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Foofinoo 8 May, 2013 @ 2:28am

Add custom textures on Hammer

Hi guys, sorry for my English, I'm French...

I want just to know how I can add custom texture on Hammer, because when I put the textures in "materials", Hammer make a checked purple and black texture...
Please, help me...

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Lesha Lukash 8 May, 2013 @ 3:31am

How you create your texture files? Have you used VTFedit?

Foofinoo 8 May, 2013 @ 4:39am

Yes, I have it.
But I not create my custom texture, I download a pack of textures in GameBanana and there is the VTF and VTM files on the pack.
I put them on the "materials" folder of the game (Portal and Half Life 2) but it's always checked purple and black...

Snoopy 8 May, 2013 @ 7:21am

Textures cannot be placed just anywhere, they need to be in the location designated by the $basetexture entry in the .vmt file. Open the vmt in an editor (notepad) to see it's location in the materials directory structure.
Note that the $modelmaterial entry may reference a different file than the texture you're working with and would require the $modelmaterial to be present also...
"$basetexture" "Decals/bigshot1"
"$modelmaterial" "decals/bigshot1model"
The Decal 'bigshot1' requires the 'bigshot1model' .vmt and .vtf to be present.
hope this helps