp, letting their head lay in a mixture of blood and brain. The “screen” didn’t switch but looked at this scene for a few moments, as if whoever was controlling it was contemplating something over this image, but then brushed it off and switched to the next camera.
Now I must warn you that this one is the worst. It’s the most brutal thing I’ve ever born witness to. I advise that you skip this paragraph, even if you aren’t bothered by this kind of stuff. But that’s up to you. If you wish to continue reading then brace yourself. This scene looked just like the first one I saw but was slightly closer to the desk that the first girl would have been in. but it was a different girl this time. I believe she had two ponytails on the back corners of her head and appeared slightly younger than the first girl. She didn’t seem to be doing anything, just sitting there. I waited filled with more fear than ever, like I subconsciously knew what would happen. I sat there feeling the suspense, longing to just get it over with, but what I had guessed was far from what I was about to see. I didn’t have to wait long. Her head and shoulders slammed down on the top of the desk with a loud BLAM and I heard her cry of surprise. Whatever was holding her proceeded to push down on her so hard the desk cracked in half and she landed on the ground face down. She shrieked as it picked her up, turned her around and threw her back down again so she was face up and I could see her face. It showed nothing but fear. Then the most brutal thing I’ve ever seen took place right in front of me. She started screaming so I assumed that the unknown force was crushing her, but it was much more than that. She screamed louder and more intensely as her body started to shrink a little bit, and then her innards suddenly became her outards as everything from her neck down started to empty onto the floor through her sides and stomach. This continued until her body looked like a deflated balloon. This force, this thing wasn’t doing anything to her head, somehow keeping her alive so she would continue to scream in pain and beg for her life. “HELP ME!!!” *CRUNCH* “PLEASE, NO…STOP!!!” *SPLAT*. My view faded out of the static and blur of the camera and made it look like I was seeing it with my own eyes. The thing that was doing this stopped and waited a few seconds as tears streamed down her face while she lay in a big puddle of blood, organs and shattered fragments of bone. I forced myself to look at her face and saw hopelessness. She had given up hope of getting out alive, now she just wanted it to end, and the force obliged with one last, brutal, horrifying act. Then it hit me. This thing’s goal wasn’t to kill her. It wanted to make her suffer. That’s why it seemed unsatisfied with the earlier fatalities, why it was keeping her alive. The pieces of her broken desk suddenly shattered into tiny shards – each about the size of my pinky and ring finger side – by – side – and started to float around her. They all slowly pointed toward her and shot into her deflated body. She screamed the most painful scream I have ever heard, and I had no idea how she was still alive but it clearly wasn’t an accident. The shards of sharp wood and metal filled up her body again by forcing themselves through what was left of her skin. This removed the last of her torso’s flesh and left nothing but bare muscle, bones, and holes. She screamed and screamed and screamed in pain and horror. I got a close up of her face when her eyes shot as open as they could go and she let out one last scream as (I suspected) the shards started to slide up her neck and towards her skull; but they were slow, as if enjoying every moment of it. Finally, a small piece of consciousness slipped into my brain and I wanted to help her. I was just about to do something – ANYTHING at all, weather it was move or shriek or look away, I was going to do something. And then everything went black.
For a millisecond it was total darkness, and then, in simple white text, a single word appeared: THYE’S. It flashed for a split second and then my eyes snapped open. I sat there for a few seconds, unable to move. My brain didn’t do anything for a short time, I wasn’t even thinking, just staring at the roof. And then I sat up and slammed my fist on the light switch. I looked around franticly for any floating objects, still disoriented by the pure fear that filled every atom of DNA in my body. I checked the clock; three or four in the morning. After that I had to force myself to stay awake, no matter how tired I was. I really don’t know if those images will ever leave my thoughts for good. Those screams, those terrified faces. It won’t seem as bad when I write this, but you didn’t see what I saw. You didn’t hear what I heard. But there are still mysteries about this nightmare. What does THYE’S mean? Is THYE a person? Probably that invisible thing that killed those kids. I don’t know for sure, but I do know this… I’m totally messed up in the head. No sane human has that in their brain. But at least I feel pity for those children. They didn’t even see it coming. Pray that you never learn what lies in the darkest corners of your mind, because I didn’t write three pages of gore for fun. I really had this nightmare and I feel like it means something, but that’s for another time. Now it’s time for me to go try again to get some sleep. I hope that you got something out of this unless it was pleasure, because if that’s the case then you need to see someone. I would like to thank you for taking the time off your hands to read this. Sweet dreams.

What kind of helmet is that on the homepage? The only helmet I can think of that has that kind of rim is a morion, which is taller and thinner. Should be easy to make though, have some ideas for animating it after I've had an animation course.

Also, that minigame, noticed it when I wanted to copy the url to the image from the homepage.

Or the one from the home page.

This ? Find it a bit difficult trying to imagine it in 3D.

A band I’m in finished an album and it’s insane. If you like Death Grips, Nine Inch Nails, Sleigh Bells, Danny Brown, shitty trap music, any sort of punk/thrash/metal, or puking up blood in the middle of the night, you might like it. You might not. Only one way to find out.

creepher.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-flesh-asphalt

I've been wandering around in Far Cry 4. It's all pretty and stuff. I wonder when I'm going to find an enemy or a story or something. I did find Jesus, at least.

Black Card

Play 3
Help! I can't find my daughter! She's wearing ___ looks like ___ and is carrying ___.

I think it's just a matter of preference. If you can't stand the circus UI so much that it's not worth the performance boost, then stick with 7.

I just find the My Little Pony UI hilarious so it's a double win for me.

Possibly but I'll have to get my certifcation for it first

That's a good sign that you may be cut out for this.

Next you can fix my website!

See I find so far now that im about done with most of my book work that I'm very interested in the idea of learning some HTML, then moving on into Javascript. Don't know why but I find HTML fun as shit to mess with.

How to develop maps for cs:s?i =n your tutorial,you've told about 1.6 dev.,but how about source.what about the .fgd and the wad files?I searched google,like alot but couldn't find anything...
Please help...

I just find it 25% more comfortable. But I find mechanical 30% more comfortable and 85% more enjoyable. And apparently we can't have both.

I recently bought a Ducky keyboard for work, Cherry Browns as well. Surprisingly difficult to find any Ducky keyboards in the UK at the moment, particularly the browns! Do you mean one of the split style keyboards? I'm not sure I could ever use one of them. I know a couple of people that do, though.

DR I feel the same about the Portal 2 run, I'm not sure what I was expecting, but while I respect what he did I didn't find it enjoyable to watch, pretty boring really.

Another thing; I want to make an island surrounded of water that hurts players when he swims in this water, I use trigger_hurt but when testing my map I dont find the water, Like i didnt even create it. Help pls, How to fix?

Is "\games\counter-strike\cstrike\cstrike.wad" the correct location? I doubt that, I think you need "C:\" or similar in the beginning.
Open your list of used WADs and make sure that you haven't misspelled any WAD names.

Ok I guess il just use the regular way that superjer teached us to do but now I get a swag.err and the log says :

hlcsg v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlcsg -----
Command line: hlcsg -nowadtextures swag
Entering swag.map

Current hlcsg Settings
Name | Setting | Default
---------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 2 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
null texture stripping[ on ] [ on ]
clipnode economy mode [ on ] [ on ]
onlyents [ off ] [ off ]
wadtextures [ off ] [ on ]
skyclip [ on ] [ on ]
hullfile [ None ] [ None ]
min surface area [ 0.500 ] [ 0.500 ]
brush union threshold [ 0.000 ] [ 0.000 ]

Using mapfile wad configuration
Wadinclude list :
[zhlt.wad]

0 brushes (totalling 0 sides) discarded from clipping hulls
CreateBrush:
(0.00 seconds)
SetModelCenters:
(0.00 seconds)
CSGBrush:
(0.01 seconds)

Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\cstrike.wad
Error: Could not find WAD file
Description: The compile tools could not locate a wad file that the map was referencing.
Howto Fix: Make sure the wad's listed in the level editor actually all exist

Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\valve\halflife.wad


----- END hlcsg -----



hlbsp v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlbsp -----
Command line: hlbsp swag
>> There was a problem compiling the map.
>> Check the file swag.log for the cause.

----- END hlbsp -----



hlvis v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlvis -----
Command line: hlvis swag
>> There was a problem compiling the map.
>> Check the file swag.log for the cause.

----- END hlvis -----



hlrad v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlrad -----
Command line: hlrad swag
>> There was a problem compiling the map.
>> Check the file swag.log for the cause.

----- END hlrad -----

Ok so since I'm willing to use the Hammer built in compiler but since it sucks so I went to options then build programs and gave it the path to ZHLT executables so it will use them instead but when I choose the compile window and make it compile the map (I made it put the compiled map at the desktop) after it compiles the map when i goto the desktop I only find "mymapname.map" instead of bsp and also sometimes it add "mymapname.max"

Please if anyone knows how to help me then please do

I actually think that they succeded with introducing many characters. I only noticed it because I was watching it with my brother and we're the type of people who keep commenting on everything going on (sorry).


Yeah, it gets strange because of the special titans. Like "Obviously since all of the special titans showed up at the same time, it was planned" and such. It's not a survival show because of this, it's a fighting show. Unfortunately, in my opinion.


I haven't read the manga, but the boot camp episodes are so far my favourite episodes. The first episodes when the world is introduced is slow but interesting, after the boot camp and a bit further on it just turns into a completely different show.


I want to find some "old" anime that I have missed. Other than that, I just go with the current releases, download the first episode of everything and continue watching whatever I find worth watching.
Also, if you want to be infuriated, watch the first 3-4 episodes of Coppelion. The first episode is one of the most intriguing episodes of anything ever and ends with an amazing cliffhanger. Then the rest of the show just kept shitting itself until it died. The End.

Where can i find it ????



And How can I create a bomb target where Terrorist plant bomb? Explain me with details pls :)

hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\cs_dust.wad

hlcsg: Error: Could not find WAD file
Description: The compile tools could not locate a wad file that the map was referencing.
Howto Fix: Make sure the wad's listed in the level editor actually all exist


hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\cs_bdog.wad

hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\de_aztec.wad

hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\de_storm.wad

hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\chateau.wad

hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\de_airstrip.wad

hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\tempdecal.wad

hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \games\counter-strike\cstrike\torntextures.wad




What do I need to do to overcome this problem ?

Oh whoops sorry... <asshole mode disengaged>

C'mon you typed way more than that in the beginning.

But yeah, I start typing and just keep goin' and goin'

Also, SRAW, I have never heard of marmalade and whisky? Usually I find people get pretty picky about anything being in their whisky, even ice.

We could probably stand to have more Neverhood-based white cards, so with that I propose:

A swarm of dead insects.

We may also find functional, as a proposal:

A woman handling a situation with kid gloves.

This is two-thirds of a dream from the night before last. I'm omitting the final third because it was a non-sequitur.



I should clarify probably a few things. The most important is that the hole that appeared at the end of the road, it wasn't as if my mind said "you shouldn't look into that, something BAD might happen," it was rather "don't bother to look into that because there's nothing you're capable of seeing in it." It was implied that there might be something there but that people generally weren't capable of perceiving anything. The rest of the "sense" of the dream was tertiary: I don't know why I biked that last stretch; I had no explanation for the bubbles and distortions but it's important to mention that I wasn't surprised by them and that they didn't have borders and I don't think I could have interacted with them, they were part of a different plane.

I see, I see... so the dream version of Alex succeeds at hiding the pork?

This may be the lowest hanging fruit on historical record.

Also, the mere fact that anyone was able to find that kind of sandwich, let alone a good one, in that part of the world is astonishing. I don't know, maybe it was cooked by that weird group of Palestinian Christians

seriously this card



or perhaps I just keep hitting the 2fer lottery

Basically what it says, you need to reduce the number of wad files you are using. To find the list of wad files, follow this step: http://www.superjer.com/learn2.php

hlcsg v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlcsg -----
Command line: hlcsg -nowadtextures zm_karakouz
Entering zm_karakouz.map

Current hlcsg Settings
Name | Setting | Default
---------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
null texture stripping[ on ] [ on ]
clipnode economy mode [ on ] [ on ]
onlyents [ off ] [ off ]
wadtextures [ off ] [ on ]
skyclip [ on ] [ on ]
hullfile [ None ] [ None ]
min surface area [ 0.500 ] [ 0.500 ]
brush union threshold [ 0.000 ] [ 0.000 ]

Using mapfile wad configuration
Wadinclude list :
[zhlt.wad]

0 brushes (totalling 0 sides) discarded from clipping hulls
CreateBrush:
(0.05 seconds)
SetModelCenters:
(0.00 seconds)
CSGBrush:
(0.16 seconds)

Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\prodigy.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (2 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\tempdecal.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (1 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\torntextures.wad
- Warning: Larger than expected texture (240172 bytes): 'TK_STONEWALLHI'
- Warning: Larger than expected texture (306812 bytes): 'TK_CLAYROOF'
- Warning: Larger than expected texture (272812 bytes): '{TK_PLANTLG'
- Warning: Larger than expected texture (327212 bytes): '{TK_PLANTSM'
- Warning: Larger than expected texture (235412 bytes): 'TK_TORNMAP'
- Contains 5 used textures, 23.81 percent of map (162 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\tswad.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (29 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\zm_boatescape.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (7 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\de_vertigo.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (19 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\decals.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (225 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\itsitaly.wad
- Contains 1 used texture, 4.76 percent of map (99 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\mietek.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (2 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\n0th1ng.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (8 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\cstrike.wad
- Contains 1 used texture, 4.76 percent of map (123 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\de_airstrip.wad
- Contains 2 used textures, 9.52 percent of map (69 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\de_aztec.wad
- Warning: Larger than expected texture (348972 bytes): 'SPECIAL_THANKS'
- Warning: Larger than expected texture (348972 bytes): 'THANKS'
- Contains 1 used texture, 4.76 percent of map (24 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \games\counter-strike\cstrike\de_piranesi.wad
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Warning: More than 8 wadfiles are in use. (29)
This may be harmless, and if no strange side effects are occurring, then
it can safely be ignored. However, if your map starts exhibiting strange
or obscure errors, consider this as suspect.


added 3 additional animating textures.
Texture usage is at 1.10 mb (of 4.00 mb MAX)
0.30 seconds elapsed

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hlbsp v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlbsp -----
Command line: hlbsp zm_karakouz

Current hlbsp Settings
Name | Setting | Default
-------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
nofill [ off ] [ off ]
null tex. stripping [ on ] [ on ]
notjunc [ off ] [ off ]
subdivide size [ 240 ] [ 240 ] (Min 64) (Max 512)
max node size [ 1024 ] [ 1024 ] (Min 64) (Max 4096)


BSP generation successful, writing portal file 'zm_karakouz.prt'
0.55 seconds elapsed

----- END hlbsp -----



hlvis v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlvis -----
Command line: hlvis zm_karakouz
792 portalleafs
2573 numportals

-= Current hlvis Settings =-
Name | Setting | Default
-------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
max vis distance [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

fast vis [ off ] [ off ]
full vis [ off ] [ off ]


BasePortalVis:
(0.28 seconds)
LeafThread:
(15.87 seconds)
average leafs visible: 174
g_visdatasize:52058 compressed from 78408
16.22 seconds elapsed

----- END hlvis -----



hlrad v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlrad -----
Command line: hlrad zm_karakouz

-= Current hlrad Settings =-
Name | Setting | Default
--------------------|---------------------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

vismatrix algorithm [ Original ] [ Original ]
oversampling (-extra)[ off ] [ off ]
bounces [ 1 ] [ 1 ]
ambient light [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 ] [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 ]
maximum light [ 255.000 ] [ 256.000 ]
circus mode [ off ] [ off ]

smoothing threshold [ 50.000 ] [ 50.000 ]
direct threshold [ 25.000 ] [ 25.000 ]
direct light scale [ 2.000 ] [ 2.000 ]
coring threshold [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
patch interpolation [ on ] [ on ]

texscale [ on ] [ on ]
patch subdividing [ on ] [ on ]
chop value [ 64.000 ] [ 64.000 ]
texchop value [ 32.000 ] [ 32.000 ]

global fade [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
global falloff [ 2 ] [ 2 ]
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global gamma [ 0.500 0.500 0.500 ] [ 0.500 0.500 0.500 ]
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global sky diffusion [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]

opaque entities [ on ] [ on ]
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incremental [ off ] [ off ]
dump [ off ] [ off ]

colour jitter [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]
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softlight hack [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]
diffuse hack [ on ] [ on ]
spotlight points [ on ] [ on ]

custom shadows with bounce light
[ off ] [ off ]
rgb transfers [ off ] [ off ]


4390 faces
Create Patches : 38036 base patches
0 opaque faces
553815 square feet [79749488.00 square inches]
4 direct lights

BuildFacelights:
(21.93 seconds)
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BuildVisLeafs:
(14.85 seconds)
MakeScales:
(13.19 seconds)
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(4.66 seconds)
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Indices : 15951652 : 15.21M bytes
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GatherLight:
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58.11 seconds elapsed

----- END hlrad -----

I fixed the hole and after i create the bsp and press the command to enter to cs the game blocks at starting local game server .

You have a hole somewhere in your map that is leaking your world to the outside, so you have to found that gap and close it... also post the whole compile log again please

I got the bsp file and other files and err file and when i opened it it says: hlbsp: Error:
A LEAK is a hole in the map, where the inside of it is exposed to the
(unwanted) outside region. The entity listed in the error is just a helpful
indication of where the beginning of the leak pointfile starts, so the
beginning of the line can be quickly found and traced to until reaching the
outside. Unless this entity is accidentally on the outside of the map, it
probably should not be deleted. Some complex rotating objects entities need
their origins outside the map. To deal with these, just enclose the origin
brush with a solid world brush

P.S: When I tried to test my map is blocks at : Starting local game server

You have a corrupted brush in your map. You need to delete it and maybe replace it.

You can use Hammer's Map->Check for Problems to find and fix it.

You can also use the Go-To-Brush option and enter 214 to find it.

Post photoss of doofy things you find in real life. Usually I just see a lot of silly license plates since WA state changed the format around.

This one makes me think maybe they tried to get a personalized one "AHH!!!!":



Apparently the waitress did NOT want much of a tip last night at Benny J's:

So, say I want to make a program that solves a Free Cell game that I have open in another window. So basically, what I'd want to do is:
- open e.g. the Windows Free Cell, get a random deal
- have my program read the deal from the Free Cell application
- have my program find a solution using for example a state space search algorithm like A*
- have my program execute that solution in the Free Cell application

Now my question is, how do I accomplish steps 2 and 4? How would I communicate with a 3rd party application without doing some fancy screen capturing and text/shape recognition?

Another more advanced example would be e.g. programming a 3rd party bot for a game (without an official API from the game's producers), where you'd need to repeatedly read the state of the game, and execute actions accordingly.
(disclaimer: I do not intend to use any information gathered here to program illegal bots)

I had a dream last night where four minutes of the subplot that ended the dream involved me getting advice from my father on where to get the best drip coffee in the area while the mall we were in was under siege by a combination of demons and terrorists. I couldn't find the first place he mentioned, so I went to the second one where, as plate glass and ceilings were crumbling all around us, I was mostly irritated by the fact that no one serving me seemed to be fluent in English and that they were confused by my simple questions. They too, were completely nonchalant about the surrounding chaos.

This was all far more interesting than SRAW's dream, possibly only because I don't regularly drink coffee

Where did you get the map from? Decompiled maps are very unlikely to compile well, or at all. Unless they are very small.

Also cs_office probably uses more wads than that. You might want to find a tool that can tell you what wads are referenced in the BSP, or dump any included textures.

Wow, I thought this was a thankless job! You're welcome. I'm just really happy that people still find my tutorial useful. I wrote it like 35 years ago! (Something like that.) I think my heart grew 2 sizes today.

Sorry, but I don't plan on making any more tutorials. I'm already avoiding too many of my own projects. Also, what do you mean by "killable animals"? I've got to know.

Find the very first error in the file. Fixit fixit fixit

All other errors are basically meaningless after the first.

Every time I'm about to compile I export a new .map file

Well, my guess is that one of the tools can't find a file from a previous stage of the compiling procedure. Fix that error.

When I'm about to compile my map I get "The system cannot find the file specified",it usually happens when the names are wrong but that ain't the case.

In the log I get this

4 brushes (totalling 24 sides) discarded from clipping hulls
CreateBrush:
(0.31 seconds)
SetModelCenters:
(0.00 seconds)
CSGBrush:
(0.73 seconds)


Edit: The first time this error appeared was because I used the clipping tool on a clip brush.

Now it happens because I use 2 specific textures : Window01A and Window04A,when I delete these two the error goes away.But I gotta use them

A lot of runs have that, you just have to skip ahead until you find the game for realsies.

I was getting all excited about AGDQ and I was bunny-hopping around the room and crashing into things again. So I decided to calm down by playing Zelda 1. After some planning I beat the game in 69 minutes. Woooo!

04:53.56 Level 2 Complete
13:13.07 Level 1 Complete
19:52.29 Level 3 Complete
25:50.02 Level 4 Complete
37:46.34 Level 5 Complete
42:25.82 Level 7 Complete
46:30.70 Level 6 Complete
50:41.58 Level 8 Complete
53:39.78 Enter Level 9
69:04.40 Got to Zelda

I did NOT follow the top speedrunning route at all, because I'm way too bad and need the blue ring and potions. I did use the screen-scrolling glitch a bit and played on the Wii U gamepad (with the analog stick! ) and I wish I had it for NES. I also shorted myself a key, while running out of bombs somehow in Level 9 and it took 3-4 minutes to go find one.

Anyway, the point is, I think I came up with a route that makes the game as easy as possible, while secondarily being as fast as possible. I thiiiink it can be done in under an hour. And I might do a write up on the route and glitches used if anyone is interested.

I'd recommend "Xiu Xiu - Don't Smoke in Bed" but I can't find it on youtube.

You can make a map even if it takes the whole grid, you can even work outside the grid , also upload me the .rmf and ill take a look and see what errors I can find

Aaron Wilson: I'd play starbound but I don't know what it is and I don't have any money.

Aaron Wilson: And there is a lakitu in my house throwing around spiney shells.

Aaron Wilson: WTF

Jeffrey Loynd: I wouldn't suggest you playing it now anyway since it's still in beta

Jeffrey Loynd: KILL IT

Jeffrey Loynd: NAO

Aaron Wilson: I tried, but it was able to incapacitate me... and... Jeff... ... :(

Aaron Wilson: It raped me.

Jeffrey Loynd: ;-;

Jeffrey Loynd: It's ruined

Jeffrey Loynd: Everything is ruined

Aaron Wilson: I am no longer marriageable.

Aaron Wilson: I will become a spinster... my family will disown me.

Aaron Wilson: What kind of wife would I be?

Jeffrey Loynd: One with many quirks

Aaron Wilson: Maybe some disreputable man with a little coin and a drinking problem will take me in as a mistress. I'll be abused, but at least I'll have a roof over my head.

Jeffrey Loynd: You don't have to do that to yourself

Jeffrey Loynd: I'll take care of you from now on

Aaron Wilson: You say that, but your family and mine have always had close ties. If my family abandons me, yours will surely force you to break off contact with me on pain of exile from the estate.

Aaron Wilson: You'll lose your inheritance! And your future as a knight in the order of the black rose! I could never do that to you!

Aaron Wilson: Don't let this ruin both our lives.

Jeffrey Loynd: Don't be a fool dear one! Your love is all that matters to me! To hells with the inheritance. To hells with the order and my family!

Jeffrey Loynd: If they disown me, we disown them

Aaron Wilson: And I know you truly love the young lady of house Vetienne, would you abandon her and your own happiness for my sake alone? I could not bear it, the comfort would bring me no joy, I'd rather live in a gutter chasing rats for survival than see you both taken from each other. Lady Vetienne is kind, and beautiful, and does not deserve this betrayal.

Jeffrey Loynd: Lady Vetienne is indeed kind and beautiful, she is also a decade younger than me. I cannot be happy with a child! I'm old enough to be her uncle!

Aaron Wilson: Well, you are her second cousin once removed, if recall the family tree, but I have seen you gladly share her company! Was I reading romance when there was mere friendship between you?

Jeffrey Loynd: You were, my lady

Aaron Wilson: I hear so much talk from father about a supposed marriage arranged between you, I had assumed you were already privy to it!

Jeffrey Loynd: There is an arranged marriage arranged for me? I will have to have a word with father...

Aaron Wilson: Do not approach him aggressively! This is mere hearsay, and may be banter based on mere whimsy and speculation by my father! I know of no concrete plan to wed you to lady Vetienne. He may simply be fooled as I was into believing there was love between you.

Jeffrey Loynd: I suppose I'll have to be subtle then. But you know better than anyone how bad I am at subtlety.

Aaron Wilson: And yet I find it endlessly amusing, the day you drew steel on Sir Cullen for the mere insinuation he made about your sister. I've never seen a man so ready to beg forgiveness. Woe be to the woman who finds herself his wife, he is a man fit for nothing, if a man at all.

Aaron Wilson: But this distraction has only lasted for so long! What am I to do? If you really wish to leave all your fortune and future behind, would we not be forced to flee the city, mayhap even the country? Your father would blame me, for certain, labelling me harlot and seductress... could I even live with the fear of his wrath? I know nothing of the customs outside our lands, how would we survive?

Jeffrey Loynd: We'll find a way

Jeffrey Loynd: I have friends outside the country. I will let them know we are coming. They'll be ready to ferry us away from all of this

Aaron Wilson: Oh, but I would hate to disappear in the night like some rogue... would be that there was some way to make my sisters understand! They are too young to make sense of this... I dread to think of what they will be told of me, what they will think of me! And sweet Charlotte, she cannot bear to part from my side for more than mere minutes ever since mother died... but I supposed I would be taken from her regardless, by your plan or by my exile...

Aaron Wilson: Curse that lakitu! I would gladly endure its violation a hundred times if it meant no man ever knew of it!

Jeffrey Loynd: Then we must find a way to erase the past

Jeffrey Loynd: Come

Jeffrey Loynd: We shall do it together!

Jeffrey Loynd: *Que dramatic music*

Aaron Wilson: This is making me laugh so hard I'm not sure I can continue the charade? Improv? What are we even doing?

Aaron Wilson: This needs to go down in the history books.

Jeffrey Loynd: I have no idea. How even did this happen?

Aaron Wilson: I can't believe this started with lakitu rape.

Jeffrey Loynd: I just about bust my gut. Which would have been really awkward since I'm sitting across from my boss

Jeffrey Loynd: Bwahahahaha

I prefer to think of Guu as a capricious trickster god. There's never even the slightest explanation as to what she is, but it all makes a lot more sense that way. Anyway, things get really serious sometimes in Jungle Guu, which I think helps balance out the extreme absurdity of every single thing that happens while Guu is around. There's a lot more going on in the show than "People dicking around in the Jungle", it just takes a while for it to start happening.

Stuff like how Weda seems like a totally shiftless, drunken fool of a mother for the comedic aspect of it causing problems for Hare. And then you find out WHY she's an alcoholic, and you're like... this isn't funny anmyore...

I've discovered the means to do so so I guess I'm watching Jungle Guu now (Jungle Wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu, if you can't find it that easily)

I had a dream last night. In it, I was a mob hitman. I was a cold-blooded killer in a highly organized mafia that had a firm grip on the city I lived in. The mafia was notoriously more powerful than the police, did not hesitate to kill anyone who crossed them... and were strangely honest, fair and straightforward about it. Essentially there were three fatally important rules: You don't rat out the mob, you don't steal from the mob, and you don't attack anyone in the mob.

I had many homicidal encounters, one notable one in which I was only supposed to shoot one woman for informing the police about our activities. I almost couldn't believe it when I was told about it, as she had supposedly called the cops after seeing a few mobsters get rough with a businessman that wasn't paying his protection money. She practically commit suicide by ratting us out, and for something the police probably wouldn't even act on!

Once at her house, I got in quick and I shot her in the back. She never saw it coming, all was well... until her husband came home right as I was leaving. Upon seeing my car in the driveway, a dead-giveaway mobster town car, he already knew his wife was dead, and he was frantically calling the police. I was all, "Ah, come on! Whaddya gotta call the cops for, that's what did your wife in! Now I gotta shoot you too! I can't believe how stupid that was! I'm standing right here! With a gun!"

So I did kill him, although it was really more of a suicide. He was, however, coming home from the grocery store, and his daughter had been collecting comestibles from their SUV. Unfortunately for both of us, she decided to steal my car while I was busy phoning my bosses about things getting more complicated. I had left the car running with the keys in the ignition for a quick get away, but it had backfired on me fiercely. Since I had the dad's keys, I jumped in the SUV to chase her down and get back my boss's car. I knew there was barely any gas in my car, because I had been stupid and forgot to fill it up, so it was only a couple of miles before I caught up to her frantically trying to refuel at a gas station. Strictly following the rules would mean I'd have to shoot her too, since she stole the car, even though she had heard me yelling that all her dad had to do was 'nothing' if he didn't want to get shot. So I started yelling at her that all she had to do was 'nothing' if she didn't want to get shot, but I also wasn't quite cold-blooded enough to shoot a kid without hesitation.

I started telling her that I was going to try to get special dispensation from the bosses to let her off the hook, when, unfortunately for all three of us, two cops came to a stop at the gas station in their cruiser. The girl, obviously in a panic, got their attention whether she wanted to or not, and I had to quickly react and shoot both of the officers as well, as this wasn't going to go down any other way that didn't get me killed or imprisoned. At this point there was enough evidence splattered around the place from all four of us bleeding for various reasons that I decided I needed to do a quick clean-up job. Luckily, someone always kept a quantity of plastic explosives in the trunk of the car, so I decided to blow up the entire gas station... I didn't actually check to see if there was an attendant present, so I may have unintentionally killed even one more person. The girl, after both trying to run away and also use her phone (like seriously, why does everyone keep giving me reasons to shoot them!?) had annoyed me enough that I decided to replace the explosives in the trunk with her sans electronic communication devices. I drove away and set off the bomb, turning the whole scene into a crater, and the bodies of the officers into seared particulates.

The headquarters was a very lavish office building with heavily armed and well dressed guards standing in plain view of the woebegone police. I dragged the now exhausted, timid, and thankfully compliant girl up to see the most important wiseguy I could find. The don was out, but the consigliere was in, and that was good enough for me. I told him how crazy the simple whack job got, and how the girl only 'temporarily' borrowed my ride, so maybe I could just... not shoot her... if that would be okay? After silently staring at me during my long tale of adventure he suddenly looked very pleased. He told me he was surprised that I took initiative all the times I should, and that I came to him about the girl. I didn't even need to beg, he demanded I let the girl go immediately. According to him, icing a kid is bad for the public image, and not worth the minuscule chance she'd get us all pinched.

At this point I had time to think about what had happened, and I realized I'd unnecessarily blown up the girl's parent's SUV along with the gas station. It was almost brand new, and I didn't want nobody calling me cheap or irresponsible, so I gave her thirty large as the approximate value of the vehicle. Mind you, in my head this was just being an honest man, and the 'recently having killed her parents' didn't even factor into it. I told the girl she better suppress her family gene for committing suicide on the mob, and also told her if she wanted to come looking for vengeance it would be nice if she waited a few years until she was an adult, so that when I whacked her it wouldn't make me look like a son of a bitch.

Later on, I had a very interesting, if not incredibly frustrating conversation with a couple wiseguys. The mob suspected an associate of being up to something, we didn't know what, but we were looking into it. The twit had been sweating and twitching like crazy the last time a capo started talking to him, and he seemed like he was trying to avoid us altogether. So the three of us had a few words with him at his place of residence. We told him to stay home, not let anybody in, and not touch the phone. It was part keeping him from going on the lam while we checked out what he'd been up to, and part to see if he'd make a run for it, giving us no reason to doubt his ambiguous treachery.

We holed up in the attic of the house across the street with a high-tech x-ray scope sniper rifle, so we could shoot him as soon as he did what we expected him to, or we got called about him being a rat... or a thief... or whatever the hell he did. Now, these two jokers were made men, they had nothing to worry about. Even if they screwed the gig up they'd get a slap on the wrist a worst... but I wasn't made yet, even as hard as I was trying, so I had a vested interest in not cocking anything up. Seeing as these two had only begrudgingly agreed to be part of something as lowly as keeping an eye on possible rat, they weren't taking it very seriously. While we should have been quiet and attentive, we instead had an incredibly insipid conversation, it went something like this:

Me: "Alright, alright, so Vinnie, you're here to shoot the rifle, and I'm here to keep an eye out for trouble, but what's he doin' here?"

Vincent: "I'm not Vinnie you goof, dats Vinnie."

Me: "You're messing with me, the boss called you Vinnie not twenty minutes ago."

Vinnie: "Nah, we call me Vinnie, we call him Vincent."

Me: "Wait, you're both Vinnie?"

Vincent: "You got it all wrong, he's Vinnie, I'm Vincent.

Me: (Pointing at Vincent) But the boss called you Vinnie, I did not get you two confused. (pointing at Vinnie) You weren't even there!"

Vincent: "Yeah, so what?"

Me: "So what? So you're Vinnie too!"

Vincent: "What, you mean I shoulda corrected the boss? Forget about it!"

Me: "Well why's he gotta send both of you on the same job? Two guys he calls Vinnie? It's like a liability or somethin', gonna get the wires crossed!"

Vinnie: "The boss didn't send me, he doesn't even know I'm here."

Me: (exasperated) "Well then let's get back on track, whaddya doin' here, Vinnie?"

Vincent: "He owed me a favor, this rat could take hours to do somethin' stupid, and given the experience so far, I'd probably end up shooting myself before I shot him if I had to shoot the shit with your stupid ass the whole time."

Me: "Hey, if I knew this gig was a plus one I woulda brought a date, not some fat asshole, nothin' personal Vinnie."

Vinnie: "Hey! You want me to whack you or somethin'?"

Vincent: "C'mon Vinnie, you are a fat asshole, give the kid a break."

Vinnie: "Ah, forget about it!"

Me: "Hey, not to dampen this mood we got goin', but I've seen our rat walk by the window like half a dozen times while you been lookin' back at me. You gonna actually keep an eye on him or should I hold the rifle?"

Vincent: "Nobody touches this beauty but me. Not yet, I haven't even given her a name yet, and she's still a virgin!"

Me: "Alright, I won't touch your lady-friend, just keep your eyes on her or she's gonna get jealous."

Vinnie: (suddenly and very disbelieving) "I wasn't payin' attention, did you say Theresa's a virgin?"

Vincent: "Nah, the rifle not my girl."

Vinnie: "Ah, I was gonna ask you why she was wailing like banshee if you weren't, you know..."

Vincent: "Shut the hell up, Vinnie."

Vinnie: "Yeah, yeah."

Me: "Come on, you were lookin' through that scope for a total of six and a half seconds before you turned around and started jabbering to Vinnie again."

Vincent: (turning back to look through the scope) "Sorry, mom."

Me: "He get away yet?"

Vincent: "Nah, he's still scurrying about like a rat in a maze. I wish he'd sit still so I could shoot him more easy. Wait, you think he knows I'm up here, that we're gonna find somethin' out?"

Vinnie: "He'd have to be a real top-notch goof not to think we're watchin' his stupid ass."

Me: "Which makes him nervous, he's just nervous, a nervous guy is gonna pace whether or not he's a canary. Just keep an eye on him or he'll fly away!"

Vincent: "Whatever."

A minute goes by with Vincent actually watching the rat.

Vinnie: "I'm glad I had two cups a coffee before you picked me up."

Vincent: "Tell me about it, I'd fall right out the window if I'd skipped my fix."

Vincent has turned around again, I am glaring rancorously to no effect.

Vinnie: "Nothin' wakes you up like a black cuppa joe."

Vincent: "Black? Whaddya wanna knock yourself back out? You gotta make it smooth and sweet, somethin' to relax the hangover."

Vinnie: "Aw, come on, that's a woman's drink, don't tell me you drink it like that."

Vincent: "With two creams and two sugars or I'll go wild."

Vinnie: "You ain't kiddin'! I can hardly believe it, you iced more marks than I can count to and you drink it like that?"

Vincent: "Whassat gotta do with it? You're the nut job, drinkin' that swill, why dontcha just chew on the beans at that rate?

Vinnie: "Rather that then grow a pair of tits drinkin' what you drink."

Vincent: "You see, he's right, you are a fat asshole!"

Vinnie: "Well, maybe your new boyfriend can take you on a date when you've dolled yourself up with your lady drink."

Vincent: "You got bigger tits than Theresa, Vinnie, you're the one drinking the wrong kinda joe."

I cut Vinnie off before he can retort.

Me: "Oh my god, stop talking about tits or coffee or whatever and watch the fucking rat."

Vincent: "Hey, this is deep, we gotta figure this out."

Me: "We're gonna be deep underground if you let him get away."

Vinnie: "Nah, just you, we're made, we'll just say you messed it up."

Me: "Oh, that's just great, why don't you just shoot me now?!"

Vinnie: "I'm pullin' your leg! We wouldn't do that. Probably. Besides, he's not goin' nowhere, he's too busy stomping a track into his kitchen floor."

Me: "That'll be great comfort when the boss has my thumbs broken."

Vincent: "Stop changing the subject, new guy, you gotta break the tie."

Vinnie: "Yeah, it's gotta be black, right?"

Me: "Man I hardly even drink coffee, I don't fuckin' know."

Vinnie & Vincent: "What?!"

Vinnie: "This guy doesn't drink coffee? Where'd you find this asshole, Vinnie?!"

Vincent: "I-"

Me: "HEY! You just called him Vinnie! I knew it!"

Vinnie: "Wha- no I- you had me confused, you don't drink coffee, the hell is wrong with you?!"

Me: "It's just a drink, don't get so worked up about it."

Vinnie: "Ah, forget about it!"

Vincent: "Yeah, we'll have to ask the don, he'll set it straight, whaddya care what this cugine thinks, anyway?"

Vinnie: "Alright, alright, but I got another question."

Me: "I'm sure you do, Vincent, the rat, the rifle, at least pretend you give a shit!"

Vincent: (Turning back around to check on the rat again) "Ah, he's still there."

Me: "You sure?"

Vincent: "No, where the hell did he go?"

Me: "What?!"

Vincent: "Haha, gotcha!"

Vinnie and Vincent have a good long guffaw.

Me: "Remind me to knock out a few of your teeth when they confirm me, wiseguy."

Vincent: "You're welcome to try, if you want a free trip to the hospital."

Vinnie: "Damn it, I said I had another question, I'm gonna forget it!"

Vincent: "Alright, what?"

Vinnie: "So, you gotta think about this. But if you had to pick one, and one to be gone foreva, coffee or tea?"

Vincent: "What kind of a stupid ass ques-"

Vinnie: "No, no, no! You gotta look at the big picture, I ain't talkin' about you and me, I'm talkin' about the whole world."

Vincent: "That's still a stupid ass question, Vinnie, Tea can take a hike, everybody drinks coffee every day!"

Vinnie: "Sure, sure, here in America, but I said the whole world, Vince, you gotta really think about it!"

Vincent: "Alright, I thought about it, and you're an idiot."

Vinnie: "You know how many people need tea like we need coffee! Fuckin' China and the Brits, that's gotta be half the world!"

Vincent: "China and England aren't half the world, Vinnie.

Vinnie: "I was givin' an example or somethin', gimmie a break. But you gotta admit, those Brits would be jumpin' off Big Ben by the millions if they lose their tea. S'why I'm sayin' you gotta really think about."

Vincent: "Where do you come up with this shit? Alright, new guy, coffee is more important than tea. Vinnie's an idiot, right?

Me: "Look, I told you I don't even drink coffee."

Vincent whips around, rifle and all.

Vincent: "You're siding with this son of a bitch?!"

Me: "Whoa! I'm not siding with nobody, I just don't give a shit, Vince, point that thing somewhere else!"

Vincent: "Nah, I'm just messin' with you again!"

Vinnie and Vincent have another hearty guffaw.

Me: "For the love of baby Jesus, could you quit yappin' and keep an eye on the rat for more than ten seconds?!"

Vincent: "Nah, it doesn't matta."

Me: "What?"

Vincent: "The boss texted me five minutes ago, he's no rat, he's just nervous."

Me: "Then what have we been doin' here?!"

Vincent: "Talkin' about coffee and tits and shit, whaddya think?"

Vinnie: "Yeah, we gotta figure this stuff out, it can't be all about whackin' a rat."

Me: "Can I go back to having a shootout with the cops? At least then I knew what the hell was going on."

Vinnie: "You had a shootout with the cops?"

Vincent: "And he blew up a gas station."

Vinnie: "That was you?!"

Me: "Yeah, no big deal, there was blood, bullets and bodies everywhere, I didn't have time to clean it the slow way, so I just made a crater out of it.

Vinnie: "Damn it, I stop at that place for coffee! Why you gotta mess things up? I oughta pop you one!"

Me: "You're not serious."

Vincent: "He's catching on, Vinnie, I think we need a new mark."

Me: "Hey, don't get me wrong, you had me those other times, most people can't pull one over on me like that."

Vincent: "I think we just got a compliment from Mr. by-the-books here, look out the window, are pigs flyin'?

Vinnie: "Nah, just canaries."

Me: "Oh, shut up."

It wandered away. I wish I could find a dagron or some fire imps or even a magma crab because that just seems like a more elegant way of getting rid of a snow beast.

That project is on hold right now because I can't find a way to build the nav meshes that L4D2 needs. It seems you have to do it manually, in game, and it takes ages.

The generated map won't always go out of bounds. It should be centered but at the moment it is all in (+,+) space b/c of a bug.

There's really not much to see yet in Fresh4Dead and until I run into a way to generate the navs, it is dead in the water.

Sorry for doubleposting but this is the error I get when I add the entities

Error:
A LEAK is a hole in the map, where the inside of it is exposed to the
(unwanted) outside region. The entity listed in the error is just a helpful
indication of where the beginning of the leak pointfile starts, so the
beginning of the line can be quickly found and traced to until reaching the
outside. Unless this entity is accidentally on the outside of the map, it
probably should not be deleted. Some complex rotating objects entities need
their origins outside the map. To deal with these, just enclose the origin
brush with a solid world brush

Leak pointfile generated

Warning: === LEAK in hull 1 ===
Entity light @ (-192,-320,-320)
Warning: === LEAK in hull 2 ===
Entity light @ (-192,-320,-320)
Warning: === LEAK in hull 3 ===
Entity light @ (-192,-320,-320)
0.03 seconds elapsed

I added only 3 entities, CT spawn and T spawn and 'light'

I also find this
Warning: No entities exist in hull 0, no filling performed for this hull
Warning: No entities exist in hull 1, no filling performed for this hull
Warning: No entities exist in hull 2, no filling performed for this hull
Warning: No entities exist in hull 3, no filling performed for this hull
0.02 seconds elapsed

Is this because I have no entitis ? I removed all of them because it causes a leak everytime I add them.

---> http://tinypic.com/r/350ns4y/5 <---

I could not find the right commands to use in this.. I thought I had -chop but obviously not.

Anyone wanna tell me what to use exactly?
Not even Google could get me to the Expert Mode commands..
Also: Sorry for being such a pain in the *** but, practice makes perfect..

What about the -nowadtextures command btw? > The one's included are the ones from the Original maps and the HALF-LIFE & CSTRIKE.wad amirite?
This is what makes me nervous: Does this merge them and include all of them into this map or does this add them all into +size on my compiling? I hope not.. I don't really believe so either, but I'm here to learn.



1. Yeah but theres a few more of those lightbulbs than you see in the picture unfortuanetely.. I will try and use the "fade" texture and use it as lightning instead of all these pointlights and see if would change the outcome of my compiling in anyway.

And YES actually! When I compiled with VHE without expert mode and without VIS(I think it was.. or RAD.. been a few weeks ago since I tested..) the inside of the tunnels & sewers all were Bright as day(which was in my opinion really sweet for the gameplay). But since I got the FPS drops I ofcourse had to go from Normal compiling to Expert Compiling.

If you think I have many now you should have seen before.. JEEZ. Like 400 of them.(Got kinda lazy and CTRL + C was great). But I narrowed it down to about.. 50-80 now. But I will try this "LESS & BRIGHTER" way you mentioned if my "fade" experiment fails, which it problaby does.
I'm so new to the Lightning effects I'm kinda scared to use many since you can't preview before compiling. Old programs are old..
Trying to rely on the Light_enviroment as much as possible, and it worked great before my Sewers & Tunnels were added. + the LEAK that is emerging from the Sewer in some weird matter.

2. I have gone through the map as narrow as I have been capable to do, and the only leakage must be the Sewer, nothing else could cause it(I think........).

I will try this Pointfile thingy and see if it can fix my problem, I'm quite sure it will show the problem(s).
Thank you for that btw!

I will make the logs to func_walls aswell!

Thanks for telling me everything about the MAX_PATCHES problem btw! There's alot of stuff to learn from VHE but since the program is so old all the tutorial websites have pretty much died off. And asking someone for a very specific thing is hard to get a good answer!

About the leak problem I had NOOOOOOO clue about that, thanks alot for the details on those particual problems. I hate leaks so badly lol. Destroying my map(s)!

It's actually annoying how predictable it is that everything will go wrong. I find myself completely without surprise every time someone is 'suddenly' killed.

Oh, look, a couple in a happy relationship? One of them will die in the next few episodes.

inb4 my name magically changes to bombrock

where did it say your name ?

Did I beat it?

Went to rock , drilled hole , dropped bomb , blew shit up


DID I WIN!??

It's pretty simple, same as the last time you asked. You have an expression for each of the vectors, dot them together. You will find that you have four terms in the expansion because it's the FOIL rule (as you might have been taught). You know, (x + y)(x - y) = x^2 + xy - xy - y^2. It's the antisymmetric one. So you get that, do some simplification, and it could be that it comes out to zero. If you remember that any two vectors whose dot product is zero are orthogonal to each other, well, you've solved it!

Hey guys,
I'm super new to CSS stuff and I couldn't find a solution on the interwebs for what I want to do, so maybe some of you could help hereeee.

I want to use an image as a background for some text. The image should only go as far as each line goes. However, all I could do was have the image as background, but start anew each line. I want it to be one image behind the whole text. (One looping pattern)

Anybody know a solution?

Thanks!

After playing around with my calculator, I finally solved it.
Basically, the vector going down was <200,-40>, or whatever something, then you did some inverse tangent of it and I got 11.5 woohoo. And here's another question, when they ask to find the angle between a vector and an axis, is it ok to take the axis as a unit vector (ie: <0,0,1> , <1,0,0>) and calculate using that cos x = dot product/magnitude, or do we just have to draw a triangle and calculate? Cause my teacher really sucks and never explains this stuff

Basically, #include <header.h> will look in standard OS locations for header files. Like, I dunno, gcc's install directory, Visual Studio's defined header locations, whatever. It will also look in the locations you pass to the compiler, probably with a flag like -I"../path/to/hedders". This is why the compiler can't find it.

You actually want #include "header.h", which will look in the current directory (or as superjer notes you can pass a relative path in there, if that's what turns you on).

So to clarify: #include "BlackThornDemon.h". What kind of header file has that name anyway? :s

There's more, you probably want #include <Arduino.h> but that seems to be working regardless, also you will need #include "../BlackThornDemon.h", just like superjer said. When it tells you it can't find the file, there's a reason. It's because it's not where it's looking! And I tend to trust the computer when it says it can't find it.

You can probably just ignore it. You don't have to have a clean "Check for Problems" but it's a good place to find issues. Sometimes it is overly sensitive or wrong.

Bioware really surprises me. They put far more effort into character development than any other developer I've seen. Character's personalities are distinct, not too clichéd, and very memorable. No other game has me itching for the next 'random party dialogue' like Bioware manages. And at the same time they have the most blatantly 'because games' and 'wish fulfillment' romance I have ever experienced.

Their new trend of every character being bisexual or at the very least main-character-sexual offends me terribly on a storytelling level. When you know every character is potentially interested in you romantically, you feel like the center of the universe, and the word is no longer believable. The romance is a constant reminder that you are playing a game, and that the world is not real. For me, anyway, it destroys any sense of immersion. On top of all that, it's boring. Everything going like clockwork and there being no need to discover a character's interests and sexual preference to see if they are a good match for you is just plain boring. It means you inevitably just pick which one you think is hottest, which is offensively immature and basic for a game world with characters that are otherwise very complex. There are worse relationships in games, I am well aware, but they stand out so much more in Bioware games.

As far as 'because games' is concerned, I really hate how the majority of relationships develop in, for example, Dragon Age. There are three things that cause your love interest to become more enamored with you:

1. Shiny Gifts - This should be part of a relationship, but a very minor part. You can practically win someone's love through presents alone.

2. Saying just the right things in deeply profound conversations - This is also totally fine to have as something that makes someone happy with you. It's just that the characters never develop interest through casual conversation or simply having fun. Your character seems to deeply empathize and understand your romantic target when you say the right things, and yet there is never any sign your characters share any similar interests? Very strange. Most people go their whole lives never saying anything deeply profound, and they still find love...

The most annoying part about this is that the characters HAVE believable casual conversations, the exact sort that would really tell you if someone was right for you, except they happen randomly while you're wandering the world and the main character is NEVER INVOLVED! How the hell did they fuck that up?! They had all the correct dialogue, and the WRONG PEOPLE SAYING IT! If you've played Dragon Age, or Mass Effect, I'm sure you've noticed the main character is strangely silent during the random banter sections? It makes them seem very distant from all the other characters, including the one you're supposedly in love with.

3. Doing their sidequest - This isn't a problem except that it is REQUIRED for them to have sex with you. It's extremely 'because games'. It takes you totally out of the relationship and makes you think of it as a quest for poontang. Like, you're bribing them for sex by killing somebody for them. As I've said, that's not love, that's a business deal. The love interest is acting like a prostitute, or at least very like manipulative fiend. Real people have sex with each other because they like each other. That is ALL that it takes. If somebody refuses to have sex with you until you complete a task for them, that means they do not love you.

Morrigan is the only example that does not have this problem, and she is explicitly not in love with the main character when they have sex. She was by far the most believable and interesting romantic interest in a Bioware game, as there were no blatantly 'because games' requirements for the relationship to function. I still didn't really get into it, though, as I first liked the whole "Now that she realizes she's in love with you, she no longer wants to be intimate, as she believes love is weakness" aspect, until I remembered that no human has ever thought like that in the history of ever. Still liked it the best though.

Make a comparison to movie or book characters, and really think about it. Bioware game characters act like villains in romance. If they were in a movie, their manipulative attitude about sex would be considered reprehensible and self-serving.

What makes Dead Kings special?
*by special I mean different and unusual, not inherently better, you’ll likely hate at least one of these things.

Strongly averts “because games” logic

The term “because games” is one I have coined myself for the purpose of describing something that gamers have come to expect from games, but that a non-gamer would likely find incredibly nonsensical. These bits of nonsense almost always occur as a result of technological limitations that became traditional and stayed in use even after the technology would support a different or better system. Sometimes simple lack of innovation or laziness results in an example of “because games”.

The worst examples I can give of “because games” logic are about encouraging otherwise needless murder. The first is the apparent soul-stealing property of most heroes in RPGs. I am aware that there are systems that function differently, but the typical method of gaining experience is to kill your enemy. This may seem normal to you, but that is only because you have become accustomed to it. This can actually be somewhat disturbing when analyzed closely. In Dead Kings you must only defeat and not necessarily kill an enemy to gain experience. If they surrendered or retreated, you still gain just as much experience as you would for slaying them. Many games encourage the player to massacre surrendering or retreating enemies, or encourage the player to murder those who are attacking them due to mistaken identity, just to steal a few more souls and level up!

Some games don’t even give the player the option of resolving a situation peacefully, some Ultima games, for example, give the player no method of progression besides cutting down helpless children! The player is meant to be a hero in those stories, not a bloodthirsty murderer of children! It’s not even played as dark humor, it just sort of... happens... like Richard Garriott had no idea how disturbing it was!

The final example is a relatively unheard of game, Temple of Elemental Evil. During the adventure the players come across a brothel. In the brothel the madam informs the player that a new whore refuses to have sex with anyone. The player can offer to see if he can change her mind or ‘break her in’... I know, not an option you expect in the game. I was very surprised at this, as games at the time were far too politically correct to even imply sex, much less rape! I was very exhilarated to see what possible choices could come out of this (for storytelling purposes, the tiny sprites were not going to offer much eroticism, I assure you!), as players were able to be good or evil in the story. It turns out in the dialogue the player has three options with the unfortunate prostitute. They can either leave her alone, free her and take her with them, or supposedly attempt to rape her. If the player attempts to rape her, she screams something along the lines of “over my dead body!” and combat commences. The player then only has the option to strike her down. The heavily armored, up to six very powerful warriors, against a small, naked girl with a knife that she could never even hope to injure them with. She started combat, so she must die! I could have excused the game having even evil players not follow through with sexual assault, and possibly just smack her down and tell her to shut up... but killing her? That goes entirely against the plan to make her into a profitable prostitute! That is the epitome of “because games”, and was the impetus for me to wish to make a game that never forces the player to murder someone when the characters clearly have no motive to do so. The game will never directly tell you not to, but killing people unnecessarily will certainly have consequences in Dead Kings!

In summary, people never even question the bizarre traditions in gameplay, and in many ways they shall be very surprised when their expectations are not met in Dead Kings!

Writers uninfluenced by political correctness
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for these ideals in real life, games do this because they are trying to appeal to more audiences. But do not be deceived, it is not done out of a desire to make a better story, it is done at the expense of story to make more money. Attempting to please all audiences neuters believability, and some enjoyment for everyone is lost in the process.

These editorial mandates are exhibited in many place, including:

-Normal women arbitrarily being as strong and combat capable as men.
-Equal treatment for sexes, races and sexual preferences.
-Invincible or complete lack of children, so that children cannot be harmed.
-Severely limited options for evil player and non-player characters.
-Evil characters are usually limited to insults, stealing and murder.
-Evil characters are never, ever sexually depraved. It’s okay to murder someone, but rape them?! Heavens, we’re evil, not monsters!

Now, this doesn’t mean that everyone in Dead Kings is an immoral, prejudiced, child raping monster. Just that those things are allowed to exist in Dead Kings. These things all exist without issue in movies, so why not games?

Gameplay uninfluenced by genre expectations

The active gameplay is well established to be recognizable as tactical RPG combat. Except when it’s not. Large scale strategy and even 4X elements are present in the design. On top of that, there are Raising Sim mechanics influenced mostly by Princess Maker titles for if and when the player decides to procreate.

Fantasy world that does not arbitrarily ignore the inequalities of a medieval setting

Nobles are not noble!
Nobles act like real-life nobles. At best they are careless and hedonistic, more often they are heartless predators, abusing the weak for profit or pleasure. This is not because the setting is meant to be ‘dark fantasy’, but because that’s how nobles actually act.

People who attempt to seize or hold onto great power are without exception challenged in their morality. Popular opinion is that there have been many remarkable leaders throughout history; those such as Catherine the Great and Alexander the Great are very well regarded. History would have you replace the word “Great” with “Inhuman Abomination”. Both were arrogant elitists, pointlessly cruel, murderous and utterly irredeemable. Accounts of their lives are marred with the enslavement of countless people and the massacre of any who resisted. They are no better than those the world despises, such as Hitler or Stalin, and yet are renowned as though they have any worth.

Some may argue that there are benevolent kings and queens in history, Elizabeth I of England, for example, but even she has moments of inexcusable evil. Even the theoretical ‘benevolent autocrat’ is still a man or woman controlling the lives of people that he or she has no right to interfere with. Essentially, if they were truly a good person, they would use their power to abolish nobility and replace it with an elected government. The only good kings are the last kings, or those who refused a crown. The point is that nobles in Dead Kings are assholes, because they’re nobles.

The characters in the Dead Kings world are realistically depicted for their classes. The hero of the story may have some moral flexibility in the choices the player may take, but in the end, anyone who wants to control others is of deeply flawed character, and unfortunately he is determined to be king.

A woman holding a sword? Ludicrous!
Women are incapable of complex thought or understanding. They are weak of body and will, and of no use in violent conflict. They are commodities to be traded, and objects to be used for pleasure and progeny. Their word holds no value in court or otherwise, as trust is deserved only by those worthy of respect, and everyone knows only men can be respectable.

This is the average opinion you will find regarding women in Dead Kings, as it is the sort of opinion one finds in a medieval world. It is shared even by the women, even if it upsets them, as they have been subjugated of all authority since birth. Fantasy game worlds inevitably treat men and women very equally, progressive even by modern standards, without even mentioning how unusual it is. I have no problem with an idealized world where women are treated with the respect they deserve, but it has become the norm in fantasy, even clichéd in how expected it is. In fact, I cannot think of any fantasy world, game or otherwise, that depicts the treatment of women with a medieval standard.

Horses and Servants
There is a confusing trend to show rich and noble knights travelling the lands and going on adventure without any of their servants or so much as a horse! A few recent games have remedied the cavalry deficiency, but none have contained a proper retinue of attendants and servants. Even merchants do not travel on foot, and they do not travel alone! In addition to the potential six main party members, the player will eventually obtain a following of dozens of cooks, laborers, squires and soldiers. Menial tasks that would otherwise be performed as tedious fetch quests, or the hauling and management of inventory, will be handled by peasants and retainers. Nobles do not collect twenty mushrooms from a festering swamp to appease a strangely entitled commoner, in fact, the mere suggestion of such a request may offend a noble and put the commoner in a dangerous situation! Why should an affluent noble leave behind heavy loot, or mine and carry loads of valuable ore when he could pay a meagre sum to a few desperate serfs to do it for him? This is also very much a “because games” problem, and was remedied by a much needed dose of common sense.

Balance does not create a rift between plot and combat

During cutscenes characters will not use abilities, magic or otherwise do things that they are not capable of in active gameplay.

This is so brand new an idea to games that you may not even realize the problem exists. This ties into averting “because games”, but I feel it deserves a special mention. It is less a subconscious tradition resulting from technological limitations, and more purely thoughtless writing and design.

Relationships and romance do not pander to “wish fulfillment”

I would describe player driven romances in games to be on the intelligence and maturity level of Mary Sue fan fiction at best. Real romantic relationships are not fueled by giving the correct set of shiny objects to someone, and then completing a side quest. That's not romance, that's a business deal, and shows the kind of emotional understanding seen only in a true basement dweller!

"Oh, I heard she likes cakes! I'll just keep giving her cakes until she'll let me have sex with her! THAT'S HOW IT WORKS, RIGHT?!"

When people are romantically attracted to each other, they give each other presents as a result of an established connection. They have to already like each other for that to happen. Repeatedly giving gifts to someone who has not shown any sign of interest, as games portray love, is a sign of being an obsessive stalker. Games do not understand this very basic interaction. Sharing an emotional bond that may lead to amorous activity in Dead Kings will require that the characters involved share interests, ideals and adventures. They do not need to perform side quests for each other, they must simply do anything at all as long as they do it together. I have found in my life that attempting to 'win a girl over' is a mostly fruitless endeavor, and that it is much easier to find a girl that actually likes me. This experience, which writers for other games have shown no sign of, is used to form the progression of romance in the story.

I keep getting this damned track stuck in my head which is strange in that it isn't that long and I find myself grinding in that particular area of the game only so much as I ever feel the need to grind [there is not a difficult boss in the region]

I couldn't find the one you're looking for, but this one is pretty good:

Halp.

I can't find a particular dramatic reading of My Immortal.

It's the one where the host has a different name each episode like "Witheby Fizzlebottoms" or something. And it's always the first and final episode.

Halp.

Trust me, it's hopeless. I tested it extensively. The only way to survive near a tower is to seal off the surface completely. If there was any way at all to kill or even find the necromancers it might be possible to survive... but alas... they are invisible.

Im the singer in this video. Ha! This was from 2006. I was a pretty bad musician! I was 18 or something and in this Rusty in Places clan! Was just trying to find this video and this is the only place that still has it hosted.

If you want to see any of my newer stuff (not video game related!) its www.youtube.com/caboosetm88

Hearing you guys slag me off is actually kinda funny! :D

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

Stranger: hi

You: hey

You: what's going on

Stranger: nothing much. asl

You: I see .. you are a horny man trying to find innocent under-aged boys on the internet for sex.

You: Reported.

Stranger: have fun reporting me. some peopls just like to know who theyre talking to

You: Why don't you have a seat over there.

You: I'd like to ask you a couple questions.

Stranger: douchedick

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Haven't hit lava yet, and yeah, I know there's not really much need to trade at this point. The game seems broken in that way, though I hear that there used to be some kind of magic economy within the game that would give some purpose to cutting all these gems and embellishing all these things aside from trying to make dwarves happy in some way. Pretty much the only thing that I care about at this point is the possibility of the elven caravan showing up with bears or something (black bears for meat, since you can't train them?, grizzlies for war).

Were the depot in any way functional, I'd use it just to toss all the spent clothes or items I can't otherwise make any use of.

What I should do is send a scouting party down into the caverns in search of this thing...



But generally, I kind of feel bored after establishing my fortress and getting it to the point where I can defend without too many losses. It feels like there's less to actually do given that all you're going to encounter are possibly more enemies and maybe a few new resources (adamantine) or means of using those resources (magma smelters). The gameplay doesn't actually change all that much, you just find new ways of getting fucked over because hey your army was all the way down there and here are some more goblins. It feels empty in the same way late games of Civ feel empty. I suppose I could design some deathtrap or crap like that, my heart's not in it.

Yeah, and that's what I was I was looking for but the problem is that I want it more or less automatic, like the website I linked supposedly scanned your account and listed your games via the steam IDs.

I can't find the scanner thing, even though it's obvious it exists.

I was looking for something like that, thanks.





Hmm, thanks, will do.



Ok.

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I always have lots of extra player starts floating around, so I can keep scale in mind.

Most textures look like crap together (or separate) but you have to make do.
I make a lot of my own textures when none of the defaults will do. The easiest way to do that is to just modify the defaults. Sometimes a simple change as adding a dark gradient to an existing texture can make it work for the map.

But most importantly, I design the whole thing on paper first. I find I'm much more likely to get a working result, and actually finish something, if it is designed first.

Hi,

I'm an average hammer mapper, I've been trying to make a DeathRun map for past few weeks, but I always find myself doing 1/10 of the job and then quitting because it looks like shit.

The thing is, they always end up too small, or too big, or too easy.
What are some standards in mapping, what height and width of the walls?
What do you build first in a DR map, the traps, both CT and T base, or something else?

Which textures look nice with others, which don't etc.

I hope you see what I'm aiming to in here, thanks.

Woo another tower game I find these very fun,,

Summer, 21

Palacelands is not yet a land for boys and girls. It's not a land for much of anything at the moment.

One of the things I'm trying to prepare for at the moment is eventualities. I suspect that given my somewhat unique location, I'll be fighting off some substantial sieges later on in the game and otherwise hanging out in lockdown mode. For this reason, I've decided that I probably ought to build an excess of workshops and stockpiles relative to my normal mode. What this means is an excess of mining. What this means is that shit doesn't get done. I've had to temporarily defer plans for a wood-burning forge and assorted other workshops in an effort to get down the basics: mason, carpenter, jeweler, mechanics. Also craft, which is pretty basic too. ANYWAY.

Tensions are running unusually high at the moment. My two miners have mutual grudges and one of them additionally is in a grudge with a fisherdwarf. The fisherdwarf also has a second mutual grudge with a woodcutter. The two woodcutters, meanwhile, are totally in love and work well together.

THESE ARE THE MEASUREMENTS FOR THE MACHINE I AM BUILDING



The ground floor is kind of a mess right now. The large square will become a general custom stockpile soon, I just need to clear some of the stone out of there first. Meeting area, for now, is south of the stairs. I'll build a farm or two south of the stockpile in the sands soon enough. Last time around, I was way too late in building farms and everyone nearly starved to death. Also the entry hall will be widened later. I keep my trade depot outside anyway, since the new version means that wagons can't cross traps.



This is my clusterfuck of a workshop zone. To the west are wood burning furnaces, carpenter's workshops, and what will eventually be large wood stockpiles in between. The south has a mechanic's workshop. I don't care too much about having a lot of space for that because you don't generally find yourself needing as many mechanisms. East would be the mason's workshops and stone piles if the fuckers ever finished. To the north, we have a jeweler and a craftsdwarf workshop. I might build a couple more craft ones later, but I haven't decided yet. It's not super necessary, but it helps when you have multiple dwarfs you want working in multiple mediums.



Fractal bedrooms. They will expand almost indefinitely.



I kind of want to get some of the other workshops going, like the smelters, forge, bowyer, leatherworks, and tannery, but given that I don't have the manpower to start hunting seriously anyway, those are going to go on the backburner for a while in favor of getting foodstores in order. As soon as the workshops are chiseled out (around which time we'll get some furniture in those bedrooms), I intend to roll out some farms and two each of kitchens, stills, fisheries, and butcher's shops. Along with these will come a dedicated food stockpile and my typical "whatever, fuck it"-style dining hall. Wells and forges will have to follow those.

Since there has seemed to be continuing, unspoken interest in my Dwarf Fortress exploits, I've decided to make a new truck with some level of visibility and coherence. My old fortress is still around, but I wanted to take everyone through the process from the get-go with illustrations.

1. I'm using a graphical version of the game. This helps me figure out what the fuck is going on and is equally helpful for you in this manner. The more easily you're able to understand the important aspects of what's happening, then the joy of the game's inherent dwarfiness will come out soon enough.

2. The parameters I opted for were pretty similar to what I've run previously, in large part because I have no idea what I'm doing. Most of the dwarves in my old fortress are wearing tatters. Clothing is something of a mystery to me. The deviations from the default settings are as follows: history is short (I started in the year 21 or something), natural savagery is very low, and mineral appearances are frequent. My particular start location is in a warm biome on the side of a mountain range and has access to flux, shallow metal (singular), deep metals (plural), and a river nearby which probably has some dumb name. I can't be bothered to figure everything out. This may seem like an easy setup, but note that I only have shallow metal (singular), which means I could end up with something that's no good to work with and spend a while bungling around.

There's some other interesting aspects too. I'm pretty close to the Dwarven home lands and a few other civilizations (I can't read the languages well enough to know if they're good or hostile), but I'm also four squares away from sinister and haunted portions of the map, meaning that some particularly nasty titan could spawn and wander in or I could find myself regularly dealing with the goblins that were absent in Roughnesspointed. All resulting fun will be documented, but in general it behooves me to have my shit in order early in the game or suffer mightily.

Speaking of which, my new outpost is named "Palacelands." Which is the least interesting name ever.

A quick tour:



I went with the defaults of everything, which means I ended up with all female animals, two dogs, two cats, a water buggalo, and a horse. I meant to type buffalo, but buggalo are funnier. Note that I do not yet have a yak. Woe be to all of you once I get a yak. None of my dwarves have social or combat skills, but one is a jeweler/craftsdwarf, one's a mason/mechanic, there's a wood cutter/all-purpose farmer, a butcher/clothesmaker who for some reason is also the only one to be able to clean fish, a carpenter/bowyer, a miner, and a fisherman. Oddly, my miner is the creative one in the bunch so I'll probably have him take on the mason's work. The butcher is the expedition leader. Whatever.

This is my start location. I got a lot of sand and phyllite and some gems. Sand means there's hope of some level of farming and glass making for me once I get the various workshops squared away, and the gem clusters mean I'll have things to cut. Stars are ore. From the look of it, I have zinc here. that's... all... okay that's not good if it's the only thing I have. Looks like to the west I have tetrahedrite, so I'll be making bronze stuff early on, I guess. Those "c"s in the lower center portion of the picture are chinchillas. As soon as I get a leather works, a butcher's shop, and some crossbows in order, I'm fucking their adorable little shit up.

I also have a waterfall in the lower part of my map that spans four z-levels. This is the first time I've so much as seen a waterfall in the game. Aces. I've read where you can set up floor grates at the base of a waterfall and use those to get dead fish instantly delivered with no upkeep, which means that I might be able to disable the fishing labor entirely.

I will be updating on a seasonal basis, but the first few are mostly tedious. I'll be setting up my entry hall, a trade depot, workshops, and carving out the beginnings of the fractal bedrooms while biding my time waiting for immigrant waves to show up and hoping they aren't mostly children. It doesn't really matter until the third wave anyway, at which time they stop being randomized and start relating to your relative opportunities available. I might also lay the groundwork for a well below the housing area. since I figured out how to do that.

¿Por qué no los dos?

I've started a fort now, though it is little more than a hole-in-the-ground at the top of a hill.

I'll find a way to hurt everyone involved. It will only take time.

I now have two legendary masons to go with my two legendary engravers.




My fortress is the proud owner of the most ornate manhole cover in the known universe. I am also especially glad of the fact that something used to cover a hole leading underground has troglodytes on it.

Cant find you so many people using same name lol

add me Branndonn #Gucci

It does sound like I'm playing Dwarf Fortress!

I found caverns earlier today. I haven't explored them yet. What I do know is that cavern plants are now growing in that area of my hospital which was previously flooded. I hope that the injured dwarves find themselves comforted by the presence of trees and bushes because I ain't doing shit about it.

I seem to notice that in this version of Dwarf Fortress, the moods are... okay I didn't play any other version of Dwarf Fortress, but I had a weaver flip out and take over a loom. He requested: rock blocks, metal bars, and logs. I had the latter two lying around. I needed to make some stone blocks. So I did! The dwarf in question continued to sit at the loom screaming its fool head off. Dwarves are some bullshit, man.

This covers a lot of the reasons I hate C++, in case you're interested:

cpp-home.com/tutorials/244_1.htm

Why C++ Sucks

C++ sucks because it is a mis-designed pile of crap.

All you have to do is read Bjarne Stroustrop's book on the design and evolution of C++ to understand why: C++ is the iMac of computing languages.

It was designed to have those features necessary to achieve popular success--not those features necessary to be a good programming language.

In the case of something like the iMac, much of the "prettiness" does not necessarily come at the expense of functionality--but this is not always the case. Reducing the iMac's expandability makes it simpler to use--but also potentially consigns it to a gutter market a few years down the road.

The Big Mistake: C Compatibility
In Stroustrop's mind, making C++ compatible with C was instrumental, crucial to its success.

I don't disagree. Plenty of other good object oriented languages are out there, and they've never found much success. Certainly the overhead of learning a brand new language is undoubtedly a significant barrier to acceptance.

I don't think it's any coincidence that Java chose to use C syntax for its core constructs, either.

But C++ went far further than Java in compatibility. C code works nearly unchanged in a C++ compiler. The model of how a C++ program can be separately compiled (i.e. split into multiple separate files) is identical to that of C.

But this introduces hosts of other problems, some which C++ addresses, some of which it addresses with problematic design, and some of which it simply falls down on.

This is not to laud Java--I do not have a particularly high opinions of that language. It does many good things, but owing to its history it also has some odd design elements. (Foremost amongst them being reliance on interpreters during its initial introduction.)

Keep It Simple, Stupid
C++'s biggest problem is its size. People will tell you that this is no big deal; just subset C++ down to whatever part of it you're willing to use; that can be a C subset or something a little larger, or the whole thing.

This logic can be used to justify an infinitely complex language, so one should hesitate to accept it at face value.

The biggest flaw with the argument is that it forces compiler writers to implement a larger language; correctness will be harder to get right, and optimization will suffer. In the case of C++, however, this no longer matters; there are essentially no "just C" compilers anymore to compare to, so any lowered performance of C++ is no doubt also seen by C.

Another significant problem is that it requires an investment of effort to select an appropriate subset. Moreover, you will have difficulty finding books that teach this subset; and, indeed, if you acquire a C++ algorithms book, the odds that the subset chosen for that book matches that of yours is low.

In other words, subsetting is the same as fragmenting the language into lots of separate dialects; it has all the same problems as that, with the added cost of none of those dialects having unique names. What does it mean to say "I've used C++ for six years" on a resume?

Similarly, learning a subset does you no good if you work with other people's code, and they do not use the subset you are expecting; you must be able to understand their subset, and even write it.

Finally, learning a subset doesn't guarantee that you won't avoid being bit by something that's not in the subset you've chosen. For example, you might choose (wisely, IMHO) to avoid using function overloading. You can't tell the compiler this, however, and thus you might unintentionally name two functions the same thing, and cause unimaginable problems thereby. Sure, you'll eventually figure it out, it'll just be another dumb bug, but why use a language that has any number of such gotchas lurking around every corner?

Suppose you choose to just use the C subset of C++. One of the changes C++ makes to C rules is that you can no longer automatically cast from (void *) to other pointer types. The reason for this is clear; in C++, (void *) types are used sufficiently often that hidden bugs might occur. (There is a counter-argument to this even in a C++ context: C++ encourages you to typecast more often than necessary, possibly masking bugs because your typecast hides what would be a real warning.)

Is this a real problem for C? No, it's not, it just means you need to do some extra casting. The following code doesn't work:


   x = malloc(sizeof(x) * num_elements);

Instead you must code it as


    x = (mytype *) malloc(sizeof(x) * num_elements);

Of course, if you are familiar with the idiom found in the first example, you see the flaw in the second; the first version avoids a bug by not explicitly naming x's type; thus if that type changes, the code still (most likely) does the right thing. With the second code, if you change x's type, C++ will complain about the type error, so it won't introduce an error--just unnecessary typing to fix it.

If you're using C++ proper, you would just use the new operator to sidestep this... ignoring the fact that new requires the name of the type...

Too Much Typing
I guess I'm just a whiner if many of my problems boil down to C++ requiring too much typing. Typing is such a tiny fraction of programming that it's not that big a deal. Yet it grates to see such extra 'accidental' (in the sense of Fred Brooks 'No Silver Bullet', i.e. in opposition to 'essential') work required for no good reason.

Example #1
In C, I write a new function, and then add a prototype to the header file. Having to add that prototype is annoying 'accidental' effort; there is no reason this redundancy must be shoveled onto the programmer (it could easily be automatically generated, a la Java or Borland's Turbo Pascal). That something like a header file is needed for separate compilation is undeniable; but that I must maintain it by hand is largely silly.

Still, it's not that much work. Cut and paste, put an 'extern' at the front of the line and a ';' at the end of the line, and you're done:



C file:
   int myFooBar(Foo *foothing, Bar *barthing)
   {
      ...
   }

H file:
   extern int myFooBar(Foo *foothing, Bar *barthing);

Whether this worked out by chance or not, these are easy editting operations to perform without moving your hands from the keyboard; cut a single line (in 'vi', 'yy'; in a windows editor: home, shift-end, ctrl-c), switch buffers, paste, go to beginning of line and type 'extern', go to end of line and type ';'.

The effort is justified because all this information needs to be available for separate compilation.

Consider the equivalent thing for a method in C++:


CPP file:
   int Foo::myBar(Bar *barthing)
   {
      ...
   }

H file:
   class Foo
   {
      ...
      int myBar(Bar *barthing);
      ...
   };

Sure, in this example, the function declaration itself may be shorter, making C++ look better than C, but I'm comparing C++ to a similar, imaginary OO language that doesn't suck.

To make the C++ cut and paste, I don't need to add 'extern' at the front. Instead I have to reach into the middle of the declaration and delete the 'Foo::'. This is actually more work--at least for me, it takes longer, and more thinking, to do this. (You have to actually parse the declaration, which gets more complex as the return value type gets more complex.)

Example #2
Worse yet, C++ makes this necessary in circumstances that it shouldn't be.

Suppose that class Foo in the example above inherits from Baz; and Baz includes as a member in its declaration virtual int myBar(Bar *barthing);. Now, when I want to go implement Foo, I choose to override the definition of myBar found in Baz.

C++ makes me spell out in the declaration of class Foo exactly which methods I'm going to override.

Even though the whole point of virtual functions is that the dispatch occurs at run-time--no compile-time support needed.

Pointless.

Oh, and did I mention that this sort of thing leads to extra unnecessary recompilation?

Why?
I think I know why C++ does it this way. The thing is, if I subclass Foo to make, say, Biz, then if Biz doesn't define myBar for itself, it will need to store a pointer to Foo::myBar in its virtual function table. Thus, the compiler needs to know about everything that goes on under the hood with Foo to build Biz correctly. (Similarly if Biz defines it itself, but calls ::myBar.)

That means, of course, that everything 'under the hood' must be exposed in the class definition. The entire 'private' section must be exposed to subclasses (and also so that 'sizeof' works correctly).

You can try to work around the excess recompilation introduced by this by having multiple header files with differing levels of detail in them; the subclasses and the implementation of the class see the full description, whereas the rest of the world only sees the public definition, unless they need to sizeof... well, as you can imagine, I don't know anyone who actually tries to do that. (It would help if you could flag a class definition as 'incomplete' so inclusions of the wrong header file would fail to compile, instead of producing bugs.) I'm not actually sure that doing this is legal C++, anyway.

This all misses the point. Part of C++'s success is that it didn't require rewriting the linker (after all, initially it just was translated into C code). Separate compilation could be done without needing to see the innards of other classes if the virtual function tables were built up at link time. Even without rewriting the linker, the patching could be done at runtime, during startup. This does not need exposure. (The sizeof problem would still remain.)

Example #3
Yet another case is that of the C-style "static function". Suppose I decide I want to break Foo's implementation of myBar down into multiple smaller steps, using helper functions. Since the code is based around an object, I still want to make these be methods of the class so that I get a 'hidden this' and can refer to instance variables conveniently.


  /* C code: */
     static void myFooBarHelpFunction(Foo *foothing, int intermediate_value)
     {
        ...
     }

     int myFooBar(Foo *foothing, Bar *barthing)
     {
        int value = computeSomething(foo,bar);
        myFoobarHelpFunction(foo, value);
        ...
     }

  // C++ code:
     void Foo::myBarHelpFunction(int intermediate_value)
     {
        ...
     }

     int Foo::myBar(Bar *barthing)
     {
        int value = computeSomething(bar);
        myBarHelpFunction(value);
        ...
     }  

The C++ example is incomplete. As you can see, it lacks the static keyword. This is because, to implement this in C++ like this, you have to add a declaration of this function to the class definition. That's right, to do a local, hidden modularization of this function, which cannot be seen or used by anybody else, including subclasses, you have to touch the class definition, which normally (as noted above) is exposed in the header file to anyone and everyone who interacts with the class. (At least this seems to be the case. Am I missing something?)

Oh, thanks.

And don't forget to delete Foo:: when you add it to the header file.

You can work around this by privately subclassing the type, thus allowing you to create a local class MySubClass type with local, non-exposed declarations. You still end up with a declaration and a definition, as opposed to C where you only need the definition if you put the functions in the right order. And you will have to downcast pointers that are passed in. But it avoids the header dependency.

Pet Peeves
Don't get me wrong. The above three examples aren't just pet peeves. I think of them as serious design flaws. I have pet peeves about the language and the typing therein as well, but they lean more towards personal taste:


Having to prefix every method definition with Foo:: is stupid. We should be able to wrap our definitions inside something like class Foo { ... } and not have to prefix with Foo:: inside it. Of course you could do exactly this, but you can only have one definition of a class, so you can't do this and also include a header file with the class declaration in it, so you need to include the full declaration locally. (Also, providing a mechanism like this would also make cutting and pasting into the header file easier.)
constructors and deconstructors return void, even thought C++ denies it. Yes, removing the need for void from the parameter list and as a prefix on constructors/deconstructors can be seen as an opportune 'fix' to reduce typing, since C++ doesn't back-support K&R C the way ANSI/ISO C does. Sorry, I don't buy it; the amount of typing saved is irrelevent. (It's one thing to save lots of cut&paste editting motion; saving typing four characters while one is already in the middle of typing characters is saving me something like 5 seconds a week.) It introduces a pointless inconsistency.
etc. (Why waste time on pet peeves when there's more juicy bits?)
Indirection
Indirection is the source of nearly all that is good about computer programs. Pointers or handles are crucial to writing code that does more than formula processing.

A relatively crucial element of object-oriented programming is the introduction of indirect function calls. Sure, imperative programming has them as well, but most OO languages make them ubiquitous; many people consider virtual the most important keyword distinguishing C++ and C--that is, if you never use virtual, you may be using classes, but you could just as easily be writing in C.

The thing is that unlike, say, Smalltalk, not all indirection in C++ is at run-time. Stroustrop considered this an important element of C++'s success--by providing multiple mechanisms, you can select the one with the appropriate trade-off of power vs. performance overhead.

But more is not necessarily better. One can imagine a language in which a compiler makes these trade-offs automatically for you. You can imagine a language in which a single keyword changes the underlying implementation, with no syntactic or semantic variations visible.

Not so C++.

In C, a function call can only happen one way:

... foo(x,y); ...

If 'foo' is a variable that is a function pointer, this call is indirect; if not, it is direct. You generally can't tell from syntax, although many people choose to use one of two conventions to distinguish them: either a naming convention (function pointer variables include an extra word in the name), or a syntactic convention for function pointer variables (which is actually legal with function names as well, if I recall correctly):

... (*foo)(x,y); ...

(There are actually some cases where the syntax is unambigous about which, for example (foo->bar)(x) must be an indirect call--that is, any expression where the name would go.)

Assuming you use one or the other convention, then, the two modes of function call are unambiguous to distinguish. Assuming the call is direct, there is a simple mechanic for finding the callee; search back through the source, looking for a prior definition of 'foo' which is now in scope. If not found, grep the header files for exported functions. Only one function named 'foo' can be exported without introducing linker errors, so the result is unambiguous.

If a function call is indirect, the exact same search will tell you where the function variable is defined. An arbitrary effort may be necessary to be expended to determine where that call goes.

Object-oriented languages attempt to make indirection more useful by structuring it. Instead of going "just anywhere", a message send must go to one of the subclasses of a given class, and share that name.

Improving the ability of a programmer to understand indirect function calls is surely a laudable goal. Object-oriented languages are rich with designs people would be unlikely to attempt with C's unwieldy do-it-yourself function indirection methodology.

But there is much to dislike about C++'s execution.

Syntax
As noted above, there is exactly one syntax in C that leads to function calls (the variant syntax in the latter example stands for the exact same semantics); one syntax, but two semantics.

In C++ there are eight syntaces and quite a few semantics.

No joke:

regular function call (expression context): foo(a,b)
constructor call (declaration context): Foo foo
constructor call (declaration context): Foo foo(a,b)
constructor call (expression context): new Foo
constructor call (expression context): new Foo(a,b)
destructor call (block end): }
destructor call (statement context): delete foo;
overloaded operator (expression context): foo+bar
(I'll fold copy/assignment constructors in with overloaded operators.)
Even if you disagree with my splitting the constructors up that way, there'd still be six; moreover, unambiguously, there are four different contexts in which function calls occur (declaration, expression, statement, and block end).

Constructors and Destructors
Of course, if you use constructors and deconstructors in the "right" way, this isn't as bad as it sounds. Constructors and deconstructors only do "good things"; the constructors and deconstructors happen at "times" when such things are best suited to run.

But, nonetheless, this doesn't necessarily make programs easy to comprehend. An example off the top of my head: if an object in a deconstructor removes itself from a hash table, introducing a bug because the hash table shrinks itself, screwing up the currently executing hash iterator, you may spend a long time discovering what is going on.

If we accept, though, that the constructor and destructor calls are there because that leads to better, more comprehensible semantics--that any object-oriented language is going to need something like constructors and destructors--we are only left with two syntaces to discuss: plain function calls and overloaded operators.

Overloaded Operators
Many style guides strongly recommend disallowing overloaded operators. Some advocate allowing operator overloading for mathematical data structures, like bignums, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, and the like. (Care and handling of copy and assignment constructors is more complex, so I'll simply dispense with attempting to argue about them.)

The argument for avoiding overloading operators is often this simple one: it is to easy for someone reading the code to not realize that there are function calls going on. An ordinary syntax that does not normally resemble a function call is suddenly potentially a function call.

The argument for allowing it for math is simple: the expediency of the syntax overwhelms the argument against it. Nothing particularly surprising is going on under the hood, except possibly the performance overhead.

I cannot argue against this philosophy. I choose not to apply it, as the amount of actual addition or subtraction of vectors in my code is so inconsequential that the typing cost is insignificant; nor do I find the shorter, simpler syntax involving overloaded operators to cause me to introduce fewer bugs. But this is surely more a matter of taste than of logic.

Clearly, one would like operator overloading to follow the principle of least suprise. Operators which normally are side-effect free should remain side-effect free. One would hope operators which are normally commutive remain commutative, and associative associative; but this is not always the case (e.g. matrix multiplication). 

But in a short function, in which the types of the variables are obvious, one has trouble imagining operator overloading causing much trouble.

Idioms
The advantages of concise idiom are legion. I have an enormous number of C idioms I use without thought; idioms in the sense that if you are not familiar with them, the meaning of the code may not be immediately obvious. They are easy enough to figure out if you stop and think, but the power of the idiom comes from the lack of need to think; it is easier to understand a larger chunk of code all at once if the elements of it are idioms.

Here are two idioms I use frequently:

   // n loops from n-1 ... 0
   while (n--) {
      ...
   }

   // i = (i + 1) mod n
   if (++i == n) i = 0;

Notably, these idioms rely on preincrementing and postdecrementing, so the odds are high that a reader will have to stop and hesitate and think about the meaning of the code. (The idioms would not normally have the comments describing their meaning.)

Idioms make operator overloading doubly tempting. One aspect is that it allows the use of familiar idioms in new contexts:

   for(FooIter *i(foo); (bool) i; ++i) {
      ... *i ...
   }

(Something like that--I'm not very familiar with C++ operator overloading.)
A second aspect is that it allows the creation of new idioms. Expression syntax is much more powerful for idiomatic constructions than function call syntax. You may have seen this sort of construction in C, using a conventional return value to empower an idiom:


   x = listAdd(listAdd(listAdd(listAdd(newList(), a), b), c), d);

(Specifically, I've seen code like that used for adding elements to a window.)
The indirection and nesting there is ugly, and so you can see it as much clearer if you could use an idiom like:


   x = newList() + a + b + c + d;

I'm not suggesting that people would like this off the cuff; but they might find it tempting to allow operator overloading simply because it allows them to coin such idioms--not just to save typing, but because it becomes much more rapidly comprehenisble. (The nested listAdd()s above are also an idiom, but the difference in ease of comprehension is apparent.)

But this way lies madness!

Such idioms may be powerful, but they build on new, unrelated meanings of the underlying symbols.

It is (I imagine) exactly this reasoning that introduced the ubiquitous operator overloading found in the C++ stream library.

Ask a C programmer what this code does:

a << b << c << d << e;

She will tell you "nothing". None of the operators have side-effects. In C.

Do they have side-effects in C++?

It depends on what functions they call.

C++ programmers swiftly adjust to the use of <<. It seems natural and perfectly reasonable. But don't be fooled by it. Most style guides recommend against coining new forms of operator overloading. That supposed power of idiom is simply too fraught with peril.

Keep this in mind: the argument by analogy to C idioms is broken, because the C idiom is constructed of unambiguous items right there on the page. Comprehending an unfamiliar C idiom just requires parsing the code--an action the reader was already doing. There's no 'secrecy' at all--it just takes a little longer.

Semantics
As noted previously, there are two semantics for a plain C function call. Determining which semantic is in operation is as easy as searching back through the file for the name, and then grepping header files for the name.

Not so for C++. C++ has both run-time indirection and compile-time indirection. In fact, it has a number of flavors of the latter.


   foo(x,y);


a plain C-style function call
a plain C-style indirect function call
a call to a non-virtual method in this class, or any parent class
a call to a virtual method (again defined in any ancestor)
a call to a templated function
a call to a method in a templated class
one of several functions of any of the above types, all with the same name, but different numbers of parameters
one of several functions of any of the above types, all with the same name, the same number of parameters, but different formal parameter types

   foo->bar(x,y)

a plain C-style indirect function call (e.g. bar is a public function pointer)
a call to a non-virtual method in foo's class, or any parent class
a call to a virtual method (again defined in any ancestor of foo)
a call to a method in a templated class
one of several functions of any of the above types, all with the same name, but different numbers of parameters
one of several functions of any of the above types, all with the same name, the same number of parameters, but different formal parameter types
Some of the variants above may not seem like truely distinctive semantics; however, the distinction between run-time and compile-time dispatch is obvious, and the other distinctions are there to call attention to the effort required for someone to locate the implementation of the called function. Any of those cases could turn out to be true, and each is defined differently.

Templates offer the best example of my core complaint. At their heart (ignoring the committee-driven creeping featurism), templates are there to allow you to do something like define a generic hash table class, but specialize it to be implemented "directly" for some specific class, instead of having to pay indirect dispatches at runtime.

However, I've stated previously, I find this approach flawed, because it introduces an entirely new syntax and semantics. I would much prefer if you just defined the hash table as taking some abstract base class, defined your elements to be hashed as deriving from that base class, and then used a magic 'specialize' keyword to 'instantiate the template'. (Of course, personally I'd prefer a Smalltalk-like approach where you didn't need to use abstract base classes at all; the same sort of specialization is nonetheless entirely withint the realm of computability; and Java implementations may attempt to do JIT inlining to achieve the same effect, much as the academic language Self (something of a sequel to Smalltalk) did in the early 1990's.)

Moreover, those lists are far too short, as they don't call attention to the bewildering variety of problems introduced by function name overloading.

At least if all overloaded functions with the same name have different numbers of parameters, the result of the call is unambiguous. A grep for the name will turn up a number of matches, and if the line declaring the function is longer than a single line, some additional effort may need to be expended to figure out just which one. Annoying, but not impossible.

Far worse is the use of multiple names with the same number of parameters. You have to figure out the (compile-time) type of every parameter, exactly, before you can make the right call about which function is called. Go look up through the code to determine the type of any variable used; check in the header file to see what type is returned by this function; try to remember whether * means a dot product or a cross-product of two vectors.

Ok. Now you've got the types.

Go read the definition for how the "best" match for an overloaded function is resolved. I'll still be here. Go ahead.

Set intersection. I don't know about you, but I don't normally do much set intersection when I write function calls.

Ok, let's be fair. You can state it unambigously in English without reference to set intersection: the 'winning' function must have all its parameters "type match" at least as well as all the other candidates, and one of its parameters must "type match" better. (Set aside the rules for "type matching", and the inclusion of user-defined type conversions in them. This rant is already way too long.)

It's easy, in fact, to see how the specified rules underscore human intuition about best match. At least, each rule in isolation does so. I have my doubts about the combination.

Still, I find it a bit uncomfortable. I worry about the compiler's intuition not matching mine. I'd be more comfortable if the compiler only picked out a particular function for me if it was unambiguous; say, because every parameter was a better match for the "winner".

Problem is, that would preclude having, say, all the matching functions sharing, say, a common first element that is the same type. Such functions would always match equally. It's easy to see why C++ uses the rule it does.

The above considerations were based on a programmer who was trying to intentionally leverage function name overloading. What about one who isn't?

Suppose in C I define a function "foobar" in one module, and a define another one with the same name in another module, but with different argument types. In draconian fashion, C will produce a linker error, and force me to rename one or the other.

Is this so bad?

Consider the alternative found in C++: these two functions may be totally unrelated, but through a commonness of the English language (e.g. the same word having two different meanings; consider simply the word 'heap' in the sense of a semi-ordered data structure versus a pool of memory) share an identical name. In C++, name-mangling means those two functions can happily live within the same namespace, and within the same project.

Is this a problem?

What happens if I'm calling foobar() somewhere in my code, and then someone introduces a new #include in my code which now brings the other foobar() into scope? What if I was relying on some automatic type conversions in my call to foobar(), and the new foobar() now matches "better"?

And think about this: is it good that the different functions could come via different semantic mechanisms? So if I grep for "foobar", thinking it is coming from one sort of place, I may miss that a "better match" is being introduced through a different compile-time indirection?

And think about this: is it good that I can add "default arguments" to functions declarations, thus messing up my attempt to cull out possible function calls based on the argument counts not matching?

What a freaking pile. 

Someone be a dear and help me find all the Andrew Hussie Star Trek edits.

Here's one:



The "official" page seems to be down.

I'm looking for the Back to the Future edit with the dog in the Delorean, too, if anyone knows where it is.

I made a promise.

thank u! i created skybox :)

but How to do custom skybox with my textures? i read some tuts but i mean that used for SourceSDK, not for cs1.6 ?

Go to "Browse Textures" (or whatever it's called) and type 'sky' to find the sky texture.

Then make a roof on your map by using it (make sure there are no gaps between the walls and your skybox) and choose your sky texture by going to Map Properties.

Though us normal people find this weird and stupid as fuck, I'd imagine Havokk and his group probably find this arousing

It's pretty boring, mostly cause you can't find a good game without leavers

OK but how do I import it into a class in a completely different project and a completely different folder on the drive? Can I still import it simply with and it'll find it?

Or do I need to do something special with the CLASSPATH environmental variable or something?

Tried Google? It's your friend.

Using more than 8 wads for textures?

In Hammer, press Alt+P, does it warn for "invalid texture"?

"You have a space or some other illegal character in a texture name. Note that illegal characters also include 'ä', 'ö' and other similar letters used in some languages."

"There is no texture applied to a face of a brush. The editor will find them with the Check for problems tool."

Also, try searching first, there's been (atleast) one thread about this before.

Linkie

SRAW PROULD ANNOUNCES IT'S FIXED!

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=16083

Why this is so hard to find I don't know

go to map > load pointfile
go to the compiling folder open YOURMAPNAME.lin
Track the pink-reddish line and close any hole leading to the outside.

hlcsg v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlcsg -----
Command line: hlcsg -nowadtextures de_noob
Entering de_noob.map

Current hlcsg Settings
Name | Setting | Default
---------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
null texture stripping[ on ] [ on ]
clipnode economy mode [ on ] [ on ]
onlyents [ off ] [ off ]
wadtextures [ off ] [ on ]
skyclip [ on ] [ on ]
hullfile [ None ] [ None ]
min surface area [ 0.500 ] [ 0.500 ]
brush union threshold [ 0.000 ] [ 0.000 ]

Using mapfile wad configuration
Wadinclude list :
[zhlt.wad]

0 brushes (totalling 0 sides) discarded from clipping hulls
CreateBrush:
(0.00 seconds)
SetModelCenters:
(0.00 seconds)
CSGBrush:
(0.00 seconds)

Using Wadfile: \valve\cstrike\cstrike.wad
- Contains 0 used textures, 0.00 percent of map (123 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \valve\cstrike\cs_assault.wad
- Contains 2 used textures, 100.00 percent of map (22 textures in wad)

Texture usage is at 0.04 mb (of 4.00 mb MAX)
0.02 seconds elapsed

----- END hlcsg -----



hlbsp v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlbsp -----
Command line: hlbsp de_noob

Current hlbsp Settings
Name | Setting | Default
-------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
priority [ Normal ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
nofill [ off ] [ off ]
null tex. stripping [ on ] [ on ]
notjunc [ off ] [ off ]
subdivide size [ 240 ] [ 240 ] (Min 64) (Max 512)
max node size [ 1024 ] [ 1024 ] (Min 64) (Max 4096)


Warning: === LEAK in hull 0 ===
Entity light @ (-1000,-826, 128)
Error:
A LEAK is a hole in the map, where the inside of it is exposed to the
(unwanted) outside region. The entity listed in the error is just a helpful
indication of where the beginning of the leak pointfile starts, so the
beginning of the line can be quickly found and traced to until reaching the
outside. Unless this entity is accidentally on the outside of the map, it
probably should not be deleted. Some complex rotating objects entities need
their origins outside the map. To deal with these, just enclose the origin
brush with a solid world brush

Leak pointfile generated

Warning: === LEAK in hull 1 ===
Entity light @ (-1000,-826, 128)
Warning: === LEAK in hull 2 ===
Entity light @ (-1000,-826, 128)
Warning: === LEAK in hull 3 ===
Entity light @ (-1000,-826, 128)
0.03 seconds elapsed

----- END hlbsp -----



hlvis v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlvis -----
Command line: hlvis de_noob
>> There was a problem compiling the map.
>> Check the file de_noob.log for the cause.

----- END hlvis -----



hlrad v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (merlinis@bigpond.net.au)
----- BEGIN hlrad -----
Command line: hlrad de_noob
>> There was a problem compiling the map.
>> Check the file de_noob.log for the cause.

----- END hlrad -----


Reply asap :)

Supes, I just jamrocked that Jessy Bulbo cut, polka is awesome. Good find! The calliope feel is kind of grating, but it's fun too. I also really dig the ska elements in there, more fun!

I find that remark rude and impossible to deny (and also you didn't even tell me why you like LoL over dota, because nobody who has played any of the other games would pick LoL over them)

To find leaks it's kind of simple once you know this:

1- Compile the leaking map.
2- Open Valve hammer editor.
3- Open your map.
4- Have a break for this accomplishment.
5- Go to Map > Load Point File.
6- Open the folder where you compiled the map and open YOURMAPNAME.Lin

Imagine the line as the path of a particle moving around.. Blue meaning not close to the leak area, Red means after the leak area or during.

Just look for the pink - red and follow it till you find the leak.

Hi! Look, catpee.map has failed to compile into catpee.bsp. Look what it is in catpee.err :

hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \program files\valve hammer editor\cstrike.wad

hlcsg: Error: Could not find WAD file
Description: The compile tools could not locate a wad file that the map was referencing.
Howto Fix: Make sure the wad's listed in the level editor actually all exist


hlcsg: Error: Could not open wad file \program files\valve hammer editor\halflife.wad

Please help me!

I really cant find the .mdl files with a cycler_sprite, only .spr, but even if I figured that out, no path works, where the hell am I supposed to place the .mdl/.spr file :S:S

Okey, thanks for the help, BUT, if I make a cycler_sprite I cant path it to a .mdl only .spr

What can be done ?

"fatal error" mod_numforname cant find the path

Ok, so I make a cycler_sprite with the palmtree.spr
correct ?
where should the path be for the .spr file, because when I launch CS it does not find the .spr file and the game shuts down

minigame, fail Bhop, gun game, i have yet to find a server that has reguler maps that is enjoyable.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/the_cloud_system

rather than finding the servers you can just add me as a friend.

Apparently some website says that superjer.com server is in new york, so we'll never find out just how close I am :(

So I haven't posted the music I've found for a while, so here's a big amount.

Acoustic guitar, soft chill song. I really need to find more of these.


Some dark ambient from Northaunt and Lustmord. Dark ambient are supposed to be long, so I chose a "shorter" 10 minutes long and a 20 minutes.



Some rediculous breakcore. Breakcore is simply put different music styles put together to make a single song. "pagan folk, jazz, dance, techno, classical, hardcore and death metal."



Some metal. I know barely nothing of the different metal genres, so just listen to it (if you feel like it).


Refound Weezer. Don't know why I ever stopped listening to them. Aaah, relaxed music.



Sinergy. Metal again. Yes.


Rediscovered Billy Talent. Used to listen to them 4-5 years ago, if I'm not mistaken.



Even more metal.


Also, recently found out that Evanescence had made a new album 2011, so I'm listening to that.
I have probably missed a few songs and bands but these are probably enough to post for a while.