Hammer++

[CafeineMan]

Hello,

I am not a specialist and I have not mapped for a few years. It's a real pleasure to get back into it, especially since I just discovered a great tool: Hammer++. It's so great!

They just added the possibility to preview your lights live and it's pur magic. It's perfect for me who's just about to do a ctf all indoors.

Most of you probably know about it and you may have already talked about it (my bad English makes me not frequent the forum) but I can't hide my joy.

For those who like me want to discover this little marvel, it happens here :
https://ficool2.github.io/HammerPlusPlus-Website/index.html

 

[Pocket]

They just added the possibility to preview your lights live and it's pur magic.

What the shit, this dude is an actual wizard. We need to all bug Valve to replace vanilla Hammer with this in all of their games, pronto. Real-time lighting previews! What's next, a working carve?

 

[CafeineMan]

The rendering is finally quite far from what we can see once the map is compiled. It's a pity, I'm disappointed. There are probably some settings I don't understand but I think I'll give up using this "lightning preview" option. It's more misleading than anything else.

PS: it's not so bad, but in Hammer++ it's more dark than in the game.

 

[Pocket]

Quality does vary, but it seems mostly all right to me, especially for previewing sun angles.

The main disparity comes when a lot of extra bounces are required to light up an area, which is going to be different between fast and full VRAD settings anyway. Oh, and on that note, I can't help but notice that all the advanced compile options are missing in Hammer++. I'm not enough of an expert to recreate them from memory, so I might be stuck going back to vanilla Hammer for full compiles.

 

[Breathe]

Wait you can do that in it? I don't have to compile and boot my game up anymore to test lighting?? What a miracle!!