New Hammer 3.5.3 Created 11 years ago2013-10-31 15:33:47 UTC by Alberto309

Hey guys!

I just found a new custom version of VHE, take a look at it on GameBanana here:

http://cs.gamebanana.com/tools/5538

Some of these things could be implemented in Sledge.

Post your thoughts, folks!

I use the 3.5.2 version of this Looks like it's time to update.

Yup!

Also, this should be loved by DiscoStu, since the spash screen has been REMOVED.

Huh what about it?

A while ago you told me that you hate splash screens (we were on the Sledge thread).

Splash screens can be annoying, when you are editing, perhaps, in a bad mood. It can, and will, get annoying.

Yeah I mostly do because they very often serve no purpose other than making you wait.

Splash screens are a cool add-on to a program. The program loads its core crap while it displays an splash screen.
And waiting 5 seconds is nothing when you are working on a project.

The problem is when you wait more than 5 seconds, or when the program shows it for no reason because it loads completely in half a second.

I sometimes forget what I was going to do.

If you forget what you were doing 5 seconds into doing it, you may want to get your dementia diagnosed...

Splash screens are useful when a program needs a lengthy time to start up, so the user is aware that the application is responding and to prevent them from launching the application a second time during load. It's perfectly acceptable for a program like Hammer to have a splash screen because it does some pretty expensive WAD file scans when it launches. Now that CPUs are much faster than they were 15 years ago the WADs load pretty much instantly, but back in 1998 that could take a few seconds to complete. Sledge loads WADs when a map is opened rather than when the application is loaded as it allows WADs to be added without needing to restart the app.

As for the 'features' in this Hammer mod...they're not. There's some UI tweaks and FGD modifications, but nothing significant that could be called a 'feature'. It doesn't really apply to Sledge because these are specific to Hammer. As for the FGD mods, they should work in Sledge by default (once model rendering is implemented).

You say new, but it's still Hammer 3.5

People do this ?
As far as im aware Hammer is not open source ? If it isn't there's not much that you can do by looking at Hex code not to mention you might break something else in the process.
Well if im wrong then you can scald me as you see fit

Hammer is not open source, but the source code for it has leaked multiple times over a few versions (GldScr->Src), so there is always the possibility whoever is modifying Hammer has stumbled upon this code.

Nah, this is simply just some UI/resource hacks and other small mods that don't require the source code. The most that's been done with modifying Hammer (that I am aware of) is the tristrip mod, which injects a call to a custom DLL by modifying the Hammer executable with a hex editor.

There is a resource hacker tool to change images, splashes and other things. It's kinda useful to do small UI changes. I kinda really enjoy the model support (actually the already pre-set), because, when I got Hammer3.5 I couldn't setup the models. But, it was then.