Blend Textures:

Make them?

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Its fairly easy, though I haven't actually made one myself. Basically
you just make your two VTF's of your chosen terrain (or whatever two
textures you want to blend), and then reference them both in a VMF file
and tell them to blend. I cracked open one of valve's HL2 blend
materials and here was the contents...

"WorldVertexTransition"

{

"$basetexture" "nature/cliffface002a"

"$basetexture2" "nature/dirtfloor002a"

"%tooltexture" "nature/blendcliffgrass001a_tooltexture"

"$basetexturetransform" "center .5 .5 scale 2 2 rotate 0 translate 0 0"

"$basetexturetransform2" "center .5 .5 scale 4 4 rotate 0 translate 0 0"

"%keywords" "wasteland"

}

Obviously the first two parts reference the two VTF files you want to
blend between, while the third property lets you specify the texture
that should be shown in hammer's texture browser. The next two let you
tweak how the textures are placed in relation to each other it seems.
The keyword property just lets you give a term that can be picked out
easily in the texture broswer.

Hope that helps.

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Any reason why

"WorldVertexTransition"
{
"$basetexture" "TextureTest/lej_dirt"
"$basetexture2" "TextureTest/lej_grass"
"%tooltexture" "TextureTest/lej_grassdirt_tooltexture"
"$basetexturetransform" "center .5 .5 scale 2 2 rotate 0 translate 0 0"
"$basetexturetransform2" "center .5 .5 scale 4 4 rotate 0 translate 0 0"
"%keywords" "lejnats"
}

shouldn't be working? Both the textures referenced exist.

is it appearing in hammer at all? purple checks? tried alpha painting to see if both textures are borked?

the .vmt looks ok.

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i eat paint

Try creating a couple of basic lightmapped_generic VMT's for the
textures to test if they work on their own - at least that will let you
see if the problem is in the blend VMT or something else.

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Doesn't look like you have a "lej_grassdirt_tooltexture.vtf", which
means the VMT is referencing a VTF that doesn't exist when it looks for
the texture to use in hammer's texture browser. I'm guessing the
texture blending works fine, it just doesn't show up right in the
browser?

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Thank you, master Reno, it works now.

ReNo said:
Its fairly easy,.... and then reference them both in a VMF file and tell them to blend.

For my reference, can you clarify this one point Duncan?

I do not wanna make any custom textures, but I would like to know how to say, blend grass and rocks, or grass and a path of dirt.

A tutorial link would suffice.. I am just curious.

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