[HELP] Freezing when opening a map in Hammer
What I do when I get weird problems with maps, is to take a copy of it, and then start removing bits of the map, say 10-20 entities/brushes at a time, and re-run it every time until I find it starts working.
Then you know which 10-20 it was causing the problem, and you can narrow it down.
Its the only way sometimes to find problems like this.
Or post your vmf file and we could take a look.
Rob.
Thank you very much. Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0N62EHM
What I do when I get weird problems with maps, is to take a copy of it, and then start removing bits of the map, say 10-20 entities/brushes at a time, and re-run it every time until I find it starts working.
Then you know which 10-20 it was causing the problem, and you can narrow it down.
Its the only way sometimes to find problems like this.
Or post your vmf file and we could take a look.
Rob.
Thank you very much. Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0N62EHM
Ah, its a bug with hammer...
You have got an entity called 'hint1_room2', its an env_instructor_hint class.
In the 'caption' properties, you've put the text as "DID YOU KNOW?" with the double quotes in there.
Since Hammer uses double quotes to also put around properties, its causing hammer to get confused.
To fix it, close hammer, open your vmf file in notepad, and search for "DID YOU KNOW?"
(Use CTRL-F to search for text)
You will find a line like this:
"hint_caption" ""DID YOU KNOW?""
Change the 2 double quotes to 1 double quote, and then save the file, then open it again in hammer.
So that the line says:
"hint_caption" "DID YOU KNOW?"
That should fix it...
Rob.
That freezing during load is actually normal for Hammer. Just let it sit for 2 to 5 minutes and see if it moves. If it doesn't budge, something may be genuinely wrong. It's been the same way for a very long time, and the delay is longer the larger and more complex your map is; it will also be longer the slower your machine is.
What I do when I get weird problems with maps, is to take a copy of it, and then start removing bits of the map, say 10-20 entities/brushes at a time, and re-run it every time until I find it starts working.
Then you know which 10-20 it was causing the problem, and you can narrow it down.
Its the only way sometimes to find problems like this.
Or post your vmf file and we could take a look.
Rob.
Thank you very much. Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0N62EHM
Ah, its a bug with hammer...
You have got an entity called 'hint1_room2', its an env_instructor_hint class.
In the 'caption' properties, you've put the text as "DID YOU KNOW?" with the double quotes in there.
Since Hammer uses double quotes to also put around properties, its causing hammer to get confused.
To fix it, close hammer, open your vmf file in notepad, and search for "DID YOU KNOW?"
(Use CTRL-F to search for text)
You will find a line like this:
"hint_caption" ""DID YOU KNOW?""
Change the 2 double quotes to 1 double quote, and then save the file, then open it again in hammer.
So that the line says:
"hint_caption" "DID YOU KNOW?"
That should fix it...
Rob.
I'm trying, I'll edit later for the results.
EDIT: You solve my problem, thanks a lot ! 
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Quick note:
You can use the .vmx as a backup if you have compiled a map and afterwards through more mapping you have corrupted the original file.
Once I made a very complicated mesh without compiling and I couldn't open it because it said that the file was corrupted. I just put in an extra bracket in the .vmf using a text editor... and all fixed! Great detective work Robdon.