Ok, I ran a search but nothing seemed to relate to my problem and I didnt want to hijack another thread...

I am a complete noob in mapping. I just started a few days ago and ran through a great tutorial ... http://www.xs4all.nl/~fragman/fakemaps/

However I have 2 problems.

1) I cant find my origional HL CD and only have steam. I need the default dod.wad and halflife.wad files.

2) And this is the major problem. I used Zoners compiler but when I run the compile.bat it blinks the dos prompt for a split second and goes away. I am using the cs_dust.wad for now since thats the only one I could find on my hard drive. it doesnt make a bsp or anything. The only thing I can think of is that I installed the compiler in the Valve directory and not the dod directory like the tutorial said. But I made the compile folder in both the dod and ZHLT folder and both of them wont work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep in mind I know I am a noob so speak in english please :)

Try setting up Hammer as described in this tutorial:

http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL&id=59

If you need the dod wads then you have to download GCFscape and MS .NET. Here:

http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Nemesis/index.php?c=76

If all the paths and stuff are set correctly, then it should work...

Good luck!

thanks ricochet Ill try that.