Making terrain in Hammer using carve tool

[Zero2562130]

SEEMS LEGIT

[APinkPanzer]

My forehead is bleeding from smashing it against the table so much.

[nissehutt]

Now make everything a displacement and subdivide it

[csmapper58]

if you did this as a joke its ok but if you are serious... things are bad... this is not the right way to create terrain because you create way too many polygons, too many sides and blocks etc and thats a hell to render in-game. also it will never compile. why not use the displacements tool instead ? it is a hell lot faster, it isn't laggy and most of all it will work...

[csmapper58]

this is like dividing by zero...

[chinesemonk]

Perfect tutorial :]

[minilandstan]

Kill me

[RagingAngus]

Best tutorial.

Ever.

[NyRoNiC]

lol@ all the people who think the maker of this video is serious.

[MetalSmith]

Epic troll video is epic.

It takes a particularly talented troll to troll such an niche group so well jephir, and you certainly did that ^_^

[chickenmobile]

hahahahah. You must have ten thousand brushes for that one wall! I wonder why your hammer crashes.. hrmmm

[QuicK2800]

I lol'd

[desetnik15second]

Listens to the worst Dj artist also makes worst videos and also sucks at them!

[bloodsuckern]

@desetnik15second fucking llluuuoOOOOOooser who listens to shitty dubstep while the real Masters or electric techno are raping your childhood. Fucking get over it. deadmau5 actually fucking spends time on making his fucking music unlike childrensmusicmakers like SKRILLEX

[desetnik15second]

@bloodsuckern i was joking back then lol!!!! I love deadmau5, i don't like dubstep, only few songs i listened were good but most of them are piece of shit and it isn't real music.

[PineCleanDog]

best mapper evar.

[sirdownloadsalot]

Please dont release the map. For gods sake.

[TomoAlien]

Now try to compile it :P

[solidsteelable]

oh god never use carve it's not meant for source it was originally a Quake 1 map editor now if you use clip tool instead makes things much easier

[yacanman11]

dude, you have no fucking idea what you are doing, do you?

[SpecialEdAllstar]

using the carve tool causes aids in African babies.

[iliekchocolatemilk]

those poor brushes

[pand3micdrums]

i really hope this was a joke

[Wolverine3196]

Troll made me laugh so hard I was crying. Those might not have been tears of joy, though.

[iamhoops]

This video... ...hurts... ...my brain. It makes me want to cry. It makes me want to curl up in a ball and rock back and forth for hours.

Only two words can save us now: DISPLACEMENT MAPPING. If I EVER see a map released with terrain created this way, I will download it, burn it to a cd, and then kill it with fire. It's the only answer. This is like creating a map without lights, except that the map without lights will only rape your eyes. This will rape your computer. And it has raped my soul.

[wipje41]

looks like album art from the CD Amnesiac from radiohead .... all the lines ....

[HappyJackPhreakinRat]

i cant tell if this is a joke...

[asadsilk]

Why are so many people complaining about this method. Ever since i started using carve as suggested in this vid i have been able to improve my maps a lot visually, while increasing the map's performance.

Why people dislike this method i do not know

[d3agl3uk]

@asadsilk To start with, look at the first carve. It splits 1 brush into about 100. Using carve is not efficient neither does it look nice. It is quicker to use carve sure, but I guarantee after 1 save/close and open a lot of those blocks would not load the same. Hammer doesn't like it.

For fantastic terrain I suggest you look up displacements. You can make some fantastic looking terrain, and it doesn't take that long either (The length of time is dependant on how finished you want it to look.

[kkaayynniinnee]

@asadsilk God I hope you're a troll.

[sirdownloadsalot]

@asadsilk Please never release a map.

[LonelyCheeto]

@asadsilk Bullshit

[AngryAngus3]

lol youll never be able to fix the "leak error" anytime soon XD, and i have a pentium 4 2 ghz, 1 gig ram, 7000 geforce, its bloody ancient and it runs hammer WAYYYY more better than yours XD

[Wurzelbert666]

What the heck?!

Terrain with Carvetool?!

very funny x'D

I saw it comming that you crash the hammer^^

[Skolenking]

Dude your not seriously a mapper? Real mappers NEVER use the carve tool...

[LakeMonsterManiak]

I love how you just blame Hammer for crashing at the end.

[MrRomr0m]

Lolz, don't give a hammer to the troll §§§

Worldcraft will send you in hell !

[DemonDogAW]

please never launch source SDK ever again.

ever.

[themrfj]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOO

[Wazanator500]

98 people have broken hammer

[cstriker45]

well, usefull tutorial. it tells u how to crash your cs, your hammer and how to spend time without reason. the best way to crash your system...

[CraigTH]

I feel sick...

[StormWolfAus]

vomit

[DominicHax]

dis is da best method for makingz g maps good ddj obss

[madaraszka]

holy shit...

[quantumelectro]

holy crap sauce batman! - haha 'Advanced Sculpting' in a section lmfao... no offense, just hilarious...

[quantumelectro]

holy crap sauce batman!

[anon185]

You've got to be one of the worst, and if not dumbest mappers the Source community has seen. Mappers like you that release bad maps help kill the Source games... Carving is the worst thing you can do ever, but coming from a bad mapper, it explains a lot.

You don't need a good computer to USE/RUN (Compiling you'd want a quad core) Hammer, Ive ran it on as low as an Athlon XP 2.0ghz and 1.5gb of RAM. Congrats yet again you've proven that you're a bad mapper who doesn't understand the editor.

[TheCrusaderBin]

@anon185 Lmao hammer is basicly Worldcraft, tools are even more optimized so hammer is a bit faster, and you can compile on Pentium 2 :P I use it since 1999, sure it is faster now that I have quad Athlon than when I had Pentium 2... but it never took long anyway :P

[anon185]

@TheCrusaderBin You can but do you want to sit there for like ever for a map to compile or just have it finished in a few minutes? Practically speaking you'd want to use a quad core/ quad core w/ hyper threading/dual quad/ etc to compile in a reasonable amount of time.

[TheCrusaderBin]

@anon185 Always faster is better :P Just saying that with Pentium II It took 10 - 15 minutes for huge maps anyway, almost instantly small maps (like testing map, room and a box, just 4 rooms etc)

[hakeriukasirdurniuka]

this song is so old i think its my first

[COWARDKILLINGTIME]

AND I WOULD'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU MEDDLING CRASHES!

[ownagenewb111]

my head hurts

[PSIDefenseUp]

This is how a pro maps.

[DeTaiL]

Back in UnrealEd 2.0 all we had to do was make a polyhedron and set the extrapolation to a number above 10 to crash it.

[TheCrusaderBin]

@DeTaiL UnrealED 1.0 was far greater tool than what Hammer is today :P I love both though, but UT3 ED... hmmm more :P

[AegisOverlordLuna]

Vertices. Vertices everywhere.

[saebeas]

They tell you not to do this in the basic tutorials. It creates a zillion polygons and potentially a lot of errors.

[mkinitcpio]

This is embarrassing to watch

[sparkermachy]

this made me wanna commit suicide

[Paulendy]

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG­

[MetalSmith]

lmao, jephir, you are the best. a silly empiresmod troll topic turned into youtube shit storm.

You, Sir, Deserver a 10k vies cookie.

[valvegamer4life]

Run the map, I dare you

[Jfucked]

wow that video guide definitely showed me how to do it NOT.

just compile with vvis and vrad on normal and after 1/2 a year you see what you did wrong.

[valvegamer4life]

Well, first off, DON'T DO IT, but select the whole thing make it all nodraw then retexture the faces that are showing, then re-select the terrain and make it a func_detail, if I wer u, I would learn about displacements

[Xer2k7]

Hahahhaa my god i haven't seen a fail video this hilarious since... well the mind boggles to even conceive of a worse failure than this god aweful attempt at terrain creation.. Seriously learn the program properly before creating tutorials for it. I normally give noobs a chance because we are all noob once but this is just atrocious yet hilarious mapping.

[Wazanator500]

You do realize hammer committed suicide at the end of that video right?

[underage117]

5:34 WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!!! lol

[SuperMarioMoonshine]

This video has taught me a lot about how to make better maps. I had always found displacements difficult to use before, and this is a much easier, much better alternative. Thank you for sharing your extensive hammer knowledge with us all- I think we could all benefit from watching this.

[Keplaffintech]

hahaha "computer lagging again", i wonder why...

[Itsover90]

What the fuck is this shit?

[tombeat1]

99% of the problems when Hammer crashs is not the hammer itself. The problem sit in front of your screen!

[Th3Laugh1ngMan]

I'm being trolled.

Right? Right?

[Grzesiekarator]

"you need a very good computer to use hammer because it crashes a lot"

OH GOD I LOL'D

[FrozenDozer]

DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE!!!

[Snailmail78]

This hurt to watch. I genuinely hope you're trolling with this video.

[trainzack]

Carve tool: a peice of shit with a layer of ice cream around it to make it look good. the only good thing i have to say about this is the music is ok.

[DemonEyeOfFire]

this has to be the best hammer troll video ever... just look at the comments!

[WereRabbbit]

This almost made me cry. You have a few hundred thousand more faces than if you would have just used displacements. Sure your map will be lag free.

[D3STRUKT0R99]

wow dude. I think I can hear Hammer crying. Learn how to use displacements

[MCitizen001]

Watching this video was honestly as disgusting, evil, and cruel as witnessing animal cruelty to a helpless kitten.

[Jimeh9973]

wow, First rule in Hammer: Don't ever use Carve tool

Have fun compiling and have fun on your extreamly laggy field of grass

[Abengoshis]

ARGH. The pain of watching this is incredible! Ever heard of displacements? o.O

[A18502]

Uhhh...no, you don't "need a very good computer to use hammer". You can use basically any computer....now if you are literally asking for it to crash by that method, then ya...You might need a really good computer.

[dk9494hl]

-_- think of preformance... so many rendered polygons you wont even see. the absolute LEAST you could do. is you some nodraw texture... save some preformance... but jesus man. your computer must be beast if it didnt crash with so many brushes... im sorry but you sir are fail

[VeryCrazyRussian]

Yeah, displacement sucks, carve tool rules! xD

[Pawnstick]

you are the best mapper ever

[DerVergewaltiger]

Best. Hammer. Tutorial. Ever.

[NyRoNiC]

lol this is a troll

[AntiProUltra]

omfg is this some kind of epic troll? what kind of demented maniac makes terrain with the carve tool? this is like #1 on the list of "things to NEVER EVER do when mapping". CSG subtract should be forcibly removed from all BSP editor menus

as for your "sequel with more carving techniques" - how about just the words DON'T FUCKING CARVE flashing in 28 different colours with a vuvuzela soundtrack, causing the viewer to have an epileptic attack from which they'll wake up realising how dumb this is

[JayJayKeats]

One phrase to all the people who think that this is terrible: "func_detail"

[MisteriLate]

@JayJayKeats lol... func_detail doesn't help if there is billions of brushes

[JayJayKeats]

@MisteriLate At least VVIS won't want to murder you in your sleep.

[JerryKid72]

oh my god.

well after all that carving how was your FPS when you compiled it?

or is it still compiling since August 19 2009?...

[stickyktn]

xD gabe newell has nightmares of this

[PandaMoniumium]

This is freakin' amazing

I'd sex that

[av3nger3]

Terrible Video

[Darkfrost101]

This guy is awesome! It's common knowledge that higher poly count = better graphics. This map will be the best looking map ever! And he even used the clip tool to get rid of the bad bits, so that makes it well optimised!

[Jomonayy]

@Darkfrost101: Dear God I hope you're joking.

[Darkfrost101]

@Jomonayy Yup. Anyone that stupid should be shot :D

[2TL5A]

#facepalm

[Chaosed0]

The ending is the best part.

[Termikxs]

Is this supposed to be joke? haha funny. Now please, dont take it seriously. This guy is obviously addicted to some sort of crack....

Carve tool = No.

[spektre1]

OMG. For the love of all that is holy. Do you realize how TERRIBLY inefficient this is? All those extra lines on screen equate to more polygons that will be rendered in game, which means your level is going to go slower. On top of that, this will destroy your compile times.

THEY'RE ALL GOING TO LAUGH AT YOU.

[xXPhazorXx]

OH GOD THE MICROBRUSHES THEY BURNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN­NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN­NNNNNNNN

[guitarboy32]

what is this i dont even

[3kliksphilip]

im 12 and what is this

[theheadstarts]

@3kliksphilip: I...I don't know.  Hold me.

[tzaxo1]

Any real level designer using SDK would know Carving is seriously bad for your map.

[LordandBaron]

I hope Jephier is a troll because this is like mindfuck retarded otherwise.

[comet1337]

meat isnt murder.

THIS IS!!!!!

>=(

you crel bastard!

[RickyT232]

Never use the carve tool.

Ever.

For anything.

And dont blame Hammer for crashing. It was you that cause it by excessive carving. You can make beautiful terrain in Hammer by using triangular prisms, meticulously sculpting the terrain whilst keeping the brush count low, which gives faster compile times and faster maps.

[2TL5A]

I'm noob mapper and even I know that carving like this kills. Use displacements next time please.

[LakeMonsterManiak]

Look at what you did to that poor, innocent brush! D :

[chrisstorvik]

Is this video supposed to be a joke?

[ZeroRogue]

all i gotta say, is have fun compiling...

[MrMegawac]

Reported video as harmful and dangerous acts.

[MrMegawac]

Poor hammer...

[TheOneFreeman2]

My word. Really, my goodness.

This was worse than a horror movie!

This should be retitled "the dangers of carve" to shock and disgust young children into not carving, with the line "say NO to carve"

Anyway this was, as other people have said, actually painfull to watch.

You carved so rapidly and without remorse that hammer had to physically STOP you to avoid the infection spreading.

[jez261]

I sincerley hope that this is a joke video.. as for the 7000 viewers, I hope nearly all were linked here for a bit of a laugh like I was.

If by chance you are here genuinely looking to learn about hammer and game design in general please disregard this entire video.. The methods used here are simply terrible.

lol.. just saw the end.. get a good PC as hammer crashes a lot. My first map will be out when I fix all the leeks.. gotta be a joke.

[CurrentlyFapping]

Mother of god

My eyes

I can feel my very soul getting carved into with every second I watched this video

[n8skow]

messiest geometry evar!

[scuzgb]

dear god

such an epic troll

you win all the internets <3

[notEisiger]

Holy shit, what the hell are you doing? Valve should have never added Carve, and this is a prime example why. God have mercy on your visleafs.

[lobard]

then says you have to have a good computer to run hammer? nooooo....with that face count and all those micro brushes your creating.....when you render that crap if you could possibly manage it then there would be so many missing micro brushes it would look like swiss cheese. look up displacement. for god sake pleasee lol

[AgeNtNicK]

IT BUUUUUURRRRRRNNNNNNSSSSSS

[pokemupp]

It's people like you who creates hatred on the internet. o.o

[StickZer0]

You make baby jesus cry.

[The1apprentice]

OH GOD. WHY?!

[mollistuff]

I use carve to create block windows on grid-aligned walls sometimes and I get called an idiot for it. Wow, man, wow.

[donnishark]

What. The. FUCK!? I seriously don't hope you have ever released a map like this :S

[fluffpoet]

Haha oh lawd, I really, really hope this is a troll, because Id get an aneurysm from just watching the video.

Also, it didnt crash because of memory, you just tortured Hammer by carving the shit out of it.

[DiFFtY76]

The right name of this video should be "How to map like an autist, part one".

[kommandojoe]

This HAS TO BE a joke?

[DrBoo1982]

For the love of shit, don't make terrain this way! Use displacements. What you're doing here, is screw up the compiler and give your map terrible FPS

[MKSDragon]

carving is for STUPID N00BS !!!!!!

[wakingpoofer]

he demonstrates exactly what the video name states, but yes there are better ways

[bblasphemous]

this this a trolling video.  do you seriously make maps like this.

[thesoul55]

Oh shit nigger, what are you doing?

[baphomet58]

this game looks like shit. i run crysis on high bitch

[timsinthegame]

dear god....................

[darkskidz]

I would be surprised if these maps compiled. They run like crap and take forever to compile I am sure.

[onehugesob]

I like how all of 4chan just arrived here.

[Spoothead12]

I don't know much about hammar.....but that was painful to watch.

[NeenerBalls]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF­

[Trampboy931]

I use carve all the time for everything.

.

.

.

.

Not.

[MikelStrawvenaskevit]

This was jaw-droppingly painful to watch. Watching that third carve physically hurt me. Or maybe that was the knife I used to try to distract myself. Dunno, guess it didn't work. Either way, it was baaaaaaad.

ONE WORD: DISPLACEMENT. It allows you to create uneven terrain with the click of a button as well as editing it's vertices nice and easy. I just don't want anybody who sees this to try what he showed. It would be VERY bad. I'm guessing KY-Class end-of-the-world-scenario doomed.

[Xaeron187]

@MikelStrawvenaskevit My first thought when I saw this video was "What's wrong with displacement?" haha

[brothershrike94]

God just murdered 9001 kittens.

[Meikyo63]

For those of you looking to make maps, this is how it is NOT done. Carve kills kittens, do not use it. Ever.

As for the rest of you... Successful troll is successful.

[DarksporkLeader]

This video hurt and insulted me in ways I can't begin to explain. LRN2DISPLACEMENT.

[zkmaddison]

I want to die now.

[XXflapjaxXX]

god damnit :[

[HermitJSrv]

You are a bad man.

[Talishmar]

Name of the music?

[Th3L31ch3]

Learn how to use displacement maps please.

oooor stop mapping.

[Trainguyxx]

hey dude what is the texture name of that grass in the first part? i really like it =P

[tikayl]

Oh come on, this has to be a joke. Noone can be THAT dumb....

[Adzter790]

ah god my eyes.. IT BURNS!

[erikkiller666]

At first I thought this is a hilarious April-fools joke.

But then I realized it isn't.

[Paulendy]

IT BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUURNS!

I'm calling Valve, someone has to save that poor copy of source sdk from the likes of you!

[Byfbowhiffen]

I loled so hard. This is possibly the WORST way you could ever attempt making terrain in hammer. The results are horrendous and look how many brushes hes created. You will get huge compiles times, compile errors, crashes, huge FPS drops and bad results doing it like this.

Please anyone watching this video looking for REAL advice on how to make terrain PLEASE DO NOT EVER DO THIS. Look up displacement mapping.

[Trainguyxx]

@Byfbowhiffen wait, i was wondering, would it work if i were to take that and convert it into a displacement?

[EricSeitz1]

Make more advanced carving tutorials!!!

[ZombieDawgs]

Trolls :D

[AxelLeJeff]

This is murder. Not only does this make hammer impossible to navigate with all the microbrush spam, but it crashes way to much.

Don't you know, hammer crashing is nature's way of telling you to use displacements instead of carve? Way too many faces on what should be simple geometry...

[MarkQP]

MY EYES

[HybridProjectAlpha]

I laughed so hard

[EricSeitz1]

You should make a tutorial on how to make a house with carve.

Or maybe a curved road or something

[Lavalole]

i came here for some good info on making terrain... have i made a mistake?

That's abuse of carve. Use carve tool for simplistic things, like doors or windows.

Terrain = rspeed fuckup