cant open hammer

One day i was going to compile my very small map that used to take around 3-4 mins to compile, but it woudlnt "batch compiler" told me it couldnt find vbsp.exe or any else exe that has to be there for compile, so i talked to my very good friend FunFunOscar that told me to go to steam-->games-->sourcesdk-->properties-->local files-->verify intergrity of game cache.

Well that didnt do it, so he told me to use the new beta of hammer to compile (if that would work.) so i created a shortcut to steam adding the parameters -beta sdk to the file name...

So it worked !

I compiled.. took a bit longer time to finish around 15mins :rolleyes: but hey so.. i got to compile the map and when i loaded map it looked ok and stuff.. then the next day i was going to compile map again after some minor changes, i began to compile and waited and waited and waited then after 3 hours i went to task manager and noticed vis was still not finished so i cancelled the compile...

What is it with steam first my friends and i got that listenserver error where noone can join a listenserver cause it says account in use elsewhere and now this what can i do ?

im pretty Steamed up

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Did the Bsp log show you some strange info ? leak or something ?

Can you show us the log ?

I am using sdk beta, and noticed only one time that the compile process took more time than usual, but it was minutes, not hours.

Another solution may be deleting all "game files" of the sdk, and then download it again. It may fix your first problem with hammer stable version.

I have tried delete all sdk data an download again, that doesnt work...

map seems allright the log tells me there are missing material files when i compile through sdk beta, when using normal sdk it tells me there are missing material files as for example : sky texture.

Ive tried to compile other maps, that wont work either

ps: can i turn those flying santasnarks off ?

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