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  1. a fuddruckers

    Hammer can't seem to find the skybox?

    [SOLVED] Hey all! I'm building my first map but I'm having a problem with my skybox working. I get that "hall of mirrors" effect as if there were a huge leak but there is not. Pasting the log into interlopers.net/errors gets me: material "skybox/sky_outpost_01rt" not found This is not a...
  2. JackHundeswald

    [Figured out] How to block Explosives only in an area?

    Hello people! I am looking for a way to make my Mann Co. Target Practice Room. Infortunately, the target entities from TF2 keep breaking when receiving minimal damage. I have turned them into door_rotating and made an invis button around them to do a open/close system. It works well, but if I...
  3. exer

    Custom Prop Causes Map to Not Compile

    I'm trying to get a custom surf ramp prop to work in TF2, but whenever the prop is present in my map, Hammer seemingly compiles the version of the vmf saved directly before the prop was added. When I compile a fresh vmf with the prop, I get this error and compile log*. I was originally using...
  4. Borko 2.0

    water help

    why my water appears like this help
  5. JohnnyWM

    Map Stuck on Fullbright and props not loading

    Hello Guys, first of all, i am sorry for my english it is not my native language i have been working on my second map and the props and lights simply don't work... i have tried everything i know... no leaks at all, if someone could help me i am gonna be very grateful, thanks. Here is the...
  6. Habber T Mancer

    Tools of the Trade

    Though I've been participating in map tests for as long as I can remember, I've only made a handful of maps and they were uploaded, tested, and deleted years ago and Meet your Match kind of killed my enjoyment with TF2 so I put it down for a while. But, I've been playing with Hammer again lately...
  7. J

    does anyone know where this map is?

    link to the teamwork.tf site https://teamwork.tf/community/map-stats/map/trade_idle_r12c
  8. J

    Can someone help me find this map

    So, I've found the map that I was trying to find, its called trade_idle_r12c. If anyone knows the creator of the map or has a download link to map, please comment!
  9. J

    Can someone help me with finding this map????

    I've been trying to find this old map that I used to play on back then in 2016. I remember it being a trade map but having five control points. It was also only used by two servers back then, with the server that I've played on having bots with edited names, 100% crits, grappling hooks, and low...
  10. Croc Snipe

    Can big maps work with 3D skyboxes

    I'm just wondering how 0.0625 skyboxes can work with big maps like the ones that are super gigantic I just need to make the size of the normal size skybox and shrink it down to 0.0625?
  11. XwaeRr

    Hammer compiles an older version of the map and wouldn't tell me the problem

    Hammer loads the older version of the map and wouldn't tell me the problem... I tried alt+P, but it shows me nothing that could help Tried loading a pointfile to search for leaks, but the pointfile is just missing, and i'm almost 100% sure my map has no leaks. ** Executing... ** Command...
  12. C

    help

    What am i supposed to do? I cant save any project lately
  13. F

    Overused theme question

    are desert and farm themes overused in general, by desert, I mean like badlands, dustbowl. And for farm, I picture granary, and 2fort. I just think my map will look like another badlands or granary. Sorry for the question, I'm having a big theme issue with my map and I think this will decide if...
  14. chum

    I need help making floors that break beneath you

    I looked through the internet trying to find a tutorial that would help me make breakable floors and I had no luck finding one. I already know how to make brushes that break when they get shot at but I need help attaching a trigger to it or something.
  15. Dapper~Blueberries

    Help for a TC map

    So I have this TC map idea called Street Justice. It has a theme of socs vs punks with the socs being the red team and the blu team being the punks. How do I easily and natural advance each side with each round? Like I'm thinking the first round is a red barn vs the blu team's skate park and...
  16. Seemo

    Texture Transparent explosive scorch mark

    Is there any way of getting a transparent texture version of the scorch mark decal from Soldier rockets? I'm trying to use it to make a custom texture for a model. I found the actual texture file that the decal uses, but it's not transparent.
  17. CyanideNoodles

    JOB looking for ported animal crossing models

    Hello! I am looking to pay someone to port some stuff into tf2 models for me. So I need some new leaf and animal crossing new horizon models for my halloween map. Models will be every new horizons tree and all the fall items and a few other items, including dlc . Will pay more if I add more...
  18. pont

    [GUIDE] Various Level Design Notes For TF2/OF

    [LINK TO GUIDE] I've slowly been building up a quick-reference guide of useful tips and notes for level design in Team Fortress 2 and Open Fortress. It includes notes on concepts like visibility and lighting cues, notes on entity quirks and useful console commands, explanations of engine things...
  19. Zach_Skylar

    need help with my map.

    I am very new here, so i don't know what i should do but I'm just going to show my problem I made a minecraft map with custom textures and skybox and i thought it was good enough for a workshop post, so i posted it but some good fella told me all the problems he show me that the skybox was not...
  20. sniperstyx

    Got a problem with clone-dragging entities...

    So basically i wanna copy and paste an entire spawn and change it to the other team on the other side of the map to save time, but the entities that i click and try to modify reset themselves to func_detail. Even if i try to see the properties of the entities i am trying to copy and paste either...