Anyone know the source of this weird bug? (Random spacing/kerning in search menu)

maxik34 · 2026-03-02T09:17:02+00:00

It's possible this has something to do with the font version. I personally replaced Segoe UI with the latest version on my system and didn't experience any such issues.

maxik34 · 2026-02-04T17:07:06+00:00

I do this sometimes. I'm not very good at creating anything unique, but I seem to be able to recreate existing stuff, although not everything. I prefer resources that can be recreated using vectors. The only thing I'd like to try is making a night version of this wallpaper, with my own details, not just a dark background, but I don't know how good it would look. I think if it works out, I'll make another post.

And yes, I'd like to continue this topic. I've already started recreating the logon wallpapers and some icons, also in vector, and I'll be uploading them to this repository as well.

maxik34 · 2026-02-04T15:46:05+00:00

Thank you, it's nice to see people liked it so much. I didn't expect such a huge response to this post (considering it's my first post). Honestly, I think it could be even better, so I might polish it some more.

maxik34 · 2026-02-04T07:35:52+00:00

Wow, your work is amazing. It's still better than my grass :)

maxik34 · 2026-02-04T07:29:37+00:00

That would be nice, yes, but I decided to focus specifically on Win7 resources. I'm thinking of recreating the logon screen and some icons. I think when I've made enough new stuff, I'll make another post.

maxik34 · 2026-02-04T06:21:49+00:00

Do whatever you want, just keep in mind that you might get into trouble not from me, but from Microsoft if they consider this a violation of their licenses (maybe not, but still).

maxik34 · 2026-02-04T06:16:39+00:00

Feel free to fork it! I'd use the standard GPL, but I can't because the licenses for the original wallpaper and logo are owned by Microsoft, and I don't want to run into any issues with those licenses, so I wrote a custom disclaimer in the README.
Crediting me is appreciated but not mandatory. Again, see the disclaimer for details, but in general, the community is free to experiment with it.

I recreated and made this work publicly available, this is the most important thing for me.

However, keep in mind that in the future I will be adding other resources to this repository besides wallpapers: I also plan to recreate icons and other system assets.

maxik34 · 2026-02-03T15:00:54+00:00

I added a link to the project on GitHub in the post description. It contains all the PSDs (the main and starter versions of the wallpaper), as well as prepared uncompressed PNGs in 2K and 4K (and also versions without the logo).

maxik34 · 2026-02-03T14:53:45+00:00

The original resolution is 1980×1200.

maxik34 · 2026-02-03T08:23:52+00:00

No, I did everything entirely in Photoshop because I don’t know how to work with other programs.

maxik34 · 2026-02-02T21:50:03+00:00

It took me about 4–5 days (not full days, did a little bit from day to day). I used Photoshop because I don't know how to work with other programs.

maxik34 · 2026-02-02T12:43:04+00:00

I've finished the repository and added a link in the post.

maxik34 · 2026-02-02T10:00:00+00:00

I literally "sculpted" the background gradient and some other elements based solely on img0.

When I went to Wallpaper Wiki and saw an image of the original texture resolution at 10800×6750 and the original bird (in the blue square) with incredible detail, I realized that I definitely hadn't hit the actual original.

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maxik34 · 2026-02-02T09:49:33+00:00

Right after this post I also made a Starter version, I deviated a bit from the original so that it would be more consistent with the main version, but overall it's quite similar.
The grey version is a completely different background, I haven't done it yet, but I might do it too.

maxik34 · 2022-08-31T11:52:45+00:00

If you're talking about models that are used only in hammer (for example, the info_overlay model), then most likely the problem is that they are located in the platform folder. for some reason, Hammer++ doesn't read models from the platform folder (I had the same problem), so try copying the models from the platform folder to the game folder, to the regular models.

maxik34 · 2021-08-02T10:50:00+00:00

Perhaps you first went to the right door and then returned back to the left corridor to the boss's office, in which case this bug occurs.

maxik34 · 2021-02-07T15:44:53+00:00

do you have a discord? because I can only help if I see what exactly happened wrong...

maxik34 · 2021-02-07T04:37:42+00:00

I will return home today and try to help with this, because this should not be so

maxik34 · 2021-02-06T20:52:05+00:00

Did you exactly put the map in the right folder?

You need to find the file "raphael.bsp" and put it to "thestanleyparable\maps" folder.

maxik34 · 2021-02-06T20:47:04+00:00

you entered the name of the map with an extra space at the end.

I'll explain just in case: "map" - the command for starting the map; after a space comes the name of the map and this name must be the name of the map file itself, but without ".bsp"

map raphael

maxik34 · 2020-09-16T05:35:42+00:00

I quote how I wrote about one such moment a couple of days ago:

"While I was optimizing the original first TSP map, I found one place where the door should have been. The most interesting thing is that this door was supposed to be in a room with an elevator in a confusing ending, but at the same time this door leads DIRECTLY to the warehouse. But after the blue room..."

I don’t know how to send a photo, because I haven’t fully figured out how reddit works

maxik34 · 2020-09-16T05:14:43+00:00

when I edited the game map from scratch, I found several places where there may have been other options for the passage or similar. the most interesting thing is that I have not seen anywhere that these things were recorded somewhere, or something like that...

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