Heres my questions i want to use for my map

1. How do I make a crater?
2.How do i split the ground into "triangles"
like this http://www.snarkpit.com/tutorials.php?tut=27 on question #2 using the clip tool?
3. Do all entities have to have something to trigger it? or can you like place an entity somewhere and when a player enters a "vicinity" it triggers it?
4. I've asked this once but really didn't get it, How do I make a skybox? details pls, nothing to advanced in speaking, im still noobie
5. Is there a place where I can find out what every entity does? or can someone point out basic ones everymap needs and where to put them?

this might be awhile to answer, but please help me, and im sure lots of other people have at least one of these questions, so you would be helping other people aswell, and i need to know these :o
thanks in advance if you take the time to answer, appreciate it much :D

1. http://integrate.freeservers.com/tutorials/cratertut.htm

2. yes also see here http://www.vlatitude.com/tutorials.php?tutID=46

3. sort of. the "vicinity" entities which you speak of are brush based. this means that you make a brush, select it, and then click to entity.

4. a skybox is a group of brushes over your map with the sky texture on it. its a little more complicated than that but for now just put a giant box around your map. use google or better yet collective.valve-erc.com to learn more.

5. ok this is the most useful website in the entire world http://www.karljones.com/halflife/almanac.asp if you don't find what you need there, check the valve erc collective.

k uhm, i put a giant box around my map and added the morning dew sky box, but on the inside its all dark even though i added enviorment light which lights the whole map correct? also added some reg "lights" around for insurance... i walk around and stuff and its all dark yeah, i dont see the skybox but when i noclip into a brush it shows it and its all light out, wtf?

Did you set the pitch correctly on the light_env

How can i do that ? :o

pitch -80

You did hollow the box didn't you?

That would be a very embarrasing mistake:D

Originally posted by Majestic 12
You did hollow the box didn't you?

Yeah he may be on it it here, do you see like fog if you don't noclip?

That would be a very embarrasing mistake

NOw he wont replie :p. Come on! he didnt even know what a sky box was!

Btw, i would recomend www.mardymouse.co.uk
And the snarkpit which you already know.

haha, I was trying to be nice about it!

Well, an embarrasing mistake for a vet, but not for a beginner mapper.