Overview Exporter
Posted on Jul 18, 2012 | Last Updated Dec 27, 2021
The Overview/Radar texture exporter allows you to export an overview texture straight from your Max scene.
overview, radar, texture, export, compile, resource, pos_x, pos_y, scale
WWMT Proxy Tools
Posted on Apr 10, 2012 | Last Updated Oct 25, 2017
Wall Worm Proxies are objects that let you re-use a model in a scene that you are exporting into a VMF.
Porting Levels into Source
General Overview of Converting Scenes that Were Not Designed with Source in Mind
Posted on May 14, 2016 | Last Updated Dec 30, 2020
Overview on porting scenes and levels from other sources.
port, convert, scenes, games, levels
DXF Importer
Posted on Jul 18, 2012 | Last Updated Jul 18, 2012
You can import a DXF scene into Max. This allows you to transfer the basic level design from Hammer to Max.
dxf, importer, import, hammer, 3ds max, vmf
Transparency and Reflections
Posted on Feb 6, 2014 | Last Updated Feb 1, 2018
Tutorial and example scene on making a material that has reflectivity that matches the transparency in 3ds Max.
material, transparency, reflectivity
Export Textures to WAD
Posted on Jan 17, 2015 | Last Updated Jan 30, 2015
Export Bitmaps from your 3ds Max scene to WAD files.
wad, qlumpy
Why are Models Appearing as Cubes?
When reopening a scene the models can appear as cubes if the game settings do not include paths to the source MDL files.
Posted on Mar 4, 2017 | Last Updated Mar 4, 2017
This document explains why models can appear as cubes instead of props when importing VMF or MDL nodes.
mdl, model, cube
Entity Cache
Posted on Sep 9, 2014 | Last Updated Sep 26, 2018
Explanation on how Entities are generated and stored on your computer.
entity, entity cache, reparse entities, reparsing,
