Displacement textures inverted Created 16 years ago2007-08-20 23:44:42 UTC by hlife_hotdog

I have made my map with displacements to make the cliffs and ledges, I have painted the textured where rock and grass and gravel meet and they all look nice and neat but when I run it in HL2DM, all my alpha textures are inverted. Where there was rock is now grass and vice versa. I can fix it by selecting all the displacements and pressing "Invert Alpha" but why is this happening?

it seems to be a common, but not definate occurance.

A friend of mine has the exact same problem, which proved very confusing when i sent him a .vmf we were co-making.
I'd just added some displacements, and he IM'd me asking why i'd put the grass on the wrong side. Compiled; it looked like it did in my hammer, but in his hammer it was the wrong way round.

So i have no real answer, but simply the info that you're not the only one.

Something like this happened to me in hl1. It was with a half life texture so what i did was "open up the texture in wally. Than copied it and saved it as my own texture with a new name and than replaced the halflife texture with my newly made texture in hammer and for some reason it fixed it"

um.. zeeba, HL textures dont have alpha channels.

lol i dont think ill try to help source users anymore...

What type of graphics card do you have? I used to have this problem running on a GeForce 2. It was an issue that Valve recognised with users running on DX7/8 that I thought they fixed. As you said though, simply inverting the alpha in Hammer will "fix" it.

I'm not sure what card I have, I'll have to find out but I'm pretty sure it's quite powerful. I can run HL2 with most of the settings on medium but can't go higher because I lack the processor and memory (my laptop is a couple of years old now). Anyway, the level is finished now and it's in the map vault.