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Displacement Texture Scale Sometimes Incorrect

Understanding Displacement Blend Texture Scale
Posted on Oct 11, 2012 | Last Updated Oct 11, 2012

This page explains one cause for displacement materials to be scaled incorrectly in Source as well as the solution. You should use bitmaps of equal dimensions in both materials controlling the Blend material.

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Miscellaneous Anvil Tools

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 | Last Updated Jul 27, 2012

An overview and explanation of several functions included in the Miscellaneous tab of Anvil.

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Unexpected Model Orientation in VMF Exporter

Fixed in WWMT 1.772
Posted on Mar 31, 2012 | Last Updated Mar 31, 2012

The orientation of models in the QC Generator has been flipped on the Z-axis and the VMF Exporter is also rotated to accomodate this result. You may need to recompile models compiled before the 1.772 update.

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Studiomdl.exe - Model has 2-dimensional geometry

Relates also to: Error with convex elements of Mesh
Posted on Feb 13, 2012 | Last Updated Jul 8, 2017

This error is usually caused by models having a $concave flag that do not have proper collision hulls.

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Export Multiple Texture Skins

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Sep 22, 2019

You can give your model multiple skins (textures) so that the same mesh can look differently in different uses.

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Washed Out Textures

Posted on Oct 29, 2016 | Last Updated Oct 29, 2016

Instructions of getting your materials to import without being washed out in color.

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Importing Source Assets

Posted on Mar 3, 2015 | Last Updated Mar 3, 2015

This series covers the steps needed to re-use Source assets inside of 3ds Max.

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Some PSDs can crash VTEX

PSD files created with Viewport Canvas must be converted
Posted on Jun 16, 2012 | Last Updated Jun 16, 2012

PSD files created with Viewport Canvas can sometimes crash VTEX.

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Texture and VTex Errors

Posted on Feb 13, 2012 | Last Updated Jul 29, 2013

Topics pertaining to errors compiling VTF Textures from bitmaps in Source.

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Help

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Jul 29, 2013

Get help compiling your models, levels and textures for Source.

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