man, this would really suck!
just wanted to try and help by clarifying some stuff, it's kinda hard to understand what might be the cause of the problem.
as you describe it, it sounds like you're doing everything right but, hammer still crashes when you either place 3 entities, unless you place them by spamming, and it crashes when you change the entity type.
hammer works as intended on this end, so there must be something that's causing your crashes.
I believe I'm running the latest ABS, if by ABS you mean his map pack thing. Downloaded a fresh copy right as I started this thread.
yep, that's what i meant. it's short for
A Boojum Snark's Team Fortress 2 Mapping Resource Pack.
So how I have it set up is when I place a point entity it is default to the info_teamspawn, the green gordon freeman guy.
just fyi: after installing the abs pack, this entity is replaced with a totally awesome blu/red engineer.
Any chance it's because steam apps installed to 2 different drives? I have a C: and F: that both have steam content on it. Do I need to migrate everything to one drive?
i would suggest working from just a single drive to remove the possibility of conflicts.