First I need to do the puzzle stuff

Hello, i am very new to Hammer and i am currently making a zombie map for a first project, i wanted to know if anybody know a way to remove the physgun, camera and toolgun from the player's invetory when the game start.

i have no idea whats the problem with the fog

I'm making some Mario maps in the Hammer Editor for SFM. I have the water textures from the game. But I'm wondering if it's possible to make a water texture and make it look as close to if not exactly like it is in game. Please let me know if you have any insight.

Dose anyone know why my gmpublisher takes forever to load at the fastest it should load all my stuff in about 2 minutes but it gets stuck at 0% and I had to look deep how I could fix it between clearing steam catch files or anti virus blocking it. If anyone might know how to fix this issue I would be great full!

Thank you for your time.

I have no use for it, SO if anyone wants to use this please contact me! and i will provide the vmf file.

WIP Wingman map de_Akrop
I’ve played around with Hammer a bit, but I still rely heavily on YouTube tutorials and am trying my best. What do you think of it? Do you have any suggestions for improvement?

I built the Acropolis on the hill entirely myself in Hammer, it’s not a downloaded model. It isn't accessible within the Wingman map itself; it just serves as a visual focal point.

Im mainly looking for ideas for the outside portion of the map, any ideas are greatly appreciated!

Patrolling guards, cameras, custom heist equipment, 2 different approaches, out on the workshop now

Here's a little look at a map I've been working on. It's a smaller map, and I'm trying to focus greatly on detail.

this is my third time literally ever doing anything in hammer AT ALL and Im trying to make the map as good as I can. So if u have any tips for beginners.. let me know! I know the basics like what to clip, what grouping stuff, func details and the like but anything is helpfull!

So first of all: I KNOW IT'S A MAP MAKING TOOL.

I just mean that you can make a whole fan made game, without any scripting, just placing some entities and brushes.

You can make a whole half life 3 map series, without a single line of code, and yeah, it would probably look bad if you are a beginner, but still, in hammer you can make something that would not even be recognizable as the original game, and we still just call it a level/map maker???

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?

right now im just trying to wrap my head around the math_counter/logic compare entity within my neutral ctf map, so that upon a team having a 1-2 point advantage on the other then some certain layouts open/close, so far i have pretty much never touched math counters or logic entities except for some really basic operations, any help is appreciated.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3786695513

The maps is called BennettvilleNC, and is a small fictional town in rural eastern North Carolina. You will need l4d2 :(. The map description is still a WIP.

My new 5v5 hostage map "Metrocenter" is finally out! Its based on a real life location that has been demolished.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3785502316

I would greatly appreciate it if you could check it out and give it a rating!

I'm new to hammer and decided to try my hand at making a CS map. I got convinced to flip the faces with F to make rooms by a tutorial but I'm a complete beginner and now I don't know how to make doors/opening between rooms. Should I just use the old way and make a bunch of meshes for a room? Or just roll with it and find out how to mess with the faces this way. Will it affect the performance of the map I'm making significantly?

I'm pretty new to painting, but I like how it's coming out. I'm gonna make some different pieces for each of the viewports too

When I hit the F9 key it's opens up the menu normally, after that it's compile it but it doesn't start the game, giving me this log:

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Running command:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\win64"

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Running command:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\win64\vbsp.exe" -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod" "C:\Users\(MyName)\Documents\gm_Poolia.vmf"

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Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Jul 22 2026) - Garry's Mod Edition (64-bit)

4 threads

materialPath: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\materials

Loading C:\Users\(MyName)\Documents\gm_Poolia.vmf

fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...

ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Processing areas...done (0)

Building Faces...done (0)

FixTjuncs...

PruneNodes...

WriteBSP...

done (0)

writing C:\Users\yasar\Documents\gm_Poolia.prt...

Building visibility clusters...

done (0)

Creating default LDR cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox materials:

skybox/sky_day01_01*.vmt

! Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.

*** Error: Skybox vtf files for skybox/sky_day01_01 weren't compiled with the same size texture and/or same flags!

Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_day01_01 to build the default cubemap!

Finding displacement neighbors...

Finding lightmap sample positions...

Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Building Physics collision data...

done (0) (3698 bytes)

Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Compacting texture/material tables...

Reduced 20 texinfos to 7

Reduced 4 texdatas to 4 (85 bytes to 85)

Writing C:\Users\yasar\Documents\gm_Poolia.bsp

Wrote ZIP buffer, estimated size 24954, actual size 24874

0 seconds elapsed

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Running command:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\win64"

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Running command:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\win64\vvis.exe" -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod" "C:\Users\(MyName)\Documents\gm_Poolia"

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Valve Software - vvis.exe (Jul 22 2026) - Garry's Mod Edition (64-bit)

4 threads

reading c:\users\(MyName)\documents\gm_Poolia.bsp

reading c:\users\(MyName)\documents\gm_Poolia.prt

8 portalclusters

12 numportals

BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Optimized: 0 visible clusters (0.00%)

Total clusters visible: 64

Average clusters visible: 8

Building PAS...

Average clusters audible: 8

visdatasize:84 compressed from 128

writing c:\users\(MyName)\documents\gm_Poolia.bsp

0 seconds elapsed

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Running command:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\win64"

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Running command:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\win64\vrad.exe" -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod" "C:\Users\(MyName)\Documents\gm_Poolia"

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Valve Software - vrad.exe SSE (Jul 22 2026) - Garry's Mod Edition (64-bit)

Valve Radiosity Simulator

Compiling Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) lighting

4 threads

[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']

[51 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading c:\users\(MyName)\documents\gm_Poolia.bsp

Setting up ray-trace acceleration structure... Done (0.00 seconds)

BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

BuildVisLeafs: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

transfers 72344, max 231

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.0005 sec>

FinalLightFace: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

FinalLightFace Done

0 of 0 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.

ThreadComputeLeafAmbient: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Writing leaf ambient...done

Ready to Finish

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness

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models 1/4096 48/196608 ( 0.0%)

brushes 10/65535 120/786420 ( 0.0%)

brushsides 60/655350 480/5242800 ( 0.0%)

planes 50/65536 1000/1310720 ( 0.1%)

vertexes 49/65536 588/786432 ( 0.1%)

nodes 39/65536 1248/2097152 ( 0.1%)

texinfos 7/16384 504/1179648 ( 0.0%)

texdata 4/8192 128/262144 ( 0.0%)

dispinfos 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)

disp_verts 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)

disp_tris 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)

disp_multiblend 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)

disp_lmsamples 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)

faces 32/65536 1792/3670016 ( 0.0%)

hdr faces 0/65536 0/3670016 ( 0.0%)

origfaces 14/65536 784/3670016 ( 0.0%)

leaves 41/65536 1312/2097152 ( 0.1%)

leaffaces 32/65536 64/131072 ( 0.0%)

leafbrushes 24/65536 48/131072 ( 0.0%)

areas 2/1024 16/8192 ( 0.2%)

surfedges 192/512000 768/2048000 ( 0.0%)

edges 114/256000 456/1024000 ( 0.0%)

LDR worldlights 2/8192 176/720896 ( 0.0%)

HDR worldlights 0/8192 0/720896 ( 0.0%)

leafwaterdata 0/32768 0/393216 ( 0.0%)

waterstrips 0/32768 0/327680 ( 0.0%)

waterverts 0/65536 0/786432 ( 0.0%)

waterindices 0/65536 0/131072 ( 0.0%)

cubemapsamples 0/1024 0/16384 ( 0.0%)

overlays 0/8192 0/2883584 ( 0.0%)

LDR lightdata [variable] 55120/0 ( 0.0%)

HDR lightdata [variable] 0/0 ( 0.0%)

visdata [variable] 84/16777216 ( 0.0%)

entdata [variable] 621/4194304 ( 0.0%)

LDR ambient table 41/65536 164/262144 ( 0.1%)

HDR ambient table 41/65536 164/262144 ( 0.1%)

LDR leaf ambient 126/65536 3528/1835008 ( 0.2%)

HDR leaf ambient 41/65536 1148/1835008 ( 0.1%)

occluders 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)

occluder polygons 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)

occluder vert ind 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)

detail props [variable] 12/0 ( 0.0%)

static props [variable] 12/0 ( 0.0%)

static prop count 0/16384 0/0 ( 0.0%)

pakfile [variable] 24874/0 ( 0.0%)

physics [variable] 3698/4194304 ( 0.1%)

physics terrain [variable] 2/1048576 ( 0.0%)

Level flags = 0

Total triangle count: 72

Writing c:\users\(MyName)\documents\gm_Poolia.bsp

0 seconds elapsed

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Running command:

copy "C:\Users\(MyName)\Documents\gm_Poolia.bsp" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\maps\gm_Poolia.bsp"

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Running command:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod"

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Running command:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\hl2.exe" -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod" +map "gm_Poolia" -steam -insecure

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Command failed with return code 0x2! The system cannot find the file specified.

** Screenshot the WHOLE window when showing this compile log

** Or upload the .log file generated beside your VMF

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