Placing the sky after finishing a map Created 17 years ago2007-01-14 10:13:14 UTC by doc

I have a BIG problem. I was making a very authentic map based on a friends house (lol) for Half Life1 deathmatch. When my friend tried the map he laughed and felt like he was walking through his own house, but then he asked if i could make his garden, and the ability to go outside, wich would prevent the players from bumping into eachother all the time. Problem is, when i try to create a box around the map, hammer won't let me make it hollow. And when i try to create walls around the map, the map won't compile, and my computers cpu usage reaches 100% until i restart it. : And it's not like i want to start the map all over again, i mean.. the house is too well made, i just can't trash the project please help

Hammer won't hollow a box if it is an entity. Check that first, if it is turn it into a solid brush. Placing a box around your map, especially if it's a big one, can greatly extend compile times, so you should try to avoid this unless neccessary.

yeah skyboxing is a no no

stick a fence around the house or something and then build the sky off of that and above the house..

or else you'd just be rendering a crap-ton of faces that you'd never see anyway.

If you're still having trouble, shoot the map into the problem map vault.

Eh, Orpheus.. chill out. Just because i know how to place walls, entities and scripts doesen't mean i know every little detail when it comes to mapping. I'm pretty new with hammer, but it's simple enough to place walls and be creative. No need to be aggressive, but i appriciate the help anyway. Thnx i guess.