Custom texture not apearing in Hammer

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

:razz: Theres only a .bsp, ill keep experimenting for now

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

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.

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

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.