L4D Beta Authoring Tools

[Blade Nd64]

I do like the idea of porting the HL2 campaign over. Well, except for the coast maps. Unless we manage to code jeeps into the game, there isn't much hope for them.

I'm more than halfway done with the Ravenholm campaign. I've been cutting and sewing the different maps together to make an ideal campaign. Like the fourth level:


One main issue I'm facing is changing the magnitude of the panic events. Be default, it spawns one mob and is done. For now, I've resorted to using server commands to force more mobs to spawn. Anybody have any idea on how to change them?
Another issue is more than half of the original source sounds don't work properly. Maybe I haven't set up soundcache files or the sound scripts right. And yes, I did extract the sounds to L4D.

[Kodox]

YEEESSSS! MOTIVATION!

[unclep4ul]

I like the zoo_ maps they included, should be very useful.

[TicTac]

Alas, I don't have L4D on my computer (none of my RL friends have it on PC )
Can somebody enlighten me as to what a zoo_ map is? Just example maps like the ones included in HL2?

[Megadude]

To me, the zoo maps just seem like vmfs that contain ready made prefabs of various urban and rural things. Makes it easier to see what they are, rather than just having them as a list.

[unclep4ul]

This is zoo_urban_01.vmf there is also a rural one.

It's basically an easy way of finding the models and textures you might need, aswell providing prefabs for pavement sets for example.

[mky]

^ Yeah theres stuff in the VDC that talked about how valve used zoos for faster production. I made one for CS:S a while back, it's really useful.

[Megadude]

Perhaps someone will hear "zoo", and make an actual zoo with infected animals

[Lobstar]

Started work on my first map. Have no experience what so ever with the L4D enteties. Does anyone have a short tutorial on how to setup a survival map?

[unclep4ul]

Have you gone through the documentation that came with the SDK?

[JakeB]

Basically make a box with a panic event, along with the navs marked as finale and battlefield. And tada, you have a survival map.

[Jangalomph]

What if.. we make one Huge.. Campaign. All the half life 2 levels. Every one of them. Covert them, and make one hell.. of an epic campaign. That would be the absolute shit!! thats like 60 something levels mmm.. smell the epicness. Valve would be jealous.

[Blade Nd64]

That would be like... a 12-24 hour campaign.

This would call for a "No-Life" achievement.

[JediPhreaK]

This would call for a "No-Life" achievement.

That is reserved for MMO players.

[Mr-Jigsaw]

You would have to divide it into the actual chapters Valve used. Black Mesa East would be a boring campaign.