New to Mapping, UEAKCrash's Tutorial Makes No Sense

[Dalmah]

Hi, I'm trying to follow this tutorial but it almost immediatley starts using tools that aren't availible and doing things that make no sense.

At about 60 seconds in, after selecting a texture in the right, he says to click on the nonexistent bursh tool, (I click on the box tool since that seems to be what he presses), and I draw the 1024x1024 square, and when I press enter I don't get a texture showing up.

What am I missing here? I'm literally clicking the exact same buttons he is telling me to click and it doesn't work. Does hammer just hate me?

 

[Yabayabayaba]

I dont know what to say to this, His tutorials are some of the best on the subject, and are accurate. It sounds like you still have the selection tool active. If clicking the button is not working test the hotkey to see if the tool dosn't work or if it is user or ui error. All tools can be accessed by pressing letter keys while holding shift. Shift+b is the brush tool. The most useful shortcuts can be found here.

 

[Dalmah]

Here's me literally clicking what he's telling me to and it not working.

 

[SnickerPuffs]

Here's me literally clicking what he's telling me to and it not working.

Looks like you're zoomed in too much. Click on the 3D view to select it and use the arrow keys to move around. You can drag the mouse to change the way your view is facing.

 

[Dalmah]

Still isnt adding textures when I zoom out a lot

https://imgur.com/a/cK31d0H

 

[trees]

Try left clicking on the 3d view window, then selecting the option '3d textured polygons' from the 'View' menu of hammer's top toolbar

 

[Kube]

@Dalmah is you Camera Mode set to Wireframe? Click here and set it to Textured:

(this is the same solution offered by trees)

 

[[Rx.] Christian Troy]

It looks like your 3d view is not setup correctly. In the upper left hand window where it says camera, click on that, is that set to "3d textured"?

Edit: Others beat me to it lol.

 

[Dalmah]

enabling 3d textured polygons worked. Thanks!

 

[Crash]

enabling 3d textured polygons worked. Thanks!

Which I show in Episode 2, just sayin

I definitely could've explained it better and made sure to emphasize the importance of it though, it's a common problem.