I have been watching a few tutorials lately and I have noticed I cannot actually see the entity's models. (dod) When I set a spawn point (info_player_axis/allies) It shows a green rectangle for Allies spawn, and a red rectangle for Axis spawn. I see other vids where it actually shows the axis model or allies model. I also can't see things like sandbags, so I can't tell what way it's facing. Is there something in options that enables this?

This is a screenshot of an Allied spawn place filled with info_player_allied entities:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m16/yogangsta123/useless%20shizt/spawnstuff.jpg

If you go closer, you get the proper studio model. This is for performance issues. As you get further away, it only needs to draw the boxes.

But chances are you've already tried going close to them. I don't know whether there is some sort of draw distance in the editor for models.

If you go closer, you get the proper studio model. This is for performance issues. As you get further away, it only needs to draw the boxes.

But chances are you've already tried going close to them. I don't know whether there is some sort of draw distance in the editor for models.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m16/yogangsta123/useless%20shizt/spawnstuff1333333333333333337.jpg

It's weird, a few things show the right icon thing. Ambience entity shows the speaker thing, the light_environment shows the sun thing, light shows a light. But nothing else works :/

Make a new prop static, and search for the model editor/playerstart.mdl. If you have the model, I don't know what to tell you....

my guess is your game config is not set up properly, in the sdk window,click on the "reset game configuratios"

usually this is caused by Hammer not being able to find the folder where the models are..........

Make a new prop static, and search for the model editor/playerstart.mdl. If you have the model, I don't know what to tell you....

What if we don't have the models?

Then try resetting your game configuration like Ace said.

Try going to Tools->Options, selecting the 3d views tab and making sure that your model render distance is set high (maybe its on 0 or something). I have mine at about 6000.

anyone think maybe he has 3.4 instead of 3.5 i dont think you can view the entity models in the old version

before i got my new video card, i couldnt see them either. i thought thats just how it was. once i got my new video card, i could see them ! and when i move far away, it turns into green boxes. Well, maybe, does it have to do with how much stress is on the computer?