Ultimate Mapping Resource Pack

[Scotland Tom]

Dear sweet mother of God... I haven't even touched hammer in months and now, when I come back to give it a go again, I find this ridiculously incredible and unfathomably righteous resource! A Boojum Snark, I hereby bestow upon you the "this is the best thing I've ever seen on the internet in the history of forever, period" award that I just made up.

[A Boojum Snark]

Shipped an update. Adds in all the recent I/O additions valve has made along with a few fixes. As usual see first post for details.

[rimlanin]

Hi, im am a mapping noob, i just wanted to ask how do i copy from one map and paste in another, because i see it installs map files rather than prefabs. So how do i do this?

[A Boojum Snark]

Hammer is a multi-document program just like Word or Photoshop. Just open the VMF and copy it, switch to your map, paste.

[rimlanin]

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Originally Posted by A Boojum Snark

Hammer is a multi-document program just like Word or Photoshop. Just open the VMF and copy it, switch to your map, paste.

So i can just click copy on it and click paste on my map?

And how do i open two hammer tabs? Or do i open two windows?

[Terr]

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Originally Posted by rimlanin

So i can just click copy on it and click paste on my map?
And how do i open two hammer tabs? Or do i open two windows?

Hammer's format is to use a window-inside-a-window, an MDI interface. (Yes, grammarians, that's like saying "PIN number".)

Example:


You can open two maps (From File-Open) and have two separate internal windows floating about, both corralled inside the main hammer window and independently maximizable/minimizable/resizable.

An annoyance with how Valve did it: Each sub-window has it's own tool mode (ex. Camera / Select from the far left bar), but it automatically switches when your mouse goes over the respective map window... In a nutshell, I recommend you always have each internal-map-window maximized as big as it goes, and to swap between them use the "Window..." menu at the top.

[A Boojum Snark]

What he said, but Ctrl+Tab also works for switching between documents (as it does in all other programs like that).

[Dance]

Boojum, I would like to say thanks for this awesome pack. It's saved me time and I still have hair on my head.

Thanks
Jake

[rimlanin]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terr

Hammer's format is to use a window-inside-a-window, an MDI interface. (Yes, grammarians, that's like saying "PIN number".)

Example:


You can open two maps (From File-Open) and have two separate internal windows floating about, both corralled inside the main hammer window and independently maximizable/minimizable/resizable.

An annoyance with how Valve did it: Each sub-window has it's own tool mode (ex. Camera / Select from the far left bar), but it automatically switches when your mouse goes over the respective map window... In a nutshell, I recommend you always have each internal-map-window maximized as big as it goes, and to swap between them use the "Window..." menu at the top.

Thank you very much! I did it and now mapping got 10 times easyer.

[Blue552]

Just starting to move on from L4D maps to TF2 maps, perfect thing to get me started as I don't know my way around all the objective type things.

Thanks heaps dude.

Hey Maybe later you could release a texture library, all the textures are mixed in with other ones and would be real cool if you could have a giant block of just TF2 wood textures, another for metal, ground etc.