hammer loading one map for over 2 hours, help?
Ok, this is really making me upset. the map I have worked extremely hard on is not loading past 5% when I browse for it and open it in hammer. it says "Loading Chunks: 5%" and then It gets stuck. I have tried waiting for it for over 2 and a half hours, and nothing has happened. nothing past 5%.
As with other, more complex maps made by valve, they load really fast. this problem started just today. I had not compiled before shutting down. 
please, if anyone can help, do so. I have worked long and hard on it and would not want it to be wasted. 
I have attached the map if it is needed for reference:
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Trying to load it crashed Hammer for me @ 5% as well.
Future note to self: Don't load something that someone said is broken while you're working on stuff lol
What's the last thing you did before this started happening?
Try this one:
"I hear voices. But I ignore them and I just carry on killing."
Future note to self: Don't load something that someone said is broken while you're working on stuff lol
What's the last thing you did before this started happening?
1. 
I didn't want to make you lose your progress! darn! 
2. I had just added in a clothed turret (sort of.)
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Killing_GLaDOS.vmf.......... ||(319.8 KiB) Downloaded 2 times |
I worked! Yes! Thank you soooo much!!! 
You deserve a Cubey and some cake
wait... where is everything? everything I just made is gone
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It's cool, man. I didn't actually "lose" anything (I save a LOT, as should everyone I hope) just the time of loading up Hammer and my whole map again... which my overclocked i7 likes anyway hehe
what i'm wondering now is where everything in the map went. the only things left are things I made in the last session that i used my map and the geometry.
@CaretCaret what did you do to fix it anyway?
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Probably it loads from last session is because it didn't save correctly (if it crashed). Remember that Hammer frequently autosaves (look in C:/HammerAutosave) and a .vmx in the same folder as is automatically created whenever you compile your map.
Maybe he edited the vmf in notepad. Burned and destroyed something from there.
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Maybe he edited the vmf in notepad. Burned and destroyed something from there.
Indeed. It was corrupt, at the end of the file it just said NULNULNULNUL... and so on.
Everything you did after putting in some vactube models is gone.
"I hear voices. But I ignore them and I just carry on killing."
Maybe he edited the vmf in notepad. Burned and destroyed something from there.
Indeed. It was corrupt, at the end of the file it just said NULNULNULNUL... and so on.
Everything you did after putting in some vactube models is gone.
but then how was I able to open it up and edit it before it started the 5% thing? also, I think you meant before putting in some vactube models, because I made the glados chamber after the vactubes.
and why is the brushwork still there?
edit: its not completely gone, because I can still play through the old version of few main rooms i was developing, except without the awesome new stuff I added recently. I can attach the BSP if anyone wants to take a look at its former (unfinished) glory.
so, theres absolutely no way to get my work back? 
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