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Tool textures are special textures which control how the map is compiled. These are the tool textures used by Vluzacn's ZHLT v34. They are found in halflife.wad and zhlt.wad. For detailed usage of each texture, refer to its individual wiki page.

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Legend

Z - Compiler & wad availability

–	Usually available in standard WADs for a given GoldSrc game e.g. halflife.wad
Z	Used by ZHLT but only available in zhlt.wad
Z*	Used by ZHLT but not included in zhlt.wad

Properties

🏢	Allowed as World
🚪	Allowed as Entity
⛅	Casts Shadow as world brush
🌓	Has LightMap
✂️	Cuts VisLeafs

Visibility

👀	Texture is Visible in game
🫥	Textured face is inVisible, but the rest of the brush is
❌	Brush becomes inVisible

Clipnode generation

0️⃣	Point hull (bullets, weapons, projectiles)
1️⃣	Player hull
2️⃣	Large monsters hull
3️⃣	Crouching hull

Tool Textures

Image	Name	Z		W	E	S	LM	VL	V	H0	H1	H2	H3		Description
N/A	!cur_0	Z*		🏢	❌	⛅	❌	✂️	👀	❌	❌	❌	❌		Acts like CONTENTWATER and trigger_push with a speed of 2048 units/s in +X. [note1]
N/A	!cur_180	Z*		🏢	❌	⛅	❌	✂️	👀	❌	❌	❌	❌		Acts like CONTENTWATER and trigger_push with a speed of 2048 units/s in -X. [note1]
N/A	!cur_270	Z*		🏢	❌	⛅	❌	✂️	👀	❌	❌	❌	❌		Acts like CONTENTWATER and trigger_push with a speed of 2048 units/s in -Y. [note1]
N/A	!cur_90	Z*		🏢	❌	⛅	❌	✂️	👀	❌	❌	❌	❌		Acts like CONTENTWATER and trigger_push with a speed of 2048 units/s in +Y. [note1]
N/A	!cur_dwn	Z*		🏢	❌	⛅	❌	✂️	👀	❌	❌	❌	❌		Acts like CONTENTWATER and trigger_push with a speed of 2048 units/s in -Z. [note1]
N/A	!cur_up	Z*		🏢	❌	⛅	❌	✂️	👀	❌	❌	❌	❌		Acts like CONTENTWATER and trigger_push with a speed of 2048 units/s in +Z. [note1]
	AAATRIGGER	–		🏢	🚪	⛅	❌	✂️	🫥	0️⃣	1️⃣	2️⃣	3️⃣		Used for differentiating entities in the editor, and shouldn't be used on world brushes as it may cause bugs. VHLT strips faces with this texture, making it visually identical to NULL.
	BEVEL	Z		🏢	🚪	⛅	❌	❌	❌	0️⃣	❌	2️⃣	❌		Acts like NULL, but changes the clipnode of a brush in a way that any player approaching the brush will not be collide with the brush until their origin reaches the plane that the BEVEL face lies on. It can be used to eliminate exterior corner clipping bugs, and any remaining clipping bugs that the -cliptype precise CSG parameter may miss.
	black_HIDDEN	Z		🏢	🚪	⛅	🌓	✂️	🫥	0️⃣	1️⃣	2️⃣	3️⃣		Acts like NULL, but has a lightmap. Brushes with this texture can cast shadows.
	BOUNDINGBOX	Z		❌	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌		Similar to ORIGIN, but used to define a bounding box for an entity. Useful if you have a lot of complex, off-grid geometry and need a bounding box which is snapped to the grid.
	CLIP	–		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	1️⃣	2️⃣	3️⃣		Creates clipnodes on all three cliphulls.
	CLIPBEVEL	Z		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	0️⃣	❌	❌	❌		Acts like BEVEL but for clipnodes.
	CLIPBEVELBRUSH	Z		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	0️⃣	❌	❌	❌		Acts like CLIPBEVEL, but affects every single face.
	CLIPHULL1	Z		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	1️⃣	❌	❌		Creates clipnodes on hull 1, used by standing players.
	CLIPHULL2	Z		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	2️⃣	❌		Creates clipnodes on hull 2, used by large monsters (apache, gargantua, gonarch, etc).
	CLIPHULL3	Z		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	3️⃣		Creates clipnodes on hull 3, used by crouching players.
	CONTENTEMPTY	Z		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	🫥	❌	❌	❌	❌		Removes collision from a brush and marks it as an empty volume.
	CONTENTWATER	Z		🏢	🚪	⛅	❌	✂️	🫥	0️⃣	❌	❌	❌		Marks the brush as a water volume that will not render anything outside of it. It also removes collision from a brush and mirrors the faces inside out.
	HINT	Z		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	✂️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌		Faces with this texture will split visleafs, allowing you to optimize what parts of the map are visible. Other faces of the brush should be textured with SKIP.
	NOCLIP	Z		🏢	🚪	⛅	❌	✂️	❌	0️⃣	❌	❌	❌		Acts like NULL, but no cliphulls are generated. Similar to the zhlt_noclip keyvalue in entities.
	NULL	Z		🏢	🚪	⛅	❌	✂️	🫥	0️⃣	1️⃣	2️⃣	3️⃣		Removes the face of a brush it's applied to, however clipnodes are still generated.
	ORIGIN	–		❌	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌		The center of brushes with this texture defines the origin point for entities.
	SKIP	Z		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌		Ignores the face of a brush it's applied to. Should not be used on world geometry except with HINT, as it may cause bugs.
	SKY	–		🏢	❌	❌	❌	✂️	❌	0️⃣	1️⃣	2️⃣	3️⃣		Renders the skybox on faces with this texture, and emits light if all faces of a brush are textured with SKY and you have a light_environment or light_spot entity. Clipnode generation is optional with VHLT and can be turned off with CSG parameter -noskyclip.
	SOLIDHINT	Z		🏢	🚪	⛅	❌	✂️	🫥	0️⃣	1️⃣	2️⃣	3️⃣		Used to eliminate unnecessary face subdivision, especially on complex shapes such as triangular terrain.
N/A	SPLITFACE	Z*		🏢	🚪	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌		Brushes with this texture will subdivide faces they touch. It can be used to eliminate bad lighting caused by opaque entities.
	translucent	-		🏢	❌	⛅	🌓	✂️	👀	❌	❌	❌	❌		Removes clipnodes and mirrors the brush faces inside out. All @ prefixed textures exhibit this property.
Image	Name	Z		W	E	S	LM	VL	V	H0	H1	H2	H3		Description

Notes:

1. Rendered as water, and completely fullbright

Legend

Z - Compiler & wad availability

–	Usually available in standard WADs for a given GoldSrc game e.g. halflife.wad
Z	Used by ZHLT but only available in zhlt.wad
Z*	Used by ZHLT but not included in zhlt.wad

Properties

🏢	Allowed as World
🚪	Allowed as Entity
⛅	Casts Shadow as world brush
🌓	Has LightMap
✂️	Cuts VisLeafs

Visibility

👀	Texture is Visible in game
🫥	Textured face is inVisible, but the rest of the brush is
❌	Brush becomes inVisible

Clipnode generation

0️⃣	Point hull (bullets, weapons, projectiles)
1️⃣	Player hull
2️⃣	Large monsters hull
3️⃣	Crouching hull

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1 Comment

kimilil

Commented 5 months ago2023-12-16 09:30:25 UTC Comment #105738

I made a version with legends and emojis. The aim is threefold:

1. trim the wasted space the table headers are using, and give more space for the description column
2. Immediately infer the properties with emojis without constantly having to look up the yes/no columns back to the header way up the page
3. hopefully get this to display better on mobile

For now it's in this comment for my personal use. If feedback is favourable then we can merge this version into the main page.

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merged to main page 2024-05-03

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