Valve Hammer Editor

I think VHE is the best to use editor ever, because everything in it is just so easy to do.

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i eat paint

What? Sarcasm? Randomness?

What is the point of this thread...

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Dark_Kilauea
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/agree with fishy

Although this post IS random. Ill have to say that even though VHE is
easy to use, its power is limited as compared to the Unreal Editor.

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Posting And You

Easy-to-use-ness has something over raw power for me, though in the end the latter wins. Hmm...

Yeah, pointless but true thread indeed. :razz:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

As I stated in another thread before, my neighbor works for Activision, and even he says that the Hammer editor is the best editor out there.

Most of the time, developers and level designers use some extremely buggy, unstable in-house editor for level design. Count ourselves lucky.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

i'd bet even money that whomever designed the actual interface and layout was a big autocad fan, as it is almost a direct port of release 12....in which case it would still be the editor to use for me, even if it wasnt the best... :heee:

Doc Brasso... :dodgy:

ps.....for the guys that dont know the fishman as well as others, please note:

his handle is "fishy".....and the fisherman he is.....from baiting to reelin' em, in....

Dr Brasso said:
his handle is "fishy".....and the fisherman he is.....from baiting to reelin' em, in....

you flatter me, kind sir. i think.....

but no ulterior motives behind the thread, other than i needed to provide some quotes from the internet for a report i'm meant to hand in tomorrow.
cheers guys.

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i eat paint

i'd bet even money that whomever designed the actual interface and layout was a big autocad fan, as it is almost a direct port of release 12....in which case it would still be the editor to use for me, even if it wasnt the best... :heee:

Doc Brasso... :dodgy:

ps.....for the guys that dont know the fishman as well as others, please note:

his handle is "fishy".....and the fisherman he is.....from baiting to reelin' em, in....

But does he master bait?

hmm... personally I like QuArK the best for non half-life 2 editing.

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Dark_Kilauea
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Quark was the editor that got me started in the mapping world. Back
then, I had to choose between worldcraft and quark. After inspecting
both, I chose the latter since it had a ton more tools than wcraft
did (not to mention that GL 3d view that showed you the lighting without even compiling).

I use hammer for HL2 though, since quark's source support is a joke.

but no ulterior motives behind the thread, other than i needed
to provide some quotes from the internet for a report i'm meant to hand
in tomorrow. cheers guys.

ROFL @ that! :biggrin:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

Hammer/WC most definitely. :smile: I've searching for editors to see if any of them could rival the simplness and usability of Hammer, but I haven't seen any.

And I have seen some weird editors out there (Qoole anyone?)

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

"Build" was the best editor ever, but no one asked. :wink:

You could make an entire level all within itself as long as you had a different door facing another direction for each area.

I know that made no sense but say you had 4 areas all 10,000 units each. You could place them all in the exact same space as long as you had an entry facing an opposite direction.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

Sounds like the Tomb Raider level system, Underdog. You can create some
weird inconsistencies that way, like a huge inside for a small house
and all that. Not really my (favorite) style. :smile:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

The thing is, just in case I was unclear, the 4 areas remain distinct. You enter one and its say a pool hall, area 2 is a garage, area 3 is a school classroom and area 4 is a lake. All remain the same and all occupy the exact same space. The only thing you had to remember was, you had to leave 1 unit space between each and the doors had to face different directions.

And of course, I am taking about Doom Nukem 3d.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

TARDIS, anyone?

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Links please? :razz:

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting G.Ballblue</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Links please? :razz:
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To?

The build editor is on the Duke3d disk.

The tutorials for said editor may be online someplace i don't really know. Try here.

I learned Build via our local BBS in 1997/8 I guess.

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Well I'll be damned. Check this out.

I haven't even thought about the Build editor in ages and they had a recent article on it at 3dRealms.

I miss Duke. :sad:

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WOW :eek:

Talk about an almost might have been.

This link shows some interesting stuff for its day. 1994, years before WorldCraft. :eek:

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