Rotate decals Created 7 years ago2016-04-21 20:53:51 UTC by Kaner

Hello,

is there any way to rotate the decals I set on a brush?

Thank you people!

Unless someone says I'm wrong : you can't.

I don't thinks so either, but does rotating the texture affect the decal? (or does it always face "east" or whatever?)

Rotating the texture does not affect the decal... Everything I've tried last days is not possible...
bad luck :/

Rotate or flip the texture, then apply the decal.

Very nice Unq! it works! and then I re-rotate the texture to its original facing and the decal remains rotated

Thank You!

hammer doesnt represent decals perfectly... look within the game

Yes, Finally I see it doesn't work, if I move again the texture, valve hammer does not show changes in decals, but game does.

If you use Wally to export the texture to an image file, you can use an image editing program to rotate it, then make that into a custom decal. It's not perfect, but it should work.

I remember a while back Archie or Urby talking about decals in GoldSrc, and I think the general consensus was just manually editing your texture was the best, fastest way to get the wall adornments you want in the game. (If you really still wanted to use the ugle HL decals, I suppose you could edit/copy/paste them over your textures as well)

In a limited way you can make signs and texts out of brushes--especially using Sledge's Text primitive--, though this won't look the greatest or be the most efficient from a resources perspective. If you opted to go this route, make sure you use Sledge or a HLFix-enabled Hammer, because it will allow you to make the brushes sub-1-unit thick, and/or nudge them at sub-one unit distances (Hammer compile by default snaps everything to the 1-unit grid)

Source SDK of course has overlays, which can be rotated/scaled every which way

Looks like I was wrong, but I'm happy because I've learned something, gonna sleep less stupid this day ^^

Thank you people for the answers, but I already knew the "Wally way". I want to use new textures as little as possible cause I'm trying to minimize the bsp file size

Thanks!