Custom colored textures problems
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[/spoiler]Hello! It's quite sometime since I've played with Hammer and Portal 2. blame minecraft
Anyway, I've been trying to work with world portals and trying to make a frame for it.
The first thing I did was to edit a stock texture from the game, by adding a $color option to the .VMT.
The .VMT here:
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LightmappedGeneric
{
$baseTexture "Tile/white_wall_tile003a"
$surfaceprop metal
$bumpmap "tile/white_wall_tile003_height-ssbump"
$ssbump 1$normalmapalphaenvmapmask 1
$envmapcontrast 1
$envmapsaturation 1
$envmaptint .3 .3 .3
$detail "detailwhite_floor_detail_height-ssbump"
$detailscale 80
$detailblendfactor 1
$detailblendmode 10
$color "[0 0.31 0.52]"
"%keywords" "portal2 chamber"
}
However, I've encountered a small problem.
The texture works if it's a func_detail.
But, once I turn in into a func_brush, it shows the original texture, without the color.
And, shining a light using a flashlight to it shows the color when it's a func_brush.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here. If anyone knows, please do let me know. Thanks!
Hey, man! Welcome back! 
The possible cause might be in one (or the 2) of these params:
$detailblendfactor 1
$detailblendmode 10
In one hand, dim the detail a bit more: "0" means no detail at all while "1" means the detail being rendered fully and on top of your texture, try for example a value of "0.5" and continue from there 
And try different blend modes... each of them causes a type of blend between the basetexture and the detail. In the blend modes is important to check the alpha channel in both textures, because some of the blend modes play with the alpha mask to intensify one texture over the other. Also I don't think that the blend mode type "10" actually exists! :p
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The possible cause might be in one (or the 2) of these params:
$detailblendfactor 1
$detailblendmode 10
In one hand, dim the detail a bit more: "0" means no detail at all while "1" means the detail being rendered fully and on top of your texture, try for example a value of "0.5" and continue from there
And try different blend modes... each of them causes a type of blend between the basetexture and the detail. In the blend modes is important to check the alpha channel in both textures, because some of the blend modes play with the alpha mask to intensify one texture over the other. Also I don't think that the blend mode type "10" actually exists! :p
I derped up there. : I posted the wrong .VMT file in my original post. I've changed it to the one with the texture I'm using for the frames.
I still tried changing the params for both $details though, but none of the combinations worked.
Stop referring to your .vmts as .vmfs.
Also why not just do what omni did and use a custom texture.
Plastic/concrete isn't a very fitting material for portals anyway.
He is using a custom texture, hence the title of the thread.
Omni actually didn't create new materials for his world portals. One portal uses the stock fizzler texture and the other uses his physics-field from Retrospective. That's why they aren't the standard colors--I imagine if he had polished them up for release (rather than just creating them as an experiment) he would have redone them in (brighter) blue and orange.
The thread title says "custom colored textures problem" not "custom textures color problem."
He even said in the description that this is just a stock texture with a modified .vmt.
Also my point still stands about concrete not being a very fitting portal texture. And omni using custom stuff.
Like I said,
It's been awhile since I've played with source as a whole. I got confused trying to post this thread within a small amount of time.
Plastic/concrete isn't a very fitting material for portals anyway.
Haven't you been reading?
I was implying that I quickly whipped up a .VMT to test if the color worked. I am using the stock texture as a placeholder.
Also, this IS a custom texture. Textures don't only consist of the VTF, you know. Changing values of the VMT makes a significant change in the texture itself. Therefore, my texture is custom.
Texture is still custom.
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Well doesn't that just proves your ignorance.
Alright I don't know if you just deliberately ignored this or what but it's pretty obvious that when I said "custom texture" I was referring to something that was actually custom made and also fitting for a portal material.