Lighting Rollout
This rollout contains lighting controls and other miscellaneous controls that are either rarely used or are experimental.
Unknown System Exception
Steps on fixing problems with an Unknown System Exception when importing files.
Blend Materials and WorldVertexTransition
Instructions on creating a WorldVertexTransition material inside 3ds Max using Blend Materials.
Phong Materials
Setting up a Phong material for Source using Wall Worm.
WWMT Proxy Tools
Wall Worm Proxies are objects that let you re-use a model in a scene that you are exporting into a VMF.
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.
When Opening Scene there is a startup script error.
Anvil embeds reference to a script in your 3ds Max scripts folder. If that file is missing, there can be an error.
Anvil embeds some scripts for scene startup to protect displacements from being invalidated via improper manipulation. Older versions of Anvil referenced a file that could cause an error if missing.
Exporting Correct Smoothing on Models
Understanding Smoothing Groups and Explicit Normals
Discussion on smoothing groups and explicit normals and how they relate to Source.
Source 2 Engine
Wall Worm and Source 2. Information on Counter-Strike 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Bitmap Crop and Coordinates in 3ds Max
Tutorial on using the BitmapTexture crop function with models and world geometry.
