Alternate to Hammer?

1Fort 2Fort

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So for a while Hammer worked fine. I made a simple box map I got in game, and a spawn room. Now that I try art_pass, the thing only wants to crash. :facepalm:Is there any alternate? I cant figure out whats crashig it and Id reallky like to make maps.

BTW is anyones else getting a srange grey shape floatind abouve you in blu spawn? My friend and I both did and we're wondering how you get rid of it.

 

Mick-a-nator

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When does it crash? Does it throw up any error messages? And does the grey shape appear on any other maps?

 

J4CK8

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Is the strange grey shape ingame? If so that is also happening to me but all over the map, like a huge shadow passes over the map.

 

1Fort 2Fort

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first, it crashes when i do normal things like apply textures or add an entity. no errors. no nothing. just shuts down. the grey shap does show in game! yeah like a shadow! only on the art_pass map, but i have a custom hat mod that spread to every character in the game, dispensers, teliporters, sentries and even health packs!

 

Bad Vlad

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If you know C++, you can just type the map, but there's no guaranteeing your text editor won't crash.

 

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1Fort 2Fort

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nope. dont know c++. sounds neat though.

 

StickZer0

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Actually you could use Notepad, but you'd still have to compile it in hammer or wherever

 

1Fort 2Fort

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looks like it might be worth learning. i cant stand hammer crashing every time i finish a room.

 

Pocket

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Nobody's made a fully functional Hammer clone, if that's what you mean. Mapping for a single game engine is a much smaller niche than, say, graphics editing. So, no, there's no GIMP to Hammer's Photoshop.

 

1Fort 2Fort

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meh. and im a gimp/ blender guy too. oh well. save save save....

 

Bad Vlad

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Actually, I was joking. Typing out a map is like making a photoshop image by manually colouring every pixel in MSpaint.