Will T. wrote:
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.

Happens to me every once in a blue moon.

ForbiddenDonut wrote:
I'm not sure if this classifies as a bug, but my pointfile keeps acting up. Sometimes I'll find a leak, use pointfile, fix the leak, and the pointfile doesn't go away even when my map compiles fine. It's annoying to find other leaks after that because the pointfile keeps wanting to point to a leak that doesn't exist anymore.

It doesn't go away automatically (at least it never did in OB hammer?), I always unload it after I fix the leak.

I'm not going to get the tools again; I'd just thought I'd lodge a complaint somewhere.

Y'see, I want to add dust along with a shake to my broken asrsenal of mapping prefabs/instances. The problem is, no dust particle works. Period. Not triggered, not starting on THEN triggered, not starting on period, not even when I give it control points. It just does. not. work. However, not all particle systems fail - any particle system who's name was in Portal will work, but any NEW names do not. I have not fixed this, even when I blatently copied from a VALVe map. Does anyone know the problem/how I might fix it?

chickenmobile wrote:
Whenever I click the flag tab (most of the time) it crashes Hammer.

Same for me, it's becomming quite annoying.
I now always hit the save button before going to the flags tab.

MasterLagger wrote:
When I try to test my Portal 2 map through Hammer, it either takes forever to load or freezes. I just shut down Hammer and manually launch the game and test the map.

I had this also.

I think its because you might be running low on memory.

Running both Portal and Hammer uses alot.

I just upgraded my memory from 3GB -> 6GB, and things have gotten alot better for me, and alot of the freezes and loads are much better now.

Left4calvin wrote:
Hi, this is my first post, for some reason, I can't
Hear most of the sound previews.

Is the sounds you are trying to play under vo/ or music.
There is a lot of sounds you cannot play in the hammer editor. The only good fix is to unpack all the sound files that do not work and play them manually.
Try http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Voice_lines for playing any voice sound.

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chickenmobile wrote:
Left4calvin wrote:

Hi, this is my first post, for some reason, I can't
Hear most of the sound previews.

Is the sounds you are trying to play under vo/ or music.
There is a lot of sounds you cannot play in the hammer editor. The only good fix is to unpack all the sound files that do not work and play them manually.
Try http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Voice_lines for playing any voice sound.

Thanks
I am working on a new 5 part campaign
And I need the sounds
I will post more info On a different thred

BillOverbeck wrote:
Okay so I don't know if this is just me, but since the update today I can't click on any of the menu icons in the SDK launcher........HALP MEH

Same. Just wait for a fix update.

chickenmobile wrote:
BillOverbeck wrote:

Okay so I don't know if this is just me, but since the update today I can't click on any of the menu icons in the SDK launcher........HALP MEH

Same. Just wait for a fix update.

Hope it will come very soon! Im dying from not making maps! :O

EDIT: Has anybody said anything to Valve?

I'm in the somewhat venerable position of not having downloaded the updates yet, so until better news arrives, Steam will be in offline mode for the time being...

work_on_next_map > DLC

HMW wrote:
Valve is probably being bombarded by a chorus of complaints right now. (In the key of livid.)

I'm in the somewhat venerable position of not having downloaded the updates yet, so until better news arrives, Steam will be in offline mode for the time being...

work_on_next_map > DLC

Yea... i agree. We pray for Valve!

So i copy pasted my map there and tried again. It worked, except now my map has crappy low-res textures. I checked my own options and my textures are still set to high. So now i'm going to try rebuilding my map but i'm not sure it'll do anything.

EDIT: nope, didn't do anything. Oh well i hope it'll fiz itself lol.
Also, now i always get the portalgun with the glados potato on it, from the very beginning, even if I didn't give it to the player. Kinda annoying.

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Also, now i always get the portalgun with the glados potato on it, from the very beginning, even if I didn't give it to the player. Kinda annoying.

Well, if you are using the usual elevator instance "instances/turbine_elevator/arrival_elevator_a4_base.vmf", it could be due to that. Check out this in order to remove the potato from your portalgun:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Elevator_%28Portal_2%29

Though it's a bit strange that you have this issue now and NOT before this damn update...

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I compiled my map then tried to build the cubemaps. Got a crash saying the game couldn't find my map in the portal2 dlc1 folder.

Same issue here. Does anybody have a clue about this?