Thank you Jonas,
You can customize the background color and text color or even load a
custom image into the background in the main panel to jazz the tool up a
bit. Save the default profile to save all your custom settings.
You can also drag and drop a vmf from anywhere onto the desktop icon or the
main panel and the tool will remember where the last file came from. There
is also an MRU list - just right-click on the open file button.
I can certainly have it default to the"MapDir" path in the SDK
gameconfig.txt file, good suggestion.
Themes have been tested and work with the tool in XP and Vista, perhaps
offlist email me a pic of what you see and what you would like to see.
When Hammer does a compile it just launches vbsp, vvis and vrad tasks with
options and captures the redirected output to the compile console window
which is what I do here but I've implemented async child processes and a
queue system so the compile won't lock up your desktop while the compile is
happening.
This also gave me the ability to gracefully cancel a compile as well or have
a fatal error automatically stop a compile.
I've submitted the tool to Valve for review and would be very happy to
consign the sourcecode for to them so it can be included in the SDK,
something like this really should have been part of the tools a long time
ago.
qUiCkSiLvEr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen"
To: "Discussion of Half-Life Programming" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Level Compile Tool - Custom Mod Questions
> Kevin, I love you.
>
> Valve broke all the batch tools for the Orange Box and forced me to use
> Hammer!
>
> While I've just tried it once, it's much faster than Hammer and is quite
> simple. The only problem is that the UI is really ugly, but I can live
> with
> that of course. I'd be really interesting in knowing how you emulated
> Hammer, what you did to make batch compiles work. Maybe release the source
> code under some closed license?
>
> A suggestion is to make the Open File button default to the .vmf dir set
> in
> the GameConfig.txt?
>
> Great work, keep on improving this!
>
> Sortie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Ottalini"
> To: "Discussion of Half-Life Programming"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:46 PM
> Subject: [hlcoders] Level Compile Tool - Custom Mod Questions
>
>
>> Some questions for folks working on Custom Mods:
>>
>> I've just released a level compile manager, basically a multithreaded
>> GUI front-end for compiling maps outside of Hammer.
>>
>> You can see pics and download the tool from here:
>> http://qsextreme.com/vbct
>>
>> I've implemented support for custom mods but it appears that custom mods
>> that are released in-GCF with assigned appids won't work natively with
>> Hammer, the contents have to be extracted and put into the sourcemods
>> folder
>> for them to work with the SDK. I set the tool up to work properly if
>> there
>> are two installs like this on a client system but I need mod teams to
>> make
>> sure this scheme works properly with their mod.
>>
>> The tool also has support for VMPI, although the DLLs are somewhat broken
>> in
>> the SDK right now.
>>
>> I have the tool set up to launch VMPI workers but it probably could be
>> improved. If your mod team does use or would like to use VMPI please let
>> me
>> know so I can improve this feature for you.
>>
>> VMPI will work for EP1 games and vVIS is ok for Orangebox games but vRAD
>> for
>> OB will crash in vmpi mode. Valve has an updated set of EP1 DLLs
>> (unreleased) but has yet to update those changes into the OrangeBox DLLs.
>>
>> One other feature I'm working on now is group compiles, the ability for
>> mod
>> teams to submit a list of maps that they want to compile in one run. If
>> you're part of a team that does / would like to do this please let me
>> know.
>>
>> Certainly if any of you see anything that could be improved with how the
>> tool works please let me know offlist, I welcome comments, wish-list
>> items
>> and constructive criticism.
>>
>> qUiCkSiLvEr
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