Troubleshooting
Articles to help troubleshoot problems with Wall Worm, 3ds Max and/or the Source Game Engine.
Wall Worm Sends Greetings in 2016
First Wall Worm blog of 2016 with new videos, new level design contest and review of 3ds Max 2016.
Miscellaneous Anvil Tools
An overview and explanation of several functions included in the Miscellaneous tab of Anvil.
Lighting Rollout
This rollout contains lighting controls and other miscellaneous controls that are either rarely used or are experimental.
Unexpected Model Orientation in VMF Exporter
Fixed in WWMT 1.772
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.
Studiomdl.exe and Vtex.exe - Unable to find gameinfo.txt
This error usually indicates Steam did an update or you are working with a mod that doesn't use the Steam VProject setting. Read the fix here.
Some PSDs can crash VTEX
PSD files created with Viewport Canvas must be converted
PSD files created with Viewport Canvas can sometimes crash VTEX.
Help! There was an Error and Now Max is Frozen
If there is a MAXScript error during some functions, the MAX UI can remain in limbo (frozen or non-responsive). Here is the function to fix this.
Lightmap Scale
This article details the process of setting lightmap scale on objects, displacements and faces with Wall Worm Anvil's lightmap tools.
Hitboxes and Bone Properties
The bone tools allow you to give specific bones artbitrary surface properties, set mass bias and create hitboxes and hitbox groups.
