Nice!!!

I am a noob at mapping for goldsource, but I recommend anyone who cannot compile their map to move the compilers from the Sven Co-op SDK/mapping/compilers folder to another directory which does not contain spaces.

thanks you! look nice. ^_^
I will try to learn to use the entities.

Very helpful tutorial, I've been mapping off and on for Source-related games (HL2, Gmod) for some time and I'm definitely interested in trying this out.

One question though, which wads should be added for textures (mainly the default Half-Life and Sven ones)? The tutorial doesn't mention this and the section for texture wads starts empty. I could try guessing, but I'd rather not add more or less than needed and the Sven directory has quite a few wad files in it.

For your first map the default half-life wads should be enough. That is: halflife.wad, liquids.wad, xeno.wad and decals.wad. nw.wad (from the cancelled nightwatch mod) also has some nice high-res HL-inspired textures. If you install Wally you can check out the different .wads and see if there is anything you'd like. I might add this to the guide I guess.

Originally posted by Nih:

For your first map the default half-life wads should be enough. That is: halflife.wad, liquids.wad, xeno.wad and decals.wad. nw.wad (from the cancelled nightwatch mod) also has some nice high-res HL-inspired textures. If you install Wally you can check out the different .wads and see if there is anything you'd like. I might add this to the guide I guess.

Thanks!

I do think this is important information to a new mapper for Sven, because the game comes with a fair few wads, some of which are not meant to have their contents/textures used in a map (according to the valve dev wiki, anyway). It's part of the setup process, and the program gives you a warning if you skip the texture wad step, so it would be ideal to have the tutorial process include it.

Im not sure if Im doing something wrong but when I place a light in the level I can't edit it and when I load up the level theres no lighting. I don't know why but does anyone have an idea

Originally posted by Jim655:

Im not sure if Im doing something wrong but when I place a light in the level I can't edit it and when I load up the level theres no lighting. I don't know why but does anyone have an idea

My lighting entities work fine. I used the entity simply labeled "light", and when the entity is selected in the viewpane, going to Edit > Properties (or pressing Alt+Enter) opens the Properties Panel for that light.

The default values do produce a significant amount of light from the start, so if you placed some "light" entities and they don't produce any light, make sure they're not sunken into the geometry. When I first placed them they were half-into the ceiling and didn't work, so I had to lower them a bit.

Also make sure that when you compile the map, the RAD option is not set to "No." If it is, the compiling process won't compute lighting at all and the entire map will be fully lit.

Okay the light in the level isn't hitting the void its inside the map, when I compile and load up the map theres no lighting at all and I know this because its all bright and no shadows. And yes RAD is on, I dont know why its still doing this. Any other ideas on how to fix?

Thanks

Originally posted by Jim655:

Okay the light in the level isn't hitting the void its inside the map, when I compile and load up the map theres no lighting at all and I know this because its all bright and no shadows. And yes RAD is on, I dont know why its still doing this. Any other ideas on how to fix?

The only possibility that comes to my mind (and I'm an amateur mapper at best, so I could be missing something) is you might have a leak in your map that would prevent the compiling process from completing properly. The tutorial I'm reading through has this tip to check for a leak:

"Another way to check for a LEAK is to bring up the console with the ~ key and type in pointfile. If there is a LEAK, the pointfile will be generated and it will tell you the number of points read. If it is 0 then congratulations: your map doesn't LEAK...yet." -Source[twhl.info]

If that doesn't help, compile the map and look over the finished log. Look for any mentions of errors or problems. If it's too convoluted for you to read through, maybe you can paste the full log onto pastebin and link it here for someone to look over.

nice :D

if you have 0 ideas for making a map, make a map with zombies respawning or if youre good at buttonmaking... make them respawn by pressing

Thanks for all the help

Espero que me sirva esta info ( ͡ ͡° ͜ ʖ ͡ ͡°)