Hammer Tutorial #72 "Displacement Cave"

Learn how to make a cave with displacements. Follow me on Twitter: / tophattwaffle Support me on Patreon: / tophattwaffle

[@dr.merlot1532]

3:33 I laughed so hard I spat my drink on my keyboard!!! Its all good tho. My PC still works. Your a funny guy TopHattwaffle.

[@mrzjl505]

I was going to make this comment hahahahahha

[@npc_3rN78N56]

@@mrzjl505 I am a Time Travler i come from 4 years ahead OOooooOOO

[@peacauve]

5 years later and you are still badass.

[@ВасилВасилев-о8о]

10*

[@peacauve]

@@ВасилВасилев-о8о no not 10. 5. 5 years from my time and it is 5 years ago...so youre wrong in both directions

[@mr.skeleton4346]

10*

[@peacauve]

@@mr.skeleton4346 my comment says 5 years ago. So its 5. Itll always be 5 lol.

[@darwindingus5666]

11 years later and you are still badass

[@Jofoyo]

One thing for new people to note, unless you're on CSGO or Black Mesa, displacements to a power of 4 WILL crash your game if ANY physics object interacts with them. Be wary.

[@DoverUSMC]

Now I have learned the vertex tool! I have been scratching my head forever thinking how mappers can get displacements on brushes that arent rectangular or square. This is going to help me a ton with my new map project (Gallipoli map). Thanks so much for this video!!!

[@TheSystemBrick]

Thank you, you're the best! I thought I had to manually paint the geometry.

[@doubled6490]

My De_cave is coming! Thanks to this tutorial :D

[@gotoShiba01]

+Double D so, what's up with de_cave?

[@doubled6490]

Doge Master different name nowadays

[@gotoShiba01]

Double D did you finish it?

[@doubled6490]

Doge Master nope xD Nowadays it is de_counterplay I changed the theme, you see, it did not give chances for nade throws.

[@gotoShiba01]

Double D ah I'll check it out, please check my map de_school_construction too plz thank

[@TimothyTCB]

I just realized you can make tunnels with this too, thank you so much for the tutorial

[@YayJike]

tophatwaffle manages to make a 11+ minute video to any hammer topic!! :D But the tutorials are ALWAYS good! :D

[@xweert711]

Thank you, Thank you VERY much! I didn't think I was able to make nice looking maps until I saw your tutorials.

[@JRMcDowell]

You forgot to tell the peeps, that a no_draw box is required around all displacements, as they don't seal the playable space and will leak. A No draw texture will seal a maps playable space and should always be behind any and all displacement work. - Snarkpit

[@DessertMonkey]

You can also just make sure the edges of a brush face line up instead of moving the vertices shown here. Note however that you will have to have the brushes clip into one another initially for this to work but once the displacements are made the clipping brush faces will be discarded and they will sew fine.

[@gallopr]

Keep up the good work tophattwaffle!

[@twiggytwink]

4:35 Tha music is SCARY! Reminds me of CANDYMAN! (O.O) On topic, YET ANOTHER shining tutorial. Thank you so much, man!

[@SchizaMan]

Thank you for the lessons! It's easy to understand even if you don't speak in english :)

[@nofacee94]

I can do these type of displacements in 5 minutes. I coud make that cave, a different way, still the same good looks, in 5 minutes. One main thing, is when the cave goes into the open, 6:30 just move the brush 16 units (2 grid lines) upward, so the bottom right point touches the cave wall points then make the outside canyon face a displacement, and repeat with other canyon wall brushes, then subdivide all, noise etc.

[@grokenos82]

This really helped me out. I can't thank you enough :D

[@mcgath2]

very helpful tutorial

[@gian8152]

the bit around 7:30 is so confusing, can someone explain it clearer?

[@gian8152]

dw i figured it out but i lost like 5 years of my life due to stress

[@MeshuggahDave.]

@@gian8152 wheres the tut

[@MeshuggahDave.]

after reading the frustration of the comment section I am wondering if this is still the best way to do this displacement style???

[@minigooshey]

@Jmapp09 lol just make like a bunch of lights different colors and when the button is pushed it turns them on and off and on and off and shit just mess around and you can get a good one

[@vectormanforever]

I have been doing stuff like with displacements the HARD for so long... I can't tell if I am happy or utterly pissed at myself...

[@FrozenDragon0630]

Great tutorial man :D

[@kossolax]

You are a genius!

[@IRaGeQuItWuP123Zz]

Whenever I try to vertex the displacement and i go back to the selection tool, it says "Invalid Solid, Destroy Displacement?". Please help.

[@lauris47]

I missed creating maps so much, but now I have no time for it at all... I have done some videos in the past you can check out them.

[@spliffern2662]

What I would do instead would be make a sideways arch, hollow it out and carve a large hole on both ends. Very useful video!

[@TopHATTwaffle]

+MicroManiac never carve

[@crashman25634]

I'm trying to make a massive natural setting and i was wondering, would it be better to block out how the landscape would look or displace everything from a completely flat area?

[@semtux8615]

everytime i select the white squares, everything deselects

[@DJacKnifeAlpha]

Nevermind.. I just created a different cave that I liked better. Now, on the textures.. I'm having a LOT of trouble trying to find textures that blend really nicely... Can you give me a set of ones that can blend well?

[@sinp8nt]

I am having problems doing this. I am not usre as to what to do to fix it however. Here is what it is telling me is wrong "Not allselected faces could be sewn becasue too many selected faces share a single edge. Look for places where 3 or more selected faces (displacment or non-displacmnet) share an edge" What the hell did I do wrong and how do I fix it?

[@jobrown04]

Whenever I run my map to test my displacement the displacements don't appear in-game and my map seems to revert back to an older version with, what looks like a copy of its self in the distance. Any idea?

[@brunib0y]

Thanks man! I love you!

[@816nnm]

@rocketrascal34 i lost that tool bar where you pressed a button on how to remove the displacements in the grid. How can i get this back

[@honse246]

cool! i tried making a cave a long time ago and it did not turn out good one question though how do you move the camera with the arrow keys when you have a texture selected? when i try it shifts the texture and did not do this till after the update

[@silvastomp]

How do you select items within an area after left click dragging a box?

[@TopHATTwaffle]

You can hit enter. Or there is an option in Tools>Options>2d views to automatically do an infinite selection on mouse release.

[@mrcomp1971]

This question should be higher up.

[@DJacKnifeAlpha]

Woah, woah, woah.. My 16 X 16 units are EXTREMELY small, what units are you using???

[@ROBK636]

This does not work for some reason to make it raise or lower. My displacements look good until I compile or I exit and reload the map in hammer.

[@Re-lx1md]

xfire.... memories

[@lambda-npc]

Thank you soooo much!

[@SenorSwagBuns]

i would have loved to see the entire design while u were working on it around 7:00 im stuck on somthing know that i cant figure out cause i cant see it

[@twiggytwink]

@aurarpg yeah, please share man. thanks.

[@Razersurf]

You DO know, you can select more then on vertex point at once.. Doing it the way you do takes a lot more time.. Nice tut tho : ]

[@zebraforceone]

holy shit dude do you think you have enough icons on the taskbar there?

[@Stroggdorr]

How do you make those surrounding mountains?

[@brenocambra3502]

omg wwhat I've I done its a monster

[@adyrulesthe666]

do you take requests?

[@entfy]

when ever i subdivide a cave (trying to copy tutorial) it just freezes and stops working and says its not responding...help?

[@rascob3603]

very useful thanks

[@gotoShiba01]

+oscar bamford oh hai doge

[@rascob3603]

hello other doge

[@CoolDudeClem]

When I try to do the "Paint Alpha" thing, nothing happens, what am I doing wrong?

[@mrbose896]

you're not using a blend texture, sorry i'm 6 years late

[@deagosane]

Finally, took you long enough -.-

[@MrSjeanl]

does anyone know what textures he is using? yes i can see that he is using hammertutorials/tutorial_cliff....... is there a place (on his site or so) that i can download them. please make sure it's the right folder/texture.

[@Zombine50]

@t0m4s14 It's a "Z" button. :) It toogles the cammera tool.

[@Troopster1232]

I dont understand this. 6:58 I dont get how to make a 45 degree angle or w/e

[@entfy]

thanks

[@trainzack]

Alt+rightclick TOGGLES that mode, and the faces don't have to be touching in any way.

[@lucasrossialonso2276]

I am not undertandig how to do the entrance of the cave , all the rest is ok but u are killing me with the 45 grades , I AM NOT UNDERTANDING

[@grazzer88]

Using a 45 degree angle like you did at 7:00 isn't the best way. You can just overlap the edges. It doesn't mess with the compile in anyway, makes it easier to edit the brushes if you have to come back to them later and still does exactly the same job ingame. Also your displacements didn't subdivide properly because they weren't all aligned at the tunnel entrance. Having to sew was a mistake on your part, not a part of the process of making the tunnel like the tutorial implies.

[@heisenbadger7862]

wont let me make a box over a vertex point, however some other useless box come up and is useless...

[@tigermoth00]

That happens to me too

[@heisenbadger7862]

trying to make a map for murder for my community. if anyone can help that would be great!

[@Infomaniac_Moment]

It keeps subdividing into some rounded shit, and it looks like ass. help

[@xweert711]

That's supposed to happen.

[@Stroggdorr]

Omg can you please explain what your doing at 7:05! Jesus your saying take this one, move it down, uhhh FASTFORWARD what?!????!!?!?!

[@albinjohansson9097]

i get an error saying "windows cannot find the file specified"

[@Mengland]

Albin Johansson same

[@RTMxBEASTx]

Could you upload them textures for me.

[@dsrocks555]

Hmm this work I loaded my map but there was error fml thanks though I'll try this for my nh2 mod I making

[@NeCtRiCkS]

Intro song pleeease?

[@gtamike_TSGK]

wow

[@Fluzoo]

Youre a god!

[@JRMcDowell]

@rocketrascal34 - You'll find that it is not very common.

[@Backasin010]

for some reason L4D2 has some really bad textures for blending with caves

[@youmenow1]

That's not the right attitude to have for tutorials. You are here the teach and gather the learner knows nothing of the subject since that might of been the reason they looked it up in the first place, not presume the people you are teaching already know or worked the thing out... Great tut btw :P.

[@SpookySkeleton738]

1 Year later and no reply

[@elronman]

I don't know how its racist considering the amount of yellow nodraw. GOD! that's a lot of nodraw.

[@Stroggdorr]

This tutorial didn't help me at all, I get lost at the verticies and 45 degree angles. then when i subdivided, shit gets fucked up.

[@signaturemover]

my map doesnt load at all help

[@V-95K]

the top is difficult part..and then you go ASAP cmon next time slow please

[@mariosglitch]

#noitsnot

[@GR1M_LOR]

"z"

[@YourMomBakesPies]

@rocketrascal34 lolracism

[@harrym2457]

White and ugly?! racism :D