Configuring Hammer for Empires

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Note Before you do anything, make sure you have installed Hammer Editor, available through Steam under the Tools section.

To set up hammer for empires you need to do the following things:

Game Configuration Tab

Add following .fgd files into your fgd list:

• Base.fgd
• Halflife2.fgd
• Empires.fgd

The Game executable Directory shoud be set to:

$SteamUserDir\half-life 2\hl2

The game directory shoud be set to:

$SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\Empires

The hammer vmf directory shodu be set to:

$SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\Empires\maps

All relative to where you installed empires, meening that if you configured your folders to be called somthing else then you need to specify the paths acording to that

Build Programs

Game executable:

$SteamUserDir\half-life 2\hl2.exe

BSP executable:

$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe

VIS executable:

$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe

RAD executable:

$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe

Place compiled maps in this directory before running the game:

$SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\Empires\maps