Grass sprite overlay majiggers

Ok I did browse the database and found this entry- http://www.snarkpit.com/forums.php?forum=6&topic=2604&highlight=grass&findpost=61069#post61069

Now I'm probably missing something here, but how do you know what textures support grass sprites or whatever? I'm using blenddirtgrass001a as my ground texture, so what should I write in my vbsp?

First person to give me an answer that works gets a cookie :biggrin:

The grass-sprites are a texture-based feature. Make a brush with the blendsandgrass texture. Then they will appear ingame. Also you will need to make it a displacement so you can invert the alpha and make it into grass instead of the defualt sand.

So doesn't it work for anything else? Can't I do a custom setup to use grass on the texture I've used?

I don't think there is a way. If you want to kep your current texture but have the grass sprites, you can copy-and-paste your current disp. surface, change the texture on the copy to one that has the grass, then make it 1 unit lower than the one you want to show. make sense?

you could also copy the texture you want to use and make a custom text file for it that and set it up to show grass.

blenddirtgrass001a.VMT contains:

"WorldVertexTransition"
{
      "$basetexture" "nature/dirtfloor012a"
      "$basetexture2" "nature/dirtfloor006a"
      "%tooltexture" "nature/blenddirtgrass001a_tooltexture"
      "$basetexturetransform" "center .5 .5 scale 1 1 rotate 0  translate 0 0"
      "$basetexturetransform2" "center .5 .5 scale 4 4 rotate 0 translate 0 0"
      //"%detailtype" "grassland1"
      "%keywords" "wasteland"
}

I don't see anything in there which defines it tbh, look elsewhere :/

//"%detailtype" "grassland1"'

That might be it, though it appears to be //commented?

This looked pretty interesting, and seems to say that "detailtype" is defo what needs to be looked at. http://www.chatbear.com/board.plm?a=viewthread&t=153,1102226027,24572&id=743483&b=4989&v=flatold

From an older post of yours rabbid :smile:

Already looked at that as I said in my first post... I just want some nice grass all over my level, looks a tad too barren...

Look at the link again, you haven't read that one as it tells you everything you need to know :rolleyes: