Mapping for beginners.

[Garfield_]

I was just wondering if there is someone that knows any good, simple to learn from video tutorials for hammer out there. videos that teach everything from basics to advanced stuff.

or if anyone here is pretty skilled and could create these vid tuts for me, i could offer you something for this $$$ or something. just PM me if you wanna know

 

[Sprite]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=61515
http://mnemic****/education/videotutorials/hwe.html
http://interlopers.net/index.php?page=tutorials.htm

Check these out for tutorials, very good stuff.

EDIT: Btw, it's Mnemic.[tee kay]

 

[Garfield_]

Thanks alot bro.

 

[Raeven0]

Do you have problems with reading comprehension?

 

[UltraProAnti]

or the use of google, for that matter?

 

[Crispy]

Also you can try the tutorials section of the ModDB. There are a lot of video tutorials there but I'm not sure how helpful they are.

 

[Garfield_]

Do you have problems with reading comprehension?

sorry for being too quick, ****head

 

[Sieg]

Seriously, back to topic.

*Click*

 

[Sgt. Redneck]

sorry for being too quick, ****head

If you are gonna be around the mapping community, you should respect Raeven0. He has earned his half here, you haven't. :flame:

 

[Raeven0]

If you are gonna be around the mapping community, you should respect Raven0. He has earned his half here, you haven't. :flame:

Everybody loves Raeven!

 

[Dazz3r]

Ive tried searching for an answer to this but cant find it anywhere. I cant get hammer to compile even a simple box room with a spawn entity and light inside like soo many on the beginners tutorials dictate.

Is this a common mistake due to setting the configuration up or something? I'm what comes before being a n00b lol, but im determined to learn guys.

 

[JFry]

Dazzer, post your compile log and we should be able to tell you what's going wrong.

 

[Unarmed]

Also. When you post your log do tell why you didnt start a new subject but instead bumped an old one.

 

[Dazz3r]

Dazzer, post your compile log and we should be able to tell you what's going wrong.

Here it is:


** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\half-life 2\hl2" "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Aug 4 2006)
2 threads
materialPath: c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\half-life 2\hl2\materials
Loading c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.vmf
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.prt...done (0)
Creating default cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox materials:
skybox/sky_day01_01*.vmt
Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.

No such variable "$hdrbasetexture" for material "skybox/sky_day01_01rt"
Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_day01_01 to build the default cubemap!
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (2279 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Compacting texture/material tables...
Reduced 9 texinfos to 4
Reduced 3 texdatas to 2 (61 bytes to 41)
Writing c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.bsp
0 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\half-life 2\hl2" "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (May 22 2006)
2 threads
reading c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.bsp
reading c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.prt
2 portalclusters
1 numportals
BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Optimized: 0 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 4
Average clusters visible: 2
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 2
visdatasize:24 compressed from 32
writing c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.bsp
0 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\half-life 2\hl2" "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera"

Valve Software - vrad.exe SSE (May 22 2006)
----- Radiosity Simulator ----
2 threads
[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[45 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.bsp
10 faces
2730 square feet [393216.00 square inches]
0 displacements
0 square feet [0.00 square inches]
10 patches before subdivision
630 patches after subdivision
0 direct lights
BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
BuildVisLeafs: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
transfers 47368, max 175
transfer lists: 0.4 megs
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #1 added RGB(0, 0, 0)
Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.0003 sec>
FinalLightFace: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
FinalLightFace Done
0 of 0 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.
ComputePerLeafAmbientLighting: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Ready to Finish

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
------------ --------------- --------------- --------
models 1/1024 48/49152 ( 0.1%)
brushes 6/8192 72/98304 ( 0.1%)
brushsides 36/65536 288/524288 ( 0.1%)
planes 38/65536 760/1310720 ( 0.1%)
vertexes 17/65536 204/786432 ( 0.0%)
nodes 16/65536 512/2097152 ( 0.0%)
texinfos 4/12288 288/884736 ( 0.0%)
texdata 2/2048 64/65536 ( 0.1%)
dispinfos 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_verts 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_tris 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_lmsamples 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
faces 10/65536 560/3670016 ( 0.0%)
hdr faces 0/65536 0/3670016 ( 0.0%)
origfaces 6/65536 336/3670016 ( 0.0%)
leaves 18/65536 576/2097152 ( 0.0%)
leaffaces 10/65536 20/131072 ( 0.0%)
leafbrushes 10/65536 20/131072 ( 0.0%)
areas 2/256 16/2048 ( 0.8%)
surfedges 64/512000 256/2048000 ( 0.0%)
edges 37/256000 148/1024000 ( 0.0%)
LDR worldlights 0/8192 0/720896 ( 0.0%)
HDR worldlights 0/8192 0/720896 ( 0.0%)
waterstrips 0/32768 0/327680 ( 0.0%)
waterverts 0/65536 0/786432 ( 0.0%)
waterindices 0/65536 0/131072 ( 0.0%)
cubemapsamples 0/1024 0/16384 ( 0.0%)
overlays 0/512 0/180224 ( 0.0%)
LDR lightdata [variable] 7248/0 ( 0.0%)
HDR lightdata [variable] 0/0 ( 0.0%)
visdata [variable] 24/16777216 ( 0.0%)
entdata [variable] 367/393216 ( 0.1%)
LDR leaf ambient 18/65536 432/1572864 ( 0.0%)
HDR leaf ambient 0/65536 0/1572864 ( 0.0%)
occluders 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder polygons 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder vert ind 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
detail props [variable] 1/12 ( 8.3%)
static props [variable] 1/12 ( 8.3%)
pakfile [variable] 10008/0 ( 0.0%)

Level flags = 0

Win32 Specific Data:
physics [variable] 2279/4194304 ( 0.1%)
==== Total Win32 BSP file data space used: 24528 bytes ====

Total triangle count: 20
Writing c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.bsp
0 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\sourcesdk_content\hl2mp\mapsrc\dazzera.bsp" "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\half-life 2\hl2\maps\dazzera.bsp"


** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\half-life 2\hl2.exe"
** Parameters: -dev -console -allowdebug -game "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\dazzer84\half-life 2\hl2" +map "dazzera"

Thanks guys.

 

[Dazz3r]

Actually I'll start a new thread now that you mention it unarmed!

 

[Unarmed]

Clever move.