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WWMT Level of Detail Model List

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Feb 13, 2012

This rollout displays all of the LOD (Level of Detail) models in your model. Inside this rollout you can select the helpers that control LOD switch distances, vertex count percentages and add/append models to your LOD models.

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Tutorial: Nuclear Cooling Towers

How to create nuclear cooling towers with Displacements
Posted on Dec 21, 2021 | Last Updated Dec 21, 2021

Tutorial on creating nuclear cooling towers as displacements for the Source Engine.

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displacement, curved, source engine, hammer, 3ds max, wall worm, corvex

Wall Worm Year in Review: 2013

Posted on Dec 17, 2013 | Last Updated Dec 17, 2013

Review of Wall Worm development in 2013.

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blog, 2013, briscoe, dear esther, source

Vtex.exe - Problem figuring out outputdir

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

You can get this error when you've saved your TGA files to an incorrect path.

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VBSP Parser

Import Detail Sprites into 3ds Max
Posted on Nov 1, 2013 | Last Updated Feb 22, 2014
VBSP Importer

Import prop details from your VBSP files.

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vbsp, detail, sprites, importer, detailsprites

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

Entity Cache

Posted on Sep 9, 2014 | Last Updated Sep 26, 2018

Explanation on how Entities are generated and stored on your computer.

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entity, entity cache, reparse entities, reparsing,

Visgroup Manager

Posted on Oct 12, 2018 | Last Updated Oct 20, 2018
Visgroup Manager

The Visgroup Manager in Wall Worm allows you to arbitrarily show/hide objects in your scene.

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visgroup, display

Viewport Freezes in 3ds Max 2017+

Fix: Update to the latest NVidia drivers.
Posted on Apr 13, 2017 | Last Updated Jul 4, 2017

The Max viewport can freeze and become unresponsive with Nitrous in DX 11.

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3ds max, viewport, freeze, hang, 2017, 2018, nitrous, directx shader, dx11, NVidia, windows 10

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.

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mdl, model, cube