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Beetle, assuming the room with my pic in it is one you made up quickly for me, could you put some brain slugs on the floor/walls/ceiling? That'd be cool :P If you can't, or if that's actually someone's room where you just popped in my pic, I understand. It just seems a bit lacking in character. (Other than the small houses, I like that touch ^^)

How could you say that? Its easily identifiable as the room with the stash of gold in the closet!

Link, I want you to do something for me - especially if you ever want to make a map again.

Read up on func_details.

Also, read up on optimization.

Lastly, open up Hammer, open your hotel room in Hammer, go to map then go to Load Portalfile and see what happens in your 3d view.

What Beetle's trying to say is that your room has waaaaaay too many teeny little brushes (the bombs are a perfect example). You can't really use brushes as a replacement for custom models, though you can use func_details if you know what you're doing.

So basically all those little brushes will be deleted in the end. I sort of understand since there were so many leafs when I loaded the portal file. I know a bit more about how to separate the portals with hints and skips though. Will you want me to fix it or have you done so already Beetle? Sorry about my map, I just started making them like 2 months ago and only know the basics. And about the func_detail, I will look into that more, I thought it was the function that all brushes are custom to and didn't think they meant much more than to just be that and not another function.

No don't redo it. The hotel is at its end and I don't want it to take any longer than it already is taking. I just want you to realize that you can't do that in a normal map setting.

func_details are the most used brush-based entity in the game, so its important you know their purpose.

ok, thanks for the insight then, I'll definitely read more about it. But sorry about the tiny brushes, I have no idea how to use blender so I just tried to make the models out of blocks.

Final version of the cC Hotel is here - on the first post also.


http://beetle.calculatedchaos.com/maps/ ... _final.rar - map download
http://beetle.calculatedchaos.com/files ... sounds.rar - soundpack

well!
you finished it prettty damn fast for an awfully large map. nice job beetle!

I know that you can't and/or won't change anything in this map ever again, and I accept that, but my room is kinda screwed up. Lots of models and decals are missing, and the ladders I put in are almost-broken. Welp, looks like there's nothing I can do. I should be happy that my map was even included. Anyway, the whole hotel turned out great, and I was glad to be part of it in a screwed-up, half-broken way. Good job.

tl;dr: Even though you screwed up my room, I'm happy to at least be a part.

FYI: In order to get up the last step of the ladders, you have to CROUCH-JUMP. That is all.

you shouldn't worry, most people would jump/crouchjump normally if they got stuck for no apparent reason whatsoever

and, um, beetle, out of curiousity, why weren't my song things in the sound file?

t00bz wrote:and, um, beetle, out of curiousity, why weren't my song things in the sound file?

Any songs that were wavs were added into the bsp. Your songs were wavs.

OldManJenkins wrote:I know that you can't and/or won't change anything in this map ever again, and I accept that, but my room is kinda screwed up. Lots of models and decals are missing, and the ladders I put in are almost-broken. Welp, looks like there's nothing I can do. I should be happy that my map was even included. Anyway, the whole hotel turned out great, and I was glad to be part of it in a screwed-up, half-broken way. Good job.

tl;dr: Even though you screwed up my room, I'm happy to at least be a part.

FYI: In order to get up the last step of the ladders, you have to CROUCH-JUMP. That is all.

Don't blame me for a second for screwing up your room. I had to take out models because I reached the model limit, which I knew would happen. For the ladders, when I got them, they didn't work at all, so I had to add my own playerclip to get them to even work as much as they do now. Did you test it to make sure the ladders worked? That being said, I like the way you put the surfing practice in there. You can get to really high speeds.

Beetle wrote:Don't blame me for a second for screwing up your room. I had to take out models because I reached the model limit, which I knew would happen. For the ladders, when I got them, they didn't work at all, so I had to add my own playerclip to get them to even work as much as they do now. Did you test it to make sure the ladders worked? That being said, I like the way you put the surfing practice in there. You can get to really high speeds.

I'm not trying to blame you at all. I'm really happy that my room got into the hotel. And yes, the ladders worked when I tested them. They were from a prefab.

They didnt even let me climb up one ring with I tried it.

I was ready to release my room but I wasnt sure where but now I can't share it. I've been working on it for fost of august.

Post it on here. Maybe you'll get lucky.

Can't blame beetle. He gave people plenty of warning for the deadline.

I'd like to thank you, Beetle, for creating such a great project and putting a lot of hard work in it.
You're awesome !

Thank you, Egonny. Its nice to hear.

And spycrab, 2 versions have come out since you claimed to have started working on it. You were a member around here long before even the first of the project appeared. Upload it directly to this page, not megaupload, and you can only have a glimmer of hope I'm going to put it in. I mean, what am I going to call it, cchotel_final_v2?

Yeah, Beetle, you really did an amazing job. It was cool seeing it progress in development. It was a great community project too, to bring people together/show some personality with their rooms. Well done.

ALSO: I didn't even see the gold in the secret room, that's so cool! ^^ Royal pointed it out to me. I kinda wish it said "Bishop's Room" while entering, but since I didn't actually make it I understand... Oh well. Still, great job!

Great work, the hotel looks great! Thanks again for putting my room in, and everything works fine. Now seeing my room in the huge map and others liking it really makes me not care that you had to delete a few of my brushes and models since you reached the max. I hope this happens again in the future, a big community made map. Oh, and if you were to make another version of the hotel, cc_hotel_final_v2 would be a hilarious name, or cc_hotel_encore which isn't as funny but makes sense.

If anything, such as, you get bored and want to add on to the hotel. toastyking would be happy to fill in all those rooms. or better yet. you can lend toasty your brilliant-minded creation so he may edit to his desire....... i have no idea what the map name would be and all..... cC_toastyhotel_<insert # of beta's here>?

hell. we can call it anything we wanted to if it was passed onto many people who edited it. then we can finally decide on a FINAL name when we are done and have the map "perfect" whatever that may be. i would call it <PH?>_cChaos Hotel.

If captain puts the sound files on the server or on the fastDL, he can put this in the maps folder and the sounds will automatically download to clients if they do not have the sounds and the server switches to the map.

I don't know whether that's a useful thing or not.

Also, many apologies for annoying 20-day bump. But I didn't know where else to post this...

yea I already mentioned a res file to him. He doesnt like them or somethnig, idk.

Since you guys can't think outside of the box, and since I can't be consistent, here's the new download link:

http://beetle.calculatedchaos.com/maps/ ... _again.rar

Good job on the map Beetle. No lie.

Nice job sending automatic email updates to about 20 people.

OldManJenkins wrote:Nice job sending automatic email updates to about 20 people.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I never choose to be notified in the forum. I just read regularly. and Thank the others that didn't do 2 minutes of searching in logical places to find the download link.

I downloaded the sound pack, now where do I put it because I tried it in sound and it still doesn't work