Valve Hammer Help

benjo · 2 May 2007 at 22:55

Hey there

Does anyone know how i would get the original CS:S maps into valve hammer? I read somewhere that it's not allowed by valve? Surely theres a way to do it seeing as there's so many custom maps based on the originals (de_dust3 for example).

Anyone know where i can find info about this?

Thanks

Mint_Sauce · 2 May 2007 at 23:15

vmex is a program used to decompile maps but is not supposed to be used on official maps. It is a handy tool if you forget to save backups of your vmfs etc.

dbmzk1 · 2 May 2007 at 23:17

The simple answer is you can't open them directly and your not supposed to open them at all.

You can do it with a little work though. First you need a tool like GCFScape to extract them from the GCF files, then you need to use VMEX to decompile it. The result is a vmf file which can be opened and edited in Hammer.

benjo · 2 May 2007 at 23:18

Thanks