I've been thinking about this for a while now. I have gathered up some money and plan on buying a Kinect so I can use it for motion capture w/ ipisoft.

I've been racking my brain if I should buy a Kinect for XBONE or two Kinects for 360, since I have a limited budget.
Does the Kinect XBONE do the same job of two 360s' one?

I really need some intel on this, because I never used it and want to know from people who have and know how to use it.
I plan to use it a lot hopefully, so I need to make an informed purchase.

Thanks in advance :)

The Hammer crashes on me every time I try to load a map. I re-installed it and tried everything else I could think of.

Anyways, I have two CS:GO maps that I would love to have and be able to work with SFM.
So if anyone's felling like they can do it, here are the links to the maps
de_pripyat and de_slums

I know it's a pain and I would usually ask someone to do this but I really do need the map.
I wanted to do it myself, but I don't use Hammer, it has the 5% bug, I don't even know how to decompile or add HDR to it...
So I just though to ask someone, to whom it would take a fraction of time it would me, to help.

The map is HERE

I would really appreciate anyone willing to help me.

Well I think I have figured out the problem, but I still don't know how to fix it.
The skybox is too dark so the blood goes somewhat transparent.

I don't know if there's a way, that someone knows of, to light the particles?

I've been using some blood particles and they are almost transparent when the light's are enabled.
From different angles they are a bit more visible but that's when I triple the "toneMapScale"
I've used several different blood particles from different sources and most of them act similar.

I don't know how to fix it since most of the other particles are at least somewhat visible.

Originally posted by Dr. Cooldude:

Have you tried to move the timeline playhead out of the scene and back in again?

I have, that's not the problem.
They're invisible indefinitely. Even if I copy paste them, edit time, anything.
It's just one or two types of the particle. Others that I've tried work fine

I have a weird issue, where there are particles that, I know for a fact work and have worked in SFM before, don't show up anymore.
Yesterday when I enabled them everything was fine, but now when I started SFM they just don't show up. It's not just one particle, multiple of them just stop showing up while the others just play fine as normal.

Most of them are rain particles so far. They are only visible the first time I put them in the project and the next time they're just invisible. I can enable new ones which are visible, but they as well turn invisible after I close the project.

The workshops?
Both SFM and G Mods' workshops

Is there a way to preview your video before actually rendering it?
What I mean is, can you preview it with the motion and focus blur etc.

I know you can see that in the Clip Editor, but that's only when it's paused. Is there a way to view my entire video?

Originally posted by Dr. Cooldude:

Originally posted by Iceey:

They have textures, but the texture files like VMF and VTF don't have the "$AmbientOcclusion"

Oh! You just need to add it then :)

Thank you!
This is a poor alternative for a model not having AO but it's still nice to know :D