Post your Portal 2 Authoring Tool Bugs

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EL POLLO LOCO
34 Posts
Posted May 31, 2011
Replied 1 hour later
I still have no idea where it is trying to point to. its pointing to props and lights and sounds and all sorts of things that are all over my map. what can I do?
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NocturnalGhost
200 Posts
Posted May 31, 2011
Replied 8 minutes later
If you want to post your vmf i'll have a look.
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EL POLLO LOCO
34 Posts
Posted May 31, 2011
Replied 14 minutes later
I'm a noob at this kinda stuff. How do I do that?
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NocturnalGhost
200 Posts
Posted May 31, 2011
Replied 3 minutes later
When you post a reply, click on the "upload attachment" link below the reply box, browse to the file on your computer, then click "add the file".
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EL POLLO LOCO
34 Posts
Posted May 31, 2011
Replied 9 minutes later
Here's the vmf for my map
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Map_04.vmf
0.58 MB 71 downloads
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NocturnalGhost
200 Posts
Posted May 31, 2011
Replied 33 minutes later
It was just a standard leak due to a hole in your brushwork above your light props. You made the majority of the ceiling in this area 2 units thick, but part of it was only 1 unit thick, which caused the leak. It's best to make brushes thicker than a couple of units, like 16 units minimum, and keep to the grid. That makes stuff like this easier to spot.

When you have leaks like this in future, just follow the point file away from the starting entity, and look closely at the area where the line exits your brushwork into the void outside.

Here is your fixed map (in a zip file for quicker upload): Map_04.zip

I haven't tested it ingame, but it compiles fine now. The compiler does show an entity outside your map (one of the glass covers from a light prop), so you may want to look into it and adjust it's position, but it isn't affecting compiling so it just needs tweaking.

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Map_04.zip
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EL POLLO LOCO
34 Posts
Posted May 31, 2011
Replied 10 minutes later
lol. Ill gladly take your advice. thanks alot btw. :thumbup:
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msleeper
4,136 Posts
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Posted May 31, 2011
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msleeper wrote:
It is saying you have a leak, because you have a leak.

Hey remember when I said this and you didn't believe me?

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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
Posted Jun 01, 2011
Replied 6 hours later

EL POLLO LOCO wrote:
Does this mean I should make sure I have no nodraw textures or something?

Nodraw textures should be on every brush face that you cannot see as it drastically improves performance. It also increases visibility when you create your level as you can toggle nodraw texture on and off (i.e. make it invisible) in the hammer editor.

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RageCompeX
65 Posts
Posted Jun 01, 2011
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sometimes Hammer shuts down randomly, most of the time I can edit for hours but sometimes it crashes twice a hour or something, when reload they ask for load autosave but that leads to nothing I geuss, I can't see any grid or something and nothing in the 3D view, any solution on this, I thought it had something to do with my RAM limit but hammer only uses half of it so yeah. I thought running portal 2 and hammer together but also when no portal 2 is on it crashes...SOLUTIONS???
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Omnicoder
299 Posts
Posted Jun 01, 2011
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RageCompeX wrote:
sometimes Hammer shuts down randomly, most of the time I can edit for hours but sometimes it crashes twice a hour or something, when reload they ask for load autosave but that leads to nothing I geuss, I can't see any grid or something and nothing in the 3D view, any solution on this, I thought it had something to do with my RAM limit but hammer only uses half of it so yeah. I thought running portal 2 and hammer together but also when no portal 2 is on it crashes...SOLUTIONS???

Hammer crashes randomly that's just how it goes. Unless a particular action triggers it repeatedly just live with it.

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Grim Tuesday
8 Posts
Posted Jun 05, 2011
Replied 4 days later
Two problems I have run into while mapping:

After hammer crashes, it reloads an "autosave" which has no views other than the 3D view. All the instances are collapsed (you have to click on them to reload them for some reason)

The compiler compiles my entities backwards. I have no clue why this happens; they are the right way in Hammer, then turned 180 in Portal 2.

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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
Posted Jun 06, 2011
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Grim Tuesday wrote:
After hammer crashes, it reloads an "autosave" which has no views other than the 3D view. All the instances are collapsed (you have to click on them to reload them for some reason)

I get the same thing. I usually click yes (then cilck yes for it to rename) and then close hammer then reload.

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Nezzy
9 Posts
Posted Jun 06, 2011
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Uhmm, sorry if I am just doing something stupid, but I cannot get instances to work in my maps.
When I try to select the VMF file, the instance does not load. If I try to compile a map (Example maps), that already have instances in them, hammer crashes. If I select an instance in these maps, an error message pops up, and the instance promptly deletes itself.
Since this problem comes up when I am messing around in properly functioning maps, I am sure that it's a hammer problem, not something I'm doing wrong. I've tried for days to fix this and still have no idea what's going on. Please help!

Edit: Found out what was going on thanks to Will T. Had to "Verify the cache". Works like a charm now.

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Will T.
163 Posts
Posted Jun 06, 2011
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Did you use "Verify integrity of tool cache" to automatically check for and re-download broken or missing files?
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NocturnalGhost
200 Posts
Posted Jun 06, 2011
Replied 35 minutes later
Make sure the "instances" folder is in the same directory as the map you are loading.
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Naigel
9 Posts
Posted Jun 06, 2011
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Hammer seems to crash often when manipulating instances (moving, duplicating, etc). I cannot reproduce the crash as it seems to happen randomly (however, it is always the case after doing something with an instance).
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watanukikun
16 Posts
Posted Jun 09, 2011
Replied 3 days later
I have error with leaks to entities but when I fix it and look around there's no leak.
but when I run map again it refer other entities again and again that the entities did not cause the leak before.
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Pete
52 Posts
Posted Jun 09, 2011
Replied 11 hours later

watanukikun wrote:
I have error with leaks to entities but when I fix it and look around there's no leak.
but when I run map again it refer other entities again and again that the entities did not cause the leak before.

Entities dont (unless theyre outside the map) cause leaks. The compiling process simply uses them as points of reference to what is inside the level and what isnt - so it only points out the FIRST entity it finds leaked, as at that point, theres no point continuing anyway. Id say, check harder - load the pointfile. Its far more likely (though it IS possible) that theres a tiny gap that you overlooked somewhere than that the system that hammer used for compiling maps for years now is broken.

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Will T.
163 Posts
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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I've experienced a rare bug in which the "Properties" window for an entity opens up when I tell it to, then immediately goes "inactive" and can't be clicked on - Windows just dings at me when I try. The only way to get that screen space back seems to be to restart Hammer. At least it's still possible to save open projects while it's obstructing everything...

I've never experienced this one with older versions of Hammer. It's infrequent, but incredibly annoying when it happens.