can someone enlighten me?

[_HL4E_halfLife_]

I been a Half-Life mapper for 5 years and have over 165 maps,and i want to start making maps for Half-Life 2 but im having trouble locating the Half-Life2.fgd file and also where were all the materials installed when steam unlocked my game?

 

[DisMorbid]

Ditto. Its fun mapping for counter strike for a little bit... But where is the Half-Life 2 fgd?

 

[josho]

i dont think theyve released it yet

 

[_HL4E_halfLife_]

what???!!!?

 

[Newton]

Can ask all you mappers a question? Just for my own knowledge.

If you scaled the size of the player models, animations, vehicles etc. to say half thier normal size would that effectively double the map size or is the total map size (hieght, width etc.) purpotionate to the player?

 

[polypod]

great question.. :bounce:
maybe deserves its' own thread?

 

[Froz]

Yeah I was wondering that too...made a test map but I can't compile it, any suggestions? I followed the configuration of game settings with the cs:s tutorial but I can't find the hl2 gameinfo or the fgd or what it's called.

 

[StardogChampion]

Yeah I was wondering that too...made a test map but I can't compile it, any suggestions? I followed the configuration of game settings with the cs:s tutorial but I can't find the hl2 gameinfo or the fgd or what it's called.

To compile your map click the button in the top right of Hammer (called Run or something). Click OK then it will compile. To play it in CS you have to copy the BSP from the sourcesdk/ maps folder into your cstrike/maps folder. You can't launch your map straight after compiling yet.

You can't find the .fgd because it isn't there.

 

[_HL4E_halfLife_]

so how are we suppose to make HL2 maps with out it??

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Just use the base fgd or cstrike one. The hl2 fgd file will be out soon enough.

 

[monster]

the halflife 2 sdk HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED YET! only parts for mapping and modeling have been released. most everything you need for making maps and models for cs are there. as for hl2. can you people wait 5 seconds?

http://www.hlfallout.net/comments.php?id=7584

 

[Froz]

To compile your map click the button in the top right of Hammer (called Run or something). Click OK then it will compile. To play it in CS you have to copy the BSP from the sourcesdk/ maps folder into your cstrike/maps folder. You can't launch your map straight after compiling yet.

You can't find the .fgd because it isn't there.

I actually knew that, sorry I forgot to describe my real problem. I set the paths in the config just like the CS config tutorial said, made my own mod folder etc. but when I try to compilte the map (I also checked do not run map after compiling), it reports errors about some directory not found. Can you please post what settings you use in the game config. My install dir is the default steam folder.