black texture

Ok well this is a newbie question yet again!! But thats what I am liking about this board!!!

Anyways I am making a fence... and using the half-life 2 texture set to do this... anyways I have for my fence 2 posts sticking out of the ground with 2 wood cross members on one side that are all textured and working fine with the same texture of a dark wood... well the ACTUAL fence portion.. the planks that make up the fence I used a different text props_woodfence1a is the texture name... i applied the texture in hammer and it seems to work fine... then I went and tested the map out...as i do alot cause I am new to this mapping stuff and so I am checking out the features and tricks as i go along... but anyways when I got to play my map the fence boards were black... and now when I go back to the editor and look at them they are also black? Anyone know where I went wrong? Or what might be happening with this texture set ...cause if I apply something other then the solid fence texture to it ... it seems to work again... but I dont really WANT a grass fence!!! LOL

I was half tempted to give you a blank post you know =P

Uh, it sounds like you're trying to apply a texture to a model? I don't think Hammer/HL2 can cope with that. O_o

no its not a model... I am using the block tool and just kind of putting things together to LOOK like they should.... still using everything inside Hammer to create this... and it seems now that I have used this texture it wont apply to a simple box anymore without it just turning black on me

Check the console in game -- are there any "red" messages?

And is the compile log giving you any errors?

ok I dont know what happened here but I compiled the map then loaded it.... no errors in the compile and the only thing I get in the loading of the map is "
env_cubemap used on world geometry without rebuilding map. . ignoring: concrete/concretefloor033k" but thats not even the texture I am talking about... but I wanted to see if other things worked in the world like my breakable glass... so I used the cheap give weapon_crowbar to break some glass I made... and blammo... my texture for my fence was there... weird eh? But it still doesnt show in my editor!!?!?!?!

I dont get your problem.
Try uploading screenies instead of long story's :smile:

No clue either.

You say you are using props for fence boards.....right? then you say that those props are black.....right?

Explain better this time......

Because you are using a prop_####### the texture won't work as it is a prebuilt model to be used in game, therefore has more properties than just a texture. When it compiles it won't use the prop_####### texture. Use a different one that isn't a prop and all should be fine