Issues with overlaying materials

[atrblizzard]

I'm trying to overlay a material onto a model entity, but I can't get the material to work at all. I'm using ForcedMaterialOverride under DrawModel but it seems there's no dice. The UnlitTwoTexture method would be suitable for me as well to achieve the results I need, although it won't read any proxy values from $texture2.
Is it possible to apply my own sine proxy values to my entity without the need to overlay a second entity for that?
That way I can enable it or disable it without issues.

[Sandern]

Can you post your DrawModel function and show how you initialized your material?

[atrblizzard]

It's from a tutorial but from what I understand, it's for overlaying a transparent material on top of the model's material.

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int C_ItemContainerAnimated::DrawModel( int flags, const RenderableInstance_t &instance )
{
   int retVal = BaseClass::DrawModel(flags, instance);

   if ( m_bGlowEnabled )
   {
      modelrender->ForcedMaterialOverride( materials->FindMaterial( "hud/lockhighlight_locked", TEXTURE_GROUP_CLIENT_EFFECTS ) );
      int retVal = BaseClass::DrawModel( STUDIO_RENDER | STUDIO_TRANSPARENCY, instance);
            modelrender->ForcedMaterialOverride(0);
      }

      return retVal;
}

It's also setting SetRenderMode(kRenderTransColor) from the server code along with these:

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void CItemContainerAnimated::EnableMaterialGlow(int r, int g, int b)
{
   SetRenderColorR(r);
   SetRenderColorG(g);
   SetRenderColorB(b);

   m_bGlowEnabled = true;
}

I doubt these are the necessary effects, not to mention they do not work at all for my case.

[atrblizzard]

I've managed to get the desired effect using sine proxies to change the material's color for the fridge model by switching the model's skin from regular to highlighted but it's definitely not a effective solution to use for every entity.