Journal #6995

Posted 13 years ago2011-01-20 21:22:31 UTC
Is Hammer (HL1 Hammer) compatible with Win. 7. I'm using and everything seems to work fine that is until I try to add an ambiance sound which won't play. I've extracted the audio out of the gcf and into gearbox/sounds (this is for op4) but the sound won't play. I've done this before (on my TZS map) and the only differences now are I'm using op4 instead of HL and I got a new Windows 7 laptop.

But anyway the map will be a relatively short SP map for Opposing Force. You are a soldier and you and your squad have been pushed back into retreat by xenian forces. You take shelter in an abandoned military outpost to the north only to be ambushed in the night by them, you wake up to find your squad decimated and must escape the base. (This map doesn't take place anywhere near the BMRF, it is much farther north)
That's the basics of it.

6 Comments

Commented 13 years ago2011-01-20 21:24:29 UTC Comment #66321
Are you using a relative or absolute file path? Make it a relative.
Commented 13 years ago2011-01-20 21:36:38 UTC Comment #66324
I feel like an idiot, what does that mean?
Commented 13 years ago2011-01-20 21:36:58 UTC Comment #66320
You've ever been able to preview ambient sounds in Hammer 3.5, if that's what you're trying to do.
You probably linked to a bad path without knowing it.
Commented 13 years ago2011-01-20 21:57:20 UTC Comment #66322
Relative means something like ambience/whatever.wav, while an absolute path would be something like C:\Program Files\Steam\Steamapps\X-LAyer2\Half-life\valve\sound\ambience\whatever.wav, which would not only stop it from working the way Hammer is set to read the paths, but would also make it not work on another person's computer because it would be in a different directory.
Commented 13 years ago2011-01-21 13:58:07 UTC Comment #66325
Ah yep thanks fixed it.
Commented 13 years ago2011-01-22 14:59:18 UTC Comment #66323
Another thing to watch is that you don't include sounds, I've done that in the past and it's annoying to figure out.

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