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Posted by RadiKal on Fri Feb 18th at 11:43pm 2005

Ok....maybe i'm just a fool...but how do you create prefabs?? I searched and didn't find any tutorials explicitly on creating prefabs. It would seem that all you need to do is select the objects you want to create a prefab out of, go to the tools menu, and hit create prefab. Then, according to the sdk user's guide... it should appear in the new objects menu ready to use. Every time I try, it never shows up. What's the deal? anyone have this same problem?



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Posted by Guessmyname on Fri Feb 18th at 11:56pm 2005

Select the guff you want to make into a prefab. hold down ctrl and R. Fill in the boxes as required.

To insert prefabs into your level:
Click the brush creation tooly thing. At the right of the screen there is a box with two drop down lists - categories and objects and a "create prefab" button.

In the categories list select prefabs

In the objects list select your prefab

Hit the brush creation button again and another button should appear above the "create prefab" button called "Insert Prefab". Click, and the prefab is inserted.

To access the Prefab Factory

Its in the tools menu - but only when you don't have a map loaded.
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Posted by RadiKal on Sat Feb 19th at 12:29am 2005

the problem is that when i save the prefab, select the brush tool, and go to get the prefab from the drop down box, it just isn't there. for some reason it doesn't recognize that I created the prefab at all



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Posted by RaPtoR on Sat Feb 19th at 12:35am 2005

Lol, that's an old bug. You see, prefabs are recognized as ".vmf" files, and when you save the prefab, (no matter what file type selected), it will be saved without an extention.
The best you can do is to go to that folder and rename the files so they get that ".vmf" extention. Hammer should recognize your prefab after that.
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Posted by French Toast on Sat Feb 19th at 12:36am 2005

Maybe ther're being saved to the wrong place, look in your directories to find out where yours is, and where the other ones are.

Just a suggestion I really have no ideas, I don't use prefabs. [addsig]




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