IN THIS THREAD I WILL ANSWER YOUR SOURCE QUESTIONS

Quote from skdr

Is there any documentation for the shaders? How do I make my own shader for the objects?Also, why does the game set mat_fullbright "1" when I load my map. I run BSP, VIS, RAD and LIGHTS - all of them.

Also, can you please explain whats effect is done with shadow_control?

Thanks in advance Zaph

it did that to me when i was running rad with -extra, try -normal

Quote from Pericolos0

then learn how to modelits essential!!!!!!

True!

Let me ask you if Half Life 2 is using real-time shadows and lighting or pre compiled or something.

:-o

pre-compiled

Quote from kleinluka

pre-compiled

Yeah, but you can have dynamic spotlight-esque stuff that swings about etc.

Quote from Tequila

True!

But there is no good tutorials for us mappers, its like hard to learn how to model... I think some super wise mapcorian guy should make like 2-3 tutorials, made especially for ol' mappers such as us, written so we understand it... with some basic tips and hints.. "how to make a chair" "how to make a pipe" etc...

and we could put it into a new section called guides, where posts that also has guide-like stuff in them goes...

I want a guide forum :D:D (every decent design communties got one)

Does anyone know where some good tutorials are on the basics of displacement maps?

I figured out how to create them, and sort of paint the heights. But it sucks! I can't find out how to paint multiple layers of terrain on a DM. I can't figure out how to view the terrain in wireframe, editing terrain in textured view sucks!

Sometimes I manage to alter the angle of the height paint tool. So it pushes at an odd angle.

Zaphy?

Also, how to make glass? I tried func_breakable but my brush keeps reseting to brush. !

Quote from Bic-B@ll

edit: i was jsut able to use hammer on my dads steam accout and i did a quick configure and then it said:

unable to find gameinfo.txt relative to *.solutions

and then hammer closes, can i somehow fix this?

Quote from Bic-B@ll

I had that too so I copied the gameinfo.txt from sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content to where it was saying it needed to go

My terrain seems to be working reasonably well, stiched some together earlier and that worked ok, but what does the smoothing group stuff do? Doesn't seem to have much of an effect that I've noticed..

Edit : On and this is a supremely stupid question which I will probably work out the asnwer too once I've psoted this, but how do I scale models?

eh...

I'm sure it said somewhere that you could. Fuck. That stuffs me over slightly. :x

http://www.romeojguy.com/hl2world/CSSHammer.rar

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is it possible to make mirrors in source?

Hey Zaph...

I'm trying to get a model ingame. It worked perfectly so far but I can't get the transparent parts look transparent. I made an alpha channel in Photoshop.

Here is how my vmt file looks like :

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"VertexLitGeneric"{

"$model" "1"

"$basetexture" "models/insurgency/t72_burn"

"$surfaceprop" "metal"

}

How it looks in Hammer :

[Blocked Image: http://users.pandora.be/desert/delaz/prob.jpg]