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lightOfDay on September 16, 2013, 11:37 pm
I told myself I'd never do this. I would use my ultimate ninja skills, and if all else fails I would find it without posting. So much for that. Let's just say I have a map, that's a sequel to a pretty popular map, that is the sequel to a kinda sort of not really popular map...I am using a custom texture for the test chamber sign (I think I might post a tutorial since I've never seen it done the way I'm doing it), and it loads into Hammer fine, and the animation entities that I set up for it work like a charm. But when I close and reopen Hammer, the texture is replace with good ol' purple checkers. It finds the texture, but it defaults to 64x64 pink checkers. If I don't touch it, the texture recompiles fine. If I go into the texture browser, browse to my texture, and click reload, it turns into a version of my texture that's 64x64 (my texture is 512 x 1024, so it's not even square), and the thumbnail goes completely white. If I choose to fit my texture (or edit it's allignment in some other way) and then reload again, it fixes itself. It's not that big of a deal, since I technically can just ignore it, but it's annoying, distracting, and makes editing a room with this texture difficult. I've never seen or heard of this happening. Any ideas?
I told myself I'd never do this. I would use my ultimate ninja skills, and if all else fails I would find it without posting. So much for that. Let's just say I have a map, that's a sequel to a pretty popular map, that is the sequel to a kinda sort of not really popular map...I am using a custom texture for the test chamber sign (I think I might post a tutorial since I've never seen it done the way I'm doing it), and it loads into Hammer fine, and the animation entities that I set up for it work like a charm. But when I close and reopen Hammer, the texture is replace with good ol' purple checkers. It finds the texture, but it defaults to 64x64 pink checkers. If I don't touch it, the texture recompiles fine. If I go into the texture browser, browse to my texture, and click reload, it turns into a version of my texture that's 64x64 (my texture is 512 x 1024, so it's not even square), and the thumbnail goes completely white. If I choose to fit my texture (or edit it's allignment in some other way) and then reload again, it fixes itself. It's not that big of a deal, since I technically can just ignore it, but it's annoying, distracting, and makes editing a room with this texture difficult. I've never seen or heard of this happening. Any ideas?
I told HMW a year ago I would release a map...I like to keep my word.
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lightOfDay on September 17, 2013, 12:13 am
EDIT: Oh, that copy... how'd that happen?!? I swear I didn't do that...
EDIT2: How is there FOUR copies of this?
EDIT: Oh, that copy... how'd that happen?!? I swear I didn't do that...
EDIT2: How is there FOUR copies of this?
I told HMW a year ago I would release a map...I like to keep my word.
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lightOfDay on September 17, 2013, 5:02 am
I got it figured out. I thought I would share my findings, just in case someone else runs over this same problem. Take a look at these two VMT files. The first is a fairly standard metal material, the second is my custom material:
"materials/metal/black_metal_floor_001a.vmt"
[spoiler]LightMappedGeneric
{
$basetexture "metal/black_floor_metal_001a"
$bumpmap "metal/black_floor_tile_001c_height-ssbump"
$ssbump 1
$reflectivity "[ 0.6 0.6 0.6 ]"
$envmap "metal/black_wall_envmap_002a"
hdr
{
$envmap "metal/black_wall_envmap_002a_hdr"
}
$envmaplightscale 0.6
$normalmapalphaenvmapmask 1
$envmapcontrast 1.0
$envmapsaturation 0.2
$envmaptint 0.3 0.3 0.3
"%noportal" 1
$detail "detail/detail_blackfloor"
$detailscale 4.2
$detailblendfactor .6
$detailblendmode 7
"%keywords" "portal2 noportal chamber"
}[/spoiler]
"materials/lightofday/{SPOILER}/{SPOILER}.vmt"
[spoiler]LightMappedGeneric
{
$basetexture lightofday/{SPOILER}/{SPOILER}.vtf
$surfaceprop glass
$selfillum 1
$frame 0
"%noportal" 1
"%keywords" "testsign chamber [SPOILER]"
Proxies
{
ToggleTexture
{
toggleTextureVar $basetexture
toggleTextureFrameNumVar $frame
toggleShouldWrap 0
}
}
}[/spoiler]
Notice the difference? Well I didn't. 
Sorry for cluttering the forums. If I knew what happened I would say I won't do it again, but I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what happened. Thanks for you support.
I got it figured out. I thought I would share my findings, just in case someone else runs over this same problem. Take a look at these two VMT files. The first is a fairly standard metal material, the second is my custom material:
"materials/metal/black_metal_floor_001a.vmt"
Spoiler
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"materials/lightofday/{SPOILER}/{SPOILER}.vmt"
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Notice the difference? Well I didn't.
Sorry for cluttering the forums. If I knew what happened I would say I won't do it again, but I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what happened. Thanks for you support.
I told HMW a year ago I would release a map...I like to keep my word.
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lightOfDay on September 17, 2013, 6:33 pm
The problem has absolutely nothing to do with the texture I was making or the light board tutorial I will be making. It's simply that, as you can see by the bolded lines, I added ".vtf" to the end of the texture path. This works just fine for Portal, but Hammer chokes on them, requiring a little prompting to get the texture to load. Removing the ".vtf" makes everything work as expected. 
The tutorial will be more of a "here's how to make everything look like the original signs" then a ground-breaking revelation. I will link to it from here if anyone's interested.
The problem has absolutely nothing to do with the texture I was making or the light board tutorial I will be making. It's simply that, as you can see by the bolded lines, I added ".vtf" to the end of the texture path. This works just fine for Portal, but Hammer chokes on them, requiring a little prompting to get the texture to load. Removing the ".vtf" makes everything work as expected. The tutorial will be more of a "here's how to make everything look like the original signs" then a ground-breaking revelation. I will link to it from here if anyone's interested.
I told HMW a year ago I would release a map...I like to keep my word.
useful tools and stuff here on TWP 
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