Custom texturing with alphas?

[johnmedz]

Hi all
I am currently working on a project for half life 2 and i was wondering how to make a texture where the alpha can be "painted" in hammer. Is there a tutorial or someone that can help me with this? thanks a ton!

johnmedz

 

[johnmedz]

hmmm... seems this search is harder than i thought. couldnt find any on wiki or searching these forums and snarkpit has been down forever. guess ill keep looking. if anyone can help, please let me know!

 

[Raeven0]

http://www.editlife.net/tutorials.php?id=14#creating

 

[johnmedz]

wow, thanks for the link. forgot to check editlife. durka durka. anyways, i was also wonder if source supports alpha displacements. What i mean is, can you create an alpha displacement map, say with photoshop, in your texture that you can use to paint a displacement. I saw this feature in the unreal3 engine video and was wondering if source was capable of this. I hope i clarified this technique im talking about.

johnmedz

 

[FireCrack]

^ i dont think this is possible, displacements arent heightmap based objects.