Guys .... Help meh ;(

[lePobz]

You wouldn't understand how stressed I am right now, i've got an absolute mountain of work to get through in the next couple of weeks

I know this is probably breaking some forum rule or something but can anyone reading this with some source texturing skill just go here and help me out: http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72090

Mods, sorry for doing this but I just need to get this crap done before I go insane from stress... (and yes, this is part of uni work).

 

[Danimal]

I thought this was another "My girl friend broke up with me" thread...

This will probably be closed.

 

[Adrien C]

Well, why instead of working are you here posting ?

 

[lePobz]

Because I can't progress much without getting this problem sorted, and its just stressing me out. It's 4:17am and i'm not in a great mood.

 

[Blakeb155]

Sorry, I can't help, I'm no good at this kind of stuff. This will be closed very soon... :

 

[lePobz]

I know it will be closed very soon, thanks for reminding me how useful these forms are for anything other than discussing boobies and buttsecks.

 

[Ranga]

I know it will be closed very soon, thanks for reminding me how useful these forms are for anything other than discussing boobies and buttsecks.

now this thread is definately gonna be closed. these forums are my life atm, and u don't wish to be insulting my life, do you?

oh, and i have no idea about the textures

(j/k, these forums aren't my life)

 

[Ames]

Multiple -vmtparam statements in the same Vtex command, like this:

"%sourcesdk%\bin\vtex" -shader LightmappedGeneric -vmtparam "$bumpmap" "sdk/bumpspecular_normal" -vmtparam "$envmap" "env_cubemap" sample_material.tga

This would create the following sample_material.vmt specifying parameters for a bumpmapped specular material:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
	"$baseTexture" "sample/sample_material"
	"$bumpmap" "sdk/bumpspecular_normal"
	"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
}

Is this what you need?

edit: wtf? this is just a spam thread for people who aren't even helping. :|

 

[lePobz]

Thanks a lot Shens! I owe you one.

 

[xcellerate]

let me help with the My girl friend broke up with me thing:

For sometime now I've suspected that my wife may be having an affair. You know the sort of thing. The phone rings, I answer, someone hangs up.
Recently she has started going out 'with the girls' a lot and when I ask which girls it's always "Just some friends from work, you don't know them".
I always used keep an eye out for her taxi coming home but now she always walks up to the apartment, although I can hear a car setting off as if she has just got out of one around the corner.
The other day I picked up her cellphone, just to see what time it was, and she went mental, screaming at me that I should never touch her phone again and why was I checking up on her.
Anyway, I have never approached the subject with her. I kind of think deep down I don't really want to know the truth.
But then last night she went out again and I decided that I would check up on her. I hid behind my car which I knew would give me a good view of the whole street so I could see which car she got out of on her return.
It was whilst I crouched behind my car that I noticed rust around my rear wheel well.
So my question is do you think I should take it into a body repair shop or should I try to repair it myself?

 

[Tr0n]

let me help with the My girl friend broke up with me thing:

For sometime now I've suspected that my wife may be having an affair. You know the sort of thing. The phone rings, I answer, someone hangs up.
Recently she has started going out 'with the girls' a lot and when I ask which girls it's always "Just some friends from work, you don't know them".
I always used keep an eye out for her taxi coming home but now she always walks up to the apartment, although I can hear a car setting off as if she has just got out of one around the corner.
The other day I picked up her cellphone, just to see what time it was, and she went mental, screaming at me that I should never touch her phone again and why was I checking up on her.
Anyway, I have never approached the subject with her. I kind of think deep down I don't really want to know the truth.
But then last night she went out again and I decided that I would check up on her. I hid behind my car which I knew would give me a good view of the whole street so I could see which car she got out of on her return.
It was whilst I crouched behind my car that I noticed rust around my rear wheel well.
So my question is do you think I should take it into a body repair shop or should I try to repair it myself?

Sorry to say dude...but thats been posted 2 times already.

Shoulda used search or somethin.

 

[Tantalus]

this is just a spam thread for people who aren't even helping. :|

Of course.

 

[xcellerate]

Sorry to say dude...but thats been posted 2 times already.

Shoulda used search or somethin.

...third time's the charm?

 

[Tr0n]

...third time's the charm?

Not on these forums it ain't.

 

[Kommie]

let me help with the My girl friend broke up with me thing:

For sometime now I've suspected that my wife may be having an affair. You know the sort of thing. The phone rings, I answer, someone hangs up.
Recently she has started going out 'with the girls' a lot and when I ask which girls it's always "Just some friends from work, you don't know them".
I always used keep an eye out for her taxi coming home but now she always walks up to the apartment, although I can hear a car setting off as if she has just got out of one around the corner.
The other day I picked up her cellphone, just to see what time it was, and she went mental, screaming at me that I should never touch her phone again and why was I checking up on her.
Anyway, I have never approached the subject with her. I kind of think deep down I don't really want to know the truth.
But then last night she went out again and I decided that I would check up on her. I hid behind my car which I knew would give me a good view of the whole street so I could see which car she got out of on her return.
It was whilst I crouched behind my car that I noticed rust around my rear wheel well.
So my question is do you think I should take it into a body repair shop or should I try to repair it myself?

Fix it yourself, I mean the freaking shops charge an arm and a leg....

or maybe you could give them your cheating wife's arm and leg?

Or you could steal a new car!

Why do people have to go around saying, "this will be closed soon!" Isnt that considered spam as well?

 

[lePobz]

Shens the hard part is in telling the materials thingy to use the alpha channel of my TGA as the mask for the specular reflections...

 

[lePobz]

The pink blocky patterned building on the left is what happens when I try to apply the mask as a seperate TGA (VTF) and the building covered in the specular crap is what happens when I use the alpha channel whilst selecting the default specular texture.

Why can't stuff just work?

 

[Ames]

The pink blocky patterned building on the left is what happens when I try to apply the mask as a seperate TGA (VTF) and the building covered in the specular crap is what happens when I use the alpha channel whilst selecting the default specular texture.

Why can't stuff just work?

add this stuff

"VertexLitGeneric"
{
"$nocull" 1
"$baseTexture" "..\blah"
"$translucent" 1
}

 

[Fat Tony!]

omg code meisters :O
/me runs

 

[Razor]

Can the mods do anything about the idiot spammers who just come into threads and make posts like "this thread is teh spamzor, it will be cl0s3d" and other ruining the thread as a bit of fun.

It has happened to two posts i have looked at today, both of which were not spam and both of which got crapped on by idiots.

Sorry for moaning . Goodluck with your problem LePobz

 

[Fat Tony!]

Razor has a good point, its very annoying.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Can the mods do anything about the idiot spammers who just come into threads and make posts like "this thread is teh spamzor, it will be cl0s3d" and other ruining the thread as a bit of fun.

It has happened to two posts i have looked at today, both of which were not spam and both of which got crapped on by idiots.

Sorry for moaning . Goodluck with your problem LePobz

report them and they'll get dealt with.

 

[Razor]

report them and they'll get dealt with.

Done and done, and done, and then done some more.

*expects warning for using "report insult" too much*

 

[lePobz]

OK, this is a cool effect and everything but why is my Alpha mask having no effect on the placement of the funky effects whatsoever?

I've saved the base texture as a 32 bit Targa with the alpha channel masking just the glass panels in the windows... i've created the VMT with this code: -

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$baseTexture" "huddsuni/cswwindows"
"$bumpmap" "sdk/bumpspecular_normal"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
}

"VertexLitGeneric"
{
"$nocull" 1
"$baseTexture" "huddsuni/cswindows"
"$translucent" 1
}

...and yet it still screws up.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

you can't have it lightmappedgeneric and vertexlitgeneric. Lightmapped is for world geometry. Vertex lit is for models

 

[lePobz]

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "huddsuni/cswwindows"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$envmapmask" "sdk/specular_mask"
}

So would you say this is right? (just for specular reflections on a flat texture) - bear in mind I only want this specular effect to be applied to the bits of the texture marked out on the alpha channel...

 

[lePobz]

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "huddsuni/cswwindows"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$basealphaenvmapmask 1"
}


Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Ames]

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture" "huddsuni/cswwindows"
	"$surfaceprop" "concrete" [b]//or whatever it is[/b]
	"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
	"$basealphaenvmapmask 1"
	"$envmapcontrast" 1
	"$envmapsaturation" 1
	"$envmaptint" "[ .75 .75 .75]"
        "LightmappedGenericDX8"
{
	"$envmaptint" "[ .25 .25 .25]"
}
}

This should work.

 

[lePobz]

Thanks for the help but it doesnt even compile with them settings ;(

 

[Ames]

Thanks for the help but it doesnt even compile with them settings ;(

That's not right. These are the normal HL2 settings for textures with alpha maps.

You sure you did everything else right?

 

[lePobz]

I'm very sure.

KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer: got } in key in file materials/HUDDSUNI/CSWWINDOWS.vmt
LightmappedGeneric,
KeyValues Error: LoadFromBuffer: missing { in file materials/HUDDSUNI/CSWWINDOWS.vmt
(*LightmappedGeneric*),

 

[Ames]

Well...here's another one. Not sure if it'll work though.

edit: self-illuminate the windows..:\...

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture" "huddsuni/cswwindows"
	"$selfillum" 1
	"$surfaceprop" "concrete" [b]//change this[/b]
}

edit2: take out the dx8 part from my previous one?

 

[lePobz]

Self illumination changes things into light-emitters like light entities ... I want to use specular lighting to reflect the sky cubemap on the windows... I know it's doable because valve have done it.

 

[lePobz]

I've done it

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "huddsuni/cswwindows"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$basealphaenvmapmask" 1
}

That is the code that works .... the only difference is that the 1 is outside the ""s instead of inside them ... and its taken me like 20 odd hours to find that out.

God, I hate code sometimes

Thanks guys, you've been great. Specially you, Pi|Mu|Rho

 

[Ames]

I've done it

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "huddsuni/cswwindows"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$basealphaenvmapmask" 1
}

That is the code that works .... the only difference is that the 1 is outside the ""s instead of inside them ... and its taken me like 20 odd hours to find that out.

God, I hate code sometimes

Thanks guys, you've been great. Specially you, Pi|Mu|Rho

/me shakes fist

stupid quote.

edit: You did do something wrong....:O

edit2: you wasted a few hours of my life too...

/me shakes fist

 

[lePobz]

Aww shens baby i'll make it up to you...

Here, have a picture of the finished article.