Uh oh. Hammer screwed up.

[archvilell]

For some reason, my 3d View doesn't work anymore. I don't know what I did, I think I must have hit some kind of button or something. What happens is my 3d view is all black and no matter where I look, it just stays black. Its like I can't find the map, but I've looked in every direction. Maybe I hit a button that shows the map under lighting condition, and I don't have lights yet. I don't know.

 

[JFry]

This is a long-standing problem hammer has had. I think it is a graphic card compatibility issue. For me hammer4 usually returns the 3d view when I click in that window, but if that doesn't work you may need to restart it. If it still doesn't work then I'm afraid you have big problems and maybe you'll need to re-install hammer. Anyways the way to avoid causing this is to not switch to other programs while hammer runs, which is a pretty big drawback if it comes to that.

 

[The Dark Elf]

reset the position of the camera, its probably ended up way out from the map. Or move it about aswell as just looking about.

 

[archvilell]

The tension builds.... exiting Hammer....entering hammer... the drama climbing.... right click, 3d texture.... TA DA! It's back!!

Whew. What a close call. Thanks

 

[Bossanova]

ummm a question. did you by chance hit delete when in camera view selection? this will delete the cam.

if so, to fix it. in a 2d window with the cam icon selected, left click and drag your cam, then you will have the cam again. or just restart hammer if you don't know how.