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[Dr.Satan]

if that doesn't work...try this(click)

[foamy]

You allready told me to do this and it didnt work so why would it work now?

[Dr.Satan]

did you try the suggestions in the other post?

[Player]

Post screenshots and / or text of your hammer setup / game config

[Tyrant]

foamy your problem is on your setup "pay very close attention to where your loading your files from" I recommend doing all the steps over from that tutorial.

[cownaetion]

Originally Posted by foamy

and u fix this how....

I had the same exact problem before. You open up a FF map in Hammer and when you go to click on any of the windows, it closes. It's a bug with hammer for sure and the answer lies within the gameinfo.txt. What you do is first make a copy of gameinfo.txt (name it gameinfo.old if you want), and then open up the original and where it says 'SteamAppId", replace the "215" with "440" (TF2's AppId). Now already assuming you have FF setup under Hammer, load it up with FF selected, open up your map and presto, it'll work. However, when you goto load up Fortress, you will get an error. If you open up the gameinfo.txt and put back 215, it will not work (or it didn't for me) so you have to rename the current gameinfo.txt to something else (gameinfo.new) and then put the old one back (gameinfo.old to gameinfo.txt) and then load up Fortress for it to work. And then when you go back to Hammer, vice versa. I know it sounds like a lot of steps but it takes less than a minute to do and is the only solution I've found yet. When I wiped my system and restarted everything from scratch everything now works except for the compile process. The 'vbsp' command will not run at all, but 'vvis' and 'vrad' will work fine, so I have to keep compiling the map at the command-line (which is faster anyway).

So, to sum it up for you:

0. If you haven't already, setup Hammer to work with FF (don't forget -engine ep1 for SourceSDK's launch options)
1. Make a copy of gameinfo.txt (name it gameinfo.old)
2. Open up gameinfo.txt and where it says 'SteamAppId', replace '215' with '440'
3. Open up Hammer with FF selected, open up a map or start a new one and your golden.
4. After compiling, make sure you exit out of Hammer. Rename gameinfo.txt to gameinfo.new, and then rename gameinfo.old to gameinfo.txt and than you'll be able to launch Fortress.
5. To get back to Hammer, reverse. Rename gameinfo.txt to gameinfo.old and gameinfo.new to gameinfo.txt

[[AE] 82694]

One question that I don't think has been asked yet. Does hammer work in any mod for hl2 whatever. I couldn't even get hl2 to open for hammer so I got pissed deleted the source sdk folder restarted steam let sdk reinstall, followed the tutorial and bam it worked. And this was all after steam told me the game cache was good. So don't always believe ot when you verify game integrety through steam.

If you have anything saved in sdk thats not in your FF directory I would back it up before I deleted the sdk folder. When all else fails start from scratch.

[foamy]

Sorry guys but I am annoucing that my mapping for FF is over.

No more maps from me guys, tryed my best to get hammer working but now i dont even play FF anymore.

Cya

Thanks for all your help

[GambiT]

whoa bro...hold up...why doesnt hammer work?

i can send you my config file for hammer if you want

[foamy]

Yes, i would like it please, tell me where to put also

[GambiT]

your game config is in here> C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\*****\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin


add everything below to the bottom of your gameconfig file, replace the "red" with your steam name.

"Fortress Forever"
		{
			"GameDir"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\FortressForever"
			"hammer"
			{
				"GameData0"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\FortressForever\fortressforever.fgd"
				"TextureFormat"		"5"
				"MapFormat"		"4"
				"DefaultTextureScale"		"0.250000"
				"DefaultLightmapScale"		"16"
				"GameExe"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\c:\program files\steam\steamapps\*****\source sdk base\hl2.exe"
				"DefaultSolidEntity"		"func_detail"
				"DefaultPointEntity"		"info_ff_teamspawn"
				"BSP"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\*****\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin\vbsp.exe"
				"Vis"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\*****\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin\vvis.exe"
				"Light"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\*****\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin\vrad.exe"
				"GameExeDir"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\c:\program files\steam\steamapps\*****\source sdk base"
				"MapDir"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\FortressForever\maps"
				"BSPDir"		"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\FortressForever\maps"
				"CordonTexture"		"tools\toolsskybox"
				"MaterialExcludeCount"		"0"
			}
		}

[foamy]

Then name the file what?

[GambiT]

just add it to the gameconfig file then save, dont change the name of it

[foamy]

Guess who's back!?

[Tyrant]

[span]

lol Foamy, you never cease to surprise me. Welcome back, how was your holiday?

[Foamster]

Back got hammer working, because i know more of what i am doing. Was a nub back in the day.

[Dr.Satan]

oh shit! What up man?

[Lt Llama]

You sure have Foamy. Hope to see some new stuff for FF soon then.

[Foamster]

After Learning some c# in school, and knowing how mapping works now. It was very easy to set hammer back up. (Following dirrections)Tbh i gave up, I was young immature. I'll Post what was

It's interesting how much I have grown since I've been on this form. It's been a year. Its funny to look back and say, "Wow WTFH was I thinking back then." heh kind of cool.

Can't wait to put the architect, and detail into foamy2. Also, I would also like to thank all of you. For sticking to this map, and being so patient through my noob state. It's been awhile, been so long I forgot my password and email to my recent account. So this is a fresh start.

Glad to be back, thanks for all your support.


~foamy