SDK Update

For the last 24 hours I've been unable to get the new SDK update as it keeps telling me "The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request. Please try again in a few minutes," despite the Steam status page saying all the European servers are fine. Anyone else had this problem?

And I read somewhere that this update is over 100mb. If so, f**k you Valve for shafting all us 56k-modem-mappers. I don't need to re-upload megabytes of info every time I want to change a small part of this website...

Oh my god, Lep used the swearing filter!! I just started to update mine, Ill get back to you.

edit It says 34mins or so

edit Its downloading at about 300 kb/s

I've only just finished downloading mine

It includes faceposer thingy for all ye who yearn for it

If this is the one where it gives you the option to " resfresh
settings" or something then yea, it took me just over 5 mins to get.

Here's another mind-blower: when i try to start hammer, i get an error message saying steam is busy and that i should try later. Can anyone PLEASE enlighten me on this one?

Yeah where does hammer run from?

Cos i seem to connect to Steam everytime i want to use it.

Yeah it does. If this is how things work in offline mode, wonder how things are in online mode.

So much for my productive day of working on my contest entry :rolleyes:

Guess what: i had some mapping to do aswell. But noooo, i have to wait (urm, how much was that again? another 122minutes and 17 seconds?) for a f**king update I DIDN'T REQUEST! They can keep it, i don't want it, yet they shove it down my throat. Happy day!

[edit (added 30 seconds later)]

Ohh, lookie: it says 522 minutes and 125 seconds! And note that I have a 100mbps connection. Slightly slow, but not like this!

Mhh, somewhere around a hundred minutes here too. Nevermind, I've got to go to work soon anyway so for me it's not a problem...

More likely for my brother if he wants to play CoD online right now...

And for all those mappers out there that do have enough free time to map at the moment...

So much for my productive day of working on my contest entry :rolleyes:

What the, I didn't even get that box up, it just said something like loading files.

You're sure you have Autoupdate on for the SDK then? I can't believe your internet connection is that fast...

And I read somewhere that this update is over 100mb.

It's like NOT having the SDK all over again for us 56k pay-as-you-go-ers.

100mb SDK update? Is hammer even 100mb big? Heh, the old VHE folder on my computer was 60 or so megabytes and most of that was maps.

People might be interested to know that you can still run hammer while
updating by using a desktop shortcut, however the compile tools
unfortunately do not work :sad:

mine took about half an hour. Thank god I got up early!

<H2>[size=13][color=#ffffff]Damn i feel for you guys, I got it in 27 minutes :razz: [/size][/color]</H2>
<H2>[size=13][color=#ffffff]From the sdk release notes if your interested and havent gotten it yet [/size][/color]</H2>
<H2>Important Notice </H2>
This release of the Source SDK contains a new directory structure. For more infomation, read Source SDK Files and Directory Structure.

<A name=NewFeatures></A>
<H2>Latest Release</H2>
The current SDK release has added these features:

• Simplified directory structure.
• Face Poser application added.
• VConfig added, new tool to select game configurations.
• A "Reset Game Configurations" option has been added to the SDK Launcher.
• The Hammer Options dialog now reflects the selected Current Game.
• Added default Expert compile settings in Hammer.
• Viewmodel sources for Half-Life 2 included.
• Simplified debugging under Steam - no need to copy steam.dll and make steamapp.cfg.
• Added sdk.fgd, containing the entities in the programming tutorial.
• SDK Launcher startup time is much faster.

These issues have been resolved:

• Fixed issue with Hammer not copying .bsp to game directory.
• The buildcubemaps console command should now function correctly.
• The impulse 81 command to check cubemap placement should now function correctly.
• Fixed for various cases of path environment variables not working.
• Fixed detail props not being generated by vbsp.exe.

You're sure you have Autoupdate on for the SDK then? I can't believe your internet connection is that fast...

Yea, I just checked, it's on. Was the update released today? I
re-downloaded the sdk about 3 days ago so I might of got it then. I've
got face poser and the refresh thingy.

Updating in 25 minutes. Make love to me, sweet broadband.

ive downloaded nearly all of it in the last half hour :razz:

How about a goddamn .wad -> .vmt converter, you whores?

lol, its there, read the notes,

also, woo! it loads fast! yay!

70%...80%...90%...90%...90%...error:steam servers are busy - please try later !!!!

(and this after 2 hours of waiting !!! I can't take this cr*p anymore!).

I got it in about 45 minutes. I just left my computer and ate breakfast and read the newspaper.

However, when I got back, Hammer has problem loading up the game config
file for HL2. Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is
there a quick fix? I probably have to mess around with the
directory. If anyone else has figured it out already, please post
it here to save me some time. I greatly appreciate it.

arggg the 56 gayness of it all!! 400 minutes = 7 hours if i
stay online all the time (which i wont) i just hope that when I
disconnect I dont have to start from scratch :/

I got it in about 45 minutes. I just left my computer and ate breakfast and read the newspaper.

However, when I got back, Hammer has problem loading up the game config
file for HL2. Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is
there a quick fix? I probably have to mess around with the
directory. If anyone else has figured it out already, please post
it here to save me some time. I greatly appreciate it.

Yea, its not in the sample content folder, it's in the sourcesdk/hl2 or
sourcesdk/cstrike folder. Apprently clicking refresh game configs in
the sdk fixes this.

arggg the 56 gayness of it all!! 400 minutes = 7 hours if i
stay online all the time (which i wont) i just hope that when I
disconnect I dont have to start from scratch :/

If you get disconnected it won't be lost, you can resume from where you left off.

hmmm........HL2DM will be ready in 6 minutes, and I just clicked it :biggrin:

What is with all this crying? Back in the day they would release 100 meg patches like the TFC update that you had to download or else you couldn't play, and I managed to download the whole thing with a 24.4kbs AOL connection... and now I'm going to download this 100 meg patch with a 24.4kbs AOL connection :razz:

Reno, you little s**t. I was playing around with steam while reading
the thread and I thought your screenshot was part of my steam. :biggrin:

The SDK loads signifigantly faster now, horrah.

SDK load time has never bothered me, I always launch hammer from a desktop shortcut that has always opened hammer immediately.

Yea, its not in the sample content folder, it's in the sourcesdk/hl2 or
sourcesdk/cstrike folder. Apprently clicking refresh game configs in
the sdk fixes this.

Nope. It affects all of the apps in the SDK for me as well, not just Hammer. and I was looking forward to using FacePoser. :sad:

SDK load time has never bothered me, I always launch hammer from
a desktop shortcut that has always opened hammer immediately.

I forgive you for scaring me earlier.

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<DIV class=quotetext>Yea, its not in the sample content folder, it's in the sourcesdk/hl2 or sourcesdk/cstrike folder. Apprently clicking refresh game configs in the sdk fixes this.

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Nope. It affects all of the apps in the SDK for me as well, not just Hammer. and I was looking forward to using FacePoser. :sad:
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Because the updte changes the directory structure you have to refresh the game configurations.

EDIT: Will some make a tut on face poser please? I have no idea how to use the damn thing!

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting SaintGreg</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>i just hope that when I disconnect I dont have to start from scratch :/
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Guess what, YOU HAVE TO. :sad:

SaintGreg said:
i just hope that when I disconnect I dont have to start from scratch :/

Guess what, YOU HAVE TO. :sad:

You mean it's not like when I was downloading HL2, where if you stop downloading you can resume from that point later on?

i just hate the new hammer, it lags my whoel frickin computer, so no
fliightsimulator while compiling, the face edititng mode sucks and it
all gos so laggy that it is driving me crazy, i tryed everything t ofix
it but it wont, and worse of the material exclusion list doesnt work so
it loads all of those frickin textures..

Guess I got lucky, because my update seems as though it is only going to take 9-10 minutes. Hopefully it still runs fine.

I love only living a few hundred miles away from Valve.

(Doesn't really mean much since they have many servers around the world, so to speak.)

5 minutes flat

Kage_Prototype said:

Yea, its not in the sample content folder, it's
in the sourcesdk/hl2 or sourcesdk/cstrike folder. Apprently clicking
refresh game configs in the sdk fixes this.

Nope. It affects all of the apps in the SDK for me as well, not just Hammer. and I was looking forward to using FacePoser. :sad:

Because the updte changes the directory structure you have to refresh the game configurations.

EDIT: Will some make a tut on face poser please? I have no idea how to use the damn thing!

Wow, you don't pay attention at all!

I love only living a few hundred miles away from Valve.

(Doesn't really mean much since they have many servers around the world, so to speak.)

5 minutes flat

I live closer. :razz:

Vancouver, BC to Bellingham/Seattle.

I love only living a few hundred miles away from Valve.

(Doesn't really mean much since they have many servers around the world, so to speak.)

5 minutes flat

I live closer. :razz:

Vancouver, BC to Bellingham/Seattle.

Blah blah blah, It probably takes us about the same amount of time to get there.

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting satchmo</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>I got it in about 45 minutes. I just left my computer and ate breakfast and read the newspaper.

However, when I got back, Hammer has problem loading up the game config file for HL2. Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is there a quick fix? I probably have to mess around with the directory. If anyone else has figured it out already, please post it here to save me some time. I greatly appreciate it.
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Sounds like maybe it's the same problem I'm having?

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Crono</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>I love only living a few hundred miles away from Valve.
(Doesn't really mean much since they have many servers around the world, so to speak.)

5 minutes flat
</DIV></DIV>

Ditto. :biggrin:
I'm not so sure BC is really closer to Seattle, you're a good fifty miles north of Bellingham, and I think it's ~90 miles from there to Seattle... not that it matters.

I finally got it today. When i started the downloader , it took-off like a rabbid MIG and downloaded the whole thing in 8 minutes :biggrin: .

Haha, I'm just playing around. I'm sure it's almost equidistant...are
you both from Portland? I've never been there...but I've been to Canon
Beach on the coast before.

Yup, I've never been to Vancover BC, so I guess we're even. I drive up to Bellingham quite often though so I do at least listen to your radio stations sometimes. :smile:

Haha, I'm just playing around. I'm sure it's almost equidistant...are
you both from Portland? I've never been there...but I've been to Canon
Beach on the coast before.

Cannon is okay ... but then again pretty much all the beaches on this coast suck.

Oh and Second confirmation.

5 mins for me :biggrin: