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 Re: My custom texture is self illuminated
Posted by Karpov on Wed Oct 11th at 7:56pm 2006

here's the vmt

"lightmappedgeneric"
{
"$baseTexture" "blood/puertamauso"
"$surfaceprop" "brick"
}

when i'm in the game the texture looks like a light bulb or a tv screen, and it is not affected by any light. And my map is dark so it looks horrible.

that's all, thank you





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 Re: My custom texture is self illuminated
Posted by Campaignjunkie on Wed Oct 11th at 8:26pm 2006

Hmm. I don't see anything wrong. Maybe it's case-sensitive? Try "LightmappedGeneric" instead.

If that doesn't work, can you post a screenshot of what the texture looks like in-game? Host it temporarily on Imageshack or Photobucket or something.



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 Re: My custom texture is self illuminated
Posted by Karpov on Wed Oct 11th at 10:13pm 2006

I tried but nothing happened.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3268/wallillumto2.jpg

the room is illuminated with fire, so everything should be a bit orange or yellow, but the wall is not.

i'll try to edit one of the original textures and see what happens





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 Re: My custom texture is self illuminated
Posted by reaper47 on Thu Oct 12th at 10:31am 2006

Try opening an original, very simple, example texture from HL2 (make sure it's not a model texture or anything) and paste and copy all the values, just changing the names. Then try removing values until it works.

If it doesn't try using another basetexture. Maybe the tga source file for the VTF you are using isn't saved correctly (should be a 24 bit RGB picture). Maybe you forgot something there and the image is not correct?

Usually starting from scratch using some tutorial is simpler than checking every value.



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 Re: My custom texture is self illuminated
Posted by Karpov on Thu Oct 12th at 11:36pm 2006

I found something:

I have two game configurations, Half life2 and my mod. When open Hammer with my mod and compile the map the custom textures are alright but not the HL2 ones. If I compile it with the Hl2 game configuration the custom textures are illuminated.
Could it be a problem with the game configurations?





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 Re: My custom texture is self illuminated
Posted by Campaignjunkie on Fri Oct 13th at 4:28am 2006

What AppID is your mod based on? Try switching the AppID in the gameinfo.txt to 220 temporarily. The Source SDK Base (AppID 215) might still be buggy.

Or, you could try putting your textures in half-life 2hl2materials and loading up the HL2 game configuration to see if they work correctly.

Both are ways to make sure it's not the actual texture files' fault but instead the game configuration problem.



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 Re: My custom texture is self illuminated
Posted by Karpov on Sat Oct 14th at 5:59am 2006

I placed the textures in the hl2/materials directory and compiled the map with the Half life 2 game configuration, it works just fine. And it also works if I delete the textures in the hl2 directory after I compile the map. it seems that I need to have the textures in the hl2 folder to compile it but not to play it.
I really don't know what causes the problem, but I found a solution. Thank you so much for all.






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