Hey all,

I was having problems compiling with hammer so I took the publics advice and switched over to the compile GUI (zonerstools) compiler.. it worked the first few times but now its giving me an error saying that it cannot find the zoners tool.. ie zhltcsg.exe ect.. i do have the correct path... (it worked before) I tried the fix errors option but it still asks me where are the zhlts? I created a new folder and still the error "zhlts cannot be found pls select folder containing zhlts" should i delete the GUI files and try to reinstal this program?

aye! stuck again pls help!

there called

hlcsg.exe
hlbsp.exe
hlvis.exe
hlrad.exe


mebe thats ur prob

yeah thnx i knew that... however, i didnt know i had to unzip the tools over top of the old tools.. its just weird how i was able to compile the first 5 times with out doing this...

I was wondering if someone could post their GUI saved setup... im not sure what settings to use exept for the obvious ones from hammer 3.4

I use Nems Batch compiler so I cant help ya buddy. sry you gotta wiat for someone else to come along

Try to install everything (Batch Compiler, zoner's compiler and Half Life) on the same drive. This helped me.

C:\Mojo\Compiling

compiler.bat
@ECHO OFF
hlcsg.exe -texdata 8192 -chart -wadinclude dod_avalanche.wad %1
hlbsp.exe -texdata 8192 -chart %1
hlvis.exe -texdata 8192 -chart -full %1
hlrad.exe -texdata 8192 -chart -extra -chop 128 -bounce 5 -ambient .001 .001 .001 %1

For those less educated in DOS...us old school mappers use batch files...Mojo's above uses the %1 parameter so to use it you'd open up a cmd window in windows (Start->Run->Cmd) and then type compiler <name of map>.

Although old school (I use notepad to map in) I could never get the hang of the replaceable parameters so my batch file is locked to the specific map file:

hlcsg.exe" -wadinclude <wad1> -wadinclude <wad2> <mapname>
hlbsp -estimate -maxnodesize 4096 <mapname>
hlvis.exe -full -estimate <mapname>
hlrad.exe -estimate -bounce 5 -smooth 40 -chart -gamma 0.53 -extra <mapname>

Either way works and once you get the hang of it you'll throw away all those nasty GUI's...

yea I was going to come back and explain myself, btu then dinner adn 24 got in the way and it slipped my mind.

What I do is have a shortfut to MS-DOS in my compiling folder so I can open up DOS to the correct folder right away and not have to worry about navigating through DOS.

Then just type in compiler.bat MAPNAME.map and it will compile

uhhhh. I noticed in your 2nd post you said "didnt know how to copy them over the old ones". You dont. Go to tools-options-build programs. Then after you unzipped the tools, just go and replace the csg with the zoners csg. I think thats the easiest way to get started before going to nams and stuff.