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Need some help with Wall Worm tools or building assets for Source? Use the categories below to find answers. If you cannot find an answer, please consider using the WW forums; please only contact WW directly as a last resort--as far too often the time spent answering emails deals with subjects already covered on this site and the forums.
Latest Articles
Anatomy of a Design Team
Teamwork in 3ds Max
This documents the most efficient setup of 3ds Max, Wall Worm and team organization for a Source Engine Project.
Imported Brush UV Scale Wrong
Fix for importing correct UVs on brushes when the source texture is not a power of 2.
Exporting Correct Smoothing on Models
Understanding Smoothing Groups and Explicit Normals
Discussion on smoothing groups and explicit normals and how they relate to Source.
VBSP.exe has stopped working
VBSP can crash if there are no entities or world geometry in your scene.
Running Function with Keyboard Shortcut Opens Docs URL
Some of the MacroScripts in Wall Worm now have a default secondary action when executed with the SHIFT key held down.
Information on why keyboard shortcuts using the SHIFT key open the online documents for the function rather than running the function.
Error When Updating Wall Worm
Some problems that can occur when updating Wall Worm and Wall Worm Pro, along with some workarounds.
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.
This document explains why models can appear as cubes instead of props when importing VMF or MDL nodes.
MDL Loader isn't working
Instructions on manually setting the correct plugin paths if WW did not set them during installation.
FGD Parser Problems
Details on known issues with the FGD parser in the free version of Wall Worm.
