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2007 Dec 1 at 11:05 PST

Light Textures in Hammer Mapping

did you tie the light entity to any of them?

you could be setting the entity of the block to light and that won't make it show up.

try making a block on the ceiling with the texture and placing a light entity right below it.


(sorry, i'm not sure what you mean by texture alone.)

2007 Dec 1 at 11:02 PST

Error: Exceeded MAX_PATCHES in Hammer Mapping

eh. the most common mistake for exceeding MAX_PATCHES is putting a box around your map to protect it from leaks when you have to contour the sky/whatever textures to the walls on your map to make a seal instead of the box around the entire thing. hope that makes sense.
here's a link to demonstrate what i mean..

http://tf.valve-erc.com/kbase.php?id=35

the first picture is what you may be doing.. the second one is the correct way.



another cause for exceeding max_patches is an extremely large map.

2007 Nov 27 at 17:23 PST

.bat file in Hammer Mapping

How do I add custom .wads to my .bat file for compiling?

2007 Nov 20 at 23:54 PST

Error exporting .map? in Hammer Mapping

Nevermind.. i found out that too many WADs could cause this error, but I also installed hammer 3.5, so many that's why.

2007 Nov 19 at 22:15 PST

Error exporting .map? in Hammer Mapping

Hey, whenever I try to export my .rmf file from Hammer to a .map into ZHLT it won't compile. I tried opening the .map file with Hammer and I get an error saying something along the lines of, "For your information, [large number] objects weren't loaded due to errors in the file." and shuts down hammer. I don't know what's wrong.. before exporting I tried alt+p but it didn't come up with any errors. The only map I got to work was my first one you showed me how to do in the tutorial.