Well, people will tell me to use the search function. I did. For each thing. And each thread referenced a main useful thread which when I lookd over, was wholly unuseful and had little information, with pages of posts saying “it works!” without any information.
- Prefabs.
Simple. Every time I try to use one of drakir’s prefabs, nothing is there. It’s really starting to be a hassle. I open the map–nothing.
- Curves.
I just got back into mapping recently, and I remembered how to make a simple bevel, or cone, or what have you. So I create a brush, cone-ify it, and…nothing. It’s selected, but when I deselect it, it disappears and there’s nothing there at all. It seems to exist only as a selection and when I try to somehow “create” it nothing happens.
- Decompiles.
I’m trying to Make a snowy-rock type thing on my own by retexturing an ASE. From what I read you can just edit an ASE with notepad. So I do, but apparently it just ignores the fact that I changed the texture path. So I try hummer’s method of decompiling. Only I have no clue how do it – so I use the search function and find the “main” thread which mentions .bat methods, shortcut methods, etc. Each one either gives me the error that it is a) version 47, not 46, or b) there is no such thing as -format.bsp. I’ve double-checked and re-double checked, and since hummer’s thread has no info in it other than spawnflags, I really don’t know what to do.
I like figuring things out myself because I hate waiting. I am an impatient person. Well, at least in map-making. I know that I will have to wait a while so I try to scour for as much info as possible, but right now it’s getting very, very annoying, because I just can’t continue my maps anymore without the info.
