http://www.chatbear.com/board.plm?a=viewth...=4986&v=flatold

His user is anon@67.170 which are posts 9 and 11

A few things interesting in there.

First, Flayra has a problem that I'm sure some of you could solve by reading that thread. Help him fix Hammer.

Second, he is trying to port a map over to Source and I quote.

Saweet.

All the good news about NS is happening today.

Hmm....

NS S would be made on the HL2 engine... right? So why not just call it NS 2?


WEWTANG!

I see


Aight, well, in 2 days I'm getting HL2... so I'll set hammar up for it:)

Yeah we already know that Flayra is making a retail (which means you must buy it) free game, there is another thread about it in Gen Discussion on how they will license a next-gen engine and it will feature both single and multiplayer.

NS:S would mean you would get Natural-Selection in HL2 quality and take advantage of all the features which means a better NS hopefully

Converting to HL2 would also mean a severe drop in players.
Half the reason the Quake engine is so great, is because it doesnt require a pimped out computer to run it.

By the time NSS comes out, most NS players will have the necessary hardware.

I've ported some of my NS maps just fine, including textures (they were blurry ingame, so I ended up deleting everything), but I didn't get any of those errors!

Blurry? That doesn't sound good

Don't you have to convert the texures to VMT format for them to work with Source?

Well at least that's good news that HL1 maps can be coverted easily. (Flayra probably just didn't config hammer correctly)

Mendasp, perhaps you should message or email flayra about this... Make write a short tutrial.

I was trying to find some tutorials for HL2 mapping and couldnt find any that started /w the basics, so i guess i have to feel my way around it manually...

Never fear, a monkey has appeared!

Hammer Source Tutorials for da peeps:

Snark Pit - HL2 Hammer Tutorials
Adam Owen's (whoever that is) Personal Tutorials

Purple Monkey Dishwashers.

(P.S. IF THE EDIT SCREWS UP AGAIN AND PUTS HeAPS OF WORDS IN THE SECOND URL - DON'T LOOK AT ME...IT'S JUST **** UP)
(P.P.S SO NOW IT FRIGGIN WORKS...GREAT!)

IM ALREADY PORTING TEXTURES BOYS!

ive done all the normal maps for the ayumi wad

count me in!



Now then, to convert a .rmf to .vmf

1 open your .rmf in the new hammar
2 save your .rmf as a .vmf
3 if this does not work, then remove "obsolete" entities, ie not lights or light spots etc.
4 if it doesnt save after this, then remove highly complicated brushwork

after converting to .vmf
contact me (after a finish beating hl2) and i should eventually have most of the ns textures (which I have already extraced from the wads as .tga's) converted to materials. (still need to work on making specular factor maps).

Any questions men?

EDIT2:

If I can find time to fix a test map that ive made, and get it to compile the lightmaps, then ill post screenshots!

was waiting for this topic to come along since the sdk release.. ppl converting, i would love to see some pics. even if they are crappy, just curiousity.

I will certainly try to get some pics up, after I beat HL2 of course...

So how do you use vtex to convert tga files?
Im lost n cant find instructions for it...

vtex, read about it over at the collective

Hey sarge, are you gonna be resurrecting NS_StationX now HL2 is upon us?

you have the sdk, yes?
load it up thorugh steam, and go to the "SDK doccumentation" thing and I think that should link you to it, if not try the other links.