camera view doesnt work

[WAR_Nuker]

its been a while since ive done any mapping for HL2 and ive decided to go back and give it a whirl again. problem is the camera view is all black and i cant see anything. i switched to 3d textured and its still not doing anything. is there some kind of setting that can be changed for graphics/rendering or something? i tried resetting and refreshing source sdk and uninstalled/reinstalled source sdk and the problem still persists. i open up hammer 3.5 for hl1 mapping and the camera view in that works fine...its just the hammer 4 camera wont work for my hl2 mapping.

 

[Dodo]

try placing a camera in the map first !!
It's in the menu bar on the left. push it, click in one of the viewports, voila a camera.

-dodo

 

[Rapstah]

Hammer Editor, not in-game.

 

[Unarmed]

Dodo is right... my hammer started doing the same recently.. You have top use the camera tool the first time to get the camera initiated or something...

Just click that tool, make a nice line somewhere on any of the 2d grids and your camera should appear just like it used to.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

haha wow thats lame...never had to do that in the past (or maybe i just forgot). whatever it works now thanks guys. real 3Dstudio-esque.

 

[Unarmed]

its since the last update I belive...

It was like that a while ago but then they switched it and now they switched it back... Sometimes I wonder if that is all VALVe does all day long and why they mess with the hammer camera view at all. Go get EP2 released already!

Whoa. Post 500. GZ to myself. Why, thank me!

 

[blackflag486]

yep yep, ive got the problem now too. good game!