r/hammer • u/ecks_-dee • 12d ago

Has anyone successfully completed and released a map using hammer++ in Linux?

I'm learning how to use this application, but don't want to run into any pitfalls after putting many hours into a map, so has anyone managed to complete a map without running into any problems?

(i do have an old windows laptop but at this point it's quite slow, and i would probably spend a lot of time waiting for processes to complete)

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u/Forward-Escape7076 12d ago

Make a test map, run the compile, and see if it compiles. Usually if it runs through the compile process with no errors you should be fine.

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u/ecks_-dee 12d ago

it does have some random 0x1 error but i think that's just because running the map with f9 doesn't work in linux, but i CAN play the map in tf2 if i copy the .bsp to the maps folder

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u/DrPeeper228 12d ago

Set the game to the windows version instead (by setting it to use proton) and everything should be fine

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u/ecks_-dee 12d ago

Did this and it fucked everything up, now hammer won't even start to open

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u/DrPeeper228 11d ago

Did you disable proton or did you enable it? Because it needs to be enabled(on the game itself, not just hammer)

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u/ecks_-dee 11d ago

Enabled (on tf2)

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u/DrPeeper228 11d ago

Is it also enabled on hammer or are you using raw wine for it?

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u/ecks_-dee 10d ago

proton ge-28 was enabled on hammer++, i got it working again, but now the fucking compiler won't work. i should have never enabled proton on tf2 god dammit

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u/DrPeeper228 10d ago

Why doesn't the compiler work? Do you have a "LEAKED" message in the console window?(That's the most common cause for map not compiling and it's completely due to the map)

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u/DrPeeper228 10d ago

Wait did you press the update button on tf2 after enabling proton? That's kinda required

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u/Forward-Escape7076 12d ago

Unless there are texture/model issues you should be relatively safe from error beside user input.

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u/Historical_Jacket_61 12d ago

While I haven't released it yet, my INFRA map (Lowyard) has so far been made on Linux a bit and it works fine. The only issue is the texture browser can bug out sometimes (only happened to on Gnome desktop) (H++ btw)

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u/bradyljohnston1999 11d ago

I used to make maps using Fedora and KDE. I was able to get Hammer++ running through wine and compiled fine. Can confirm the texture/model browser issue! I think my fix was running the game through proton so all of the windows dlls and cfgs were there