yesterday steam made an update to my SDK! and now I have to setup my whole hammer again.... but I don't get it right. when I compile I get a message that the program can't find light.rad in light.rad.. and then it's trying to find it in counterstrike_sample_content. So I used search and copied the light.rad file (found in some counterstrike map.) in the counterstrike_sample_content. the map will compile only I get the message that there are to manu portals on some leafs ore somthing like that..???? I don't understand.. can some one help me with it!

ps. that @##%$!@@ STEAM!! I 'm getting ##$#!!@% of that program......

damn.. I hope that doesn't happen to me. I haven't loaded steam in a week and I am going to be pretty angry if I lose access to mapping.

I suggest going through your preferences for the editor. Double check all the paths. Maybe they were changed.

yeah.. I just checked them ten times or sow!! but I first had to put a info file in the right map...... and after that much more poo-poo.... but I found on a nother forum that you can use the restore configuration button.. in the SDK menu.. It's a batch file or something... gone try that one out later on..

I am going to run a test right now at work to see if I am affected. I'll let you know.

whew.. got it. I had a similar problem that the editor configs were wrong after reloading. Here's how I fixed it... (read whole thing before starting)

- Loaded Source SDK but before loading Hammer Editor, I clicked "Reset Game Configuration".
- Then I loaded Hammer Editor
- I was prompted that things were incorrectly set so I said YES that I wanted to changed my settings. (Tools > Options)
- I looked up the online config guide as help to finding the right paths and I also opened windows explorer to check the paths

WHAT NEEDS CHANGING:

Game Executable Directory:
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\username\sourcesdk

Game Directory:
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\username\sourcesdk\sampleapp

Hammer Map Directory:
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\username\sourcesdk\hl2mp_sample_content\maps

- Then I was prompted that the settings were wrong. I canceled the option to change them and closed the editor.
- I reloaded the editor and it all worked... went back to the Options and saw the following changes:

FINAL OUTCOME OF THESE DIRECTORIES:

Game Executable Directory:
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk

Game Directory:
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\sampleapp

Hammer Map Directory:
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\hl2mp_sample_content\maps

- You might want to start by just making the changes listed in the FINAL OUTCOME

The rad problem sounds genuine, but the other one sounds more like a mapping error (forgive me, I just woke up)...is it?

Actually the update for the SDK was mainly because they added faceposer, guess what that does!

(and from the looks of things, I would say faceposer is doing a pretty good job with your face...esp on the anger expression...um, yeah)

Oh and I believe they did change something in the options, cant' remember exactly, so that must be it...there were a ton of changes to a lot of things, so.

sow! now it's posible that my map compiled before fine.. and now without changing thinks it won't compile correctly??? how strange is that...

oke thanx foyleman I will try it...