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Hammer bug with texture undo of grouped brushes?

duppy — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:34:30 GMT

Can someone confirm this bug with Hammer(version 4.1 build 6048)?

1. Make a few brushes (or displacements)
2. Group them all together (Ctrl-G)
3. Browse for a new texture
4. Click "Apply Current Texture" icon
5. Press Ctrl-Z to try to undo the texture

I would expect the first time I press Ctrl-Z to undo the texture, but sometimes it requires me to press it two times, sometimes 5 or more, and sometimes it won't even undo it at all. Also, when it finally does undo the texture, it un-groups everything. It may even select a random nearby brush while stepping backwards through the undo's. Strange behavior.

The work-around is to just use the Face Edit Sheet to apply textures to groups, or to just not use groups.

How do I get my map tested?

Toolshop — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:42:48 GMT

Hi
First of all I have to say how happy I'm for joining this Community, I relatvly new here and I hope I get to know you all very soon.

I have a question how do I get my map tested?

Map rendering problem

Pheasant_Pain — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:04:58 GMT

So when I am in game on my map I noticed that most of the map is being rendered even it is behind walls and doors. There are a few places on the map, corners mostly, where when I stand in them the rest of the map doesn't render. :confused: My compys performance goes from 14-20 fps, normally on the level, to 68-75 fps when in these special corners. I hope I explained myself correctly, also I don't have leaks because I don't have any point files. This is my first map btw. :) Thanks for the help

Help! Map having strange glitches.

sanityrepresent — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:55:40 GMT

The map I made and have been working on for quite a while now is suddenly having some very strange glitches. For example the most recent one was when I started up the map, as either Blu or Red, my character would just fall through the floor as though the floor failed to render. It's not just the floor though, it's usually like half the area around spawn suddenly fails to render and turns invisible and cannot be interacted with.

Another issue I am having, is that when I load up a pointfile, just to find some leaks to fix the above issue, it always points to my resupply_lockers. Not the function surrounding it, but the prop itself. I've done almost everything within my imagination that could fix this to no avail.

My final issue is that all my ambient_generics aren't working and I can't import custom textures in. I used to be able to do the latter but lately whenever I import in a texture (with both VTF and VMT), Hammer just registers it as the black and magenta texture that appears when there is an error. I double checked almost everything. Tried fooling around with the settings, and even tried changing the file format for the pictures. Nothing. As for the ambient_generics, they simply fail to play in game. I've checked and made sure that their file format was .mp3 and that they were in 44,100Khz. Yet I am unable to hear them whenever I go clearly within the audible range. Also if anyone could tell me how to make them loop I'd be highly appreciative.

Just to help out anyone who can read code better than I do, here is the error report.

Code:

** Executing...

** Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\vbsp.exe"

** Parameters: -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "C:\HammerAutosave\romace_001.vmf"



Valve Software - vbsp.exe (May 16 2013)

8 threads

materialPath: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\materials

Loading C:\HammerAutosave\romace_001.vmf

ConVarRef mat_reduceparticles doesn't point to an existing ConVar

Patching WVT material: maps/romace_001/nature/blenddirtgrass008b_lowfriction_wvt_patch

Patching WVT material: maps/romace_001/nature/blendrockgroundwallforest_wvt_patch

fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...

ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

**** leaked ****

Entity prop_dynamic_override (-1005.13 -145.00 -32.00) leaked!



FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (3584.0 1024.0 638.0)

Leaf 0 contents: 

Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID 

viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID 

This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID 

Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID 

Candidate brush IDs: 





FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (4096.0 512.0 638.0)

Leaf 0 contents: 

Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID 

viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID 

This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID 

Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID 

Candidate brush IDs: 





FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (4096.0 -512.0 638.0)

Leaf 0 contents: 

Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID 

viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID 

This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID 

Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID 

Candidate brush IDs: 





FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (4096.0 -1536.0 638.0)

Leaf 0 contents: 

Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID 

viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID 

This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID 

Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID 

Candidate brush IDs: 





FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (2560.0 1024.0 638.0)

Leaf 0 contents: 

Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID 

viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID 

This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID 

Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID 

Candidate brush IDs: 





FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1536.0 0.0 638.0)

Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID 

Leaf 1 contents: 

viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID 

This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID 

Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID 

Candidate brush IDs: 





FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1536.0 1024.0 638.0)

Leaf 0 contents: 

Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID 

viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID 

This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID 

Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID 

Candidate brush IDs: 





FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (256.0 0.0 638.0)

Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID 

Leaf 1 contents: 

viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID 

This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID 

Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID 

Candidate brush IDs: 



*** Suppressing further FindPortalSide errors.... ***

Processing areas...done (0)

Building Faces...done (0)

Chop Details...done (0)

Find Visible Detail Sides...done (0)

Merging details...done (0)

FixTjuncs...

PruneNodes...

WriteBSP...

done (0)

*** Error: Skybox vtf files for skybox/sky_rainbow_01 weren't compiled with the same size texture and/or same flags!

Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_rainbow_01 to build the default cubemap!

*** Error: Skybox vtf files for skybox/sky_rainbow_01 weren't compiled with the same size texture and/or same flags!

Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_rainbow_01 to build the default cubemap!

Finding displacement neighbors...

Finding lightmap sample positions...

Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Building Physics collision data...

WARNING: Map using power 4 displacements, terrain physics cannot be compressed, map will need additional memory and CPU.

done (1) (472623 bytes)

Error loading studio model ""!

Error! To use model "models/props_lab/cactus.mdl"

      with prop_static, it must be compiled with $staticprop!

Error loading studio model "models/props_lab/cactus.mdl"!

Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Water found with no water_lod_control entity, creating a default one.

Compacting texture/material tables...

Reduced 360 texinfos to 291

Reduced 54 texdatas to 50 (1436 bytes to 1246)

Writing C:\HammerAutosave\romace_001.bsp

2 seconds elapsed



** Executing...

** Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\vvis.exe"

** Parameters: -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "C:\HammerAutosave\romace_001"



Valve Software - vvis.exe (May 16 2013)

8 threads

reading c:\hammerautosave\romace_001.bsp

reading c:\hammerautosave\romace_001.prt

LoadPortals: couldn't read c:\hammerautosave\romace_001.prt





** Executing...

** Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\vrad.exe"

** Parameters:  -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "C:\HammerAutosave\romace_001"



Valve Software - vrad.exe SSE (May 16 2013)



      Valve Radiosity Simulator     

8 threads

[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']

[34 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']



Loading c:\hammerautosave\romace_001.bsp

No vis information, direct lighting only.

Setting up ray-trace acceleration structure... Done (0.26 seconds)

3024 faces

1 degenerate faces

850963 square feet [122538704.00 square inches]

7 Displacements

63386 Square Feet [9127679.00 Square Inches]

48 direct lights

BuildFacelights:     0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (5)

Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.0124 sec>

FinalLightFace:      0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

FinalLightFace Done

0 of 0 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.

ThreadComputeLeafAmbient: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (5)

Writing leaf ambient...done

Ready to Finish



Object names       Objects/Maxobjs  Memory / Maxmem  Fullness 

------------       ---------------  ---------------  -------- 

models                  14/1024          672/49152    ( 1.4%) 

brushes                307/8192         3684/98304    ( 3.7%) 

brushsides            1937/65536       15496/524288   ( 3.0%) 

planes                1128/65536       22560/1310720  ( 1.7%) 

vertexes              4410/65536       52920/786432   ( 6.7%) 

nodes                 2000/65536       64000/2097152  ( 3.1%) 

texinfos               291/12288       20952/884736   ( 2.4%) 

texdata                 50/2048         1600/65536    ( 2.4%) 

dispinfos                7/0            1232/0        ( 0.0%) 

disp_verts            1815/0           36300/0        ( 0.0%) 

disp_tris             3200/0            6400/0        ( 0.0%) 

disp_lmsamples      116232/0          116232/0        ( 0.0%) 

faces                 3024/65536      169344/3670016  ( 4.6%) 

hdr faces                0/65536           0/3670016  ( 0.0%) 

origfaces             1097/65536       61432/3670016  ( 1.7%) 

leaves                2015/65536       64480/2097152  ( 3.1%) 

leaffaces             3411/65536        6822/131072   ( 5.2%) 

leafbrushes            942/65536        1884/131072   ( 1.4%) 

areas                    2/256            16/2048     ( 0.8%) 

surfedges            18814/512000      75256/2048000  ( 3.7%) 

edges                10337/256000      41348/1024000  ( 4.0%) 

LDR worldlights         48/8192         4224/720896   ( 0.6%) 

HDR worldlights          0/8192            0/720896   ( 0.0%) 

leafwaterdata            1/32768          12/393216   ( 0.0%) 

waterstrips            403/32768        4030/327680   ( 1.2%) 

waterverts               0/65536           0/786432   ( 0.0%) 

waterindices          5538/65536       11076/131072   ( 8.5%) 

cubemapsamples           0/1024            0/16384    ( 0.0%) 

overlays                 0/512             0/180224   ( 0.0%) 

LDR lightdata         [variable]     3393000/0        ( 0.0%) 

HDR lightdata         [variable]           0/0        ( 0.0%) 

visdata               [variable]           0/16777216 ( 0.0%) 

entdata               [variable]       18493/393216   ( 4.7%) 

LDR ambient table     2015/65536        8060/262144   ( 3.1%) 

HDR ambient table     2015/65536        8060/262144   ( 3.1%) 

LDR leaf ambient     11075/65536      310100/1835008  (16.9%) 

HDR leaf ambient      2015/65536       56420/1835008  ( 3.1%) 

occluders                0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%) 

occluder polygons        0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%) 

occluder vert ind        0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%) 

detail props          [variable]           1/12       ( 8.3%) 

static props          [variable]           1/4424     ( 0.0%) 

pakfile               [variable]        1766/0        ( 0.0%) 

physics               [variable]      472623/4194304  (11.3%) 

physics terrain       [variable]           0/1048576  ( 0.0%) 



Level flags = 0



Total triangle count: 8392

Writing c:\hammerautosave\romace_001.bsp

11 seconds elapsed



** Executing...

** Command: Copy File

** Parameters: "C:\HammerAutosave\romace_001.bsp" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\maps\romace_001.bsp"

buildcubemaps doesn't work for me

echeese — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:47:58 GMT

Ever since the SteamPipe update, the tools have been all wonky for me. I have no idea of how I fixed the visible clip brushes or the missing material problems, but now when I buildcubemaps, the cubemaps turn out black. Yeah, I disabled mat_specular, and switched maps and reloaded all materials. They are the skybox by default, but after running buildcubemaps, they are just black. I verified this by extracting the VTFs from the BSP and every single one of them is a 32x32 black square (with 6 faces that are also black)

Any idea of how to fix this>

ahh hammer is fixed

Brewskii187 — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:20:05 GMT

per Fletcher at Valve

Quote:

There’s no need to opt into the sdk beta branch anymore. The tools are just shipping with the game. Opt out of all betas, sync the latest, and run the hammer.bat.

Does the hammer editor run on Linux?

DonutVikingChap — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:23:35 GMT

I searched the entire internet and I didn't find any answers to this question. It might seem stupid to ask but since Steam is now on Linux, is there any way to get the hammer editor working on a Linux OS to make TF2 maps?

I currently don't have a Linux machine so I haven't tried anything yet, has anyone else?

Hammer skybox glitch

Siren — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:18:48 GMT

I was trying to create a new map, when something strange happened with the skybox. I tried to changed the skybox texture, but it didn't do anything to the map. So I could use some help. Here's a picture of it.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...yboxerror.jpg/

Can you help me?

TF2M Map pack

LeSwordfish — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:24:23 GMT

So in the chat a few of us got talking about how to make everything perfect in the world of mapping, and we got around to the idea of making another map pack, like those we've done for halloween in the past. I like this idea. I think we should do it.

Ideas that were bounced around:

Make it a "holiday" themed pack, including mostly exotic and unusual map settings, like borneo, ankor, maritime and egypt themed maps, etc etc.
Doing it in summer, either this one or next one. I also suggested "Australian summer holiday-November/January."

Good ways to cut VVIS ???

Toxindude — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:59:22 GMT

I am looking for ways to cut down my compile time. My VVIS takes insanly long I'm talkin hours. I have a rather large map. You can see here http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=21165

VVIS slows my PC down to almost a halt and I have a pretty good rig. I am woking on optimization right now.

hammer fix

NoirSuede — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:21:34 GMT

2 things :
1.I tried this fix : http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=21166 but now when i click hammer it won't pop up.

2.Where can i get the SDK Beta ?

Carve - an open-source editor

x6herbius — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:57:41 GMT

With the TF2 SteamPipe conversion predictably breaking the SDK (though admittedly Valve did do a good job of putting a beta out quickly), I began thinking about what it would be like to create an editor from scratch. As lovely as Hammer is, it is incredibly old in places and is lacking some of the more basic functions of a 3D editor - namely things like rotating around arbitrary points, aligning to arbitrary points, nice displacement editing controls and the like. I thought it might also be useful to have the editor open-source - I know that developing an editor from scratch on my own would take inordinate amounts of time and effort and so a collaboration with like-minded people would make sense, but this would also allow anyone who felt like the editor was missing a feature to either request that it be added or go and implement it themselves.

The editor I am calling Carve, precisely because this function will not be present in the application. A list of things I am hoping to implement in and above basic Hammer-style tools, however, is as follows:

Allowing rotation around an arbitrary point.
Aligning to an arbitrary point.
Allowing rotation and translation in both global and local axes.
Click-and-drag on faces to select or paint textures.
Clipping along an arbitrary plane (even picking a face of a brush to use as a clipping plane) and being able to translate/rotate this plane accurately before performing the clip.
Manipulating displacements using brushes similar to those found in terrain editors such as Far Cry.
Allowing selection and transformation of arbitrary groups of vertices on displacement surfaces.
Allowing the option to select multiple brushes and tie them either to one whole brush entity or many individual brush entities.
In-built support to export arbitrary groups of brushes with Propper.
Extend Arch tool to add Hole tool - takes a bounding box and creates the convex structure around a hole with 4 or more vertices. (Equivalent but neater way of carving a cylindrical hole in a wall)
Vertex rounding. (Idolon)
Previews when in the process of creating complex generated primitives such as arches. (Idolon)

If anyone has other reasonable suggestions to add to this list then I will gladly consider them.

I currently have the workbench branch of the editor on GitHub; it's written in Visual Studio Express 2012 using C# and SlimDX for DirectX support. I'm not 100% sure how GitHub works (I'm assuming requests can be made to submit revisions etc.) but if you fancy taking a look it's all there. At the moment I'm at the stage of having created a window complete with DirectX viewport and a lovely robust config system currently being used for the graphics options but which will be expanded throughout the application.

Help Materials not found after Compile

Toxindude — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:44 GMT

I just was running a test in my tester map. I ran compile and got this.

Material not found!: TOOLS/TOOLSNODRAW
ConVarRef mat_reduceparticles doesn't point to an existing ConVar
Material not found!: GLASS/GLASSWINDOW001A
Material not found!: CONCRETE/COMPUTERWALL005D
Material not found!: CONCRETE/COMPUTERWALL005A
Material not found!: CONCRETE/COMPUTERWALL005
Material not found!: METAL/METALCHROME001
Material not found!: METAL/METALCHROME002
Material not found!: CONCRETE/CONCRETEWALL001E
Material not found!: CONCRETE/CONCRETEWALL012Z
Material not found!: CONCRETE/COMPUTERWALL003A
Material not found!: TOOLS/TOOLSSKIP
Material not found!: TOOLS/TOOLSHINT

What is the deal ???

Map suddenly is fullbright and shows many brushes that should be invisible

hooky — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:16:32 GMT

I need to get to bed, so I'm going to keep this short for now.

My map just randomly started to make itself fullbright and many brushes. I can't find any issues (no leaks). Is there anything else that could cause this, or is Hammer just being Hammer?

[Help] Map compiling in "dev mode"

Snoshoe — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:08:29 GMT

I'm in the process of doing an art pass on my first map, and I read about a neat thing called developer mode, so the next time I compiled I added -dev and -console to my additional game parameters, and it worked.

Well, that's not the problem, but now my map is permanently stuck in this mode. Even when I remove the -dev launch option and set developer to 0 in the console. When I give this map to other people they see the same things I see on my end, so it has to be something in Hammer doing this, and not my TF2 settings.

What it's supposed to look like: http://puu.sh/2TFIB/469624793d.jpg

What it ends up actually looking like: http://puu.sh/2TFGx.jpg

Anyone know how I can revert this back to the way it was? I didn't see any errors in the compile log either.