Level Design Help Files

[Serialmapper]

Long story short: Since CSGO has a detail.vbsp file by default and has nice default detailesprites, I would like to use them on my custom blend materials. However from some unknown reason they don't work. Does anyone know how to make them work?

the vmt i use is:

"WorldVertexTransition"
{
    "$baseTexture" "nature/hr_c/hr_grass_001_color"
    "$bumpmap" "grass/hr_grass/grass_a_normals" 
    
    "$blendmodulatetexture" "nature/hr_c/hr_grass_001_blend"

    "$baseTexture2" "de_dust/hr_dust/hr_dust_ground_dirt_rough_01_color"
    "$bumpmap2" "de_dust/hr_dust/hr_dust_ground_dirt_rough_01_normal"                                
    
    $NEWLAYERBLENDING            1  
    $BLENDSOFTNESS                0.2 
    $LAYERBORDERSTRENGTH        0.3
    $LAYERBORDEROFFSET            0
    $LAYERBORDERSOFTNESS        0.2
    $LAYERBORDERTINT            "{94 68 47}"
     
    "$surfaceprop"                 "grass"
    "$surfaceprop2"             "gravel"
    "%detailtype" "detailsprites_house"

    "%keywords" "ground,dirt,blend"     
    
} 

the map properties are:

the default detailsprites are: 

Edited April 8, 2018 by Serialmapper

[Serialmapper]

bump

[zombi]

Make sure you have detail.vbsp in your game folder. Valve removed it long time ago for no reason. If you don't have, you can download it from TopHattWaffle website - https://www.tophattwaffle.com/downloads/detail-vbsp-pack/

[Serialmapper]

The default detail.vbsp file is located in the csgo folder, it hasn't been removed at all. I tried to use the ones from l4d2 provided in your link, but they don't work either. In CS:S they work and older versions of source engine, but in CSGO apparently they don't, and i want to find out why.

[Vilham]

Hey a bit of a necro but the first post in the thread now auto embeds stuff which totally breaks everything.

['RZL]

On 6/5/2018 at 3:26 PM, Vilham said:

Hey a bit of a necro but the first post in the thread now auto embeds stuff which totally breaks everything.

Fixed now! Had to remove one video about cs:go level design unfortunately, since it broke everything.

Anyway, did anyone find any resources in the meantime that we could add to the collection?

[poLemin]

32 minutes ago, 'RZL said:

Anyway, did anyone find any resources in the meantime that we could add to the collection?

I was surprised that http://www.clement-melendez.com/portfolio/articles/push-pull/introduction/ was not on this list! Please add!

[esspho]

On 6/7/2018 at 7:07 PM, 'RZL said:

Fixed now! Had to remove one video about cs:go level design unfortunately, since it broke everything.

Anyway, did anyone find any resources in the meantime that we could add to the collection?

What about this classic?

Ben’s small bible of realistic multiplayer leveldesign

 

[untor]

I created .AI and .PDF editable file, with color markup like panorama ui radar.

Download

[Radix]

Probably I'm the last person to know this but afaik no one shared this so far:

It seems like CS:GO community mappers can now use the static prop combine ("autocombine") feature which is used in new official CS:GO maps (especially de_nuke) to improve performance significantly.

So we have a guide how to use this: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Static_Prop_Combine

Not as easy as I hoped, because we will need the source files of every model (*.qc etc.). But still good to know.

Edited October 31, 2018 by Radix

[Skybex]

On 8/3/2018 at 2:38 PM, Radix said:

Probably I'm the last person to know this but afaik no one shared this so far:

It seems like CS:GO community mappers can now use the static prop combine ("autocombine") feature which is used in newer official CS:GO maps (especially de_nuke) to improve performance significantly.

So we have a guide how to use this: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Static_Prop_Combine

Not as easy as I hoped, because we will need the source files of every model (*.qc etc.). But still good to know.

Any idea if this factors in the new prop scaling?

[MikeGon]

On 8/3/2018 at 7:38 AM, Radix said:

Probably I'm the last person to know this but afaik no one shared this so far:

It seems like CS:GO community mappers can now use the static prop combine ("autocombine") feature which is used in newer official CS:GO maps (especially de_nuke) to improve performance significantly.

So we have a guide how to use this: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Static_Prop_Combine

Not as easy as I hoped, because we will need the source files of every model (*.qc etc.). But still good to know.

Wow, very interesting tool!

I hope its stable enough already, I kind of want to try it with an expensive map of mine...

I'll share my discoveries here if I do so!

[Serialmapper]

Is there a way to create a custom texture for source engine, namely for CS:GO, that does not attach to vertex points? I would like to use it on stretched displacements. The current textures stretch together with the displacements and look ugly.

[Skybex]

I think this is what you are looking for

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$seamless_scale

[That50'sGuy]

On ‎8‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 9:39 AM, Skybex said:

I think this is what you are looking for

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$seamless_scale

Yes, that works. But it also seems to get rid of my texture scale settings (Something you use on HR_ textures)