Problems with textures

wardog · Mar 2012

Hi all .I create barrel in Blender 2.60. then i create texture in photoshop. Texture looks pretty good in blender and when i import it in vtf file. However , in model viewer and in tf2 it looks terrible.How can i fix that effect(orange spots)?

megalmn2000 · Mar 2012

What's the size of the texture? And next time, can you make a zoom on the picture please? It's easier for us to analyse the problem when we have bigger screenshots.

wardog · Mar 2012

256x256.Click to the image to zoom

Noors · Mar 2012

it's the flame texture overlay which is present on some items. It's defined in your vmt.
I don't remember exactly the name of it but you have to delete the line or put it in comment.
flame overlay something ?

wardog · Mar 2012

hmmm i really didnt catch what is flame overlay.And here is my vmt

"VertexlitGeneric"
{
    "$baseTexture" "models\player\items\medic/barrel_of_salvation"
    "$bumpmap" "models\effects\flat_normal" 
    "$detail" "effects/tiledfire/fireLayeredSlowTiled512.vtf"    
    "$detailscale" "5"
    "$detailblendfactor" .01
    "$detailblendmode" 6
    "$yellow" "0"

    "$phong" "1"
    "$phongexponent" "25"
    "$phongboost" "0"
//    "$lightwarptexture" "models\lightwarps\weapon_lightwarp"    
    "$lightwarptexture" "models/player/pyro/pyro_lightwarp"
    "$phongfresnelranges"    "[.25 1 4]"
    "$basemapalphaphongmask" "1"

    "$rimlight" "1"
    "$rimlightexponent" "4"
    "$rimlightboost" ".65"
    // Cloaking
    "$cloakPassEnabled" "1"
    "Proxies"
    {
        "weapon_invis"
        {
        }
        "AnimatedTexture"
        {
            "animatedtexturevar" "$detail"
            "animatedtextureframenumvar" "$detailframe"
            "animatedtextureframerate" 30
        }
        "BurnLevel"
        {
            "resultVar" "$detailblendfactor"
        }
        "YellowLevel"
        {
            "resultVar" "$yellow"
        }
        "Equals"
        {
            "srcVar1"  "$yellow"
            "resultVar" "$color2"
        }

    }
}

MeintevdS · Mar 2012

"$detail" "effects/tiledfire/fireLayeredSlowTiled512.vtf"    
    "$detailscale" "5"
    "$detailblendfactor" .01
    "$detailblendmode" 6

That's part of your problem I'm guessing.

wardog · Mar 2012

what i need to do with these lines?

cptSwing · Mar 2012

try commenting them out with //

cryrid · Mar 2012

try adding // infront of them

Edit: slow

wardog · Mar 2012

its helped orange spots have been gone but model have some fuzziness

cptSwing · Mar 2012

that could be anything. try posting your texture here..

wardog · Mar 2012

wardog · Mar 2012

i think problem in vmt not in texture 'cause in Blender all looks good

cptSwing · Mar 2012

that pictue is not very helpful.. is it a viewport grab from blender, are you grabbing mdlviewer output, is it in-game? try posting the original source texture.

also, most every texture used in current engines is compressed to save video memory - depending on the settings you're using to generate your vtf file more or less so. think of it as heavy jpeg compression versus a .bmp file.

wardog · Mar 2012

this picture from mdlviewer

cptSwing · Mar 2012

..and the original? which texture format are you using? what exactly would you identify as the problem(s)? you need to be more specific.

wardog · Mar 2012

Noors · Mar 2012

this is due to the dxt compression. Nothing much you can do about it.
Post your texture nonetheless.

wardog · Mar 2012

FINALLY I DECIDED the problem

wardog · Mar 2012

thx all for advices

Problems with textures

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