To the Point; I got a few issues that plague me currently. The keyboard controls for hammer have been changed to what i guess was their defaults. I have no idea how the hell I changed them in the first place. I need someone to tell me how to get my quick-key functions back like shift+left=copypasta

Second problem. Lost a ton of custom content. If I can't figure out where I got it before in the next hour, I'm coming back asking you guys for that too.

also managed to find just about everything for custom content too, except fully functional moving water textures for func_water_analog. I had this one texture but it was totally unrealistic. Any suggestions on that?

Fracture wrote:
please? (oops, doublepost. meant to click edit)

You can merge doubleposts easily enough. Edit the first post, paste the contents of the second post in, then edit the second post and checkmark the "DELETE" box at the top of the edit page.

I realise now i only have authoring tools and not the sdk

Fracture wrote:
i know nothing of these GCF files.
I realise now i only have authoring tools and not the sdk

Fracture, just go to your Steam/SteamApps/ folder and you'll find all pack files (.VPK) you have in your computer related to your Valve games. You can open them with GCFScape and even extract the materials to reuse / edit them.

I've been checking out all HL/HL2 water materials (I also checked "hazard_liguid" from Portal but it's too ugly), and I've found a really interesting material into source materials.gcf called "water_dx70_beneath.vmt" that makes use of an animated texture with 28 frames, and make them go changing with material proxies. Due to the fact that its look was like this:

I decided to extract all those 28 frames, then retint them (turquoise shade like), apply an aplha mask, save them as .tga and them import them all with VTFEdit again. The result is nice:

Attached you have all you need for the func_water_analog entity; there are 4 files:

• josepezdj_water_analog.vmt* = this is the above material and the one you should use on your top of your func_water_analog brush

- jose_turquoise_water_animated.vtf = the animated texture with the 28 frames in turquoise colour.

- water_movingplane_beneath.vmt = [taken from HL2] it's the bottommaterial

- water_moving_beneath.vtf = [taken from HL2] it's the bottom texture

(you don't really need any bottom materials even though a warning yellow message appears in the compile because the above material has the parameter $nocull 1 in and you can see the back of the above material from underneath the water)

Remember to place these 4 textures into portal 2/portal2/materials/josepezdj/water/ ......OR change all paths inside the .vmt files

Let me know if you can make it to work and if you like it... and/or post an in-game picture!

Whatever file your speaking of came from something i never downloaded. But seeing as how I finally got around to fixing my paypal account, i guess i can actually buy the first portal and both half lives and get all the other materials.

Also, another bug popped up from out of nowhere, I have a func_tracktrain that looks like it is having a seizure for no evidential reason. There is nothing even blocking it and its flagged as passable and unblockable

And downloading TF2 for free gets you the shared resources.