Custom Textures And Cubemaps Problem

I'm going out of my mind, I did a forum search and found this old thread :

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=4943&highlight=custom+textures

It sounds like the same problem but there was never an answer or solution !

Here's what I've tried: (I've followed the process to build cubemaps found on another thread here and on wiki.)

1.After compiling, saving my custom textures (pakrat) to the bsp and saving with the same map name. Then building cubemaps (following the right process, reloading it all at the end etc).

2.Same as 1 only I changed the map name when I saved in Pakrat.

3. After compiling, building cubemaps, then adding custom textures. Saved under the same map name.

4. Same as 3 only changing the map name once adding the textures in pakrat.

Basically which ever way round I do it I either end up with cubemaps that work but no textures or textures but no working cubemaps. How are people doing this ?! Who has successfully finished a map with custom textures and working cubemaps (using pakrat) ? Can they please give a detailed step-by-step as to which way they did it ?

Easy solution is to take the custom textures out but it annoys me that other people have done this successfully somehow !! Why are custom textures such a nightmare with hammer ? WHY GOD WHY !?! :laugh:

Thanks for the replies but I've done that, it's what I did originally. Only reason I tested saving the map under a different name afterwards was because the other way wasn't working and someone suggested changing it when I add the textures. Which did in fact save them in the bsp. Just didn't work for the cubemaps. Never mind I'll just take all the custom textures out and be done with it.

Ok thanks to Big Rexy I gave it one last try and somehow .. I'm not sure how but it worked. They only thing I can really think I did differently was not setting sv_cheats 1 and sv_lan 1 when I built the cubemaps. I pretty much went through it step by step slowly making sure I followed everything to the T.

I compiled in hdr, I saved it all with the same name. I manually added the textures in pakrat and then built the cubemaps following the exact process in the 'cubemap' thread linked here. I'm shocked that whatever tiny thing I did differently has suddenly made it work. I'm kind of baffled as to why it didn't in the first place ! ?

anyway thanks alot Big Rexy , you didn't give me a solution as much but made me not give up !