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Half-Life
Tutorials
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Update:
December 3, 2000
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Name: My First Room Description: This tutorial shows in easy steps how to make a single room Update: December 3, 2000 Download the tutorial here 
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My
First Room - by Tiger
| 1. Your first brush
First of all go to your XY-screen and make a brush by clicking on one point and then dragging the mouse around till the brush has the right size. Now go to the Z-screen and choose the height for the brush. In the example the brush has the size 256 / 256 / 160.  XY-screen 
Z-screen 2. Making a room out of the brush So your first brush in form of a rectangle is ready but in order to put some entities in it you need it hollow and not solid. To hollow the brush go to the icon list in upper part of your window and click this icon  to make
the brush hollow. After doing this your brush will become a room with
four walls, one floor and one ceiling. All walls will be as thick
as the distance between your grid is. If you have chosen grid '4'
means 8 units distance between to lines of the grid all walls will
be 8 units thick. Now deselect all walls by pressing 'Esc' and then select a single wall and bring up the Entity Inspector with 'N'. There should be worldspwan selected in the list of entities and now only enter: key: wad value: d:\games\half-life\valve\halflife.wad (or however your wad path look like)  in order to tell the compiling program where to find the textures. 3. Choosing some textures for the walls If you move your camera in the new room you will see that all walls look same. So select some of them or all and bring up the textures with 'T' and choose some nice ones.   4. The first entities The first entity we need is a light, so click on your XY-screen to bring up the entitylist and choose light. Now move the selected entity near the ceiling (important: never put an entity outside a room!! your compiler will give the error leak and break down!!)  and
bring up the Entity Inspector with 'N'. There enter following keys:key: _light value: 000 000 000 200 This key sets the color and the value of the light (R G B Value) key: angle value: -2 This key sets the angle the light should shine (-2 here is down).  The second entity is a info_player_start which set the start position of the player. Put it so that there is enough space between the entity and the walls. After all this steps your room should look like this:  
 As you can see I put the start entity so that it touches the ground and has enough space to the near walls. The light entity so that it touches the ceiling and also has a position in the center of the room. In order to get an example map just download the tutorial.
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