thanks mate.

That override is actually just a temporary fix for a small problem that occurs. Once you enter one of those mini corridors, a trigger closes the door, and the switch at the end of the hall is meant to open them, but normally the player doesn't wait for the script to execute, so it stays closed, either trigger commands don't get qeued or I should not make it close whenever you enter. Besides, it was either don't close the doors, set up that mini-script or trap them.

There's still going to be plenty of areas to get added. Next up will be the mess hall, which would be 'the second trial' so to speak. I just finished the base layout of it. but I'm still going to need to add plenty of monsters and the rest of the area (Diner area and the kitchen), and just making the base of that mess-hall area increased the current amount of lights by 300, to a total of (wait for it) 2024 lights in total. So yeah, it's going to be one mad map. and I just discovered the aiclip material, so I already set up a few ai boundaries to keep them from falling of ledges. Specially in areas like the engine room, where they'd fall into the lava, and do very little damage to the player. All the scripts are hiding in packages/hirato/dss-models.cfg. I just find it easier to manage the configs in several files instead of 1. That's about everything I can think of right now. I should have the next area finished in a few days, and I can tell you now, it's not nearly as prone to lockdown as the first area ;).

aah, more CVS goodness, first barrels, then elevators, now an aiclip material too :P

~Hirato Kirata

I've submitted two such maps so far. the first is Evilspace, and the second is Hedgemaze, but I accidentally chose the singleplayer mode when I submitted hedge, despite having nothing that's strictly SP on it. Besides, I need to see this SP map through, there's too few maps, if any at all that exploit triggers in the way I'm attempting to.

~Hirato Kirata

I'm making an SP map right now... I think I'll wait to see what ideas I can steal from you. :P

I am, of course, kidding; I would not steal ideas outright. Anything I am inspired by in your map will be unrecognizable in mine.

most of the cool stuff I could think up ways to do, I've already done. There's definitely at least two more triggers that'll definitely make their way into the area I'm current working on. The first of course, will check a few variables, and kill the player, or do nothing. when the player dies that time of course, unless certain triggers are deactivated and certain aliases set, it'll be impossible for them to finish. (I'm evil aren't I). That's about as much as I'm going to reveal for the moment. I really do hope I inspire you to make a great SP map, there's way too many that focus on outright killing the player, instead of making it an interesting and unique experience. And things have been pretty hectic over here, so I won't have any time to edit till the weekend, so you'll only be able to see it in the screenshot till then.

~Hirato Kirata

"unless certain triggers are deactivated and certain aliases set, it'll be impossible for them to finish. "

Be careful with that.
Everybody likes a challenge but it's brain numbingly tedious having to back track -and make sure they're able to- through the whole map searching for elements they've missed.
If you haven't already, try to gently point players to where they're supposed to be. (Without making it too obvious, though.) Silent Hill does this well.

I've not played the map yet, but I'm following it from the comments and updates. I might play the Beta once I've worked out how the hell you update the CVS.
I'm not a fan of the texture of the bunk beds in the latest screen. Not sure if anybody else agrees.

Other than that, I'll look forward to trying the finished version.
Looking good!

If you want to know what I mean with the nasty triggers and stuff, just look at the included test ( /map dss-test1 ). So far that's the only one I thought of, where you have like two minutes to get to the hangar, and off the station before it explodes (how am I going to do this with triggers...). Cept that test has 10 seconds, and it's quite easy to get out of that corridor in 7 or less. Besides, I tried to make it in a way so it can be done like "ooh, an open door, let's see what's on the other side".

~Hirato Kirata

make something explode with triggers? if you succeed, plz tell me how you managed it

!if to be, than be the best!

The reasons noone plays singleplayer is because there are so few maps, and the AI sucks.

Nice work, billy65bob. Although I won't play it until you finish, because I don't want to have to deal with screwy trigger scripts (and my comp refuses to compile the cvs ;).

I've been working quite hard on it...... and got heavily sidetracked and modified the menus (which is now a quadropolis submission, node 975)
I'll upload the next release later today, regardless if the dormitory area is done or not. (which I'll dare say, won't be)

~Hirato Kirata

absolutely all the triggers I wrote are in packages/hirato/dss-models.cfg. The reason it's not in deep-space-station.cfg is because i find it easier to manage if it's in separate files not in a single big one. basically to do it you just need to do an alias level_trigger_{trigger-ID} [script]

~Hirato Kirata

Okay i think i got it, the .cfg is a little bit messy, but i think i understand, thank you very much
//BLARG

actually, I didn't, The sound loads completely fine. I should know because I tested it way too many times already :D

~Hirato Kirata

This is like for drenched ... with a CVS client (or the patience to wait for the next release) this doesn't happen.

and if you read the first bit of text below the screenshot in bold print. You'd know that it is more of a requirement than an option. It's been there since I initially posted the map. for the obvious existence of elevators. (it's much more of a reply to ghosty's comment than yours)

~Hirato Kirata