Configuring Hammer for Empiresmod (Post-Steampipe)

Doh... I managed to miss that page reading the wiki before. Thanks flasche, that should cover all I need.

 

Probably works fine, we used to spawn an NF commander on emp_escort when messing around.

 

And it would be neat if something similar could be done for StudioMDL and the like.

 

Does this work with the 2013 version? If so, you can do the same with Hammer.
Just open hammer with the console and add the path with the -game parameter.
For further info look here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com...ifying_the_game_directory_on_the_command_line

 

The tools located in Source SDK 2013 should be the exact same as the ones in steamapps\common\Empires\bin

 

I'll set that to be the default Gameconfig if I can get it to use relative paths, considering it should work for everyone. I should also remember to set it so that directory doesn't get overridden by game updates.

 

That would be nice yes. For the first time in Empires history, all that would be required for mappers is to just open Hammer :D

 

well my steam folder is not in D drive so I made a config file for the default directory (program files)

Code:

"Configs"
{
	"Games"
	{
		"Empires 2013"
		{
			"GameDir"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\Empires"
			"Hammer"
			{
				"GameData0"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\bin\base.fgd"
				"GameData1"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\bin\halflife2.fgd"
				"GameData2"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\bin\hl2mp.fgd"
				"GameData3"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\empires\empires.fgd"
				"TextureFormat"		"5"
				"MapFormat"		"4"
				"DefaultTextureScale"		"0.320000"
				"DefaultLightmapScale"		"256"
				"GameExe"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\EmpiresLauncher.exe"
				"DefaultSolidEntity"		"func_detail"
				"DefaultPointEntity"		"emp_info_map_overview"
				"BSP"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\bin\vbsp.exe"
				"Vis"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\bin\vvis.exe"
				"Light"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\bin\vrad.exe"
				"GameExeDir"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires"
				"MapDir"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\Empires\mapsrc"
				"BSPDir"		"C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\empires\maps"
				"CordonTexture"		"tools/toolsskybox"
				"MaterialExcludeCount"		"0"
			}
		}
	}
	"SDKVersion"		"5"
}

also updating the wiki now (have to remember my password though....

 

If you really want the universal one, here it is:

Code:

"Configs"
{
	"Games"
	{
		"Empires 2013"
		{
			"GameDir"		"..\empires"
			"Hammer"
			{
				"GameData0"		"..\empires\empires.fgd"
				"GameData1"		"base.fgd"
				"GameData2"		"halflife2.fgd"
				"GameData3"		"hl2mp.fgd"
				"TextureFormat"		"5"
				"MapFormat"		"4"
				"DefaultTextureScale"		"0.320000"
				"DefaultLightmapScale"		"256"
				"GameExe"		"..\hl2.exe"
				"DefaultSolidEntity"		"func_detail"
				"DefaultPointEntity"		"emp_info_map_overview"
				"BSP"		"vbsp.exe"
				"Vis"		"vvis.exe"
				"Light"		"vrad.exe"
				"GameExeDir"		"..\"
				"MapDir"		"..\empires\mapsrc"
				"BSPDir"		"..\empires\maps"
				"CordonTexture"		"tools/toolsskybox"
				"MaterialExcludeCount"		"0"
			}
		}
	}
	"SDKVersion"		"5"
}

 

that gave me an error "Invalid game C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\Empires found in VPROJECT environment variable, ignoring." but everything seemed to be fine sooo

 

Assuming that you have hammer in common\empires\bin and the gameinfo.txt is in common\empires\empires, it shouldn't give any errors.

But if it still works, that's fine.

 

I believe this might be caused from the environment variables added by the old source sdk that can still be installed from the steam tools menu.

I don't know if uninstalling the old sdk removes those environment variables either so they might need to be manually removed.