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 Re: Custom texture not apearing in Hammer
Posted by diablobasher on Sun Jan 30th at 2:52pm 2005

I have created a custom texture, and set up the VMT and VTF files via the tutorial on this site. I have then copy pasted them to many different ares, such as my MOD folder in the C: drive, my MOD folder in the sourcmods folder, the SDK_content folder, and the half life 2 materials folder, but still no luck, does anyone know where the texture must go to appear in Hammer? [addsig]



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 Re: Custom texture not apearing in Hammer
Posted by French Toast on Sun Jan 30th at 2:54pm 2005

There is a tutorial for this on SnarkPit, read that thoroughly and make sure that you have everything right.

http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=121&highlight=custom,textures

That should tell you everything you need to know. [addsig]



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 Re: Custom texture not apearing in Hammer
Posted by Leperous on Sun Jan 30th at 3:28pm 2005

There should be a VMT and VTF in your half-life 2/hl2/materials/subdir folder. And you need to have restarted Hammer...



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Posted by diablobasher on Sun Jan 30th at 3:37pm 2005

Ack, ive done all this, but its still not appearing in Hammer. I followed the tutorial to the T before posting and pasted the files into many directorys, including the one you mentioned Leperous.

Do you think i may have not compiled it properly? i didnt get any error messages.

[addsig]



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 Re: Custom texture not apearing in Hammer
Posted by Leperous on Sun Jan 30th at 4:21pm 2005

Are they listed in Hammer but just come out black, or are they not there at all? If it's the former, then you have a problem with your VMTs (or other texture compile stage), and if it's the latter you have a configuration/directory problem (if you're mapping for HL2DM, try putt them in the hl2mp/materials dir). Also try finding a map with some custom textures- try one of the space platform levels recently posted here as they both come with custom skyboxes- and see if you can get those working.



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Posted by diablobasher on Sun Jan 30th at 4:29pm 2005

There not showing up at all, ill download some of the maps and give it a try, see what i can do. [addsig]



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Posted by diablobasher on Sun Jan 30th at 4:35pm 2005

I cant find any Space Platform levels, which ones do you mean? [addsig]



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Posted by French Toast on Sun Jan 30th at 4:43pm 2005

There is one, I think it's dm_agora.

Or, you can get the one from the front page of the site, its called dm_tribute and its near the bottom of the home page. [addsig]



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 Re: Custom texture not apearing in Hammer
Posted by diablobasher on Sun Jan 30th at 5:28pm 2005

I downloaded them, and there was no textures in them.

Im really confused now, ive put my textures almost everywhere but in the GCF..

Has anyone else made a texture for a MOD?

if so, where did you put it?





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 Re: Custom texture not apearing in Hammer
Posted by Leperous on Sun Jan 30th at 6:41pm 2005

*sighs* DM Tribute comes with custom skybox textures (or at least it used to, open up the BSP with WinZIP or WinRAR or something)



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Posted by diablobasher on Sun Jan 30th at 6:53pm 2005

Theres only a .bsp, ill keep experimenting for now





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Posted by brett5010 on Sun Jan 30th at 8:23pm 2005

DAMNIT im having the EXACT same problem as diablo. Nothing appears in hammer ::::::::::::smiley((((((((((((




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Posted by MJCS-gTFC- on Sun Jan 30th at 8:47pm 2005

Try using this program http://www.hlgaming.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=608. It might make things easier to use. I believe it puts the files in the correct folders after it creates the vmf files.



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Posted by brett5010 on Mon Jan 31st at 7:04am 2005

Could you at least explain how to use texgen? It downloaded the direct .exe and it didnt even have a readme...




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Posted by diablobasher on Mon Jan 31st at 8:09am 2005

Use VTEX, ive cleared the problem now, they must be in th eMOD folder, my mods source folder in the C drive, and the HL2 folder, that and i recompiled the texture, dunno what the problem was. Kinda like the SDK i suppose.

Try recompiling the textures in Vtex.

[addsig]




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