Problem with mapping! (steamapps.wad)

[CSS]

Hey guys, I'm a long time mapper for HL1 and I have some experience in source mapping... but when I try to map for MSC ( I was thinking about making some maps to add to my rotation) I keep getting errors in steam.

Since the maps are going to be small, I'm compiling them through Hammer + Zoner's tools. They compile fine, but when I try to launch the map over lan in MSC, it crashes out saying it cannot find a certain wad, even though no such wad exists. First it was stea.wad, then steam.wad, then steama.wad, and finally steamapps.wad

I noticed after compiling some textures in the goblintown wads and the platinum wad were oversized, and I tried doing only 8 wads in hammer and still got the same error. I was only using the following textures on the map when I compiled:
medgrass_ewok
ikrocka
{blue
sky
clip
{grassplz_ewok

I have a feeling its one of these textures causing the game to malfunction, because I tried testing out a box'd map with only one different texture and it worked.

 

[Thothie]

Sounds as though the paths to your textures are screwed up, but I've no experience with Source Hammer, only Worldcraft and Hammer 3.5, so I canna help ya much with configuration there.

Hammer 3.5 doesn't like paths with certain characters in them sometimes (including "@"), so I suggest moving any and all wads you are going to use to a shallow directory (like c:\hammer\wads) and pointing hammer to them there.

 

[pimpsta]

Source automatically pick your wad file for source.

 

[Shurik3n]

Source doesn't use wadfiles; Source uses material files which are packed in GCF archives.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

PiMpStA and Shurik3n, as far as I can tell, this is not about Source.

So CSS, you've made a map in Hammer v3.5, right?
Not Hammer v4.0, which can be run only through Steam, and is used for Source mapping, right?
You've compiled with the latest version of ZHLT I assume?
Could you list all the wadfiles you're using?

As far as I know, oversized wads shouldn't be causing any problems. However, do make sure you place the wadfiles you use in a 'shallow directory', as Thothie suggested.

I always keep my wadfiles in:
C:\Hammer\wads

 

[CSS]

Yes I'm using 3.5, always used Hammer 3.5 for HL1 and Source SDK for Source mapping.

I got it to work after changing the textures up a bit and limiting myself to 8 wads. I think there were some conflicts with some of the custom wads that were in my MSC directory that came with custom maps.

I'm working on a Cathedral map right now that you start off in a canyon and come up to a valley that leads to a steppe. It's looking kickin' rad. Hopefully FN will accept it ~its not a cheet map