Model Can't find textures no matter what.

[Smurftyours]

Today I made the beginners assumption that compiling my first prop into the Source engine would be easy, I was horribly mistaken. Aside from that, I followed this tutorial

http://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2/ ... -3ds-max-9

After following pretty much all steps I wen't to compile my model. It did compile perfectly fine, however it showed up in checkers even though the path was correct. I've spent several hours fiddling with it and even completely remaking the QC and SMD twice to no effect.

SMD
http://pastebin.com/4QWbG8LE

QC

Code: Select all

$modelname "props_rime/stonetrim2a_128.mdl"
$body "Body" "stonetrim2a_128.smd"
$cdmaterials "models/props_rime/"

$staticprop
$scale 1.0
$surfaceprop "Concrete"

$sequence "idle" "stonetrim2a_128" fps 30

$collisionmodel “stonetrim2a_128.smd”
     {           
          $concave
     }

VMT
VTFs and VMT are placed in materials/models/Props_Rime/

Code: Select all

"VertexlitGeneric"
     {           
          "$basetexture" "models/Props_Rime/Stonetrim2A_128_Diffuse"   
          "$bumpmap"     "models/Props_Rime/Stonetrim2A_128_Normal"
          "$surfaceprop" "Concrete"
     }

I also used MDLtextureinfo.exe to find out where the model is looking for the textures. And it pointed directly to "materials/models/Props_Rime/" So what the fuck did I do wrong?

[city14]

I'm not entirely sure about 3dsmax, but in Maya you need to use a tga file for your texture applied in maya.

Somewhere to start maybe...

[Smurftyours]

I've already tried various file formats for the texture referenced in the SMD.

[city14]

Have you made sure the texture loads in engine?

You know, try loading it up in hammer or something.

Maybe, your material in 3dsmax was setup wrong. Not just the file format, but maybe you need a specific material type, phong e or something....

[peegee]

Hi
Have a look in the stonetrim2a_128.smd file by open it with your text editor.
If you don't find "Stonetrim2A_128_Diffuse.tga" or "Stonetrim2A_128_Diffuse.vtf" in it,
that is maybe the reason for the checkerboard-error.
If this is the case just replace the all "namethatifound.tga" with "Stonetrim2A_128_Diffuse.tga",
save the smd file and compile again.

Hope this helps

[Guessmyname]

Hi
Have a look in the stonetrim2a_128.smd file by open it with your text editor.
If you don't find "Stonetrim2A_128_Diffuse.tga" or "Stonetrim2A_128_Diffuse.vtf" in it,
that is maybe the reason for the checkerboard-error.
If this is the case just replace the all "namethatifound.tga" with "Stonetrim2A_128_Diffuse.tga",
save the smd file and compile again.

Hope this helps

This. SMDs export with the names of the material files that are applied to them in editor; file type (ie psd/tga/whatever) doesn't matter, but the name does; it's what the engine will be searching for in $cdmaterials. So if you call it something else; it'll become confused. There is a $renamematerial qc option, or just do as peegee suggested above.

[Smurftyours]

Just showed up in MDLtextureinfo.exe that it is looking for the texture "Stonetrim2A_128_diffuse.vmt" Just gotta fix me some different VMT's and I should be good. Also I looked in my VMT after corrected the changes and still wasn't able to get rid of the checkers, turns out I had the name of the base texture "models/Props_Rime/Stonetrim2A_128_Diffuse" but the actual texture was "models/Props_Rime/Stonetrim2A_Diffuse" Its all good now and looking fine in HLMV.

[WhiteDevil]

when making models in 3dsmax the material you apply to the model before exporting it to .SMD has to have the exact name with the .VMT material you're going to be using with the final compiled model

It's a good thing to remember that in .QC file you only define where the material is located. In the .SMD file you define what name the material has.