prop/texture but no prop

Hi, I have seen in levels models like the glowing green exit sign (props/plasticexitsign991b) or the locker (props/metallockers003a) but apon opening all of the models folders I can not find them anyware. Now as props they have to be a model, but I cant find them, I was thinking of using them as textures but in my experiance they turn out black when using a prop for a texture. Does anyone know where the models are for these phantom prop textures or if its okay to use them just as normal textures?

I don't know where the exit signs (apparently nowhere) are but the lockers are under city17.

No sorry you missunderstand, I dont want to know where they are in single player, im talking about where is the model in the model folders for level editing? I have seen those used in multiplayer or single player but I cant find the model for them. Are they just blocks with the prop/texture as a texture or are there other models in a different section of the main folder becouse its not under city17 wasteland lab or any of the other model folders.

models/props_c17/Lockers001a.mdl

It is under the city17 prop folder, that's what I meant to say. :smile:

there's more than a few of these textures get used on scene models where its most of a room or lab gets made as a single model, rather than used on individual props.

if you want to use a texture that has been made for a model, you'd need to open the textures .vmt file and change the shader type from vertexlitgeneric to lightmappedgeneric, and save it with a new filename.

---

i eat paint

That locker model is not the one in the textures file. I saw on dm_firth that they used the prop model of the exit sign over a door, I checked my model folders but I cant use it, did they just take the texture or is there a hiddel model folder someware with all the other model textures, I have noticed a lot of computer system textures as well that are not used in models but are under props/

fishy said:
if you want to use a texture that has been made for a model, you'd need to open the textures .vmt file and change the shader type from vertexlitgeneric to lightmappedgeneric, and save it with a new filename.

he'd have to extract it from the .gcf file first though

---

These words are my diaries screaming out loud

i think its materials that begin with model/ cant be used there are some that start with prop/ and they can be used with out problems.

My god your a genius hugs

Well... I have used those several times... as textures :-P

Btw, you can always decompile the map you saw them in and check out how they were done :wink:

---

HL2 tutorials 'n' stuff: http://madedog.pri.ee
217.159.236.34:27050 - CSS Server - Clean | koffer.ee

Generally "model" textures (those using the VertexLitGeneric shader)
can be used to texture brush-entities without problems (except for
func_details, which are special).

In fact they sometimes look better than LightmappedGeneric textures on
small func_physboxes, as they respond to lighting changes as the move
around, etc.

However, if you use them on worldbrushes or func_detail brushes, you'll
get the "flashing black" problem as the player moves around the level.

---

VMEX, Pakrat & Entspy