I've just got the source SDK and have done my first test map. I've used the same values for doors/floors as I did in Dod. Now everything looks a little smaller. Has there been a POV change?

The info_player_start seems the same height.

Also I trust there won't be a avatar/POV change for dod:s from HL2? So if I map and it looks right in HL2 it will look right in dod:s?

In the old DOD:Source beta, the POV is the same as in HL2.

I don't know if this has changed tho.

Originally posted by Kid-A
I've just got the source SDK and have done my first test map. I've used the same values for doors/floors as I did in Dod.

Use the Door Measurement texture in the /dev materials folder, thats the right measurements for doors. I'm not sure if theres a difference between hl2 and hl1, just map to what works and looks well.

What scaling should be used for the door texture? Using a scaling on 1 seems very wrong!

(I've actually got around this by going in game and playing about, but it's good to have the info in the thread and to see what I should have used)

there is actually a measurementdoor texture that shows exactly how big it should be. do a search for measurement and you should see it. there are all sorts of measurements to look at.

Scaling should be at 0.25.

Originally posted by Dwin
Scaling should be at 0.25.

I noticed that the other day, why is that?

probably because of the resolution of the textures - a normal single storey wall texture is 512 pixels tall, a standard single storey brush in hammer is 128 units tall: 4 times smaller or 0.25 the size of the texture.

anyway, hl2, hl2dm and cs:s all use the same scale, so i'm assuming dod:s will aswell, especially since it actually uses some content from HL2. the player should be 72 units tall - the same as in HL2, so even if you don't use the dev textures (which i never have), you can just scale everything to an info_player_spawn.

Here is an example of using source size textures to build brushes. As you can see I built the brushes to fit the door size texture at a standard texture scale of 0.25.

http://www.justfungaming.com/wip/doors.jpg

Then I applied standard door texture tot he brush, and added a wood texture to the frame. The door texture fits perfect because it is built the same as the sizing texture. Hope this makes sense. I assume, as TheSurgeon stated, and we may be wrong, but it only makes sense that the dev team is building their player models and what not on a scale that fits this system, rather then re-designing the system to fit their player models, so It would be a safe bet to assume that anything built using the sizing scales will work perfectly with what they are doing here. Good luck and good mapping.