HELP CANT USE

For some reason in my hammer (v4.0, mapping for hl2) whenever i go to carve an object it deletes the object! I dont know why this is happening, I could use hollow yesterday and all the days that i can remember. I have tried copying the map, saving as different name, looked at all my properties, and i have tried hollowing different things. ANY ADVICE WOULD BE GREAT

EDIT I also noticed that when i made a brush for a corridor (not hollowed yet) and when i tryed to cut away a hole in my wall for the corridor to go (ctr+shift+C) Hammer froze. I found out that hammer had made 35 COPIES OF MY CORRIDOR BRUSH. this is, of course why hammer was freezing and i fixed the problem. when i go to hollow the corridors the above happens (i checked, there is only 1 copy of each corridor brush so it isnt that again) EDIT

This crowd doesn't really advise the use of carve but yeah, if you try to carve complex/invalid objects sometimes it just destroys the whole object.

thanks, but its an 8 sided cylinder so i really dont want to make it from scratch

Are you talking about hollow or carve? I'm confused. You're better off never using either one of those tools anyway.

hollow, on an 8 sided cylinder

EDIT by the way, i tried to hollow a 4 sided square as well, but got the same results EDIT

Don't do it. I'd be surprised if it even worked... oh wait. I guess it doesn't.

It's honestly not too hard to build it "from scratch" as you put it, and the results will be infinitely better.

thanks for the help, ill try

Never use hollow or carve, you get better brushes that are alined to
the grid when you make them by hand. When you hollow you get brushes
that are now alligned to the grid. And a 4 sided cylinder is a square
chupakabra :biggrin:

If you want just ask some one to make you an 8 sided cylinder.

For your square, if you tried to hollow it you need to add a - to the front. For example: -16 is what I do. That way it doesn't destroy whats in the box. Get it?

thanks will do