Hammer and sledge editor black screen - General Discussion

When I launch hammer or sledge there 3D camera see only black void, when I place a block it showing it wireframe, but when it's not selected it is completely invisible (same goes with other things like entities). Or, with other settings hammer shows this https://imgur.com/sA0YGYf I tried launching it with administrator rights, launching every hammer exe that is on my PC and launching from SDK.

Place a camera on the map and select top/front/side views on the top left corner of each view

Didn't work, result is same in every hammer

Update your graphics drivers or try running hammer on a different graphics processor. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1804/961b6ebd-7aa5-455f-af8e-c92a7957c2c1/image.png

Sadly results are same

Well I got nothing then. Try googling about: https://steamcommunity.com/app/211/discussions/0/517141807565468499/

select 3D textured in the camera view window https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/435543/3f33a5c7-5b50-4d24-9540-2cd72a2ce825/image.png

Ok, thanks for trying to help me and I googled this problem in a first place, only because I didn't find answer in google and on steam discussions I created account here

I tried selecting every possible view

whats the game config look like ? https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/435543/19213cbb-25d8-403a-8089-aeb3fd464d5a/image.png the image you posted looks like your trying to use Hammer from the outdated SDK with a 2013 SDK mod, Are you ? mapping for a mod ??

I didn't really took screenshot from my PC, I found same when I googled my problem, so I just used it, and as I said, I tried to launch hammer from every possible way (half life folder, sdk, gmod folder, css folder) and this screenshot I made myself https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/448191/d3460a88-3462-47fb-b140-b2c77cd087cf/IMG_20190329_132248.png

you have the Game Directory set wrong, when Hammer loads it looks for and reads the gameinfo.txt, if you set a Gameinfo.txt for the wrong game hammer will search the wrong folders for files it needs to run correctly,, You Gmod hammer should look like https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/435543/54627fc6-6f9b-4339-9dc8-ee4bfb2a6127/image.png and If you look at the messages window you'll see that hammer checks the Garrys mod folders before loading extra assets that have mounted,, The best think to reset the Hammer config is to delete garrysmod/bin where Hammer.exe is and then Verify Game cache to get the correct files needed

I tried setting everything as in your image, than I deleted bin folder and verified game cache, tried to include half life.fgd and base.fgd but everything is same except now I can see the grid https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/448191/a186c045-110a-4d2d-89ba-a76ff7a3ad49/IMG_20190330_124115.png

So everything is NOT the same and the problem is fixed then?

Not everything, everything that I place is not showing, player spawn, boxes, I tried to show it on a screenshot, I placed player spawn but on 3D camera is still only black void

As I have mentioned above, you need to place a camera before the 3d view will work.

why are you using Half-life .fgd in Gmod,, unless theres a Half-life gamemode thats new to me the entities in the HL fgd will not work in Gmod,, depending on the gamemode you want to map for if its TTT you would ue Cstrike.fgd or the garrsmod fgd with either halflife 2.fgd or halflife2mp.fgd most other gamemodes have specail entities made using Lua

Thank you very much, now it's working, I think problem was in default settings AND camera