Is there a way to make GMod maps in Hammer without owning CS:S?

[Lexa]

Topic.

[Pyroknight]

From what I know people usually use CS:S's hammer to map, I don't think Gmod's hammer even works.

[Lexa]

Yeah, Gmod's hammer doesn't work, I tried it. Is there anything at all I can do to make maps? Or do I have to just get CS:S? I really don't want to have to spend money on a game I have absolutely no interest in. All I want to do is make Gmod maps.

[Lexa]

Bump.

[Pyroknight]

Velacia eredeti hozzászólása:

Yeah, Gmod's hammer doesn't work, I tried it. Is there anything at all I can do to make maps? Or do I have to just get CS:S? I really don't want to have to spend money on a game I have absolutely no interest in. All I want to do is make Gmod maps.

CSS is a great game

But I suppose you could use Half-Life's or TF2's Hammers.

[Global]

Half Life 2 is the suggested hammer editor. It has all the entities CS:S's hammer doesn't.
Things like info_node, npc_maker, etc.
You can get Half Life 2 to mount your garrysmod folder as a content folder editing the config
Sadly I don't know much about this, I just extracted the game content from CS:S's vpk files and put them in my half life 2 installation.

[Lexa]

Thanks for the replies, both of you.

So - if I'm to buy a game purely for the Hammer, it should be Half Life 2, then? And Cycle, could you explain more about "extracting game content from CS:S's vpk files?"

Edit: Does TF2's Hammer work well to make Gmod maps in?

[Global]

If you own a copy of CS:S, you can use GCFScape to extract the content from it, and copy the content into hl2's directionary. This way, you won't be forced to modify your gameinfo.cfg file to change mount paths (though it's rather easy under Hammer>Options I think)
It's basically a copy-and-paste.
And Half Life 2 is the game you want. Though, Half Life 2: Episode 2 would work, as well. If anything it'll give you more content for GMod to use (but not HL2's base content).

[Lexa]

Alright, thanks a ton, once again. I'm going to buy HL2.

[Fitne Por]

I bump this thread because.

Can you map for gmod (uses multiplayer branch) using the singleplayer 2013 hammers?

[¿wame]

I think you can make a map using the Half-Life 2 hammer found in the files.

[Fitne Por]

My question was whether a hammer from the SINGLEPLAYER 2013 base can make maps for gmod's engine (multiplayer branch, usually modded by the MULTIPLAYER 2013 base).

[Cryptic Runner]

Is there ANOTHER thing that could allow you to make maps,EASILY!?!?!? Hammer is really old,and i can't add any decal/texture. I need to do a kind of scripting thingy,just for that crap????