Hammer

[sdavis117]

I would like to know, is Hammer similar throughout the Valve games?

I might try to learn how to use Hammer to make maps for CSS, but since noone plays CSS that much anymore, this is more of a learning experience until I get TF2 of something like that.

I want to know if any skills that I develope for CSS would translate to TF2 (or other Valve games for that matter).

[Con]

it's all the same aside from props, textures, and entities associated with each game.

[n00b1n8R]

Nobody plays CSS?

O_o

[sdavis117]

I saw 10 servers when I played earlier today that had people in them.

[jngrow]

You must have some bizarre filters on.

[sdavis117]

I only play on maps that start with "c".

[DOMINATOR]

uhh CSS is the most played pc game. it gets up to 100k people daily and a lot more on weekends.

[sdavis117]

They must be invisible then, because even without filters I only see at tops less people then Halo PC has.

Of course maybe they are invisible, they play with bots, or they are playing Mods that require CSS.

[legionaire45]

No, something on your end is screwed up.
Just today, at least 3,000,000 minutes were played by xfire users alone... (http://www.xfire.com/)

But yes, to answer your question, hammer is used by all source based games for level editing and anything you learn in it will apply to other source games. Props/textures/entities may be different from game to game but the editing tools are the same for each game.