I stumbled upon a weird crash, which happened in hq2_2 when selecting "no" after being asked whether life makes any sense. Sure, it does raise some philosophical questions, but that's something for another time. :D

I thought it had something to do with the new tetris music, because I already had some issues with WAV files in HL that had the wrong format or were just exported by a program that was "too modern".

So I set up an XP virtual machine and converted it like I did back in 2001 - with Sound Recorder - but no luck, it still crashed.

I had to investigate further. I remembered a similar crash and thought maybe it's again another case of "unused keyvalues" in entities.

I fixed all the unused keyvalues of hq2_2 and... that fixed it! PHEW, I thought I had to start debugging the code again :D It probably used keyvalues that Spirit of Half-Life processes differently, that's why it crashes. But I really have no idea and that's good enough as long as it doesn't crash anymore.

Well, at least I have access to my trusty old friend again (the Sound Recorder - I started making digital music with it when I was like really, really young xD You can overlay wav files with it, which was a total revelation for me!). I know it should be fine by using Audacity, but with this I can be REALLY sure that it works 100%. It's like I'm a time traveller. xD

Speaking of travelling back in time, I went through all diary entries and fixed a bunch of errors. (Did I really write "crabbed" instead of "grabbed" once? :D gdi...)

I fixed things by copying letters around. I probably could've just written it again (in a different font even), but it felt better this way.

Anyways, a few days ago I had a really awesome idea right after waking up for the next song and recorded it with my mobile phone. The day after I spent some time refining it and recorded the first few samples for it on my e-piano. This will replace "beautiful crazy", and I might require some e-bass for that. The song came together pretty quickly, and I'm really excited for it. :D

I continued working on the starting area by adding doors / teleporters in the respective style, as well as testing some stuff for the ceiling. Still lots to be done, but that's it for now.

And yes, I still have to add green and blue to HQA and HQS. :D Here's another time-lapse video, if you're interested: https://youtu.be/i_Ha8K4OogU

A day later, I drew another sketch for the layout of the entire room, which I will hopefully implement this week.

To be continued... (<