Exactly, almost anything (within reason) can be fashioned out of brush-work but a pre-built bucket prop is always going to be a bucket.
Hammer is extremely stable. If its borking on you, look inside your PC. Either you have some conflicting drivers, or another program is using something it needs to run properly.
Over the years I have heard endless tales of how WC/Hammer has been a pain to run, but in each and every case its been the authors fault, not the editor.
Care to enlighten us on how you are the first person to have a defective Hammer editor program?
Ok I think I'm gunna go with something someone said earlier about nature and abstract s**t.
I think a naturistic area with some crazy abstract building in it would be a great idea. Avalon by 3D mike was a cool looking level, we could do loads of stuff like that, I think it would be fun not only to get away from the HL2 theme but also to do something crazy.
So I vote for Nature with crazy abstract architecture. If anyone wants to see some interesting architecture then look at Calatrava, and try and make some of that stuff- really beautiful architecture, and whats more, some of it moves...
You obviously haven't seen the title of the thread, or been here long- It's always only snarkpit members that participate in this competition, it's how its always been. It also atracts quite a bit of publicity and we get new members around competition times. Its basically finding out whos the best mappers on snarkpit 
Hammer is extremely stable. If its borking on you, look inside your PC. Either you have some conflicting drivers, or another program is using something it needs to run properly.
Over the years I have heard endless tales of how WC/Hammer has been a pain to run, but in each and every case its been the authors fault, not the editor.
Care to enlighten us on how you are the first person to have a defective Hammer editor program?
True... Hammer is stable, but steam is not... I remember when there was a massive memory leak when running hammer with steam! 30 minutes into mapping my PC would die on me because it ran out of memory... RAN OUT OF 1GIG OF RAM MY ASS!
