City 45 — FaceWAN Forum Archive

2007-08-23 06:32 UTC

City 45, This is a City, made up of Created buildings for players to use. This once fully constructed will be a RP town.
Anyone wanting to help is welcome, please tell me first.
Building Code:
All Must be Made of the Breakable Boxes!

Stores:
Doorways MUST be 40 Wide, 80 High.

2 Story buildings stairs must be 10 High/10 off set per step.
("-e_stack 1 0 10 10") (No more then 2 floors!)

Stairs must be blocked off.
(So you CANT go under them.)

Flat Room Top.

There also can be Multi Stores in one building,
(5 Stores in 1 building, each has own area/door way. no opening between stores.)

Houses:
Doorways MUST be 40 Wide, 80 High.

Windows MUST be 40 Wide, 40 High.

2 Story buildings stairs must be 10 High/10 off set per step.
("-e_stack 1 0 10 10") (No more then 2 floors!)

Slanted Roofs are better.
(Dont count as a floor. Altho you can use it as one)

No more then 20 Blocks Wide/15 Deep.

Apartments:
Doorways MUST be 40 Wide, 80 High.

Windows MUST be 40 Wide, 40 High.

2+ Story buildings stairs must be 10 High/10 off set per step.
("-e_stack 1 0 10 10") (No more then 5 floors!)

Units Must Have: Bathroom, Kitchen/Dining, Living and 1-3 Bedrooms.
(Like a Normal Apartment)

MUST have a Stair well.

Flat Rooms/Slanted are Ok.

Bridges:
Must be 2 Dumpster Lids Wide from Rotation 0 Either way.

Must have Dumpster lid on/off Rams.

Have Realistic Supported Areas.

Medians are not necessary.

**Note All Building are to be UNFURNISHED!**
**Note All Bridges are to have NO CARS ON THEM!**

PM for more info on the buildings I need, and if you save them save them like such.
Stores:
[city=45][tag][shop][floors=#][stores=#][#]
Houses:
[city=45][tag][house][floors=#][#]
Apartments:
[city=45][tag][apart][floors=#][unit=#][#]

Unless your TOLD you can use the [city=45] Tag to Save a building. DO NOT!
More information will be told on how to exactly have your buildings.
once saved also PM saved name.

2007-08-23 06:44 UTC

More or less im just building a basic City.
Unfurnished

2007-08-23 07:25 UTC

Hate to say it but this is only going to end in disaster, the HL2 engine cannot handle that amount of abuse.

There just is no way to stick that amount of props in the game without causing quite a catastrophe.

You are welcome to try building it, but if you are doing it while I am in the server, I will either wreck it, or ban the box and clear the map.

It takes me around 10 minutes to get from steam games menu to inside the game server. So, when I get crashed it really pisses me off, I will extend you the courtesy of not banning you flat out.

The original crazy chicken...

2007-08-23 07:34 UTC

Originally posted by Chicken132, post: 638:
Hate to say it but this is only going to end in disaster, the HL2 engine cannot handle that amount of abuse.

There just is no way to stick that amount of props in the game without causing quite a catastrophe.

You are welcome to try building it, but if you are doing it while I am in the server, I will either wreck it, or ban the box and clear the map.

It takes me around 10 minutes to get from steam games menu to inside the game server. So, when I get crashed it really pisses me off, I will extend you the courtesy of not banning you flat out.

Its handeled everything so far, a Bridge 200+ Props a 300+ Prop building and 500+ prop building all at once.

Anyways just Del this thread then Chicken.

2007-08-23 08:45 UTC

You are welcome to build it, I guess I forgot to add that.

What I meant was that if I am in the server, and someone is building it, after I ask them to stop it will be wrecked.

I know what the limits of the HL2 engine are, 800 props isn't enough to do it in.

The E Forts are proof of that, but when people are building with boxes they tend to stack more generously, like say 20 to 30 at a time, doing so would cause issues since you might do a column of them at once.

Boxes are quite a taxing prop for the server in large amounts.

All I am asking is that you don't load them all or build them when I am there.

The original crazy chicken...

2007-08-23 09:04 UTC

Originally posted by Chicken132, post: 640:
You are welcome to build it, I guess I forgot to add that.

What I meant was that if I am in the server, and someone is building it, after I ask them to stop it will be wrecked.

I know what the limits of the HL2 engine are, 800 props isn't enough to do it in.

The E Forts are proof of that, but when people are building with boxes they tend to stack more generously, like say 20 to 30 at a time, doing so would cause issues since you might do a column of them at once.

Boxes are quite a taxing prop for the server in large amounts.

All I am asking is that you don't load them all or build them when I am there.

If i changed the prop im using, to another what would you suggest?

2007-08-23 12:34 UTC

At some point if you're mass cgsaving and loading, you're going to hit a ceiling anyway and things are going to crash, unfortunately.

I can tell you outright that any building of 2000+ props will not be able to cgload. I don't think I can load it (my pre-City 45 building) even when I'm the only one in the server without crashing. x_x

Ontop of that, if the boxes are breakable and someone ends up destroying mass amounts all at once, aiee...

I would recommend looking at a map like so_city2 and getting an idea of how they did their city, before building a ton of box towers.

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2007-08-24 01:02 UTC

And yet, I have a sky lab/house/fort I'm trying to make in SP, saved with VMF copygun.
It's something like 600 props at the moment, but every time I try to load the latest version, I crash after a very short while, such that I can't get anything more done on it.
Then again, I have a laser gate across the inner door.

I have a question, though: Why breakable boxes? It's just asking for it.
You'd get a better city if you used dumpster lids, or blast doors. Or PHX panels, for that matter.

2007-08-24 04:10 UTC

For huge sky tower u can use buildings from gmow3 or PHX useful stuff? or if u still want the boxes. Build a tower and group it into one enti... or try saving to hammer and export as a CG file for use in gmod... By the way I like ur Idea