decals? Created 17 years ago2007-03-24 20:28:21 UTC by TheTikiTony

This is a noob problem I know but I have yet to find a topic on it. How do I eliminate the overlap of a decal. For instance, you put a decal on a wall, and it shows up on the floor beneath it as well. I believe the reason I'm having this problem is because the floors are displacement where this occurs. Is there a way to counter this without making the decal higher?

use the overlay tool instead of the decal tool.

They work the same way, except the overlay tool is much more 'editable'

Decals are really obsolete. Just use overlays. You can scale them and decide exactly in which faces they show up, as well as putting them on top of each other in the order you decide.

Edit: doh

thx, didn't even notice the overlay

Overlay?

Urb searches

Oh shit...well that makes things much better.

I guess it's a personal thing, I don't really like Overlays at all. They're suited towards special applications of decals on surfaces such as displacements or around curves or at angles, while decals are useful for things on flat surfaces like posters on flat walls or trash decals on flat surfaces on the ground. They're limited in count in your maps and they also have a face limit to be applied to, and they generally break my compiles which is why I try to avoid them.

But you can't resize decals, can you? Sometimes a graffity needs to be bigger to cover a certain wall, etc.

You can't directly scale them, but you can adjust their scales in the .vmt. Since most things like trash and posters are scaled properly I use decals for that and overlays for things that need to be adjusted in terms of size, such as graffiti or larger posters or something.