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My Material is always Transparent but I don't want it to be

Posted on Oct 4, 2015 | Last Updated Mar 23, 2016

Information on outputting the desired alpha settings for your materials.

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translucent, alphatest, transparency, opacity

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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misc, miscellaneous, tab, ui, anvil

Cordon Manager

Posted on Jun 9, 2012 | Last Updated Jun 9, 2019

The cordon manager lets you use multiple cordons and limit the compiling of your level to the area inside the cordon.

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cordon

Brush Materials have incorrect rotation and scale when using the DirectX Shader

Posted on Apr 10, 2012 | Last Updated Apr 10, 2012

The Wall Worm Material Library Generator originally created DirectX Materials for all materials. But updates to the VMF Exporter changed the way materials are interpretted. Whenever possible, you should not use DirectX Materials.

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material, bug, directx shader, rotation, scale

DX Display Shaders

Posted on Jul 26, 2017 | Last Updated Jul 26, 2017

Information on the DX shaders used by Wall Worm.

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Lighting Rollout

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Jul 23, 2013

This rollout contains lighting controls and other miscellaneous controls that are either rarely used or are experimental.

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Stereo Flexes

Posted on Jan 4, 2017 | Last Updated Jan 4, 2017

Instructions on painting stereo weights to export into DMX.

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stereo, flex, dmx, weights

Illegal Characters in Path

Posted on May 28, 2015 | Last Updated May 28, 2015

Solving some problems with special characters and illegal characters in filename paths.

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Displacement Proxies

Posted on Jun 18, 2018 | Last Updated Mar 29, 2020

Displacement Proxies allow teams to work more efficiently with displacements in multiple files.

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displacement proxy, sculpt proxy, xref scene

Studiomdl.exe and Vtex.exe - Unable to find gameinfo.txt

Posted on Feb 13, 2012 | Last Updated Feb 13, 2012

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.

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