If Hammer Had Achievements...
This has been around on a few different mapping sites, I figured we might as well have one here as well. I'll start (meaning I'll steal a few good ones from other people without giving them any credit whatsoever).
Wake Up Call: Have Hammer crash.
Weeee!: Spend half an hour swooping through doors in the 3D View.
I See Rainbows!: Create a leak into the Void larger than 128 units^2, in a spot where players can clearly see it.
I Can't See!: Create a map with blown-out, overly bright HDR.
Attention to Detail: Create 10,000 accumulative func_details.
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Nothing between the ears: Use the carve tool.
Mmm... donuts!: Create a torus.
In a hurry: Only update entities when compiling.
In no hurry: vvis takes over an hour.
I get the point: Load a poinfile to find a leak.
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This should be called "It's faster to just uninstall".
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This should be called "It's faster to just uninstall".
I see what you did there.
All systems are go: Put in 10 hours of solid (not in one sitting) mapping without Hammer crashing.
I must be homeless, because I live in this: Seal your leaks by encasing your map in a giant box.
"It's futuristic!": Make an entire map out of dev textures.
Still... better than fullbright: Light a room with one light entity in the middle of the room.
You're doing it wrong: Use the void as a deathtrap.
On an unrelated note, the 
emote was bowing to the exact tempo of my music. I watched it for the entire length of the song and it never went out of sync. Scary. The song was "Murder Taxi" by Hamster Alliance.
There's a hole in the...sky: Carve a hole in a skybox.
But it's nice and wavy!: Use the carve tool to make terrain*
Instancing Schminstancing: Use prefabs in Left 4 Dead Hammer or later.
Your argument is invalid: Have over 5 invalid keyvalues on one entity.
404 Error: Model not found: Have more than 10 entities with ERROR models.
What, who said they had to be about good mapping habits?
*This is in reference to a video I saw a while back where a user was horribly misusing carve. It was agonizing. I couldn't find it again, though, or I would have made the description a link.
*This is in reference to a video I saw a while back where a user was horribly misusing carve. It was agonizing. I couldn't find it again, though, or I would have made the description a link.
Oh God I remember that video. That was horrible.
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