how to protect from decompiling

http://www.tophattwaffle.com/protecting-a-map-from-decompiling/ , but I'm pretty sure most (if not all) of those methods have workarounds.

Honestly, the best way is just not caring. Not many people are out there to steal your stuff. Let people decompile your maps and learn from it.

Majority decompile to learn, not to steal.

Agreed with Dux and Drywall, decompiling is no big deal.

Look at Skybex maps from the last operation, he even gave us his vmf's but the most deviant like me are only using his glass texture as dev textures and as reference to know how to do it ourselves

People even give out their vmfs and stuff. Only really stupid people would want to decompile something to steal from it, most people decompile to see how stuff is made. No big deal, and there's really no 100% way to protect your map from decompiling.

@FMPONE I decompiled Cache for example to check stuff out and I wanted to ask you, why do you have Block LOS where normally a Nodraw would be? Thanks.

Until you make a really good quality map that is enjoyable I wouldn't worry about decompiling either way

The only way to fully protect your map is...

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To never publish it

or make a map SO BAD no one wants to decompile it. That's my method.

I think I know what's going on in your mind: it's one of those mind-cages that we put ourselves in to protect us from failure, by not pursuing a project at all.

Just get your stuff out there, worry about people stealing when they actually are. And even if they will, just think that means you got very, very, very good.

or be a GGG and release the assets along with your map

You did a great job if somebody wants to steal your assets or map. Nobody steals things of no value.