How do I stop everything I place from snapping to the grid, it gets extremely frustrating and makes everything I attempt look like blocky garbage.

Hold down (I think) alt when you're moving stuff.

Hober wrote:
Hold down (I think) alt when you're moving stuff.

Thats it!

Thank you =P

Err, if you are new to Hammer you probably want to work on the grid no matter what. If you start doing off the grid stuff you are bound to run into leak problems.

It's useful for positioning props like our beloved weighted companion cubes, chairs, desks etc.

I love leaks, I take them all the time

msleeper wrote:
Err, if you are new to Hammer you probably want to work on the grid no matter what. If you start doing off the grid stuff you are bound to run into leak problems.

Just for placing doors and things, they were forever a foot of the ground till now.

I would recommend using the bracket keys [ ] to change the grid size, if you can't get something on the ground, make the grid smaller until you can, most of the time I only go as low as 16. using grid size rather than ignoring snapping will make things faster, more precise, and less likely to leave leaks