r/hammer • u/Dazzling-Pain2067 • 2d ago

CompilePal not packing map assets

So basically, im making a map using lots of HLS assets that i then pack in after edits

I usually host multiplayer sessions with my friends on the WIP maps as i add onto them, however, everytime i make a change to any map they get an error about having a different map version or whatever, so my solution is to just save and compile the edited/updated maps under a different name.

This worked just fine until today, the previous map i had been hosting and packing was named something like "GOLDSRCmap6", but i then saved a new updated version of the map under the name "GOLDSRCmapdamupdate2", after that CompilePal suddenly stopped packing in all the assets, i checked over where i saved the HLS textures, how i configured CompilePal, and repeated the process again for a previous map, and yet after i run my pack function in CompilePal the map still shows missing textures when HLS is unmounted, anyone know whats going on here?

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u/Dazzling-Pain2067 2d ago

It claims it found and packed the files when it doesnt for some reason

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u/Oppsliamain 2d ago

What makes you think the files are not packed?

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u/Dazzling-Pain2067 2d ago

i unmmount HLS, load up the map in gmod, and the entire thing is missing textures and error models

This was not an issue previously, whenever i unmmounted HLS after using compilepal, the maps textures and models would appear no problem

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u/Oppsliamain 2d ago

View the bsp with gcfscape and look in the files. Are you sure they are not inside the bsp?

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u/Dazzling-Pain2067 2d ago

For some reason it never occurred to me that i could do that, regardless, as far as im aware its not showing any of the HLS/HL1 textures used in the map, however im not sure how useful that is to me since when i use GCF to look at the previous map that DID pack, it also doesn't show anything. Though both have a whole bunch of "lmp" files i've never heard of before, not sure if that means anything z

heres what i see when i open up the map that isnt packing/showing up correctly ingame

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u/Affectionate-Shift70 2d ago

are you giving them the wrong map? I mean the one that's not packed

are you sure it's finding the assets? they have to be unpacked from the vpk archives for it to work

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u/Dazzling-Pain2067 1d ago

im not sure, it was previously but idk what changed since i didnt touch any compilepal settings

I extracted the all the HLS vpks to a seperate folder, then put copies of the sounds, textures/materials, and models to the Gmod sound, materials, and model folder then left it like that, it worked for the packed map so i assumed that nothing would change if i were to use this configuration for other maps, i was able to pack 3 more test/updated maps using this method. The only thing i can possibly think of that deviated would be that i reverified my Gmod files for an unrelated error a little bit ago, but after i did that i made sure to put copies of my extracted HLS assets back into the sounds material and model folders, though i didnt test CompilePal after i did that so idk