Never Ending Hammer Complications Created 18 years ago2006-07-15 11:24:18 UTC by TawnosPrime

Hu huh...it seems a week doesn't go when Hammer gives me a hard time. Now, aside from my vm's not properly sticking after I save and reopen the map, I also often get this problem when selecting an object, mainly something like this hollow cylinder (a 360 arch).

Are these problems related at all? Is there a way to fix them?

Graphics trouble?...I remember Valve messed Hammer again and there was a fix where you typed in parameters something about dxlevel 8...But I thought they fixed that by now...

set it to 3d textured instead of 3d texture shaded and see if that helps.

I'm not sure if that's the problem or if my solution was incorrect. I searched the Developer Community for dxlevel 8, clicked the SDK Workaround link and placed it's -dxlevel 80 fix w/in the launch options of the SDK itself, but that didn't help. I'm checkin' the larger Source SDK Bugs/Hammer Bugs page, but that will take some time. For now, I'll leave u w/ another part of this problem.

Yes, it even happens b4 I create the brush itself.

weird....

and i know you dont want to hear this but - DONT LINK TO A MYPHP PAGE!!!!!!!!

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as for your problem, i can only think its due to graphics problems. Outdated Drivers?

I'll double check but I'm certain that it is.

And as for the php thing, I don't see why ppl bitch about it.

EDIT My video driver for my Radeon X300 128MB is up-to-date. My DirectX version is 9.0d and the driver is 6.14.10.6601 (found w/ System Info for Windows), is this up-to-date? If not, where should I get the newest one from, Microsoft or my manufacteror, Dell (had problems last time I tried to update a driver that wasn't from Dell)?

DXLevel should fix it - Perhaps its a driver issue. I had to revert to old drivers to play Swat 4 properly and the error went away for the most part in DXL 9 and is gone in DXL 8.

About the PHP thing - Usually Imageshack puts ads and shit at the top, it blocks a popup from there for me, and I have to scroll around and right-click view image to see the whole thing anyway. It's much more convenient.

Ahh ok...that explains why some ppl hate the php like, however, to be honest, as I am prolly one of the largest sadistic bastards you'll ever meet, I don't much care about such triffiling inconviniences ;).

As for down grading the DXL...not an option. Not only is this a shared computer, but alot of gaming goes on here, at the highest settings the system can handle.

Anyway, the problem only really started to occur about a week ago, so I doubt a DXL problem would have takin' this long to arise, as I've been using the Source SDK since...checks journal...May 23rd...ish.

Just so ppl are aware (definition: 1) Bump; 2) Reminder that prob still exists), the problem has presented a new form today, as demonstrated in the image.

[img=http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/6473/hammerproblems3ib8.th.jpg]

You did make a shortcut to hammer and place -dxlevel 80 on the shortcut right?

I hadn't, but I just did. That seems to have stopped the graphics problem, although it wasn't present last night when I was using Hammer.

THet did seem to fix my 'graphical' problems, but I'm makin' a new post to see if anyone can help w/ my other complication that impedes my mapping.

I've seen ppl here and on other sites/in game w/ nicely detailed maps. However, when I try to detail, like this basin in this little project I'm working on (name blanked out b/c of what it's for). I created the basin by creating a series of 360 degree arches w/ 4 unit thick wall, each smaller on all axies, and vmed the top verticies out to be under the the bottom of the one above it. However, when I save the map and reopen it later, it ends up like in the pic.

Is there any file I can use or setting I can change to stop this?

Use a model, methinks.

Proves a problem there as I don't know how to model very well yet. However, even on a large scale (the domed top of the room) does the same thing.

I wonder if anyone has made an HLfix for Source yet, or how hard it would be to do so...

Verts like to shift around. I dont know why :s

Yeah, it seems to be somewhat common. Enough so, I think, that it's in the Bugs section of the Developer Wiki here, bulletin 3. It's claimed to be an existing issue and not a problem w/ the Beta SDK. It was posted in January of this year and is still present, so there prolly isn't a way to fix it...or noone thinks this is a big deal yet. Pisses me off, 'specially since I'm tryin' to do some nice vm work on a large scale and I'm no longer sure if it'll turn out nice.

Here's the map in question. Maybe it's a scale issue, but I'de like to know as this has impeded my mapping since I can't sreate very detailed stuff en mass without modeling.