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Major Hammer error- not outlined in the error tutorial page

1 by Jetsetlemming
After working all day on my latest TF2 map, I started seeing an error that looked like this in compile:

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BRUSH 50353 Parsing plane definition
Which would cause VIS to fail, but not create a point file or anything. I tried to track down the brush in question, and fix it, but nothing worked. Deleting it and replacing it? Nothing. New brush gets the same error. Deleting it and everything around it and completely redesigning that room? Now a new brush has the error. After ten minutes of trying to fix it Hammer crashed. I load it back up, and try to load the map, and see

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Out of memory loading solid
and then

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Error loading file line 24544 error 7
I loaded up an autosave... same error. I loaded up the other autosaves... same error. All FIVE hammer-made autosave backups of my map have all been corrupted. :(
The only thing I have is a VMEX decompile of the .bsp, which reveals that Hammer hasn't actually been saving the compiled map ALL DAY- the geometry in the .bsp is just what I made last night.
The first error (parsing plane definition) isn't on the error page at all- googling for it only shows a single entry, in German. Using Google language tools to translate it to english revealed nothing- the guy had some other error involving the compile programs being out of order or something and no info on parsing plane definition was given. The second error "Out of memory loading solid" DOES have an entry, at least. It recommends a) Load the .vmx backup (it's corrupted), b) load an autosave (they're universally corrupted), or c) Try to find the problem line by opening the map in notepad and fixing it. I opened the map in notepad and went to line 24544, but this is all I see, including the lines immediately following it:

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		side
		{
			"id" "9542"
			"plane" "(-1094 412 -320) (-1304 412 -320) (-1304 348 -320)"
			"material" "CONCRETE/CONCRETEFLOOR008"
			"uaxis" "[1 0 0 -4] 0.25"
			"vaxis" "[0 -1 0 752] 0.25"
			"rotation" "0"
			"lightmapscale" "16"
			"smoothing_groups" "0"
		}
There are hundreds and hundreds of entries in the file that look exactly like that, with the exact same syntax- no visible problems at all. There's a profile link in the error page writeup inviting me to send the map to the author of the article for help, but the link is dead- the page 404's.

Please help? I'm attaching the map .vmf here.
pyro_breakout.rar Downloaded 253 times 69.72 KiB

Re: Major Hammer error- not outlined in the error tutorial page

3 by zombie@computer
all is not lost, gimme a few mins, i can get this thing to open for sure

EDIT: ouch, im a bit rusty in vb.net :oops:

Anyways, try this little nifty proggy, requires .NET > 1.1 (?). It worked for me, lets hope it does for everybody
When you are up to your neck in shit, keep your head up high
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vmf_fixer.txt this is actually an exe; rename extension to execute Downloaded 341 times 22.5 KiB

Re: Major Hammer error- not outlined in the error tutorial page

5 by Sleepydragn1
Jetsetlemming wrote:VMF fixer reported 288 errors (!) when I ran it, and when I loaded the map in Hammer it said 9 solids were not loaded due to errors.. but the map loaded. I can't find WHERE these 9 missing solids went, I don't see any obvious holes, but I suppose they'll show up in vis compiling as leaks. Thanks!
I'm not sure if you even have missing solids as, hammer told me that I had some missing solids once (on a small map) and I checked everything, and was still there. NOTHING was gone at all.
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