When you see two or more lights that cast shadows in real life and you cry yourself to sleep.

(Not a true story)

The world around you simply becomes brushes, models and entities.

When your compile log says:
6.112.492 square feet brushes
1.924.706 square feet displacements

When your hammer hours are:

image.jpg

And you've only been mapping since 2012.

Well, I can't play Portal 2 (or any Source game for that matter) anymore without ignoring the scenery and looking at everything like a mapper, even though I haven't been doing it for that long.
"I wonder how many units long that is." "I wouldn't have used that texture there." "I wonder how high up that skybox is."

This applies to more than source games for me.

you have a ceramics class, and you take every opertunity to etch the powers of 2 up untill 1024 on everything.

2 4 8 16 32 64 128 1024

When you go to a store and the first thing that grab your attention is..

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p24/ ... 9facca.jpg

Sejievan wrote:
When you go to a store and the first thing that grab your attention is..
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p24/ ... 9facca.jpg

Awesome

tile wrote:
you have a ceramics class, and you take every opertunity to etch the powers of 2 up untill 1024 on everything.

2 4 8 16 32 64 128 1024

You're missing some. It should be 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024.

...When you play other games and start theorizing how they mapped out their design by using hammer knowledge

Fracture wrote:
...When you play other games and start theorizing how they mapped out their design by using hammer knowledge

That's so recognizable

...When your mapping burnout is about twenty years

When you look at the horizon and think
"Damn,how does the fog blend so well with the sky."
This in particular can also be called "going full retard"

you start holding Shift to copy things in Word, on the desktop, on your phone, etc.

Or is it Control? Gah, Hammer's copy key is different from every other program, ever. Drives me nuts :/

when you are cycling through materials and content through anything in other programs, games, or in life and you get paranoid that you will crash the program

Sejievan wrote:
When you go to a store and the first thing that grab your attention is..
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p24/ ... 9facca.jpg

You know you've been doing too much hammer when.....
Noooo! The indicator light antlines are misaligned.

...you find a misaligned texture at school, and the first thing you do is look for the colorful brick button But seriously, it looks awful. Obvs 256 off. Can't you just...

I need a break

when you are having a garage sale and look around you room for stuff to sell and you say to yourself "yeah i think this map has too many physics objects"

When you think "ey, I think I've been into elevators for so long, that I think I could even work as an elevator operator"