models missing/crashing hammer
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Re: models missing/crashing hammer
Posted by Juim on Sun Oct 2nd at 1:58pm 2005


This is new. I open my map in hammer, try to set a static prop, go into properties, and select world model, then crash.

So I try to use model viewer to see if its a localized problem with hammer, and when I try to open up a model it also crashes. This leads me to believe its more than just a small hammer glitch. I tried refreshing the SDK content, I opened the GameInfo.txt and set the steamapp to 220, and I pasted the Gameinfo.txt in the game.ini file to point to the gameinfo.txt.I believe all is well with hammer configs, but nothing seems to help. Any suggestions?




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Re: models missing/crashing hammer
Posted by Juim on Mon Oct 3rd at 11:05am 2005


Well after trying everything,including un-installing and re-installing the whole sdk, I ran across this post at the steam forums in the HLDM maps section:

Gobanzo_Mon
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Registered: Aug 2004

Warning:

If you unzip the castle map into your game's directory, it places a .jpg image into your models folder which confuses HLMV and VHE any time you try to browse the mod's models. To fix it, remove the jpg from the models folder.

This took me a long time to figure out.

This instantly solved the problem. Dam!.





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Re: models missing/crashing hammer
Posted by fishy on Mon Oct 3rd at 12:37pm 2005


ah, that old chestnut. strange thing though, because to have a preview of the model, you need to have a jpg with the same name in the same folder as the model. i've used PSP with 100% success, but any time that i, or anyone else i've spoken to, has used photoshop to make the pic, it crashes hammer.




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