Black screen of death.

Shawnathan

14 Posts

Posted Feb 24, 2013

So, I'm new to this forum. If i posted this in the wrong place tell me.

My cousin has been trying, to no avail, to fix a hammer glitch. When we load the map, we get a black screen. We're uploading it to the Steam workshop from Hammer as either a VMX or a VMF, and neither works. So because of this, my cousin (Who shall henceforth be called, simply, Mint to avoid revealing ANYTHING) has a worthless map. Any help is appreciated.

zivi7

649 Posts

#91565

Posted Feb 24, 2013

Replied 38 minutes later

Neither .vmf nor .vmx is what you need to play the map. That's just the file to edit the map in Hammer. To actually make it playable in Portal, you need to open the .vmf in Hammer and compile it to create a .bsp-file. That .bsp-file is also the one you'll upload to the workshop once you're happy with the map.

Shawnathan

14 Posts

#91566

Posted Feb 24, 2013

Replied 53 minutes later

Hmm.... Okay. Mint compiled it. (Or so I'm told). But i was also told that another map that was uploaded was in vmf form.

FelixGriffin

2,680 Posts

#91567

Posted Feb 24, 2013

Replied 28 minutes later

No, that isn't possible for the Workshop. VPK should be, which would be map packs with lots of custom resources, but it isn't either.

Gemarakup

1,183 Posts

#91574

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 8 hours later

What is the VMX file supposed to be in general?

josepezdj

2,386 Posts

#91578

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

yishbarr wrote:
What is the VMX file supposed to be in general?

This

Shawnathan

14 Posts

#91587

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 2 hours later

You guys are awesome!

I'll relay the info.

Shawnathan

14 Posts

#91604

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 4 hours later

Okay, so I just found out, it worked fine before the Cave Johnson quote got disabled by Mint. Could attempting to disable it break the map?

Lpfreaky90

2,842 Posts

#91608

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

Did you happen to delete the instance global_ents.vmf?
As long as we don't have the vmf it's just guessing

Shawnathan

14 Posts

#91610

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 48 minutes later

No..... Mint says not. Anything else that might do it?

Lpfreaky90

2,842 Posts

#91612

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 2 minutes later

Type in the console sv_cheats 1
then type in mat_fullbright 1

Are you standing in a small black box?

Shawnathan

14 Posts

#91613

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 9 minutes later

Well, while Mint works that out, I'll ask; Would that happen if the screen goes black BEFORE actually loading the map? If you're familiar with the way the screen melts away like tiles flipping over, and how it then goes black, i can tell you THAT'S where it starts having issues. Once all the tiles flip, it stops. Can't pause, or anything, and gotta close Portal 2.

Lpfreaky90

2,842 Posts

#91615

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 6 minutes later

try verifying game cache

Shawnathan

14 Posts

#91617

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 5 minutes later

It's giving three out of three people trouble, and we can play other maps.

Mint would rather not, but CAN start over.

Lpfreaky90

2,842 Posts

#91619

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 3 minutes later

maybe just sent the vmf. Either put it as an attachment to your post or just sent it to me in a pm.

Shawnathan

14 Posts

#91620

Posted Feb 25, 2013

Replied 1 minutes later

So, i asked what Mint did to disable the Cave quote, and was told that tutorials were followed. This is what was done. (In the form of an answer)

Quote:
okay: I simply went on to the func_instance (which the VMF filename is set to instances/p2editor/global_pti_ents.vmf.) and changed: $disable_pti_audio to: 1

Would this mess it up?