Please help me...

[Dodo]

Hi,
I dont know how to compile my own textures... ive done everything the "verc" says, and still they wont show up in hammer editor. Ive got the .VMT and the .VTF in the materials folder. sooo.... whats the next step I have tot take to get the f*cking texture ingame?
( and i'm NOT stupid, and dont start flaming me to death with that I must try it again and that i have to stop posting everyproblem I have ! )

 

[Some0ne]

copy it to the equivalent folder in the game's models directory.
for example if it were in "materials\sample" folder in sourcesdk or whatever, you put it in the "game folder\materials\sample"
eg. "counter-strike source\cstrike\materials\sample"

 

[Dodo]

ok... well, i dont know exactly what you mean... but you (SomeOne) brought me on a good idea, a had the tried textures in a folder of my MOD, but know ive put them in CS materials. Ive made a new folder (as1) and i changed the VMT..
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"lightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "materials/as1/achtergrond1"
}
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(achtergrond is background in dutch )
Now i'm going to see if it works... "wish me luck"

EDIT: nope... still the same stupid purple and black 64 x 64 f***ing texture !! :angry:

 

[PKR]

Edit: Sorry I missread your post.

 

[Dodo]

I DID IT !!! i think it was something to do with the .VMT. In the .VMT you have to put the exact path of the texture in the material folder. and you cannot just copy a .VTF into the material folder, it has to be put there by VTEX. i think. but thanks anyway !!

 

[Ti133700N]

If you want an easy way for converting textures you can use my VtexGUI utility : http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=56048&page=4&highlight=custom+texturing.

But, yes you can copy the files into the good directory and it will work. If you have some textures for HL2 in hl2/materials/concrete/ and you want to use them in your mod (MyMOD) then you would copy the entire concrete folder to MyMod/materials/ so that you would have MyMod/materials/contrete (with some vtf and vmt files in the concrete folder).

 

[Tsurphr]

Uhhh, dude you got me all hyped about this vtexgui thing and then you don't even offer it up for download. WTF ? I'm a noob modeller and I'm having difficulty using vtex and I would love to have a gui program to do it. You suggested that he use it, but where's the link? Don't tease us man.

 

[Dodo]

i hate vtex... cant someone make a GOOD tutorial how to use vtex ?!

this is the big question ! must the .vmt and the .vtf be in a subfolder ?

edit: like in "materials/sample/sample.vtf"

 

[Ti133700N]

The link was somewhere on the page, sorry if it wasn't clear. I'll give you the direct link: http://www.syxenz.com/VTEXGUIv04Beta2.zip.

Btw, don't email to that web page, it's not mine.

 

[Dodo]

ok, ill try the GUI...

 

[thereisaspoon]

u dont put /materials/ in the basetexture path, thats whats wrong.