User talk:ThaiGrocer

func_instance_parms

I didn't quite get the grammar of your description in func_instance_parms. Would you mind explaining it better (in that article)? --MossyBucket (formerly Andreasen) 16:18, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

I'll have to revisit that and do some testing. Most of the info is copied directly from the help documentation in Hammer, as you may already know. Thanks for bringing this up, MossyB! --ThaiGrocer 16:35, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Alright, now. I double-checked the description in the help file. I remember now that it was an exact copy of the description in the help file for initial creation of the article to build on later. I guess I can make a section in the article that gives an example... with pictures! There are a lot of great examples in the alien swarm SDK on how it's used, so it shouldn't be so bad to get it translated from Valve talk. From an initial look, it's kind of like how instances work in 3DS Max, but not as "fancy feast". Thanks for all the hard work that you have been doing here recently and in the past, MBucket! This place needs a lot of cleaning up. --ThaiGrocer 16:51, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Tutorials and entity descriptions don't mix (on the same article). It's particularly this sentence that seems odd (official description or not): "Whenever you add a $parameter for the instance, get the properties of this entity." Is there a word missing or something?

Thank you for your encouragement! Since ts2do seems to have left as well, and Jeff Lane probably being more busy making games, it's kind of weird to come back and see that the wiki is at places almost exactly like I left it, typos and all. Disheartening, as I imagined that more modders would have had reasons to make it their business to expand on it. I probably won't be able to send as much time here as I did as Andreasen, though - social life and all of that. (Although the miscellaneous (non-HL) forum bans do help, I guess.) --MossyBucket (formerly Andreasen) 18:09, 13 February 2011 (UTC)