I saw something in the startup stuff for HL or AHL that suggested this was possible a while back, but noone knew wtf I was talking about

now wait a sec.... this means you could add detail textures to older maps without actually changing anything in the .bsp, right? hmmm, a couple of my maps might be getting updates

[edit] hell yes, got it to work- though it still gives an error and says it isn't working lol. now we just need some good detail textures, and some practice figuring out what looks good.

I remember seeing this concept a few months ago, and im sure it was on here..

I bet someone like Campaignjunkie will know how to work the darned things..

*gives Gwil a cookie*

It only works with Steam HL, and you have to have a fairly recent video card to display them that supports 3-4 layers of multi-texturing or something (Sadly, my GF4 MX is part of the group that can't). Only mod I've seen to use them to good effect is Hostile Intent though - most people seem to think adding a bit of noise and blurring it is a great detail texture (which it isn't! )

Good luck to anyone who wants to work on those detail textures though. I can't even see them, and I've seen a lot of bad applications of detail textures.

taking some tinkering, but I'm getting some stuff that looks better. note how the floor texture on the left has a detail texture applied, whereas its sister textures on the right do not.

the scale of the detail texture makes a bit difference, they look a lot better when they have the look of a fine, tiny detail imo. that usually means having the scale at 10+ (the scale being the number of times the detail is repeated per instance of the normal texture). I think I used the 'sandstone' filter in the 'texturizer' in photoshop on a plain grain 128x128 texture to create that detail texture. anyone know a place I could get more good texture filters for photoshop, those seem like a good way to do it.

I even had a little fun with detail textures:
http://www.cryotank.net/remote/detail_glasses.jpg

Looks much worse with detail textures D:

www.planethalflife.com/hostileintent Now those are detail textures.

Lol!