Community Training Maps: Valve

[A Boojum Snark]

Been having fun spawning annotations on the fly with sourcemod. Sadly they refuse to work outside of listen servers.

Is this just via sourcemod, or the entity in general?

 

[Geit]

Is this just via sourcemod, or the entity in general?

The entity in general, Me and Drunken_F00l managed to narrow it down to simply not being transmitted (Which should be work-aroundable via SM) or the client doing an IsDecicatedServer() check before rendering it. - We'll know more once I manage to get someone else to join a listen server with it on.

Also, the "lifetime" keyvalue doesn't appear to work correctly, if at all. - I'm having to fire "Hide" at it instead.

 

[Penguin]

Valve releases massively unfinished entites to the public; more at 11.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Lifetime works fine for me. But then I don't know if we are trying different stuff. I'm just working from the map, not using serverside shenanigans.

 

[NovaSilisko]

I shall make a singleplayer campaign for TF2 now.

 

[Newb]

I shall make a singleplayer campaign for TF2 now.

Alot of people are.
Seeing as its pretty easy, because you literally get to control the bots.

 

[Tinker]

I think the best idea for this would be to do "advanced" training maps that works well for unlockable weapons, techniques such as rocketjumping (nothing crazy, just getting on top of stuff), airshots (let's have flying cardboard classes!), airblasting, that sort of thing. If Valve is still working on these they will be working on the most basic tutorials first, and it makes sense to have the community make the harder ones.

 

[bubblewrap]

Some of the entities seem to be a bit temperamental at the moment :/

Either that, or I'm using them completely wrong

 

[JoshuaC]

Just how much control do they allow you to have over the bots?

 

[YM]

Just how much control do they allow you to have over the bots?

the bot generator has: class, team, allowed to fire, go to action point, number alive at once, refire rate.

I think that's it. the action points work similarly to path_tracks but for bots.

 

[JoshuaC]

Ah, that's pretty cool. I bet you could set up some interesting stuff with them.

Once there's a bit more documentation on them I definitely want to play with them.

 

[Jethro]

Yay!

 

[Dr. KillPatient]

Very interesting... Can the soldier/demo blast jump to action points, or is that still in the works?

 

[NanoSquid]

I call tr_heavy

I already started making one two pages ago, punk!!

 

[bubblewrap]

Calling tr_gamemodes, or something along those lines

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Calling tr_gamemodes, or something along those lines

That's what actual maps are used for, like they did with dustbowl. :bored:

 

[bubblewrap]

That's what actual maps are used for, like they did with dustbowl. :bored:

It may end up being pretty redundant, but so far its the only map I've ever made that looks half good, so imma stick with it for now and see how it pans out :blink:

Also, tr_target basically only teaches you how to shoot. If you need a tutorial to tell you how to do that, I don't see why there shouldn't be one for this.