Severed posted:

Thanks for the information. I've read through the tutorials and I'm still suffering some very low FPS (20-30) in some areas of the map; mostly outside. Here's a diagram to illustrate:



Basically, whenever the player is in the outside area to the right of the building, the FPS drops dramatically if the player is facing the entire building. Where can I put HINTs to help improve this? The outside area is basically a parking lot, so its pretty bare outside of street lamps and sidewalks, etc.

edit - If it helps, the layout of the indoor area is only one story, so no multiple levels in the facility. The area that is diagonal is where the entrance to the building is. That little area where you see the box in the bottom right of the building was just my attempt at making a window for illustration purposes.

Rectus posted:

Valve uses individual textures for each sign/character, it's probably the best way.

You also can't split up textures when using overlays, unless I'm missing something.

ExtraNoise posted:

Isn't it possible to change the size of the overlay to the size you want, change the scaling of the texture inside of that overlay, and then offset it so that the individual part of the texture is what's shown in the overlay?

Irish Taxi Driver posted:

Are you compiling fullbright or is it loading in fullbright?

Irish Taxi Driver posted:

Have you tried another texture or making a new one?

ExtraNoise posted:

My last question is in regards to the light textures of the panel lights. In Hammer they look dark, like they are turned off. In game they are glowing as in the screenshot above. How is this controlled? Can I "turn them off" in Hammer?

ExtraNoise posted:

Lastly, and I've been lucky because I can't figure this out, but how do I turn down the intensity of the overhead lights? I reduced the HDR and saw no difference, changed the "brightness color" to gray and saw no difference (maybe?) and even tried adjusting the falloff but that was fairly sharp. What's the best way to do this?

Dodgeball posted:

Slightly off-topic, but this is the only thread I think I can catch both:

Irish or FB, how do you get music to play over Ustream while broadcasting video? I don't want to use the microphone-to-speaker method because I have a dog that likes to bark at EVERYTHING and I like to yell at her for barking at EVERYTHING.

Rectus posted:

This is handled by the material file. You turn it off by making a new material by copying from the the VPK, renaming the file to something unique, removing the "$selfillum 1" line from it and replacing the materials in hammer with the new one.

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What kind of lights are you using? Playing around with the 50% and 100% falloffs works best in my experience. Try setting the 50% falloff to a lower value for more diffuse lighting.

ExtraNoise posted:

A simple "light" (omni). Would using light_spot work better? Can I change a light_spot to a rectangular area and aim one into the corridor and the other at the light strip to make it look like its glowing?

ExtraNoise posted:

Playing around with it last night, it seemed like changing the falloff distance for the omnis worked pretty well, but it was still creating too much light on brush surfaces and not nearly enough light on the props (characters/dead guy in hallway).

Fishbus posted:

You can just tell procaster to record "what's I hear" (aka, through speakers) or just through stereo-mix.

I threw a quick hack together, I told my input settings in windows to listen to stereo mix (instead of mic), and then the procaster to listen to my mic; the result: straight recording of the music (and steam/msn notification noises lol) to the stream

ExtraNoise posted:

Dodgeball posted:

Dang it, I don't seem to have the stereo mix function in my Volume controls. Plus I use UStream. Dang, thanks.

bbcisdabomb posted:

Are there any more screenshots? This is an awesome concept _{and I'm something of a trekkie}

I really hope this gets even a beta. I will play it SO HARD.

ExtraNoise posted:

I'll update there as new screens come along. And I'll probably continue posting here as I get stuck on various stupid parts. For example, I have to make the doors work soon and I'm absolutely dreading the sort of scripting I'll have to add to make that work.

Irish Taxi Driver posted:

If they're just slide doors you can use the origin movement method and a trigger_multiple with OnStartTouchAll to open them and OnEndTouchAll to close them. Dunno if that means they'll open for infected too.

ExtraNoise posted:

I'm trying to think, is there a level where something like this exists that I can pull apart and attempt to rebuild from? The level from the Dead Air campaign in L4D where the crane lowers the container?

For some reason I'm having a hard time thinking of good examples.

Edit: I'm dumb. I'm thinking like to start an effect, not a trigger_multiple. I'll play with this and see if I can get it to work relatively easily.

ExtraNoise posted:

This might be just as dumb a question as the above one, but is there any way to setup a brush so that when I open its properties it shows me the settings I had setup when I changed it from an object to a function or trigger?

For example, I select a brush, change it using Ctrl+T and then set it up as a func_door. When I select something else and come back to it, it acts as a blank object. I reselct "func_door" from the dropdown list and all my previous settings are erased. I've never seen it mentioned anywhere, but do you basically get only one shot to setup a brush's properties? Am I missing something really obvious?

Luigi Thirty posted:

I'm having a weird problem with Hammer. When my 3D view camera is in the void, my side/front/top view windows work correctly. When I'm in a room, the side/front/top view windows go blank and stop responding until I go back to the void. Anyone have this happen to them? It doesn't matter what game or mod I'm editing, it does this in all of them.

ExtraNoise posted:

I've run into another odd problem.



Why do the overlays on my doors not work? There should be an overlay on each door (for the title of the door) but after changing them to func_door they simply do not appear.

I opened up the overlays themselves and remapped them to the faces (the numbers of which did change and they appear on the doors in Hammer) but they do not appear in the game.

I couldn't find anything about func_doors not allowing for overlays, so I'm guessing I'm overlooking something. Anyone have any ideas?

ExtraNoise posted:

Luigi!

When they "go blank", are they black? Do you have one of the 3D previews selected under view? Do you have "Show models in 2D" selected? If so, what happens when they go blank and you attempt to zoom in and out on them?

ExtraNoise posted:

Doors

Rectus posted:

Also if your door becomes complicated, you might consider putting it into an instance for ease of management.

Fishbus posted:

Whatever happened to the tf2 love in here

Fishbus posted:

Whatever happened to the tf2 love in here