Apply textures to curved surface

[Mr. Happy]

Try again, and read the tutorial more carefully.

[DeathProdigy]

To think of all those hours i wasted with crummy results.

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[waisted menkey]

perhaps this is a silly thing to say, but it might be easier to initially understand if the images scaled to full size. when I first read the tut I was like "what does he mean by the edges first?" then after closely examining the images i noticed that the edges were textured. A larger format image might make that more apparent.

i will have to give this a try because i have a curvy road coming soon to a map near me

[MayheM]

The first time i tried this i was all confused i though it was not working. then i realized i was not right clicking, i was left clicking... slap hand to face... doh!!!

[LEEE]

I'm really stuck on this, i just cant seem to get it to work at all it just applies the texture normally is there any common pitfalls i may be falling into?

[Valar]

let me know if you're still stuck on this...i was too and figured it out in the end

[BrokenTripod]

Why is this never, ever mentioned anywhere?

I've been mapping for 3+ years and I have never discovered this before. Not even mentioned anywhere. This is why all my maps are so rectangular.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[Zedsdeadbaby]

Dumb question, but how did you do the curved road like that? I used two cylinders for vertex reference and while it resembles a curved road pretty well it's nowhere near as clean and neat as yours. I presume it's the arch tool.

edit: yeah it is, arch tool with 90 degree arc, wall width half the width of the road. It's perfect and dead on. I really shouldn't ask questions before even trying things out in Hammer first. :p

[uuk]

hey.. im kinda nubbish right now.. but i was wondering, how exactly did you make your curve brushes.
cuz when i make my curved brushes.. ther different, and dont work for this tut. :\

[iamhoops]

Hello,

I am a confirmed lurker, but I have been mapping for CS:S and HL2 since they were released, and I love interlopers. What a great site! Despite my nature, I just had to post something here. I realize that this tutorial is years old, but this technique is insanely useful once you know how to do it, and no offense to it's creator, but there are some major gaps missing in your explanation.

When you alt-right-click a texture, you have to make sure that the last texture you applied is left clicked (highlighted in red). It works something like this:

Apply texture to your uncurved surface.
Left click it.
Alt-right-click it's edge, then left click the edge.
Alt-right-click the adjacent edge, then left click.
Proceed this way until you have completed the edge of the curve.
Left click the edge of the surface you want to add and then alt-right-click the top. Do this all the way around.

Alternatively, you could alt-right-click your surfaces as you go along the edge, but just make sure the edge of the surface you're alt-right-clicking is selected.

Maybe some people have hammer set up differently so they don't have to do all that left-clicking, but if this technique isn't working for you, you probably need to left-click.

Also, kind of a no-brainer for experienced mappers, but you can't carve a curved edge and expect this to work, and you can't do this with a single shape, like a cylinder. For each edge that you click, it needs it's own surface to go along with it. Like others said, the arch tool works well for this.

I actually learned this technique this morning, but it would have taken me 5 minutes instead of 20 if I'd known this information from the start.

[MayheM]

yeah, by far this was the most useful thing I learned when it comes to mapping. I actually can not remember when i learned it for the first time but I do recall a sense of absolute euphoria when I realized how simple it would be from that point on to apply textures in a perfectly aligned way and how I would never again have to eyeball as i rotated the texture for each segment of the curve.

[Grinya]

Thank to iamhoops!!! ))

[communic]

Hardest Tutorial ever, Still haven't worked it out. My texture doesn't go around the curve.

EDIT, Worked it out xD Gosh thats so simple.

[Zabiela]

EDIT, Worked it out xD Gosh thats so simple.

FUCK man... I saw your post and spent the last 20 minutes making better screenshots with text to explain.

Yeah- its simple right? I lol'd when you wrote hardest tutorial ever.

Anyway, cant waste this now:

[Snownation]

Didn't realize my tutorial created so much interest.
I apologize for the lack of proper instructions, but I'm sure the above poster has sorted it out for most of you.