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Contents 1 Manuals 2 Now lurking... 3 Interesting posts for further exploration 3.1 Enemies 3.2 NPCs 3.3 Weapons & Ammo 3.4 Levels 3.5 Gameplay 3.6 Facemaker 3.7 Gib System 3.8 Sound & Voice Acting 3.9 Misc 3.10 Mod Mechanics 3.11 Behind the scenes 4 Medias that need a place 5 Drafts & Projects

Welcome to my workplace. Here is the area where I make my annotations, drafts and my experiments happen. In other words, here is my own "Test Chamber". I only hope not create any Resonance Cascade in this wiki...

Contact me if you need help (I have the same nickname in the Forums). If you spot some problem here, you can contact the me either or the other Wiki-Admins.

Manuals

BM-Wiki Help      •      Combine Overwiki Help      •      Wikipedia Cheatsheet      •      Wiki Markup

Now lurking...

http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=3&page=482

Interesting posts for further exploration

Enemies

• Unexpected bugs when using NPC_create
• Zombie guard & Security guard shoulder straps conflict
• Apache redesign history
• Gargantua & Gonarch death animations
• Ichthy behaviour
• About headcrabs

NPCs

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Weapons & Ammo

• Particle offects of bullets impact

• .357 Secondary Fire & Crowbar

• Gluon Redesign History

• Weapons reloading animation

• Finite ammo boxes

• No "facemaker" for weapons

• Crossbow darts in the clip not visible to the player

Levels

• Little piece of Office Complex Redesign History
• More about the infamous "Xen" picture posted in the forums.
• OAR Redesign History
• Unforeseen Consequences & Cockroaches Redesign History
• More about Procedural Terrain Displacement
• Black Mesa: 120 maps in total (including test maps)
• Follower NPCs in Office Complex

Gameplay

• Long Jump Redesign History
• Difficulty levels Redesign History
• What changes between different difficulty levels

Facemaker

• Overview
• How it works pt1 / pt2 / pt3 / pt4 / pt5
• Number of faces variations in the character manifest
• Only original faces in BM
• Using the facemaker in custom maps pt1 / pt2
• How the faces are created pt1 / pt2
• More about base heads pt1 / pt2 / pt3 / pt4
• Unique presets for the AM scientists pt1 / pt2
• More about Facemaker
• How it remembers the face in each game load Pt1 / Pt2
• Attachments for accessories Pt 1 / Pt 2

Gib System

• Shotgun gibbing disabled by default

Sound & Voice Acting

• Ambient sounds: new or stock?

• How many different voices for NPCs pt 1 / pt 2 / pt 3 / pt 4

• Why devs chose not use the original HL1 soundtrack

• Tons of sounds are being included in BM pt1 / pt 2 / pt 3

• When the music will be added to the mod pt 1 / pt 2

• Zombies' voices pt 1 / pt 2

• CatzEye's participation in the mod

Misc

• Xenian Portals pt. 1 / pt. 2 / pt. 3 / pt. 4

• Indestructible cars

• Random junk in crates

• Noclip: Possible but unsupported

• BMRF doors overview

• "Wall boosting" exploit fixed

Mod Mechanics

• Black Mesa will be updated to Source SDK 2009/10. Pt 1 / Pt2 / Pt 3 / Pt 4

• NPC Models textures and triangles count

• MP and SP shared resources

• Humanoid NPCs based on Valve's male skeleton

• Sliding doors = func_doors

• Source exploit fixed

• Everything that needs to be developed to make Coop work Pt1 / Pt2

• How much BM is modifiable

• No maps for video stress tests in BM

• The real system requiments? Pt1 / Pt 2 / Pt 3

• Support for Xbox360 gamepad

• Release BM resources to other mods

• DX7 Black Mesa? Pt 1 / Pt 2 / Pt 3 / Pt 4 / Pt 5

• NPC Ragdolls

• Bullet weapons are hitscan

• Water surface in Black Mesa

• Color correction isn't being used anymore

• HUD Icons = True Type Fonts

• Map loading mechanics

Behind the scenes

• How much the mod is done??? Cman2k answers...

• Black Mesa's Development Vocabulary pt.1 / pt. 2 / pt. 3

• Black Mesa "beta testing" process pt 1 / pt 2

• How the work is delegated between the devs Pt 1 / Pt 2

• Fun fact: FakeFactory denied

• The BM build number in 26-3-2010 pt. 1 / pt. 2

• $$ earned with the MODDB prizes

• Catz's "security clearance" inside the dev team

• About the "2009" goal set in the trailer Pt 1 / Pt 2

• BM Modellers don't use Blender pt1 / pt2

• Third party programs used for the mod development

Medias that need a place

Homeless pictures. If you find a place to put them, please do not forget to copy their captions.

A concept art for a computer laboratory, part of the Media Release 1. It wasn't used in Black Mesa. [1]

A preview of the chapters selection screen, disclosed by Raminator at May 4, 2009. [2]

Drafts & Projects

See here.