my pointfile is gone. what to do?

[chestburster]

hi there

after a couple of times of loading the pointfile, hammer cannot find it anymore. there is no file with *.lin or *.pts in my map folder. restarting hammer didn't help either ;(

i´m sorry for being a pain but neither searching this forum nor checking the SDK documentation has helped me.

any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[pieman]

If you dont have any leaks then a point file wont be created. You should be happy.

 

[chestburster]

but it doesn't process anything so how will hammer know there are no leaks?
i think there must be a bigger problem because hl2dm crashes while loading the map. most interestingly the screen slowly fades back to windows and doesn't switch back immediately.

 

[JFry]

A pointfile is simply a tool to aid mappers in finding leaks. If there are no leaks your map will compile just fine (barring other errors). Your problem sounds kinda strange. Post your compile log.

 

[chestburster]

here´s the last and only error that´s left (i´ve posted it in an extra thread) :
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=62690

 

[chestburster]

well, i´ve just tried what happens when i intentionally create a leak. result: hammer doesn't find the pointfile. something must be broken.