Changing hammer's compile location

Fewer

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Hi

Can anyone tell me how to change the location that hammer exports/compiles your maps to? For example, when I click 'run map' to compile, the default path it saves the compiled map to is Team Fortress 2/tf/maps, but I would rather have it save to Team Fortress 2/tf/custom/my_stuff/maps, in order to keep all of my things in the same place and separate from valve's maps.

Thanks everyone
 
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In your Team Fortress 2/bin folder you should be able to find GameConfig.txt; find the line (under "Team Fortress 2", not "Half-Life 2) starting with "BSPDir" and replace the directory in quotes that follows it with the directory you want to have Hammer copy your .bsp files to (still in quotes)
 
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Narpas said:
In your Team Fortress 2/bin folder you should be able to find GameConfig.txt; find the line (under "Team Fortress 2", not "Half-Life 2) starting with "BSPDir" and replace the directory in quotes that follows it with the directory you want to have Hammer copy your .bsp files to (still in quotes)
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Thank you :)
 
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Narpas said:
In your Team Fortress 2/bin folder you should be able to find GameConfig.txt; find the line (under "Team Fortress 2", not "Half-Life 2) starting with "BSPDir" and replace the directory in quotes that follows it with the directory you want to have Hammer copy your .bsp files to (still in quotes)
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Hey it's me I'm back... that didn't work. I've changed the "BSPDir" line under Team Fortress 2 in the GameConfig, and it's still putting them in tf/maps. After scrolling through the compile log it doesn't seem to mention my alternate path anywhere.

Edit: I thought I may have been dumb and so I restarted hammer, expecting that to fix it, but even after restarting it's still compiling to tf/maps instead of tf/custom/my_stuff/maps. So yeah, I've tried turning it off and on again
 
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Werewolf

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The option for it is right in Hammers options. I have mine set to put compiled maps in the 'tf/download/maps' folder. Just change your to where you want, which in your case should be:
Code: 
$SteamUserDir\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom\my_stuff\maps

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Werewolf said:
The option for it is right in Hammers options. I have mine set to put compiled maps in the 'tf/download/maps' folder. Just change your to where you want, which in your case should be:
Code: 
$SteamUserDir\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom\my_stuff\maps
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Thanks for the suggestion, but my settings window looks a little different - any chance you know where I'd put that line?

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