Problem with textures in-game
Hello,I'm new here, but just started to post today.
I'm fairly new to Hammer,but yet decided to go above and try making a custom water texture in VTFedit.
I made the texture in VTFedit, and the vmt in Notepad++ (Using a template. The "Custom_water" is the main texture and a placeholder for everything else)I placed the VTF's and VMT's in Portal/Materials.
My problem is that the water does not render correctly. In the Hammer Editor, the water appears solid white on the surface, but rendered correctly on the bottom (and animates? :s) In game, the water is rendered with pink and black textures like this.
Here's the code I used:
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"Water"
{
"$abovewater" 1
"%compilewater" 1
"$forceexpensive" 1
"$reflectentities" 0
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"%tooltexture" "/custom_water"
"$refracttexture" "/custom_water"
"$refractamount" "0""$reflecttexture" "/custom_water"
"$reflectamount" "2""$bumpmap" "/_normal_water_map"
"$normalmap" "/_normal_water_map""$surfaceprop" "water"
"$bottommaterial" "/custom_water"
"$bumpframe" "0""$fogenable" 1
"$fogcolor" "[63 214 225]"
"srgb?$fogcolor" "{63 214 225}"
"$fogstart" -1024
"$fogend" 0"$scroll1" "[.01 .01 .05]"
"$scroll2" "[-.025 .025 .075]""Proxies"
{
"TextureScroll"
{
"texturescrollvar" "$bumptransform"
"texturescrollrate" .01"texturescrollangle" 25.00
}
"WaterLOD"
{
}
}}
There were no compile errors when running the map. Could anyone help? 
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Thanks. The pink and black textures are gone, but the white texture on the surface still remains :s.
I haven't messed with texturing stuff in a long time, but I think that's because your "$reflecttexture" and/or "$refracttexture" are all the same as the base texture. Probably the reflect and not the refract.
Try looking up a tutorial on the VDC or Interlopers on how to make reflective textures. Also, you have cubemaps in the map and they've been built, right?
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I can't find anywhere how to make a reflective or a refract texture.
Use the default ones, custom ones do not work well, or at all.
To find these, look in source materials.GCF,nature folder, find a water VMT and copy/paste the relfect/refract parameters.
Use the default ones, custom ones do not work well, or at all.
To find these, look in source materials.GCF,nature folder, find a water VMT and copy/paste the relfect/refract parameters.
Beg to differ with you there, I've made a few custom refraction textures and they actually don't look all that bad. It depends on how good you can make the normalmap.
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Use the default ones, custom ones do not work well, or at all.
To find these, look in source materials.GCF,nature folder, find a water VMT and copy/paste the relfect/refract parameters.
Beg to differ with you there, I've made a few custom refraction textures and they actually don't look all that bad. It depends on how good you can make the normalmap.
Wait, you mean it uses regular normals? I thought they needed something...more...
Either way, making animated normals isn't simple, I can never get it to go slow; it is either choppy is I slow it and too fast if it is normal speed.
Oh well, thanks for the info!
Either way, making animated normals isn't simple, I can never get it to go slow; it is either choppy is I slow it and too fast if it is normal speed.
Oh well, thanks for the info!
Well, I just actually meant refractive textures, not water. I haven't tried making a water texture quite yet.
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