My kid was watching videos on youtube and he clicked on one and he got a virus warning message... he clicked ok.. and wham-O. He freaked, because as soon as he did, 40 million pages of porn opened up. So he shut the PC off, and restarted it, when it came back up it had no start button or any icons on the screen.. and a little virus warning above the clock, when clicked took you to a virus site. I tried to get rid of it all by booting in safe mode, but it seems to have over written some files in windows and I could not repair it. So I just spent the better part of the morning, formatting, and reinstalling winblows, and steam and the tools and all that. I am so glad I uploaded the map to here.. now I just have to figure out how to decompile it from the bsp and get back to work.
Because I am worried about this crap now.. I went upto Wal*Mart and got a 2gb flash stick just to stick my maps and related stuff relating to them on it, so I wont have to worry about this again.
Dont worry the version you have on here is prior to the fizzle.. and I am back up and running again... clean and clear.
So be careful with youtube..
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Re: Fizzle Fizzle, Pop Pop
Posted by Le Chief on Sat Aug 23rd at 10:21pm 2008
Ummm.. about that.., don't think you can actually decompile a bsp and get an accurate vmf.
Anyways, I got a virus on friday, and I don't take any chances, I just reformat streight away. I have a 160gb portable hdd which I have all my stuff on, so all I had to do was backup steam which took about an hour and I was good to go, I suggest you get yourself a portable HDD and back up regualry all your stuff, copy your maps to it everyday or week or whatever, too many things can go wrong and you can loose all your data.
Posted by Le Chief on Sat Aug 23rd at 10:21pm 2008
Quoting Muhnay
I am so glad I uploaded the map to here.. now I just have to figure out how to decompile it from the bsp and get back to work.
Ummm.. about that.., don't think you can actually decompile a bsp and get an accurate vmf.
Anyways, I got a virus on friday, and I don't take any chances, I just reformat streight away. I have a 160gb portable hdd which I have all my stuff on, so all I had to do was backup steam which took about an hour and I was good to go, I suggest you get yourself a portable HDD and back up regualry all your stuff, copy your maps to it everyday or week or whatever, too many things can go wrong and you can loose all your data.
Re: Fizzle Fizzle, Pop Pop
Posted by haymaker on Sat Aug 23rd at 10:42pm 2008
Posted by haymaker on Sat Aug 23rd at 10:42pm 2008
http://www.geocities.com/cofrdrbob/vmex.html
Worth a try, you have nothing to lose.
At least your machine will be nice and fast for awhile anyway
Worth a try, you have nothing to lose.
At least your machine will be nice and fast for awhile anyway
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Re: Fizzle Fizzle, Pop Pop
Posted by Le Chief on Sat Aug 23rd at 10:56pm 2008
Posted by Le Chief on Sat Aug 23rd at 10:56pm 2008
Oh, maybe you can in Source 
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Re: Fizzle Fizzle, Pop Pop
Posted by Riven on Sat Aug 23rd at 11:42pm 2008
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Posted by Riven on Sat Aug 23rd at 11:42pm 2008
Decompiling a map doesn't give you an exact replica of the original .vmf file. Although, vmex is probably the best at it. You'll find small discrepancies here and there, such as grouped items won't be grouped anymore. func_details made up of several brushes will become all stand-alone func_details. That goes for other multiple-brush entities. Sometimes, properties and coordinates for point_entities will change and even the I/O system will be changed, so you may have a little more work ahead of you than expected if you have to decompile your own BSP.
-Just FYI.
-Just FYI.
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Re: Fizzle Fizzle, Pop Pop
Posted by G4MER on Sun Aug 24th at 5:35am 2008
Posted by G4MER on Sun Aug 24th at 5:35am 2008
I have the hammer autosave folder.. and that has vmfs in it.. there are all called hammerautosave###.vmf. I can get a good copy from that right?
Re: Fizzle Fizzle, Pop Pop
Posted by G4MER on Sun Aug 24th at 6:20am 2008
Posted by G4MER on Sun Aug 24th at 6:20am 2008
CAN I GET A "PRAISE THE GAMING GODS!"
Thank You Hammer Auto Save! You saved my work.. now its on my flash stick and will be sent there to keep from looseing it again. I have to get some models and sound file again.. but the rent is there! YAY!
Thank You Hammer Auto Save! You saved my work.. now its on my flash stick and will be sent there to keep from looseing it again. I have to get some models and sound file again.. but the rent is there! YAY!
[ Edited by Muhnay on Sat Aug 23rd 2008 at 11:20pm - total edits: 1]
Re: Fizzle Fizzle, Pop Pop
Posted by Le Chief on Sun Aug 24th at 7:39am 2008
Posted by Le Chief on Sun Aug 24th at 7:39am 2008
Yeah, the Hammer auto save feature has saved me once before too.
Re: Fizzle Fizzle, Pop Pop
Posted by haymaker on Sun Aug 24th at 5:08pm 2008
Posted by haymaker on Sun Aug 24th at 5:08pm 2008
Also another lifesaver is the .vmx file, created if possible at a crash ( just rename it to .vmf ). I haven't used them much since I redid my RAM but before that, they saved my ass many a time.
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