Hammer opening a map, but having problems with the 3d view?

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Hello thar people,

I lately had to reformat my good ole HDD and after installing steam and the sdk I tried opening one of my old .vmf's again. Thats where the problem turned up. Here's a screenshot:

Those two stripes are the only things I see. Whatever I change or do in the 3d window.

Anybody knows how to solve this?

~ tomatoz

[Warby]

where it says camera in the top left click on it change it to something else for example "2d top" and than back to "3d textured" ! worked for me ^^ and tha bajo smiley !

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Nope. Didn't for me..

Any other suggestions?

[Bic-B@ll]

what warby said works for me

[twiz]

What I do is click the camera tool, and click-drag in a 2d viewport(like you were aiming the camera). That jump starts the 3d view for me.

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Thanks Twiz, that worked! Do I have to do this every time now? Never had anything like this before..

[twiz]

I'm not sure... it seems if I load a saved map, it doesn't havet his problem, but if i start a new one, I have to do the click drag thing.

[Defrag]

Ctrl-shift-e usually works if placing a camera doesn't

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This is all pretty valuable information. Is there a site wich has all this type of know-how's listed or so?

[hessi]

This is all pretty valuable information. Is there a site wich has all this type of know-how's listed or so?

yes, http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page

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That was not what I meant, but thanks for your effort...

Also, adjusting the gridlines witht the [ and ] button doesn't work good either. I have to press the buttons like 20 - 30 times before it starts working. Might this be a known bug too? Perhaps anybody has an answer to this too?

[Defrag]

No idea but it works fine for me

Are you zoomed in far enough? Sometimes, for me, if I'm zoomed out quite far or to a certain level, the grid will change but the lines won't.

[⌐■_■]

Yeah, that's what I have too, very ocasionally.

[Polaris]

I read having a camera placed somewhere in your level helps.

They seem to be pretty useful so I guess I'll do so anyway

This is the only real problem I've ever had with Hammer