User talk:Andreasen

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While I appricate you trying to be a voice of civilty I really think he is not mature enough to be in a public place like this and does not seem to be respecting the rules or mending his ways. He instead seems set in the process of only insulting people and adding nothing of worth. While an apology is great thing I would be more inclined to hold my current judgment untill he realizes its appropriate for him to do it himself. If not much happens towards improvement I'd have no problem with a ban.

and hell its messy in here, how bout some fall? cleaning. --Angry Beaver 20:32, 7 Sep 2006 (PDT)

No matter how immature he might be, he seemed to take offence when he was corrected, so the only constructive solution is to say that we didn't mean to offend him. Calling people problem posters and banning them will only serve to hurt and provoke them even more, so that's just making things worse. People quick to respond with hostility are often this way because they have been treated this way before, and assume people are hostile toward them. If anything they need to be bonded with. If we show that we respect him as a person, he will have no reason to disrespect us. I'm personally strongly against destructive methods, because those will just hurt people and make their state worse.

Yes, it could use some cleaning, or archiving perhaps. Thank you for pointing that out. --Andreasen 21:14, 7 Sep 2006 (PDT)

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That was too funny, thanks bro. --wisemx 16:48, 9 Sep 2006 (PDT)

Your busted map

"Unexpected symbol", huh? You know that VMF files are just text files, right? One possibility could be that something got corrupted in the text file, and Hammer can no longer parse it correctly. Try opening the VMF up in a text editor and browsing through for anything that looks out of place. The format is pretty easy to read, so it shouldn't be too hard to tell if a { has become something it shouldn't be, or something like that.

It'll probably take a while because VMF files are huge, but you could use the equivalent of the cordon tool. (Save a backup.) Delete the first half of the brushes and see if it still wont load. Delete the second half of the brushes and see if you still have the error. Then do the same on the half that does have the error, and you can hone in on the problem quickly.

P.S. Shouldn't your question be on the Help Desk? ;) --Giles 03:19, 10 Sep 2006 (PDT)

I'm not 100% sure where to put things. I figured it was a bug that hasn't been reported previously. (I checked the net and these bugs seem rare.) I'm thinking that it's either some random corruption, or it has to do with Hammer having problems with buffering for long entity names. (The longest name was something like "template.oblivious.zombie1.pathtrack1".) I'll check things out now. I figure I can always reverse-compile the BSP to get the last valid map. I just want to figure out what has happened so it doesn't happen to someone else. --Andreasen 09:30, 10 Sep 2006 (PDT)

A sigh of relief later, I found the problem to be that I used quote characters within a keyvalue argument. I removed them and the map works again. --Andreasen 11:14, 10 Sep 2006 (PDT)