Multimedia Update #14 news - Combine Insurrection mod for Half-Life 2

Hey everyone, it is time for our month and a half long update. For those of you that do not know why there was a delay I was working on a mod for Dawn of War 2 for a walkthrough I will be starting soon. I had been working on it since mid June. I was able to finish it in September but it did not interfere overly with the work being done on CI at the time.

Most of the mapping time was spent on the graveyard map, around 15 hours total, but much of the work will not be immediately identifiable. Most of the time went into finishing the crypts in the new area as well as standardizing the walkways, doorway arches, and fixing some stubborn vertex issues. I then went into creative mode to flesh out exactly how the map will work. For more on that see the Developer's Vlog videos, warning though there will be spoilers as I explain what the map is for and how to get through it so if you want to remain in the dark then do not watch them.

I redid the power generation area, turning it into an actual building with generators and the apparatus needed for the eventing that will take place in the map. Here are the screen shots:

For the stranglehold map I added in two new buildings, a mechanics shop for repairing vehicles and the item resupply building where health, energy, ammo, and weapons are teleported into during the course of the map. This map only had 8 hours of mapping time put into it out of the total 25 hours.

Here are the screens for this map:

Finally I have started on the basics of a new map that will eventually become one of the floors for a late-game map. I will not go into any more detail than that as I do not want to spoil what the map will be about though I suspect the some will be able to guess what it is with time. I only spent two hours on the map and it is extremely small, just one hallway where I was testing out various lighting methods and strutting architecture. I have one screen shot for that:

So the goal for the source code work this update was to fix the shotgun and repair the he grenade item so that it actually worked again. I accomplished both. For the shotgun the problem was that for whatever reason known only to Valve the shotgun only processes on the ItemPreFrame function. I had set the code into PostFrame and so the shotgun overheat was not even registering with the code at all. A small change to fix a large issue. I had to also strip everything related to the he grenade item and re-add it in, that took some time as well as for debugging some problems I ran into.

Overall I put a total of about 50 hours into the update, which is a large increase over the time I usually put into each update for CI. I am hoping to rectify that though in the coming update cycles as I finish my BS program and have a little more time to work with. Thanks for following the mod, I will see you all in December.