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How do i blend my textures?
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Posted by cheeseballz on Tue Mar 28th at 2:40am 2006

I have tried looking at the tutorials but they make no sense. It shows in the one i saw that you need to open up a notepad document and type in some stuff. Is there a way to do it in editor? my map looks terrible with all my textures streight side by side. Thanks




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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Mar 28th at 3:04am 2006

You can only blend textures on certain textures (EG: with the word "blend" in it). And it can only be done on displacement surfaces when those textures are to be used.



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Mar 28th at 10:01am 2006

Yeah sorry about that tutorial - it was written before the editor had support for it. Should probably go back and update that some day image As Omega said, you can only use blend textures on displacement surfaces, and to do it you use the "paint alpha" option of the displacement settings while using a texture that supports blending (in HL2/CSS, those will be the ones with "blend" in the name).



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Posted by cheeseballz on Tue Mar 28th at 11:38pm 2006

http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=3/8617361139.png&s=x11
How do i blend textures like those. When i try blend it just makes it darker. I want them to be together and look realistic not like those. Similar to a dirt path that isnt a block.




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Posted by ReNo on Wed Mar 29th at 12:59am 2006

I don't really know what you are doing with blending to make anything darker - its not a problem I've come across before I don't think. As such I'm not really sure what to say, other than have a search about and read as many tutorials on the topic as you can to get your head around the process. Here's another link to get you going - it seems like a pretty complete reference for displacement surfaces INCLUDING blending so should be of use to you.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Displacement

EDIT: Just something to keep note of in the future - try and keep image sizes down as much as possible when posting them. That image you posted was well over 700k, which was far larger than such an image needed. We do have some 56k users around so as a courtesy to them (and others I guess - that image took me a while despite my fast connection!) try and compress them as much as possible before posting. Under 100k is easy to do for most images below 800x600 without losing out on noticeable quality, and free programs like Xat are available to do it. Don't worry about it this time around, but just try and remember for next time, ta <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by cheeseballz on Wed Mar 29th at 2:55am 2006

oh im sorry, im used to my connection ^_^ instant dl for that pic. Ill make it .jpg and it will be around 100 kb. I like to have full quality.





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