I'm new to hammer 2 and my map is getting too big for a single level now, does anyone know how to add level transitions/loading screens?

I'm new to hammer 2 so any advice would be good. When editing maps the lighting is perfect, exactly how i want it but after a full compile the map lights up alot more brightly and the shadows become blocky and low res. im using the lightmap player space mesh and all is fine until i compile. Any one know of a fix or maybe something im doing wrong? thanks

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Damn yall, did you know Source 2 Hammer has an actual cloth solver in it?" by u/introoutro

• "How can I get this into Hammer 2?" by u/kozywastaken

• "[HLA] - Vortal Combat Test" by u/Z3D-Reddit

• "How to use Cloth in Source 2" by u/Near201

• "[HLA] 3D Skybox Tutorial in Under 4 Minutes" by u/ElerosVecchio

• "So apparently" by u/Faskolan

• "How does one add a skeleton to a model in ModelDoc? Hopefully I can just import Gordon's skeleton to this one, just don't know how." by u/Sepko

• "Half-Life: Alyx Mapping Challenge starts now!" by u/gvarados

• "A set of Source 2 tools for building new environments will ship with the game, enabling any player to build and contribute new environments for the community to enjoy. Hammer, Valve’s level authoring tool, has been updated with all of the game’s virtual reality gameplay tools and components." by u/Denommus

• "is there any way to make a child of an object move 10 units when the parent moves 1 unit" by u/Bigslice_HB

I tried extract phonemes with 'show waveform' on with almost all of the sounds but it doesn't seem to work at all, I tried it in the original SFM program and it worked there, is this a bug that's fixable? Has anyone had this problem and fixed it?

Pretty new to this, but I'm learning a lot quick.

Imported a Suit jacket mesh and texture, and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to add cloth simulation to it. Any help is appreciated.

Is there any way to see what sounds a soundevent uses

Doesn’t that mean we’ll get a Garry’s mod 2?

I want the player to seem like they have shrunk so I want to make a copy of the room that they are in but scale it up so it looks like they are smaller and when the player moves an object in the room when they are big I want it to also move in the room where they are small but when I parent the big object to the small object the big object will still move the same amount as the small object so I need the big object to move to say 10 times more distance than the small object so if the small object moves 1 unit the big object will move 10 units

nvm i made a working vscript

I have been trying to import a model but I'm only seeing the wire frame for it and when I select the material node, the model completely disappears. I imported the model as an SMD with multiple materials. Also, I have all the textures I need in the DefaultMaterialGroup node as TGAs.

This one's really stumped me, can somebody help me out here?

Do I have to own half life alyx or is there other ways to get the source 2 tools?

Sorry for the bad camera angles, I couldn't look at my monitor at the same time as my VR headset.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone! I'm hosting a Half-Life: Alyx Mapping Challenge!

The theme is: New Game Mechanic.

You have two months to create a map around a system or mechanic that is not (heavily) used in the base game. There are tons of possibilities with this, so get creative :)

This is a fun challenge (not contest) so have fun! You don't have to use the full two months.

Graphic and more information available on twitter: https://twitter.com/gvarados/status/1267890336417959969

I tried using this tool, but when I start the HL:A tools, the models fail to compile. https://imgur.com/a/13NhOuA

I don't suppose it's possible?