Source Mapping Tutorial 6 - Textures and Decals

[jamesjosephclarke]

Oh man, how snobby.

[FoxtrotJosh]

What a pretentious video

[73jakk]

lol deh cals

[MATTNATTMATT]

How would i make a bomb crater with like mud in the bottem?

[Timeline15]

lol wtf is with your voice

[MATTNATTMATT]

@Timeline15

its called an eccent.

[Timeline15]

@MATTNATTMATT

no , the accent is OK , but the voice sounds lik he just woke up and smoke weed all day

[MATTNATTMATT]

@Timeline15

its the accent. and he is relaxed.

[homsarshat]

I have a problem, I move a textured block, but the texture wont move. It just stays in the same position as it was in before. So I have to manually align the textures instead of simply moving the object. Any ideas?

[02dartda]

very useful thanks

[DickDatson]

what a raspy voice, I felt threatened...

[zomeraktiven]

How do u change sice and rotate the decals!? i have try but it doesent work!

Plz, help meeee!!!!!!!

[Vaatrad]

You need to use overlays instead of decals. I believe it's the button below.

[thegregster101]

@zomeraktiven untick line to world or watever its called

[trampofwar]

can anyone tell me why when i test the map in one building i have i cant see the floor or ceiling is juct black i messed around with lighting with no luck and tried different textures, but still no luck? and hammer cant find any errors so not that. thanks

[Vaatrad]

So you can see the walls then?

[trampofwar]

yer i can see the walls, is just one building floor and ceiling just black. rest of map is fine, any ideas very helpful? cheers

[Vaatrad]

I'm not sure what the problem could be. All I can recommend is rebuilding that building.

[trampofwar]

yer have done now, thanks for trying was strange , is fine now redone whole building.

[XDjohanmystXD]

@trampofwar Very strange.... I know you tried light, but try a spotlight in the ceilling...

[hellsgate700]

how do u make a block tool that is moveable?

[Vaatrad]

What do you mean by moveable? Making the brush a func_physbox will allow it to be knocked around by players and weapons. If you want it to move in a fixed way as if powered there are a number of options.

[hellsgate700]

yah that's whT I MEAN THX

[Tippeefewt]

Do you know how to make MOVING textures? But the texture does not move you. only the texture not the brush/block?!

I hope you know what i mean!

[Vaatrad]

I'm afraid I can't think how that is done.

[nigel101]

my decal wont let me rotate it, it auto goes back.

[Vaatrad]

You can't rotate decals. You can rotate overlays however. The overlay button is the next to the decal button, I think. It looks like a brick cube with a gren square on top.

[nigel101]

anyone else felt dirty listen to this video lol

[sadrvalmar]

Yeah I am working on a map and I am having some really bad problems with the overlay tool when I make an overlay it just goes black. Can you help me?

[Vaatrad]

Are you using decal textures? Does it appear black in Hammer on in game or both?

[sadrvalmar]

Wow, that was quick. Umm It only appears black in game. Btw, Thanks for the quick response

[Vaatrad]

Are you sure you are using decal or overlay textures? That's the only problem I could think of.

[sadrvalmar]

Yes, I am pretty sure I am using the right ones. If I can't get to fixing it I will record it and then you might have more info?

[ppitm]

I like hearing the author explain how to graffiti a wall with classical music playing int he background.

[ArchNME]

Is there a way to resize decals to make them larger or smaller?

[Vaatrad]

Try using the overlay tool instead [the green square on the brick cube].

[colin122222222]

i need help. i am trying to put my own personal decals on my map but when i put it on my server, no one else can see them except me. can you tell me what i am doing wrong? thank you

[peacewillcomesoon]

Ok, seriously, is this your actual accent? I'm British but this is ridiculous. Surely you are putting this on..?

Any way, great tutorials- haven't seen any as good as yours.

[MurrayTheMac]

Meh ... if I was to make tutorials, I'm pretty sure I would have an equally ridiculous accent. Some people just have it.

[stockietjuh]

Okay, nice vid :)

But with decals I use a background i found of the british, the decal works fine just one prob: i can see it trough the walls, like im standing behind a wall or in a building i still can see this decal on my screen.

Please advice :)

[Vaatrad]

You can either make the walls thicker or use the overlay tool (brick cube with a little green square on top) instead of the decal tool.

[stockietjuh]

Thanks for your help but it still doesn't work and I really like the background-picture :)

[justo151]

how would i get textures like the ones in simpsons maps (just plain colures)thanks

[Vaatrad]

You could try finding a white texture, making the brushes func_brushes and changing the colour setting or create/get your own plain colour textures and integrating them into the map see the following site:

developer(dot)valvesoftware(do­t)com/wiki/Bspzip

[justo151]

ok thank you

[aim0bitch90]

I Like the music. xD

[DanishGamer]

How do i make a signature. like saying made by me. or something like that..

[Vaatrad]

I don't know how to add custom textures but I think this site covers it:

developer(dot)valvesoftware(do­t)com/wiki/Bspzip

[nightmissle]

Is there any way to increase decal size?

[Vaatrad]

Not that I know of.

[nightmissle]

Alright. it's because I want a large graffiti on one of my maps, but the decal of it is very very small, and making a brush with the graffiti texture makes that 1 px border that can block players hugging the wall.

I'm trying to make a solution with vertexes, but it gets very messy.

[Vaatrad]

There are some fairly large graffiti decals.

[stryker204]

How do you add custom textures?

[Vaatrad]

Try this site:

developer(dot)valvesoftware(do­t)com/wiki/Bspzip

[Dustoxx]

Where can i find the "Fix Tool"?

(Whatever its called)

[Vaatrad]

Are you thinking of Alt+P?

[Wesley296]

how do you import textures? i want to import my spray into the map.

[Vaatrad]

Try this site:

developer(dot)valvesoftware(do­t)com/wiki/Bspzip

[shirgit]

do u know what my problem is when i have built a map and then the walls are white or the color they are from the begnning and it is inside a room so it should be black but the walls are there color can it be that the walls are white i have alsow added light to the room

[Vaatrad]

I am having trouble understanding you but the problem may be that the light is too bright.

[justo151]

how do i get the textures like in texture city and maps like that

[Vaatrad]

Try filtering for 'dev'.

[justo151]

thank you

[Shaho0]

Wich .wad files do you use, cauze i can't find the orange boxes with the 64x64 on em , you know what i mean ?

[Vaatrad]

I just use whatever files Source SDK loads.

[pivotonthemaster]

how do u costimize decals

[Vaatrad]

I don't know sorry.

[8ratchet8]

you can also "lock texturs"

[Entice]

How do I make a texture such as train tracks turn? Not like rotate 90 degrees, but start facing one direction then turn and face a different direction.

I'm not sure if I explained that very well, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to do.

[Vaatrad]

You will probably have to make the bend out of several brushes each with the tracks texture at a different angle to approximate a continuous bend.

[oggchogg93]

this has helped alot your videos are the best ive ever seen on sdk well done 10*

[campincarl2006]

can u make the decals bigger

[Vaatrad]

I don't think so.

[cssmapper]

thx this really helped me with sky textures because the sky was appearing in little boxes

[cardinails]

how do you put Decals in Source SDK.

etc.

JPG to VTF - then add it to Hammer.

i know how to make VTF in Photoshop.

but not how to put it in Hammer.

[Vaatrad]

I don't know either, I've never bothered with custom textures.

[greenday07ryan]

Google for using vtex.exe

[midran117]

um question is it jsut me or did the block sqwares were you place the brushs did thay get bigger? becus i can make steps but there HUGE!

[Vaatrad]

In Tut.1 I did say to use [ and ] to change the grid size.

[amiqqqq]

Now i got really serious problem i changed my vmf file name to asd.vmf and it changed itself for picture, is there any way to turn it back?Its the file for hammer so if not my map will just stay at version which i done before doing name change.

[Vaatrad]

I don't understand the problem.

[amiqqqq]

can u tell me which title it is then?

[Vaatrad]

'One Brush: Different Textures on Different Faces', 00:56.

[amiqqqq]

sorry im not english can u please explain it in words here basic please?

[Vaatrad]

The video explains it more easily than text could.

[amiqqqq]

how can we do outside of the texture for eg a brick but inside it a glass which u can see through?

[Vaatrad]

...That's one of the things covered in this tutorial.

[strykermb]

i dont know where to post this but here it goes, is it possible to make sparks appear?

[Vaatrad]

Try env_spark (a point entity).

[Urruko264]

Which propgram do you use to film what you're doing on your compie ? :O

[Vaatrad]

BB FlashBack from Blueberry Software.

[freakanator]

i found out y its cuz of a program im using lol

[freakanator]

nice video but when ive made my map the decals dont show up wat gives?

[Vaatrad]

I can't really think what would be causing that. See if they still don't work in a very simple map.

[PS3joecheatle]

lol great video u mad me laugh wghend u said "Graffiti or grids" lol

[nanithegreat]

can i ask does any1 know who this speaking is .. and if he has made any popular maps

[Vaatrad]

It is my voice on the tutorials and I have failed to make anything very popular. I never really promote my maps, I only make them for a bit of fun. I enjoy making maps which are aesthetically and technically beautiful but they tend to get boring after a while. The game-play aspects of map making are seperate from technical aspects which I deal with in these tutorials.

[strikeback7]

i want a double wall (different textures) and make on side glaas, i did that but i cant shoot through it, how can i make the wall so that i can shoot through it?

[Vaatrad]

Make it a func_illusionary (brush-entity) and then add a second brush of the same size right where the first brush is but with the 'clip' texture.

[Stamnessj]

tnx =)

[TacticalSiege]

Or try seeing if you set up Hammer correctly =-)

[Stamnessj]

Hmm... When i press Run Map, the small console appears and then this message hits the screen "The command failed. Windows reported the error. "The system cant find the wanted file" Do you can to continue?" What have i done wrong?

[Vaatrad]

Try refreshing the SDK content in the SDK menu.

[Myrkyd]

yo.. how do i make laser beams? length, color.. etc.

[Kainafar]

just put the file on ur desktop so it can find it