Hammer4.0 and/or SDK? I'm not clear on something.

[Starstreams]

I’m totally lost:
I've mapped for Unreal but this is so different in the editor setup.
I keep seeing Hammer4.0 but the only download I see available is Hammer 3.4
What’s the source for?
I went’ through the setup in the manual but all the half-life directories the instructions tells you to use are not there. I'm running HalfLife2 and trying to get Hammer3.4 setup correctly but I'm getting discouraged and just don't get it.
All I want to do is create my own levels like I did in the Unreal Tournament editor with no hassles. Trust me I've read the manual included in hammer3.4, but something looks different.


Like for example, they tell you to use the game directory:
C:\games\Half Life.

My game is not installed on the root of C, it’s in the program files directory of C by default. But that’s even confusing because I have a user folder in the main valve folder. I don't know what directory I should be using for anything anymore.
I had no problems finding the configuration file in the hammer editor folder but why do I not have these paths that the manual recommends?

Like
C:\games\Half Life.
Or
C:\games\Half Life/Valve

 

[Ennui]

Hammer 4.0 is for HL2, I believe.

Hammer 3.4 is for HL1. You're talking about HL1 - HL2's Hammer and editing utilities are found at the bottom of the My Games menu, in Source SDK.

 

[Starstreams]

Hi Ennui,
Note: I was editing my post above while you posted. sorry.


Where is your Games menu? Is that a feature on these boards?
I went to that link under your sig, I’m not finding what your referring to?

Anyway, I kind thought 4.0 was for HL2, but I have searched Google like crazy and I can’t find where to download 4.0.
You would think that at the main Valve editing web site they would put links all over for the 4.0 ED. I’m mapped for Unreal over 3 years and there was never this much confusion.

Thanks for the help, I appreciate this.

I’m looking for that SDK you mentioned!

 

[Starstreams]

I see what you mean now, I didn’t realize you wanted me to load the steam application.

You know this kind of sucks though, what’s going to happen if Steam were to ever go offline. How will you get the source files and tools if you ever decide to make levels on the engine say 5 or more year from now? I hate this whole steam thing. Every time I want to play the game I’ve got to log on to some network thing. What happens if my network is down, I can’t play HalfLife2?

 

[pvtbones]

you can set it to offline mode so you could play it without a connection to the net at that time.

 

[Cole]

You can start up steam offline, you can go on HL2 offline, you can work on a map offline.

 

[Dario D.]

You can work on maps offline??

How??

 

[Ennui]

Run steam in offline mode.

You can also access Hammer from your harddrive somewhere I think.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

Presumably simply by finding where the Hammer.exe is stored.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Dario D.]

[tries]: Can't open hammer when Steam isn't running. :O An error comes up saying you can't open it without Steam.

How do you run Steam in offline mode?

 

[Ti133700N]

Disconnect from the Internet, then open Steam. It will ask you if you want to start in offline mode.

 

[Dario D.]

Oh... Ok, thanks.

- Is that the best they can do? Man... I was wondering because my brother wants to use Hammer while I'm ALSO using Hammer, and you can't do that with the way Steam works. :O

 

[Geronimous]

Oh... Ok, thanks.

- Is that the best they can do? Man... I was wondering because my brother wants to use Hammer while I'm ALSO using Hammer, and you can't do that with the way Steam works. :O

Yes you can. You can log in with the same steam account from two different machines. You cannot play the same (online)game simultaneously though. And I dont't think it refuses to open the SDK on both machines at the same time.

 

[Dario D.]

Hmm, ok. Ty.

 

[azz0r]

Make your own mod, you can then run hammer through a shortcut in the mods directory (without steam running).

 

[pur3r4ge]

You can't even run vbsp in the command line without steam running. I strongly doubt that you can run hammer without steam running, mod or not.