Menu background

[andy4729]

I've created 2 menu background maps (For the 2 chapters of my mod) and along with that I have the still image backgrounds, one for normal res and one for widescreen (although they're both 1024x1024px - is this wrong?). You probably know that the still images are what appear when the background map is loading and I have used a simple blurred screenshot from those background maps for my still images (Like Valve does/did).

For my the first chapter background it all works perfectly. However, for the second chapter background, the still image will appear for a second or two, then I'll get the dreaded black/purple texture and then the background map loads fine.

A check of console reveals this line:

--- Missing Vgui material console/chapter2_background

What I really don't understand is how the blurry background iamge can appear, THEN DISAPPEAR and give me an error saying it couldn't find it... wtf?

scripts/ChapterBackground text file:

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"chapters"
{
   1   "chapter1_background"
   2   "chapter2_background"
}

[Dives]

What does your .vmt for the background image have in it?

[andy4729]

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"UnlitGeneric"
{
   "$basetexture" "console/chapter2_background"
   "$vertexcolor" 1
   "$vertexalpha" 1
   "$ignorez" 1
   "$no_fullbright" "1"
   "$nolod" "1"
}

...and the vmt for the first one which works perfectly well:

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"UnlitGeneric"
{
   "$basetexture" "console/chapter1_background"
   "$vertexcolor" 1
   "$vertexalpha" 1
   "$ignorez" 1
   "$no_fullbright" "1"
   "$nolod" "1"
}

[andy4729]

From dev wiki:

hl2\scripts\titles.txt contains the chapter key values. A key value is created for each chapter in the game. These key values are put into the “Chapter Title Message” key in the Map Properties (also called worldspawn) under the Map Menu in the Hammer editor.

Does this mean I have to change parts of the titles.txt or not? o.O I'm not having the chapters titles appear whilst playing so I assume not?

[Mapster]

Usually no you don't have to change that file. but to me it seems you could have forgotten to put in a .vmt for the texture or didn't put in the correct details for it.

If this isn't the case then remember to convert it without alpha maps.

Last point that i can think of atm would be that you also need a map for the texture with the exact name.
So if you have a texture called dev_background_01, you will need a map with the exact name as well.

[andy4729]

Thanks Mapster.

I'm pretty sure everything is in place. I will fiddle in a while but for now I'm going to have a meeting with my uni supervisor. I put my mod on my external hdd so that I can show him it on my laptop. The thing is... It doesn't have the background problem on my laptop... This just gets weirder!

[cra0kalo]

Question does

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"$nolod" "1"

Actually do what its ment to do ?