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Explanation on how I think the problem started through my file explorer, I attempted to rename a map file which opened a open with tab, I clicked back on my file explorer but it was already to late. Now map files wont compile correctly to the game hammer telling me "The command failed. Windows...

How to force player spawn at various coordinates and not at spawn, to DM each other? Before both teams would ready up to play a match.

Just started mapping today and I wanted to create a simple KOTH map. I have a canal running through the center of the map, everything appears normal in hammer but when I launch the map in tf2 the water doesn't appear correctly and instead looks like I do not have a sky box. If my description...

I were making map for more than week to participate in upcoming contest. Finished on 40%. Due my unorganazing didn't create copies of versions. There is no auto saves and vmx is also empty. But the file size is sill there. Can somebody help me to some how restore, open or extract map from...

Please help Im trying to pack my new map for testing but its not packing I've tried using Pakrat and VIDE but both have done nothing Pakrat just gets stuck on the console when I open my map up and VIDE lets me open it and pack stuff but not save it. when I do I get the File Error: Unable to swap...

I spent 3 weeks on this map i cant give up on my child(map)

Hello and thank you for reading my post. Recetly I've been working on a tf2 map that I'm very proud of. Today I started bumping into this weird error that messes up everything. This happened right when I tried to add water to one area of the map. Lights don't work, some brushes dissapear and...

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For a while now i have been trying to fix this problem on my own, but i just can't do it myself. The map I have been making has worked most of the time, except today, for some reason. last night, the lighting was fine, but it was sometime after I had tried to make a 3d skybox and had realized...

Hello, I've been trying to make an arch similar to this old Goldrush one (the tunnel one on the top left), but I have no idea how to make it accurate enough. Any ideas or tricks for something like that? I'm kinda new to Hammer

I was having a blast from the past with CP_Lazytown, when I found out there's an updated version of it called CP_busytown I downloaded it but none of the files contain a .bsp file, it only contains a .bz2 file and when I open it there's a file with the name "[no name]". Can anyone help me on this?

My map has some custom stuff so I decided to get VIDE to pack it. but how?

My map is always fullbright, I made a another map and it was stil ** Executing... ** Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\vbsp.exe" ** Parameters: -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "C:\Program Files...

Ok, so in my map i have a wall of func_buttons, each set to a different ambient_generic. My I/Os look like this: OnDamaged s1 PlaySound 0 OnDamaged button Lock 0 OnDamaged button Unlock 300 OnDamaged s2 [to s9] StopSound 0 I have all the buttons named the same thing, "button". Whenever i test...

so all of a sudden today my lighting stopped working in hammer it looks like there is a leak in the map but there isn't, i've checked every possible way there isn't any leak, even the compile says there no leaks. i've downloaded and re downloaded hammer twice hoping it would fix and its still...

MY MAP HAS BEEN COMPILING FOR OVER A WEEK. I AM SCARED AND CONFUSED. It's still progressing through vvis, so I know it's doing something. I'm really quite interested as to why this is taking such an absolutely absurd length of time. The map is a zeppelin made from displacements with an interior...

So I made a custom mission for a custom mvm map I made but after the 5 scquad the last group won't spawn. I'm using the website old.mvm.tf to make the mission, I need help, I the first wave won't end without it.

I have a map with 2 windows 2 large bodies of water and 2 small puddles for pyro sharks but when under water I see missing textures same for window reflections. When above the water i see floating dirt partials from the water lod control anyway to fix that? At certain view angles the water goes...

Due to my lack of common knowledge, I keep somehow continuously fucking up every in the way of how I download files. I'll try it how I hear it, but I know I'm doing Something Wrong. Say I want to download the 'Dewm' or 'Frontline' assets. I'll download them, and to be safe, I'll make a file in...