Tutorials
Configure Hammer for Empires mod
Introduction
This tutorial is aimed to help you configue hammer for empires mod allowing you to access empires entitys, compile your maps to the empires directory, and well... make it work for empires!
Before you start make sure that you have the following installed on your computer.
*Hammer
*Empires mod
The Tutorial
Ok to beguin load up the SDK and change the current game to Half-life 2 though it dosnt realy matter which you choose. Now load up hammer.
Go to Tools, options.
This should have brought up the Configuring hammer window. There are two tabs we will be changing - Game configurations and Build programs. We will start by changing the Game configurations tab.
Game configurations
To do this you will need to change it like so.
1)Click 'Edit' on on configuration then 'Add' Type the games name in as 'Empires'
2)Add following .fgd files into your fgd list:
* Base.fgd
* Halflife2.fgd
* Empires.fgd (located at $SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\Empires\mapsrc\fgd\empires.fgd)
3) The Game executable Directory should be set to:
$SteamUserDir\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2
4) The game directory should be set to:
$SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\Empires
5) The hammer vmf directory should be set to:
$SteamDir\SteamApps\$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk_content\Empires\mapsrc
All relative to where you installed empires, meaning that if you configured your folders to be called somthing else then you need to specify the paths according to that.
6) Now click apply
After doing so it should look some thing like this.
Build programs
Now go to the Build programs tab and change the following.
1) Game executable:
$SteamUserDir\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2.exe
2) BSP executable:
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe
3) VIS executable:
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe
4) RAD executable:
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe
5) Place compiled maps in this directory before running the game:
$SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\Empires\maps
6) Now click apply.
Your Game configurations should now look like this.
You're all set to map for empires now.
But while your at it on this menu you may wish to go to the 3D views tab and fiddle with the navigation speeds as empires maps are unsaly bigger and more open than maps for other games. This will allow you to zoom form one side of the map to the other much quicker.
This tutorial was made by the empires community on the empires mod wiki and was pimped up by supaste to suit lopers.
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