How to make 2 different surfaces? Created 14 years ago2009-11-26 17:59:32 UTC by agrs700

Hello, i made a prop for be used on css, I tryed to make a prop with 2 surfaces, but i dont know how, the prop is a chair which has a metal and a wood parts, so, how can I make it to has a wood behaivour and a metal behaivur for different parts?. the qc file is:

$cd "C:\Nueva carpeta (5)"
$modelname "mesa_u1.mdl"
$model "Body" "Table_1.smd"
$cdmaterials "models\props\map1\"
$hboxset "default"
$collisionmodel "Table_1.smd"
{

$mass 100.000

}

$hbox 0 "static_prop" -16.250 -32.500 0.000 16.250 32.500 24.085
// Model uses material "Table_1.vmt"
$surfaceprop "wood_plank"
$keyvalues { prop_data { "base" "Wooden.Large" } }
$illumposition 0.000 0.000 12.042
$sequence idle "idle" act_idle 1 fps 30.00

As far as I am aware, props can only have 1 surface material.

I don't have a clue how you'd go about organising and compiling it, since I don't really model, but you'd have to use more than one material for your prop. One VMT & VTF set for the wooden parts, and one more of each for the metal parts.

You have two potential options. You can split the model into two separate meshes with different materials applied to them, as Strider said. They shouldn't be compiled separately - select both meshes when exporting and it will combine them into a single file which you then compile with studiomdl.

Alternatively if your model is rigged somehow (or if you want to rig it) you can use $jointsurfaceprop to apply material properties to a particular bone and anything associated with it. (so you would need two bones; one that controls the wood parts and one for metal.)

Also you need to remove the $surfaceprop command from your QC; a QC-defined surfaceprop will always override a material's surfaceprop. I'm not even sure if a model will inherit it's materials' surface properties so you might be better off just creating a model that is only one material type.