This might be crazy, but is there a way. Created 14 years ago2010-02-04 19:10:55 UTC by Suparsonik

Is there a way to convert Source engine textures into WAD3 format?

It would look quite funny having HL2 textures in HL1...

No. That would be illegal. Plus there's no way to turn a VMT/VMF into anything else.

It's very possible. In fact, it's been done on numerous occasions.
Download VTF Edit, open vtf files, and export them as BMPs.
Then you just import the BMP into Wally as you would anything else.

By the way, this is technically illegal so be sure to only use it for personal use, ok?

Okay, there is a way.
Still.

I don't think it's illegal as long as you don't share your work.

Ok, thanks

Why is it illegal?

I was just about to ask that.

How is it illegal? I mean it's just transferring texture from a game to another made by the same developer...

It's illegal if distributed because you're taking content from a commercial game and giving it away for free.

Some companies, like GSC Game World, have explicitly given the OK to use their games' content in other non-commercial projects, but Valve isn't one of those companies.

Practically speaking, nobody really cares 99% of the time. It's just something to keep in mind.

Yeah, most people don't care, but it's not really a good idea to port stuff. A lot of people still do it, but it's usually not done, out of courtesy to the developers who worked so hard to make the content.

Nobody would care unless you tried to rip Valve off by copying and reusing all their content in some other engine.

Also, we like to resort to this as a legal roadblock strategy when somebody's about to do something stupid like try and remake HL2 in Goldsource. The "illegal content" strategy is an all round great defense against really lame mods coming to fruition, since they commonly involve stolen copyrighted content.

Rimrook converted most of them to Goldsource, as far as I remember. Which was years ago. I dont know if it got used in anything.

But using Source textures on Goldsource, making it look like Source seems pointless to me. Go map for Source instead.

Rimrook's pack was all scaled down, though, wasn't it?
Whatever, I wouldn't bother him too much about it. Textures can be ported over so quickly.

To 256x256 which is pretty frickin' huge for a standard Goldsource texture.

No reason not to retain their original resolution, though. They are made to be used at a standard of 1/4 scale, after all.

Optimization through texture scaling can go suck a fat one if you're using Source materials, I say.

That'd mean an engine-crippling 0.25 texture scale for everything in GS.

Enjoy your 8000 wpolys.

I will. And it will be fabulous, I tell you

Edit: Don't think I didn't catch that ninja edit. I'm too fucking fast. You said 10000 polies first.

But I couldn't make it that high if I tried.

I don't see where it would be a big problem converting anything to anything. We all know there are ways to do anything you want and yes, you could scale every texture. As long as you aren't making money from it or mass distributing it I still don't think there would be much of a problem.

I have to agree that it is rather pointless to convert from source to hl1. If there are just a couple I could see but not all of them. I have used some of the textures from hl1 for source and they really don't look that great--I never thought they looked all that great to begin with. I don't map for half life 1 anymore so I couldn't really tell you how they look when you convert them back. I know the old textures don't look all that great in source. Not to mention you have to edit every single text file and add the material types and other information--that's alot of textures.

Basically, you are talking about two different texture packets that were created for two different scaled games, one at 1.00 and the other at .25. Big difference there when you trying to convert or actually use one of these for the other and the scale is visually out of whack.

Plenty of texture packs and websites out there for new ones--make your own!

As long as you don't try to sell it you should be fine.

I have to agree that it is rather pointless to convert from source to hl1.

Nah, it can be fun. I tried remaking cs_office a few years ago.

soup miner: did you convert them all or just the ones you needed? LOL

I still use half life 1 textures--just very sparingly! I usually just make a new textures if I need it anymore. I don't see the need to convert a bunch of textures, add text files, modify all those text files, just to get some textures that you may or may not even really use.

awesome looking map though! always love your attention to detail soup.