I did everything taht the tutorials told me to do.
BUt, i cant save the map into bsp form?
am i supposed to?
and if not, then why is it that i cant run map in game otherwise.
It says to save it to the map folder, which i did, but its all .dfx and .map?

un like engines like unreal and serious sam, you will need to compile the map before you can play it , half life is a pain like that.

there is a good tutorial on setting up compilers and options here.

that should get you going in the right direction. After setting all that stuff up you can compile in hammer by hitting f9.

when compiling is comlete it will generate a .bsp file.

hope that helps you.

if that doesn't help feel free and let me know

not to be a ****, but in teh future please use the mapping hep and tourble shooting forum vcleverly hidden at the top of this forum.

ahh...forgot about taht forum...hidden there, odnt really look at that little text up there.
but now that i got it using the advanced compile it works
problem is
when i run map, it doesnt run
it just loads game and doesnt run map
execs a lot of stuff...
but doesnt run
i go to create game, and it pick completion1-the name of my map for now,
and it crashes saying

mod_LoadBrushModel:
Maps/completion1.bsp has wrong version number (571084155 should be 30)