The stupidest mapping mistake you have made

[Flipy]

Parented 64 prop_dynamics to a constantly rotating brush in the skybox
normally not a problem, but the models were those halloween skeletons, meaning they had bone followers
a lot of them on every model
multiplied by 64 different models
constantly rotating

I did not disable these bone followers on the initial map release

oops

 

[FishyUberMuffin]

after i got some attention with my
Whats the most ocd thing you do when you map thread
i desided to make another so lets go.

once i forgot to unhide my map.... twise. ik its short and not that tragic but thats what ive got

whats yours?

I kept forgetting to add the teams to the trigger for the doors. So I could never get out of spawns when I first began.

 

[Infomaniac]

Another mistake I made was trashing a perfectly fine map because I thought it was corrupted, turns out, Radius Culling can be a dick.

 

[Heroriks]

i paranted 100 gold bars to a payload cart...

 

[Viemärirotta]

i paranted 100 gold bars to a payload cart...

why in the-

 

[Heroriks]

why in the-

welp atleast i changed the gold to 2 big gold bricks

 

[Fillmore]

compiled a map without playerclips and ran a playtest on it

 

[Heroriks]

my biggest mistake was making cp_fastscope a 5cp map (my first map) you dont want to know what it is

 

[Infomaniac]

my biggest mistake was making cp_fastscope a 5cp map (my first map) you dont want to know what it is

but what if I want to know?

 

[Heroriks]

but what if I want to know?

you realy dont

 

[Muddy]

my biggest mistake was making cp_fastscope a 5cp map (my first map) you dont want to know what it is

That's not really a mistake. We all start by making crappy maps, regardless of gamemode. (And good on you for challenging yourself by making something more ambitious than a KOTH map)

Now what would have been a mistake was to try making a TC map for your first Hammer project...

 

[Heroriks]

at least my 4th map is slightly less than decent

 

[Viemärirotta]

Regardless of the map's quality, experience is what matters.

 

[DJ Sylveon]

I accidentally selected a bunch of windows in an area and a trigger brush and made them all triggers. So if someone went to where the window was they could open a random door.

 

[Lampenpam]

In my first map I made a canyon with a single, giantic lvl 4 displacement.

I even just found a screenshot of it, oh wow It's a smash bros map

 

[Flipy]

In my first map I made a canyon with single, giantic lvl 4 displacement.

I even just found a screenshot of it, oh wow It's a smash bros map

I remember that map!! You did a lot of kick ass stuff for the slag servers
I miss those days

 

[Lampenpam]

I miss those days

Well everyone moved on to the RedSunOverParadise community. The devs were admins at Slag and their server have the same charm but much more chaotic. It's even heavier modded, more cosmetics, many custom soundeffects... it's a pretty fun asylum

 

[Grubzer]

Finding a mysterious floating platform every time you compile, only to realize that it was a microscopic microbrush (Seriously. It was almost invisible)

Also, creating detailed models with brushes

Also, trusting hammer in fixing invalid solid structures, only for it to stretch them to infinity and past

(At that point you've probably realised that i am not a good friend with vertex tool)

 

[DrSquishy]

*KOTH_abyss. We don't talk about that map here.
*I also have some time wasting practices: I fully texture and detail every section of my map, however early of a stage it is. In fact, I have never done a dev_measure draft. This means I end up deleting hours of work because I need to change a room.
*The optimization on mvm_origins: There is not a single solid brush in the whole map. Every *brush* is either a displacement or a func_detail, as it was the "best" way for me to optimize. Good job me!

 

[Arceus]

For me, it would be force closing Hammer in the middle of a compile.

I was running late for work and decided I could restart the compile later.

Work was fine, but when I returned, the map had errors everywhere and was missing world geometry in bizarre areas.

Serves me right for trying to boss Hammer around.