I post here to inform you of one of my biggest problems:
When I try to open my map, Hammer stop at "Reading Chunks - 5%" and then "do not answer. I tried opening other files like instances and other things and there is no problems. I never had this kind of problem before with my map, it happened all of a sudden !

Please does anyone have an issue to this ?

Sdather, from "Aperture Sciences - France".

Sdather wrote:
Hello, ThinkingWithPortals community.

I post here to inform you of one of my biggest problems:
When I try to open my map, Hammer stop at "Reading Chunks - 5%" and then "do not answer. I tried opening other files like instances and other things and there is no problems. I never had this kind of problem before with my map, it happened all of a sudden !

Please does anyone have an issue to this ?

Sdather, from "Aperture Sciences - France".

Is it a .bsp file?

spongylover123 wrote:
Sdather wrote:

Hello, ThinkingWithPortals community.

I post here to inform you of one of my biggest problems:
When I try to open my map, Hammer stop at "Reading Chunks - 5%" and then "do not answer. I tried opening other files like instances and other things and there is no problems. I never had this kind of problem before with my map, it happened all of a sudden !

Please does anyone have an issue to this ?

Sdather, from "Aperture Sciences - France".

Is it a .bsp file?

It is a .vmf file.

Sdather wrote:
What do you mean by "what kind of map" ? Coop or solo ?

Any kind

What I do when I get weird problems with maps, is to take a copy of it, and then start removing bits of the map, say 10-20 entities/brushes at a time, and re-run it every time until I find it starts working.

Then you know which 10-20 it was causing the problem, and you can narrow it down.

Its the only way sometimes to find problems like this.

Or post your vmf file and we could take a look.

Rob.

Robdon wrote:
Hi,

What I do when I get weird problems with maps, is to take a copy of it, and then start removing bits of the map, say 10-20 entities/brushes at a time, and re-run it every time until I find it starts working.

Then you know which 10-20 it was causing the problem, and you can narrow it down.

Its the only way sometimes to find problems like this.

Or post your vmf file and we could take a look.

Rob.

Thank you very much. Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0N62EHM

Sdather wrote:
Robdon wrote:

Hi,

What I do when I get weird problems with maps, is to take a copy of it, and then start removing bits of the map, say 10-20 entities/brushes at a time, and re-run it every time until I find it starts working.

Then you know which 10-20 it was causing the problem, and you can narrow it down.

Its the only way sometimes to find problems like this.

Or post your vmf file and we could take a look.

Rob.

Thank you very much. Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0N62EHM

Ah, its a bug with hammer...

You have got an entity called 'hint1_room2', its an env_instructor_hint class.

In the 'caption' properties, you've put the text as "DID YOU KNOW?" with the double quotes in there.

Since Hammer uses double quotes to also put around properties, its causing hammer to get confused.

To fix it, close hammer, open your vmf file in notepad, and search for "DID YOU KNOW?"

(Use CTRL-F to search for text)

You will find a line like this:

"hint_caption" ""DID YOU KNOW?""

Change the 2 double quotes to 1 double quote, and then save the file, then open it again in hammer.

So that the line says:

"hint_caption" "DID YOU KNOW?"

That should fix it...

Rob.

Robdon wrote:
Sdather wrote:

Robdon wrote:

Hi,

What I do when I get weird problems with maps, is to take a copy of it, and then start removing bits of the map, say 10-20 entities/brushes at a time, and re-run it every time until I find it starts working.

Then you know which 10-20 it was causing the problem, and you can narrow it down.

Its the only way sometimes to find problems like this.

Or post your vmf file and we could take a look.

Rob.

Thank you very much. Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0N62EHM

Ah, its a bug with hammer...

You have got an entity called 'hint1_room2', its an env_instructor_hint class.

In the 'caption' properties, you've put the text as "DID YOU KNOW?" with the double quotes in there.

Since Hammer uses double quotes to also put around properties, its causing hammer to get confused.

To fix it, close hammer, open your vmf file in notepad, and search for "DID YOU KNOW?"

(Use CTRL-F to search for text)

You will find a line like this:

"hint_caption" ""DID YOU KNOW?""

Change the 2 double quotes to 1 double quote, and then save the file, then open it again in hammer.

So that the line says:

"hint_caption" "DID YOU KNOW?"

That should fix it...

Rob.

I'm trying, I'll edit later for the results.

EDIT: You solve my problem, thanks a lot !
This topic may be closed now.

Once I made a very complicated mesh without compiling and I couldn't open it because it said that the file was corrupted. I just put in an extra bracket in the .vmf using a text editor... and all fixed! Great detective work Robdon.