Missing Textures

I have read many of the other topics, Followed the advice and still no textures.

I downloaded a wad file from the WadFathers site to use to make my map
with. I Converted the textures to a VMT file folder. I see the textures
when I am mapping, I see the texture when I compile. I even did that
buildcubemaps thing. When I send the BSP to a friend of mine he sees
the black and purple blocks of death, and not the pretty colors and
textures I used. If I host the map and people join, they also dont get
the textures.

Whats the process, what am I missing?

I also found this (
http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/winbspzip.php ) Im not quite
sure what it does or if I need it. It was suggested by the friend I
mentioned above as a fix to this issue.

Im pretty proud of this map, and want to share it with others.. but I
cant seem to get the custom textures to work. PLEASE HELP ME.

I really need some help on this.. please someone.. I have been on here all day, seen many of you come and go.. please help.

sorry, i cannot help, but is there any error messages when the map loads?

if the textures are missing, perhaps it is because it cannot find them. i am not sure if you can even wadinclude in HL2.

look for some sort of a message

You have to distribute the textures with your map; the best way to do this is to use some program that can 'compile' them into your BSP (there is a program that comes with the Source SDK that does this, check the sourcesdk/bin dir, and the program you mentioned along with WinRAR and others can do it too). Check out some existing maps for the directories, as it could be quite fiddly- I think you need them in a mapname/materials/yoursubfolder/ dir.

Thanks for at leaste letting me know you looked at my message and tried to advise. =(

Ok I downloaded the WINBSPZIP tool, used it and zipped the textures into the bsp, and still they dont show up.

I just dont understand why my textures wont show up.

I am about to uninstall Steam, and reinstall it just to see if I have a
faulty file or something. This problem is really bugging me.

I have zipped the file structure, folders, files everyting I am using,
placed it on a game server and when people join the server they
download the map, but get no textures.

Maybe I have my files in the wrong area when compiling? Where should
all textures and sound files be located when mapping ad compiling? so
that they get added to the bsp?

all this doesn't happen... but is there no messages telling you "hey dude, wheres my car... uhh textures?"

try the old cure that works.. build a small test map. one that compiles in 3 seconds.. recreate the issue and fix it. then you can go back and fix the big map.

ok Orph, I will give that a try.. but I still dont know whats wrong so I can fix it.

the thing is. if the textures are real and legit the engine should use them.

so thats telling me that it cannot find them. it has to be a path issue.

what i cannot understand is, why you are not receiving some sort of a message. it doesn't have to be blatant. it could be one of those you can only read if you pull down the console "~"

i have seen these sorts of messages about model textures that didn't load.

Is there anyone I can send the map to here and the textures and sound
file, maybe I have something set up wrong.. they can give it a look-see
and compile it and see if they have the same issues.

Now when I load it I see the textures, but when anyone joins they dont.. just the pink and black attack on the eyes.

I figured it out. Make sure that your textures, the files and folders
they are in are all lower case letters. Thats what the problem was.. I
had a couple capital letters for texture names, and for the folder they
were in.

Also make a rez file.. for the map. But the above is what my problem was. How silly, I was over looking the simplest of things.