ok....Uncle Al's update.....

vrad.....has basicly righted itself again.....something in the func_details code that i had going has changed, i theorize....when all else failed, and i got pissy, i said "screw it", and sent all my details back to world, viola! ....now that its righted, ive gotten rid of any said bugs, ie, zero area children (sounds like my old boss... ) the only thing i can figure is that something in the vrad/entity code changed drasticly enough to piss off the rad tools.....source must be a bit "tempermental" ....

to be continued....

Doc Brasso..

Doc, is your map huger than huge? i ask, because now i remember what caused it when i had the same crash on the final lightface. it was something to do with max_patches, and i only got the right error when i switched to using a batch file. that was in hl1, though, but by moving your func_details to world, you've also culled any faces that were behind the details, removing them from the patch count(if hl2 still has it).

it could be a similar error, but i reckon your map would need to be pretty big, or have tons of very small scale textures.

aye, i knew it was a long shot.

To run it I believe you can shut steam off.

To get to the on link, you need steam to be on.

Seems like there should be a shortcut option though.

Sadly, when I tried, I kept getting my Hammer 3.5 instead. " SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">

I was so confuzzed, I just gave up and used Steam.