[article] Converting Wads to HL2

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Convert those old wads to HL2

When I run the convert WAD-> VMT I get this

Total solids:...................550
Total faces:..................3353
Total Decals:.....................0
Total conversions:.........3353
Succesfull conversions:.......0
Skipped conversions:......3353
Conversion errors:..............0
Conversion warnings...........0

And all the brushes are still white. No custom textures. Not sure what Im doing wrong. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

You probably didn't put the Textures in the right directory. Where did you put them?

I put the materials folder in "sourcesdkhl2mp_sample_content" folder. There is a resizeinfo, VMT and VTF file inside the materials folder for each custom texture.

Humm, thats quite odd. That is the correct place. Did you happen to change one of the directories in hammer?

I havent changed anything in Hammer. In fact unlike the old worldcraft which had a directory on my C drive I cant even find where Hammer lives. I thought its just buried in the new Steam system. The map where these custom wad textures are used also uses standard textures from the original halflife.wad set. Might I try the same conversion using the halflife.wad and see if theres a problem with my textures that I made using Wally. Although I never had a problem with my FormWC1.wad of custom textures.

Now that I just read my post Im thinking you probably mean the Hammer game config directories and no I havent changed anything there and a quick check shows that things are how they should be.

If you send it to me I will see if it works on my computer if you want.

Thanks for the offer darkdruid but I have made some good progress on my end. I did have something out of place that I fixed and although I still cant get the map to show up with any textures applied I now see all my custom textures in the Hammer texture browser =). I also converted the old halflife.wad textures as well. As a side note I find it interesting that browsing the textures now is much faster with the huge addition of available textures. I would have thought the reverse would be true. When I just had the HL2 texture set only browsing them was very slow for some reason. Go figure! Anyway I appreciate your time and effort in regards to this matter and it looks like Im good to go now. Thanks again. WC

I am having the same problem as you were Worldcraft. What did you do to fix the problem? I followed the tut to the letter, (or so I believe) and my textures are not showing up in game or Hammer.

I'm trying to get the old (original HL1) wads over the hl2 but in vtex.exe I get this:

http://img142.exs.cx/img142/9634/helpme2xd.jpg

@Geusmyname: you forgot todo this

After the "C:Program FilesSteamSteamApps<username>sourcesdkinvtex.exe" you are going to add this C:hl1yourmodmaterialsrcwadname*.tga
(For me it would be C:hl1cstrikematerialsrccstrike*.tga)

look @ *.tga

It didnt work followed directions but to no success heres a pic of what it is now

http://img302.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newbitmapimage6gq.png

i use the on through steam so ??????????????????????????????

it comes up as a black and purple checkerboard

@ICHEY103, i've got that to now but vtex wont run here

Ok my fault. It runs now, double check your directorys

Good to see this... I have over 200 wad files on a CD somewhere that I used for HL1 mapping. Will be good to at least be able to salvage some of them for HL2 mapping. Haven't seen very many custom texture sets for HL2 out.

Great tut! Very helpful. Now i have over 6000 Half life 1 textures!