News at Egir.dk
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Updated Forum to phpBB3.0.5
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2009-08-02 - by Egir Helgrimson
To fight the bots in our forum, I took the time to update the forum to the newest version. I hope everything still works.
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Making a Secret Door using the trigger_multiple En
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2008-08-12 - by Egir Helgrimson
This tutorial explains in detail how to make a secret door like the one in cs_mice_final. The process is rather similar to making a door that opens by a press of a button; in place of the func_button we use a trigger_multiple as an invisible trigger --- when the player touches the invisible trigger, it will cause door to open.
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Entity Documentation
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2008-06-22 - by Egir Helgrimson
The most useful half-life mapping site has disappeared from the Web. It seems collective.valve-erc.com is no more. This site was especially useful in that it had very good documentation of the entities of half-life. I was lucky to find most of them using some way back machine, so these are available in a zip file from our files section. They may also be downloaded directly from here: http://www.egir.dk/files/collective-valve-erc-entity-documentation.zip. Sorry about the sad news.
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Forum Style
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2008-04-01 - by Egir Helgrimson
As some of you may have noticed the forum style has a small error, causing a huge empty block on the left side.
until this is solved, Zeon has activated another style called "Subsilver2", you can activate this by going into your User Control Panel, then Board preferences and then select My board style.
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Databases are up and running again
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2008-01-17 - by Egir Helgrimson
All I needed to do to get egir.dk back online, was typing the "flush privileges" command into the mysql prompt. I am so embarressed. I want to thank everyone for your patience in me.
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We Are Going Down For Maintenance Tonight
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2008-01-14 - by Egir Helgrimson
My fellow students at the department of computer science, will switch our server from Debian to Ubuntu some time tonight. I hope the transition will be without too much inconvenience to our visitors --- Expect that the latest forum posts will not survive, right before the site is going down another backup will be made, and I did do a full backup last night.
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Happy New Year
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2007-12-31 - by Egir Helgrimson
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! As a special treat I present you the lambda cake.
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New forum
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2007-11-03 - by Egir Helgrimson
I have updated the forum to phpBB3. The orange theme is lost since phpBB3 uses another format than phpBB2. I hope that everything will be working. If not, you are welcome to email me at egir.dk [GUESS WHAT] gmail.com.
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How to Make Transparent Textures with Wally
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2007-10-04 - by Egir Helgrimson
Usually one uses the blue colour 0 0 255 in RGB to mark the area that should be transparent, but this is only a convention and not strictly necessary for the texture to be transparent. Since it is not necessary for the transparent part to be blue, blue wont simply be transparent just because you prefix your texture with a {, use render-mode solid, and FX-amount 255 in entity properties. This short tutorial will explain how to work around this technicality.
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De_Town Released
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2007-09-02 - by Egir Helgrimson
De_Town is a cs_italy like bomb-defuse map by CrazyChase. The map is hosted at fpsbanana.com at http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/28876.
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Downtime
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2007-08-28 - by Egir Helgrimson
For no particular reason, most of the German company, Hetzner.de, who provide us with hosting in exchange for our money, went down this afternoon. They seem to be up again now, but I just wanted to inform that egir.dk is not disappearing, our host is just not as stable as it has been for the last couple of years. I apology for for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
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Error when loading de_slap
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2007-05-27 - by Egir Helgrimson
When trying to start a server with de_slap running, or trying to join one, you may get a Fatal Error saying Mod_LoadBrushModel: models/... wrong version number (# should be 30). This error is caused by a damaged de_slap.zip found in the maps download section for some time now. I have replaced the zip with a working copy. Please download and extract it to your counter-strike folder if you wish to play de_slap. I am sorry for the inconvinience.
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Bots be gone!
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2006-11-14 - by Naigel
Our forum is being flooded with bots registering and posting. We've been countering this several ways. Because of these counter measures, you might not be able to register. If you encounter problems registering to our forums, then send me an e-mail! Further info can be found in our announcement forum thread. Click on the picture to get there :-)
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Countermap online
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2006-08-22 - by WaD
The great countermap, a fundamental resource for many of us 'mappers', is back online! Apparently a guy called Matrixfan decided to revive it from the lost places of the web. You can find the site at www.countermap2.com
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Important message
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2006-08-08 - by Egir Helgrimson
I have moved to a new server. This is an official message to everyone for whom I've ever hosted anything who wishes for me to backup their data and send it to them. You must send me an email within 7 days to be sure to get your stuff saved.
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Bringing Your Map to Life
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2006-06-15 - by Egir Helgrimson
So you've done it, you made that amazing map, textured it and made some puzzles... However, the part of mapping that seperates the good mappers from the amazing mappers is the ability to make your map breathe. This article, due to Floydian, presents a simple framework for living up your map.
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How to use LeakMarker
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2006-04-08 - by Egir Helgrimson
This tutorial explains in bloody details how to use LeakMarker. And just to demonstrate to which detail the tutorial is written, I will already here explain that LeakMarker is a cool tool by Martin Gustafsson for marking leaks.
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Forum Registration Working Again
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2006-04-05 - by Egir Helgrimson
The forum has been quite unstable for some time now. This was caused by some bugs in the new version of phpBB2. One of the things that went wrong was people being unable to login because of strange cookie settings. I believe I have fixed that error now. The other bug was that noone could register as the image confirmation code was wrongly rendered. I have now seen it work again, so I figure the bug might be gone now. This news post is actually a note requesting you try to login/register again if you have experienced problems. Thank you for your patience.
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Trojan Virus
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2006-03-12 - by Egir Helgrimson
I just got this horrible news from Naigel, a trojan virus has been distributed through this frontpage.
Somehow an iframe has accoured on this frontpage which downloaded a virus to vulnerble computers (windows machines with outdated antivirus). I really suggest that everyone updates the antivirus and run it an extra time just to make sure. I have removed the damaging code.
The above link should have information on how to stop the virus. I will keep you updated as I know more.
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Mapping contest results!
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2006-02-09 - by Naigel
Our mapping contest has ended and the results are in. It was an interesting event! Check out the results! Click on the nice little picture I made, and it'll take you to the aftermath of the contest.
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File Section Added
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2006-01-28 - by Egir Helgrimson
I should have added this a long time ago. But here is an overview over some of the mapping related files that are hosted by Egir.dk.
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How to make Rain
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2006-01-25 - by Egir Helgrimson
This tutorial will explain how to use the env_rain entity for making rain in Counter-Strike like in de_aztec and de_slap.
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Happy New Year
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2006-01-01 - by Egir Helgrimson
I wish you all a happy New Year. Do not blow yourself up!
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Mapping contest!
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2005-12-11 - by Naigel
We have started a mapping contest! Here's a snippet of the thread:
"The theme is rather unique - Sound and ambience.
This isn't one of those boring "Make a good map" contests that you find at other sites. This contest tests your creativity, and your skills at making a map "believable"."
Interested? Then surf to the next link: http://www.egir.dk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2275
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How to Make the Screenshot for an Overview
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2005-11-30 - by Egir Helgrimson
Since steam came out, the trivial part of taking this screenshot sudently became non-trivial. This tutorial will guide you through all the details to the point where you have the screenshot. The rest hasn't changed since counter-strike 1.5.
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Resetting Entitys At The Start Of Every Round - Re
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2005-10-28 - by Egir Helgrimson
Sometimes you will run into the problem of an entity that isn't reset when a new round starts. This tutorial will show an example of how to use a func_door and a multimanager to fix this.
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Nice Raw Textures
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2005-10-22 - by Egir Helgrimson
I just googled around for some textures when I fell over this site; Bucky's Morfit VB Page. It's not halflife specefic at all, but some of the textures look quite good, and if we are gonna stick em into halflife maps anyway, their quality shouldn't matter that mutch. So in desperate need of textures, then have a look at this site. By the way, the textures are in jpg format, which means they are just images, you'll need to manually stick them into a wad using wally to use them in your halflife (cs) maps.
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De_Saudi
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2005-10-15 - by Egir Helgrimson
I just figured you might want to check out this new map by muted, as it looks quite decent. So head over and have a look.
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Lack of news
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2005-09-21 - by Naigel
The entire Egir.dk crew has been busy a lot lately, which explains the lack of newsposting. We apologize! I'm going to try and post some more news from now on. Also you can see that the site has been changed a bit, we are doing pretty much behind the scenes. More updates to follow, stay tuned!
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CS-server Up and Running
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2005-08-12 - by Egir Helgrimson
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Slow motion
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2005-07-12 - by Egir Helgrimson
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Science & Industry 2 Announced
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2005-07-05 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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G-Phoria Awards
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2005-06-25 - by Naigel
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Hidden
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2005-06-15 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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HDR lightning
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2005-06-14 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Pink Floyd
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2005-06-13 - by Silver
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Gmod v 8.3a
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2005-06-13 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Gmod v 8.3
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2005-06-12 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Night at the office - Release
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2005-06-08 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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The Snarkpit 2005 Mapping Competition
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2005-06-03 - by Naigel
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Epicenter media update
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2005-05-24 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Resistance and Liberation renders
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2005-05-24 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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D.E.A.D media file
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2005-05-24 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Plan of Attack, beta 2
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2005-05-23 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Media update for Hidden-Source
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2005-05-22 - by WaD
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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How to Use GCFScape
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2005-04-18 - by Egir Helgrimson
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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#egir.dk irc channel
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2005-04-18 - by Naigel
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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CS:S Map Contest
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2005-04-13 - by Silver
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Time goes on
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2005-04-08 - by Silver
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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April's Fool
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2005-04-02 - by Egir Helgrimson
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Countermap buys egir.dk !!
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2005-04-01 - by Silver
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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de_crgo going strong
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2005-03-30 - by Egir Helgrimson
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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New News System
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2005-03-26 - by Egir Helgrimson
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Newsbit
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2005-03-26 - by Silver
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Sands of War 1.5 Released
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2005-03-06 - by Egir Helgrimson
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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Lightning Article by 3d-Mike
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2005-01-25 - by Egir Helgrimson
Finally I figured out how to configure my firewall. The ip is "egir.dk:27015", and its running de_slap 24/7. PM me in the form if you would like to test your map on the server.
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