Daamn, I only knew like... a fifth of what you've shown, and I have like 12 years of experience in Hammer, I might not remember most of the ones you've shown but gash, those are sooo useful. I've learned so much from your tutorials, keep it up!
This has to be one of the best videos yet, I love you tophatt. I really don't understand why there isn't a hotkey menu/list inside of hammer, or why items that have hotkeys aren't listed next to the menu item. Like Shift+crtl+E for the 3d view.
For newbies like me it's very useful when you first use it, then after it becomes totally normal to use it because of the utility of all of these tricks, thanks
2:32 Holy shit this is going to be so great on the maps that I have to edit where the map creator for some reason decided to make brushes all off the grid.
This might be one of the best tips and tricks videos I’ve ever seen, it’s pretty well made for a video without fancy editing, it showed a lot of useful stuff that’ll come in handy, and it got straight to the point in the first few seconds, after being so used to RUclips tutorials taking forever to get onto the point, it almost felt like getting whiplash, and I mean that as a compliment Great work
Words can't describe how thankful I am for the Apply Texture to All Faces Shift+Alt+Right Click tip. I can't tell you how much I hated creating pipes just because I knew I'd have to click, Alt+Right click, rinse, repeat for days. Thanks!
I'd like to think I know a lot about Hammer and its shortcuts but I just watched this and now I'm reconsidering everything I've ever done my entire life.
Ctrl+F in the vertex edit view can be used on any two vertexes (as long as they are the same color, as you cannot select a white and yellow vertex at the same time for some reason) to create a new edge between them. This is pretty useful for triangulating faces.
Well, yellow guys aren't really vertices - they are center of edges. Also, what can be used to create an edge between a yellow "vertex" and an actual vertecs is create it between to yellows and merge one of the created vertices into the existing
Great video, goes straight into the content. Because people talk so much crap in the beginning of the video, I instinctively pressed L twice before watching anything. Was I mistaken.. You are a decent RUclipsr.
holy shit i legit did not know any of these after working with hammer for 4 years lol. Also I have a question, can excessive trigger and hint/skip usage cause problems?
Hello. I am trying to size textures, but when I try to get texture in right upper corner and resize the opposite size to this corner, the textures consumes left upper corner instead of right. How do I fix it?
Hello, TopHATTwaffle. You have been mapping for so long, but even in this recent video you are saying "vertexes" rather than "vertices," the plural of "vertex." I mean no harassment or humiliation. I feel as this Source 3D mapping is such an interest of yours and you continue doing more with it each year, I feel you will appreciate using correct language relative to your interest. "Vertices," TopHATTwaffle.
But, it did the same thing in the video. You said that this trick will help you use those new train and nuke decals, but you can't, you can only use the top left-hand corner.
same here. btw, in your video hammer also only lets you get the top left corner of the overlay. the only way i found yet is manually figuring out the U/V Start/End values... its a disaster
Hey, i have a question that id like you or anyone here to anwser, so im making a quite large jungle map, and I need it to run decent and not load in buildings from far away cause it ruins the jungle feel, so im using a fog with Z clip, it works as expected but I need a large wall of fog, if you kinda understand what im saying, I need it so you cant see skybox or anything past the fog end, like if u put fog in a level with density full and then noclip inside a wall, u can see a big fog wall that doesnt show skybox behind it, how is this possible without nocliping inside the wall, id like it to be like that for everywhere but I cant seem to find out how?
i set one up but it didnt work like I was hoping, ill tweak it around to see if i can get it to work but I need almost a sphere around the character of fog, I really dont know how to explain it other then that, almost like its night and you cant see anything in sphereical distance
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Daamn, I only knew like... a fifth of what you've shown, and I have like 12 years of experience in Hammer, I might not remember most of the ones you've shown but gash, those are sooo useful. I've learned so much from your tutorials, keep it up!
Hey aren't you the co-creator of evocity? If so your map revolutionized gmod darkrp.
20% working 80% planning rule
Was In the middle of making a map and watched this then realised i could have done the 20mins work i did in 5
Gonna say it again, these videos are 100% worth the 2$ on Patreon!
If you rotate something while having 15 degree turnings turned on, you can hold ALT or SHIFT while rotating so you can rotate props by 1 degree.
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sick, thanks
Woah it's rare seeing a RUclipsrs comments before they uploaded videos
@@ponds34 lol I am quite the avid commenter so you will probably find me in a lot of places
This has to be one of the best videos yet, I love you tophatt. I really don't understand why there isn't a hotkey menu/list inside of hammer, or why items that have hotkeys aren't listed next to the menu item. Like Shift+crtl+E for the 3d view.
ye kinda dump. There is a list only tho on valvedeveloper.
For newbies like me it's very useful when you first use it, then after it becomes totally normal to use it because of the utility of all of these tricks, thanks
ive been using hammer for almost a decade now and I only knew a handful of these prior to watching. Thank you!
2:32 Holy shit this is going to be so great on the maps that I have to edit where the map creator for some reason decided to make brushes all off the grid.
GoldenTV3 why you edit other peoples maps? Do you get money from them?
@@KalkuehlGaming people edit other peoples maps because of getting experience, improving the map, testing etc.
This might be one of the best tips and tricks videos I’ve ever seen, it’s pretty well made for a video without fancy editing, it showed a lot of useful stuff that’ll come in handy, and it got straight to the point in the first few seconds, after being so used to RUclips tutorials taking forever to get onto the point, it almost felt like getting whiplash, and I mean that as a compliment
Great work
i could have saved so much time....
rip the 20 minutes i spent wrapping textures around cylinders.
Please do more parts of this! If there are any more tips.
there probably are, i just found ctrl+shift+f, which i didn't knew before either
Years working with Valve Hammer Editor and i confess i didn't know some of those tips, Thanks, man!
0:45 wait, that's illegal.
I've spent so many time centering my viewport manually finding the selected object, thanks for the tips.
Words can't describe how thankful I am for the Apply Texture to All Faces Shift+Alt+Right Click tip. I can't tell you how much I hated creating pipes just because I knew I'd have to click, Alt+Right click, rinse, repeat for days. Thanks!
actually it doesn't seem to work for pipes (brushes that have 360* arches) so maybe just doesn't work in that case?
I'd like to think I know a lot about Hammer and its shortcuts but I just watched this and now I'm reconsidering everything I've ever done my entire life.
This video is magic. I needed these.
This is gold, most of this stuff i didn't knew about it, thanks.
Man, your tutorials are pure gold for the new to hammer, you made it soo easier for me to create nice maps :p
Oh! So I don't need to press escape every time I'm not happy with how I'm clipping a brush... Nice! Thanks for the tips TopHatt
I'm 30 seconds in, but you have already made my life so much easier
2 minutes in and in already overwhelmed with new shortcuts and I didnt even know about lol
Ctrl+F in the vertex edit view can be used on any two vertexes (as long as they are the same color, as you cannot select a white and yellow vertex at the same time for some reason) to create a new edge between them. This is pretty useful for triangulating faces.
Well, yellow guys aren't really vertices - they are center of edges.
Also, what can be used to create an edge between a yellow "vertex" and an actual vertecs is create it between to yellows and merge one of the created vertices into the existing
This changed my life
Youre such a legend dude. Thank you for teaching me hammer! Im having a blast :D
Where has this video been all my life
Still the chad of hammer tutorials
I just love creating Prefabs and func_instances
lol using hammer editor for 3-4 years now. never knew you could do some of that stuf. would made my life 20x easier xD
this is like watching top Shop comercial. great video bro
Would be great to have time tags in description so I can return to this video when I need something
0:02 - Clipping Tool
0:39 - Vertex Tool
1:15 - Cordon Tool Section
1:47 - Decals Tricks
2:07- Grid size keyboard shorcut
2:17- Maximise view port.
Great video, goes straight into the content. Because people talk so much crap in the beginning of the video, I instinctively pressed L twice before watching anything. Was I mistaken.. You are a decent RUclipsr.
Been trying to do that more in my content lately. As little as "into" as possible, and into the content.
I only knew 2 of these. You're a champ.
This is gold, GOLD
yo guys if you go into options you can make rotations only rotate at a 15 degree angle
Wow, uhh, geez, skipping most introductions and getting straight to the hints.
I like this policy.
YUP! Creating the CSGO Boot Camp series showed me the light. Brief intro to what we doing, then run it out.
very useful, thanks
amazing video
That was very helpful! Thank you!!!!
holy shit i legit did not know any of these after working with hammer for 4 years lol.
Also I have a question, can excessive trigger and hint/skip usage cause problems?
Hello. I am trying to size textures, but when I try to get texture in right upper corner and resize the opposite size to this corner, the textures consumes left upper corner instead of right.
How do I fix it?
thank you!! this was needed!
Great, how do I transform a brush on one axis and snap it to another one?
Oh god a new video =O
when I copy/paste the paste always ends up under the map somewhere
How do I select everything? I know it selects everything in map properties, but when I tried to copy it, it crashed hammer.
Hello, TopHATTwaffle. You have been mapping for so long, but even in this recent video you are saying "vertexes" rather than "vertices," the plural of "vertex." I mean no harassment or humiliation. I feel as this Source 3D mapping is such an interest of yours and you continue doing more with it each year, I feel you will appreciate using correct language relative to your interest. "Vertices," TopHATTwaffle.
How do you align a block back to the grid?
Wow wow wow, so much info. Thank you :D
legend
This changes everything...
ctrl B is the most important one for skids that can't skid, or when you copy brushes and props together you just ez pz lemon that meme
good video
u gay lol
Holy shit, thanks for 4:06!
This is good
Thx
dude ctrl b is gonna change my fucking life
Is there a complete list of all these shortcuts?
whiskeyo check the VDC
If you make an English subtitles, i will translate them to Czech language, so more people can take a look and understand your video.
;)
hey buddy which music u used in the outro?? ...please respond to it!!
nice vid, like your pfp
Cordons don't seem to be working for me (I'm in Portal 2's sdk)
From skill level 1 to level 20 in an instant baby
The decal texture lock trick doesn't work, it seems to always favor the top left-hand corner of the texture, and will only zero in on that corner.
+AdoptiveLiam Works for me.
But, it did the same thing in the video. You said that this trick will help you use those new train and nuke decals, but you can't, you can only use the top left-hand corner.
same here. btw, in your video hammer also only lets you get the top left corner of the overlay. the only way i found yet is manually figuring out the U/V Start/End values... its a disaster
It's really Honey Tips! :D
how i can find some brush or entity using the name?
+Con Uve tools > entity report.
There are filters by key and value.
Hello! Nice video. I have a question. Can u make video about how to make custom 2d skybox, if u already did then sry i didnt find it.
thanks bro :)
Good TIPS ;)
wanna go back into cs sdk (did not create map since css 1.0) thanks mate
cool af
When I try to run my map it says "Couldnt read .prt file" as soon as I add a sky.... how do I fix this?
Just make a box around ur map
Can't wait untill gcses are over and I can finish my map :)
Hey, i have a question that id like you or anyone here to anwser, so im making a quite large jungle map, and I need it to run decent and not load in buildings from far away cause it ruins the jungle feel, so im using a fog with Z clip, it works as expected but I need a large wall of fog, if you kinda understand what im saying, I need it so you cant see skybox or anything past the fog end, like if u put fog in a level with density full and then noclip inside a wall, u can see a big fog wall that doesnt show skybox behind it, how is this possible without nocliping inside the wall, id like it to be like that for everywhere but I cant seem to find out how?
Use a 3d skybox.
i set one up but it didnt work like I was hoping, ill tweak it around to see if i can get it to work but I need almost a sphere around the character of fog, I really dont know how to explain it other then that, almost like its night and you cant see anything in sphereical distance
pls more thanks ♡
heuy guys tophattwaffle here todyay im showingt u how to move rocks wth ur mind
mind=blown
Yellow vertices are edges, not vertices.
The plural for vertex is vertices. Otherwise really helpful video!
greet~
all my maps are like this prntscr.com/gyrckz
someone know how to fix it? pls help me
my maps have light but it don't work, and it have the thing that make a light from sun
Oh YeAh!
d o e s n t w o r k
2:24
Holy fucking shit
*_Ты русский или мне показалось?_* 🤔
atleisk, bet kaip ?
Hey
חנה
just waiting for source 2
I have wasted at least a year of my life not knowing some of these things.
Better title would be, Hammer life hacks.
Am i early?
Instafave
Did anyone else notice that the link for this video says "jew" in it.
make a map for tf2 lol
Bro all those wasted hours
Ctrl+E, huh?.... :'|
hey top hatt, i made amp you can check it out on my youtube and you helped me the most out of all youtubers! your amazing!
500 likes and 1 dislike lol