TF2 hat problem, please help?

Brettthefirst

Hi,

I've been playing around trying to make some custom hats for TF2. Unfortunately I've hit a stumbling block...

I can make the hat, texture it and get it into game without any problems.

Unfortunately when in game the hat clips through itself as shown in the below pictures:


This is how the hat looks when rendered in 3DS max but when I use it in game, this happens:




I apologise that I have no clue of what I'm doing.

Can anybody tell me why this is happening or how to fix it? I don't know what I'm doing wrong...

Any help is gratefully recieved

3DRyan

Maybe it's a normals issue? Go into your 3d app and view the normals. They should all be pointing outwards, away from the model. If you don't know much about normals, try googling it, and you'll find some stuff on it.

Brettthefirst

Thanks for the reply dude,

I had no idea what normals were so I did google. After a while of working out I've tried playing with them and nothing is seeming to make a difference.
I've tried flipping them, moving certain groups that may have been clipping to face another direction and nothing is making any difference to the issue.

I'm entirely stumped

Any ideas? Anyone?

Moosey_G

Try to unify the normals without the hassle of finding out which ones are flipped, I think max has a normals modifier.

Brettthefirst

Problem fixed, sorry to trouble you all and thanks for your help.

Turns out that the VTF editor had translucent checked by default (?!)

Unchecking the box and recompiling fixed the issue.

Thanks anyway guys