Map wont refresh

[Icewolf717]

Ive had hammer for about a week, its worked great. But when I add to one of my maps it doesn't refresh, i compile the map and go into halflife and its the same map before i changed it, i signed out of steam and re signed in to see if it would work, and it didn't, and also a little while after it wouldnt work it comes up with a error message saying

The command failed. Windows reported the error:
"The system cannot find the file specified."

At the very end. Please help.

 

[JFry]

Check to make sure hammer is placing the finished bsp in the correct directory. In hammer go to tools>options>Build Programs and there will be a field labeled "place compiled maps in this directory before running game".

For hld2m it should be $SteamUserDir\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\maps
For hl2sp it should be $SteamUserDir\half-life 2\hl2\maps
For CS:S it should be $SteamUserDir\counter-strike source\cstrike\maps

Also the last line of the compile log should tell you where it is copying the finished bsp to. Hope that helps.

 

[Ravioli]

Happen to me sometimes. There is one or more errors in your map. Usually for me, its Decals or Vertex errors. Try deleting Decal by decal, till it work, also try deleting Carved Brushes and also Vertex, it will take time but its worth it (if the map is good) But do that, i do it, delete one thing-compile and do that for a while till you find the error. Hunt it down

 

[Phisionary]

I've seen this happen before, it's sometimes an error with VBSP compiling. Check your log very carefully, you may see some evidence that it didn't run correctly. VVIS and VRAD still run though, and make it look like it's working.

 

[Icewolf717]

Couldnt find the problem so i had to restart. thanks for the help though.

 

[Dead-Inside]

Okay I need some help setting up my Hl2DM compile. Anyone mind telling me swiftly the paths? Just copy them in here because when I compile it refuses to acknowledge the programs . (CSS has and still does work though)