WHY are my props BLACK and PINK in Hammer editors 2D views

[Btbroadband]

Every time I load hammer and start to make a map every time I put props such as trees cars and so on, they all seem to be pink and black blocks shaded in the object. How do i fix it please HELP !!!

[Btbroadband]

can any one help me please !!!!!

[☠F☺celessMind☠]

probably a problem with the gameinfo.txt
but there is a lack of informations, we don't know what you tindeing to do, and what engine branch of the source sdk you are using.
and we don't know from where you execute the tools like hammer.
so give us these information first if you want some help.

[Wazanator]

Happens to me as well, no known fix at the time afraid. What you can do is go to Tools->Options->2D views and uncheck "Draw Models".

[Btbroadband]

okay cheers why cant they just do something about, but thanks for the help :)

[Btbroadband]

well i use source sdk from the bin/folder in the hl2.dir to open hammer then when i am in hammer everythings fine until i use a prop or something like that and then its all f***ed up with the pink and black? ! thanks

[Green Lawny]

This happens to me too. It doesn't bother me much, since it works fine ingame.

[Btbroadband]

yeah but its sh*t its there tho !

[Btbroadband]

its so so so sh*t and annoying :( if any one know whys please let me know and the others
please ?? thanks

[Jill]

Originally posted by btbranflakes:

its so so so sh*t and annoying :( if any one know whys please let me know and the others
please ?? thanks

Maybe its something to do with vproject? open command prompt, then type set vproject "path to game folder". with quotes.

[[lol] Jokurino]

You can try and right click on Source SDK and go to properties, select Verify integrity of tool cache... in the Local Files tab.

Not sure if this works.

[I'm the new guy, go easy :D]

Forgive me if you have already tried this, but are you opening hammer editor through hammer.exe or through source SDK?

I was having issues with this until I opened hammer directly through: Steam/Steamapps/Common/Counter-Strike:Source/Bin/Hammer.exe

This will show you all of the models with the correct textures as the directories have been fixed.

Alternatively, if you are attempting to use props from other games like halflife, try loading halflife and allow steam to restructure it like cs:s did.

Hope this helps.

[[lol] Jokurino]

the directory of games have been changed, you need to change the configurations of the SDK launcher by starting hammer and go to options.

i have no problems using the SDK throught the Tools Tab

[Btbroadband]

thanks for all the help :)

[Pennywise]

What you need to do is extract the materials/debug folder from Half-Life 2/platform/platform_misc_dir.vpk using GCFscape, and then put that extracted materials folder into Half-Life 2/hl2/.This wil restore all of the missing debug textures in Hammer and Model Viewer.

[Btbroadband]

that sounds hard lol ? :0 but thanks for letting me know I will look in to this thanks