map making

I'm new to map making and I've just created my first one but I've run into a wall. Any time I decide to run my map it brings up the grey background screen of TF2 and closes out without going further. Ive checked for leaks which there are none and have been around several threads but I can't...

This is a bit of a ramble, I'm sorry. Tl;dr, I need math help and references for staying on-grid with strange rotations and shapes, but the ramble is a tale of woe specifically about why I got myself into this mess in the first place. I've been messing around with a map idea I've had in my head...

Call me a 9-year-old, but I used to create a ton of half-finished games with Roblox Studio. It was incredibly easy to use and I picked up Lua pretty quickly. Ever since I started trying (and failing) to make maps with Hammer, I've wished there was some alternative so my lazy ass wouldn't have to...

So, there's a little bug in hammer which makes overlays completely transparent, and I'm here to tell you how to fix it. This bug makes the overlay texture disappear, therefore taking some time away from mapmaking (just a tiny bit though). This bug is usually caused by cutting the brush the...

On a scale of one to ten with ten being hardest, how easy would it be to make a map with five KOTH points that activate one by one when the previous is timed down. The team who captures the most of the five wins.

I joined this website with the intention of finding someone who could either port maps from certain games into source, or create custom TF2 versions of these maps for me to use in Garry's Mod projects. The maps I want/need to be ported/created are: Autumn Plains, from Spyro 2 - Ripto's Rage...

I'm looking for a map developer interested in making some maps for a new gamemode for TF2. Can't go into too much detail in the forums (due to it being semi private), but I promise it'll be worth your time. Money payout will be offered. Add me on steam if you're interested! (link) Thanks for...

so i'm making a new map for ctf and the theme is red and blu HQs and as an Easter egg i wanted scouts room to have a photo of Miss Pauling on a wall, but i don't know how to add custom textures! please help! p.s. this is the pic. SORRY UBERCHAIN!! :,(

i want to put in an Easter egg but the weapon does not appear in game! how do i fix this?

Heya guys! So, just yesterday, I began working on my concept of a map for the Frontline! project. I have a buddy with me who's helping me with making it, but he said he isn't a professional, so we'll still need help. Any good map-makers who wanna help along? Thanks. :):engie:

Hey guys, I just made my first map, I worked on it for 2 weeks now. I ran the map for tests while I made it, and I set RAD and VIS to "Fast" while I was doing these test runs. Now if I set them to normal, hammer freezes. I read that I should just wait it out. I waited 1 and a half our but the...

I just booted up Hammer Editor, and when I went to select my map save, it gets to 5% and then just crashes. It was working fine yesterday

So im fairly new to making maps and completely new to this website so please be patient with me, whenever I hit 'run map' in the Hammer tool it will load up TF2 but not my map and keeps me in the loading screen, im able to use the menu and all that but my map doesn't load (like with a test map I...

At compilation of the map, I had had here such mistake. Help me something please. In advance many thanks :3 ** Executing... ** Command: "D:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\vbsp.exe" ** Parameters: -game "D:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf"...

Hey, everyone. I'm quite new here, but not so new to the game. Name is Mathias, stylized as Mathyaz. So, wow, talk about community. Watched Crash's tutorials that have been posted so far about building TF2 maps, and never even knew about a place like this. I hope I can be of some use and enjoy...