Hi,

[Kman]

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It took me 4 months to learn everything with HPL2. And guess what, 3 weeks later, I released "Haunted Hallways", which right now has 43 votes (8).

That was the first CS I made and I consider it a success.

Knowing how to use HPL2 =/= knowing how to use HPL2 well. If you really need proof...

First version of this map when I had about 2 months of experience:

Spoiler below!

Second version of this map when I had about 8 months of experience:

Spoiler below!

(and it's gone through a lot of changes since that screenshot was taken, this is just to give you a rough idea of how much it improved)

I don't think you really need more proof then that. I'm gonna have to go with Cornithian on this one, yes it's different for everyone, but I'd say the minimum amount of experience you'd need to make a proper custom story is about 5 months (and that's only if you're practicing all the time). There are a LOT of skills and tricks I've picked up over time just by messing around with the engine, almost all of which I was never able to find on the wiki or other tutorials that were posted here, or if they were included in them they sunk so far down that nobody would see them again.

ALSO http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thr...#pid169172 I think it's safe to say it's a spam bot.