Func_Msgboard: Teaching Old Progs.dat New Tricks.

Posted by metlslime on 2005/08/30 18:28:13

You know about the info_notnull explosion hack. You know about making monsters drop weapons or alternate ammo using the .weapon and .ammo_whatever hacks. You know about making items float in the air by spawning them on a temporary platform. Let's have a thread where we talk about new ways to use existing behavior and get novel gameplay. If you're a "retired" mapper, this is a great time to do some armchair level design and suggest ideas you'll never have a chance to use yourself.

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Progref

#140 posted by mechtech on 2008/02/09 16:58:25

Map is a group of some of the tricks found here and other places. I use it as a way to remember those info_notnull tricks. Please give it a look
and email if I missed something good.

http://www.mediamax.com/mechtech1001/Hosted/maps/progref.rar

Sounds Cool - Will Check Out L8R

#141 posted by RickyT33 on 2008/02/09 17:48:37

Mechtech

#142 posted by madfox on 2008/02/09 22:46:18

Maybe it is my winrar, but I get a corrupted file.

Zip Format

#143 posted by mechtech on 2008/02/10 18:10:42

Changed format to zip

http://www.mediamax.com/mechtech1001/Hosted/maps/progref.zip

Mechtech

#144 posted by gb on 2008/02/10 23:16:27

That download seems unbelievably slow, can you put it on shub-hub or something? It stalls at 1% here repeatedly.

Last Try

#145 posted by mechtech on 2008/02/11 01:51:27

Sorry for that crappy (free) host

http://shub-hub.com/files/maps_singleplayer/progref.zip

Thats Mad!!

#146 posted by RickyT33 on 2008/02/11 16:07:40

I dont know how usefull it will be, the toggleble trigger_multiple could be a usefull reference. Also the pentegram of lightning - I had a look at the map file in notepad, and it didnt really make sense to me how you managed to get all of the correct angles for each lightning bolt, but I'll have a look at it later again!!

Cheers

Mechtech

#147 posted by gb on 2008/02/11 23:56:43

Good idea. Comments:

- can you make all doors wait -1 or remove them?
- can you use a uniform texture theme?
- func_train message is misplaced
- could you make the messages more descriptive?
- perhaps use floor switches, those posts are a bit in the way.
- perhaps add breakables?
- add Than's moving floor gun turrets?
- add glass?
- make trigger_multiple and triggered lights more obvious?
- add monsters dropping guns, or alternate ammo

Quoth demystifies many of those things, luckily, like respawning items, custom traps, and hordespawn. Plus more nice things. No moving water or statues though.

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