Entities Disappearing??

[uNsaiN]

I am in the process of making a Counter Strike Source defuse map, and I had everything working great. I had working garage doors, player starts, lights, and buyzones. Then I went to fix some BSP problems like my stairs and compiled my map and tryed playing it ingame and all my entities are gone now. I saw that when I compilied there was a leak, which I am still looking for.
I went to Map > Check Map for problems, and I have two invalid solid structures, a player start error, and 4 func_button I/O errors. I know how to solve all those, but I guess what I'm asking is, why did all my entities disappear?

 

[NoisyMonk]

are you alt+tabing between cs:s and hammer? like compiling and then relaoding the map? that may be a problem. try loading cs:s from scratch each time. and for leaks, after you compile, goto Map -> Load PointFile, and just follow the red like to your leak. And you should fix all those problems too.. as they also mught be the cause?

 

[uNsaiN]

After every compile I let the game run and run around in the map, so I have Hammer and CSS running at the same time. I ended up finding the leak, fixing it, and replacing all my entities.

Also thanks a lot for that pointfile thing. I just had a leak in my map and it would have taken YEARS to find it. I knew there was something to find leaks really easy, because I read a bunch of tutorials before I even had HL2. I will probably be making a WIP thread soon, posting some pics of my map.

 

[Ravioli]

lol, if you are a noob (NoisyMonsk) dont answer, this is how you fix it:

1. Right click on the Entitys that Dissepear,

2. Then press Properties.

3. On Start fade, write: -1

4. on End fade, write: 0


press apply, and it should work, and it might not work on some object, some needs to be: Prop_physic, or prop_static, depends.

 

[uNsaiN]

The entities weren't showing up in Hammer.

 

[NoisyMonk]

ouch.. must suck to be wrong eh Ravioli?

 

[uNsaiN]

More weird entity stuff is happening. Today when I opened my map I noticed there was double the amount of lights in a certain hallway. I know I only had two lights in it and then there was magically 4. Also I had 3 CT spawns and 3 T spawns, and when I opened my map I had 6 CT spawns and 4 T spawns. My light environments also doubled. I don't know what the problem is, but I want to get this map finished so I don't have to deal with all these little glitches that keep popping up.

 

[uNsaiN]

Hmm. I think I figured out whats wrong, kind of. Each time I get a significant amount of my map done I save it to a new file like mapname1, mapname2, etc. I noticed some of my stuff from previous maps showed up. So that must be why my entities seem to be multipling. But that still doesn't explain them disappearing.