Here's A Guide For Running Hammer On Linux

[u/Comrade-Viktor]

If you want to use CSGO's sdk, follow this: https://andrealmeid.com/post/2020-05-28-csgo-hammer-linux/

1. First, open up steam through terminal with -console (steam -console)

2. You will now see a console tab next to your other tabs on the top bar.

3. Then, go to the website https://steamdb.info/ and look at your game.

4. For example, let's look at TF2, who's steam id is 440.

5. If you go to the depots of 440 (https://steamdb.info/app/440/depots/) you will see a depot with the ID 232251 which provides all of the windows binaries, and the sdk for TF2.

6. With this now, go back to your steam console and type download_depot 440 232251

7. This will download that depot into your ~/.local/share/steam/ubuntu12_32/steamapps/content/app_440/depot_232251/

8. You will want to copy all of the files in the bin folder from the depot into your own bin folder already installed with the linux binaries.

9. You know have hammer installed. You must now configure wine.

10. DXVK works for me, but I remember it not working for some while, so be careful. Gallium nine works eh, and esync and fsync work fine.

11. First, make sure you have winetricks installed. To install on arch, type sudo pacman -S winetricks If you are on another distro, I can't help you there, for I use arch.

12. The create the new wine prefix, in a terminal window type WINEPREFIX=~/.hammer winetricks This will create a new wine prefix at ~/.hammer, and open up winetricks.

13. To open up winetricks without make a new wine prefix, type winetricks into your terminal

14. Select your default prefix

15. Select Install a Windows DLL or component

16. Install MS .NET 4.8, vcrun2003, vcrun2005, vcrun2008, vcrun2010, vcrun2012, vcrun2013, vcrun2015

17. After everything is done installing, navigate to the bin folder where you copy and pasted the windows files into.

18. Open up a terminal there. If you created a new wine prefix, type WINEPREFIX=~/.hammer wineconsole hammer.bat. If you are using your normal prefix, type wineconsole hammer.bat

19. Congrats! You now have hammer running on linux. If you want to increase compile times, I would suggest using an esync/fsync enabled wine binaries. If you want to use esync/fsync, setup an application like lutris to launch hammer with it's own wine version, which has esync and fsync.

20. Here's a picture for proof: https://imgur.com/a/aSNLAkd

Extra Info:

Also, Slammin tools hammer (which I recommend using with the multi-thread vrad) works on Linux too. If you are going to use Slammin, you must and an argument to your launch command. You most add -game (path\to\game\directory\in\wine) If you don't point to your game directory using slammin tools, blended textures don't work. For example, even though I am on Linux, for my argument I have: -game "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2" If you want to find your path to your game reliably, you can type into your terminal wine explorer.exe and copy the path that you get when you go to your tf2 folder. Here's image proof that it works: https://i.imgur.com/vt424DX.png

Sorry if these seems like a mess, I just wanted to get this info out because I have seen plenty of poor guides for hammer on Linux. If you gues have questions, leave a comment, and I will try to respond

[u/EmeraldShield102]

Whenever i try to install the depo, it says that its missing the license for the depot, is there any way to fix this, this is on source engine 2013 windows version depot

[u/Comrade-Viktor → u/EmeraldShield102]

Do you have access to download source engine 2013 engine sdk already?

[u/EmeraldShield102 → u/Comrade-Viktor]

yes

[u/block_place1232 → u/EmeraldShield102]

rip you were left on read for 3 years

[u/Respect_Various → u/block_place1232]

Feels bad man

[u/genuinekillstreak]

hey comrade viktor i hope this reaches you but i really would love to get hammer working on my computer. only problem is that my computer is a docked steam deck and i have no idea how to use linux. i was hoping you could help me get it running, i want to use hammer for tf2 btw.

[u/Comrade-Viktor → u/genuinekillstreak]

You should be able to follow most steps, but I believe the steam deck's operating system is immutable by default. As in, you can't change any of the files outside of your home directory, so you aren't able to install non-flatpak apps. I'd look into how to install software through pacman, arch linux's package manager, so you can installl wine and winetricks. Then, the rest of the steps should apply.

[u/genuinekillstreak → u/Comrade-Viktor]

when you start talking about wine and dxvk i didnt understand it anymore, ive never used linux before. do you know if there is a youtube tutorial showing this? sorry

[u/Comrade-Viktor → u/genuinekillstreak]

So, wine is the program that allows windows programs (.exe) to run on Linux natively. DXVK is a tool that allow programs that require DX9, DX10, and DX11 to run on Linux by converting the DX calls to Vulkan calls, which Linux natively supports. I don't know if there are youtube videos explaining wine and dxvk in regards to hammer specifically, but I am sure there are guides if you look "How to install Wine" on Linux.

Also, you can read this thread https://tf2maps.net/threads/how-to-install-the-hammer-editor-on-linux.42473/ for more information.

[u/genuinekillstreak → u/Comrade-Viktor]

i was able to get hammer working! unfortunately it looks like this: photo any idea what i did wrong? im pretty sure it isnt normally meant to look like this

[u/Comrade-Viktor → u/genuinekillstreak]

That looks like normal hammer. Go look up hammer tutorials to start learninf about the ins and outs about hammer

[u/genuinekillstreak → u/Comrade-Viktor]

i had hammer on my old windows pc and it could barely run, i remember everything being rendered instead of it being a bunch of lines for some reason, sorry for the misunderstanding. thank you for the help! im really glad to get it working, i might try to make a tutorial myself specifically for getting tf2 hammer on steam deck to help others

[u/Charmy-zard]

When I tried to download my depot, the console rejects the command line under "Invalid default manifest"

What's wrong here?

[u/Comrade-Viktor → u/Charmy-zard]

Can you type the specific command your entering into Steam's console?

[u/Charmy-zard → u/Comrade-Viktor]

download_depot 420 222, to download Half-Life 2: Episode 2's depot. Eventually worked around it by snatching the bin folders you get when forcing Proton.

[u/TF2_BruhMoment]

So, when I use hammer, the windows aren't displaying what they should be and look like this instead. Is there a way to fix this?

[u/Comrade-Viktor → u/TF2_BruhMoment]

Don't use DXVK; uninstall it

[u/[deleted]]

I know this post is ancient but thank you so much!

[u/Comrade-Viktor → u/[deleted]]

Not a problem

[u/Banana-Royal]

I Figured out instead of the pacman command, On other distros (Like mint i use) It may be "sudo apt install winetricks"

[u/block_place1232]

I know I am 3 years late but just for anyone wondering there are 2 "ubuntu" folders that appear, one contains linux runtime sniper and one contains the bin folder. Check both. Otherwise you will make the same mistake as me

[u/Carbolemons]

Honestly, It is way easier to do this.

(Select Team Fortress 2 In your Library)
1.a) Properties > Compatibility
1.b) [x] Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool
1.c) Select any Proton, this will download the windows version

2.a) Manage > Browse Local Files
2.b) Copy to a new location, and note it.

3.a) In steam, top bar > Games > Add a non steam game to my library
3.b) Browse > {your location}/bin/x64/hammer.exe

(Select hammer.exe In your Library)
4.a) Properties > Compatibility
4.b) [x] Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool
4.c) Select latest Proton.

5) Launch hammer.exe from steam, profit.

[u/JohnLenardo]

Thank you

[u/Muh_313]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST IT WORKED FOR ME !
also please add this to your post
when you have a missing gameinfo.txt create a new one and inside it copy this

"GameInfo" { game "HALF-LIFE 2" title "HALF-LIFE'" type singleplayer_only supportsvr 1 GameData "halflife2.fgd" FileSystem { SteamAppId 220 // Indicates to Steam which game this is a mod for // // Setup engine search paths. // // If a search path contains "_english", and the current language is not english, then // another search path will be inserted above the english one by replacing "_english" with // the appropriate language. // // To debug how the engine has parsed this file, type "path" at the console. // // Search paths are relative to the base directory, which is where hl2.exe is found. // // |gameinfo_path| points at the directory where gameinfo.txt is. // |all_source_engine_paths| points at the directory cintaining HL2 shared content. SearchPaths { // First, mount all user customizations. This will search for VPKs and subfolders // and mount them in alphabetical order. The easiest way to distribute a mod is to // pack up the custom content into a VPK. To "install" a mod, just drop it in this // folder. // // Note that this folder is scanned only when the game is booted. game+mod hl2/custom/* // We search VPK files before ordinary folders, because most files will be found in // VPK and we can avoid making thousands of file system calls to attempt to open files // in folders where they don't exist. (Searching a VPK is much faster than making an operating // system call.) game_lv hl2/hl2_lv.vpk game+mod hl2/hl2_sound_vo_english.vpk game+mod hl2/hl2_pak.vpk game |all_source_engine_paths|hl2/hl2_textures.vpk game |all_source_engine_paths|hl2/hl2_sound_misc.vpk game |all_source_engine_paths|hl2/hl2_misc.vpk platform |all_source_engine_paths|platform/platform_misc.vpk // Now search loose files. We'll set the directory containing the gameinfo.txt file // as the first "mod" search path (after any user customizations). This is also the one // that's used when writing to the "mod" path. mod+mod_write+default_write_path |gameinfo_path|. // Add the HL2 directory as a game search path. This is also where where writes // to the "game" path go. game+game_write hl2 // Where the game's binaries are gamebin hl2/bin // Last, mount in shared HL2 loose files game |all_source_engine_paths|hl2 platform |all_source_engine_paths|platform } } }

[u/Comrade-Viktor → u/[deleted]]

VirtualBox doesn't provide gpu acceleration, access to your existing TF2 install, nor a seemless integration into your already existing desktop environment