A tip - might save you some heartache Created 18 years ago2005-07-15 11:08:12 UTC by Playbus

I just had a frightening experience, I hope that this post will prevent anyone else encountering the same problem.

Tip:

When you are setting up game_text messages, never ever, EVER put the text to be displayed in quotation marks.

Doing so will stop the VMF loading into hammer and give you a horrible scary error message.

For the last hour I'd thought I'd lost an entire weeks mapping! It's scary as hell.

Thankfully, you can fix the problem by taking the quotation marks out of the VMF with notepad or similar, and then the file will load into hammer again.

But hopefully you'll never have to do that now.

Well, I gotta get back to mapping......

(Day 13 is about 70% complete)

What error message did it return? Curious...

env_messages seem to work well for mod stuff. It localizes excellently =]

The error was "Unexpected End of File"

Which had be thinking, ohmygodcorruption! at first.

Ah, makes sense.

Ah thats why! I got scared when I thought I lost a map but Seventh cleverly told me to edit it in notepad. I deleted the entity thinking HL2 doesn't like me

Nah, all it's saying is that it's found a " mark and it recognizes that as an EOF, when it really needs some closing characters instead.