If hammer had achievements...

[PL-7764]

"Left 404 Dead" - Release a map using 100% custom content, then forget to pack any of it, so every single surface is a pink-and-black checkerboard and every single model is ERROR.

 

[Void]

The Long Way Around - Develop a Capture the Flag map where the flags are within 512 units from each other but have no immediate connections between the two areas.

VRADical - Spend 1 hour in the VRAD section of the compiling time.

The One Free Man - Set one spawn point 1024 units from any other.

Candy for Breakfast - Amount of Halloween candy health kits exceeds spawn points in the map.

Derailed - Set 8 func_tracktrain points 128 units away from a prop_static, prop_dynamic, etc.

Enter the Void - Develop a map using only textures you have made.

 

[DJive]

Happily Content - Use Hammer =)
OCD - all brushes on a grid or 45degree angle.
Fine Tooth Comb - Use Vertex tool on 95% or more of your brush work

 

[skinnynerd]

Micromanager: Realign 500 vertexes to the grid

 

[Leminnes]

Lesson in Humility - Use displacements for the first time.
Stoopid Stoopid Stoopid - Pressing Sew does absolutely nothing.

 

[Vincent]

Awkward Moment - Realize you did something stupid because a Hammer achievement told you

 

[DJive]

Awkward Moment - Realize you did something stupid because a Hammer achievement told you

Ha, side note but that is the exact reason why my TF play time went from billion hours a week to 1 hour in a billion week. I miss old tf2 =(

 

[Numerous]

Skynet, valve style - Get attacked by a robotic heavy after the Hammer achievements (with their superior error detection etc) take over the world.

 

[REEJ]

Unrewarding Endurance - wait for over 8 hours for your map to finish compiling.
The Skybox Just Won't Work - make a skybox using only one giant brush and place your entire map inside.
Russian Roulette - lose 50 hours of unpublished work due to an HDD breakdown.

 

[Da_Man]

Social Butterfly - Have Hammer open for 2 hours, and get nothing done because you have the TF2M chat room open.

 

[skinnynerd]

Social Butterfly #2: Have Hammer open for 2 hours, and get nothing done because you are reading the hammer achievements thread.

 

[Godslayer57]

Red Letter Day : Figure out a simple and obvious fix for a bug that has plauged you for 5 hours of that day.

 

[HellJumper]

"Ghastly Gibus Grab": Have hammer crash on you

(everyone has this)

 

[Dragonstorm24]

 

[honorum646]

Social Butterfly #2: Have Hammer open for 2 hours, and get nothing done because you are reading the hammer achievements thread.

How the heck did it take you two hours to read this?

 

[Another Bad Pun]

Meet the displacement: Create a displacement and forget to put nodraw under it.
DO NOT PRESS: Click the ray-traced preveiw view option before compiling your map.
What cat?: Crash an entire online server because of a bug in your map.

 

[Another Bad Pun]

Don't touch that!- Have 1/2 of the props in your map prop_physics.
I'm singing in the rain- Make a map with so much rain it lags.
I can't see!- Make a map with messed up HDR.

 

[jpr]

Leaked!.. Not - Have a player see a nodraw wall and think it's a leak

 

[LeSwordfish]

Did you see it?- Recive ten bits of feedback on the same subject.
Not a bug, a feature- Get feedback on the same subject for ten consecutive versions.

 

[Seba]

The Worst of the Worst - Get a leak while compiling with Cordon