Low Texture Resolution In Orange Box Ham Created 15 years ago2008-11-30 03:12:11 UTC by Dark Tree

I didn't see any answers to this here, and I won't post a tutorial since I didn't figure this out myself, but I'm posting this here to help out some people who are interested.

Anyway, the default texturing within the Orange box hammer is very low res... the letters are almost impossible to make out on the trigger brushes, etc.

To fix this, do the following:

1. Use GCFScape to open "Steam\SteamApps\base source engine 2.gcf" and locate bin\dxsupport.cfg

2. Extract that file to SourceSDK\bin\orangebox\bin\

3. edit the file and change the line
"ConVar.mat_picmip" "2"
to
"ConVar.mat_picmip" "-1"

4. Save. Restart Hammer

Worked a treat, thanks. Had this problem for so long, I got used to it and gave up on Valve ever mentioning/fixing it.

I've never had this problem? I noticed that some people had problems where the coordinates on the grid were all pixelated but for me everything has been fine otherwise I'd be the first to yell at Valve.

Lol @ thread title on front page.

"Low Texture Resolution In Orange Box Ham"

That is all.

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Yes. It seems as though there is a 40 char limit on thread headers.