Displacements in Jackhammer? Created 8 years ago2016-06-06 18:42:49 UTC by EsprimoP

Simple question. How do you open the "Displacements Tab" in Jackhammer? In tutorials you open the tab through Texture Application Tab. I don't see it. Even don't see it in VHE.

Displacements are only supported on the Source engine. If you're using a Goldsource editor, the feature won't be available.

Jackhammer doesn't support Source engine mapping, but only Goldsource and idTech mapping.
You will find the "Displacements" tab in VHE 4 only, hence in the various Source SDKs or Counter-Strike Global Offensive SDK in the "Tools" tab on Steam. But keep in mind that displacements aren't supported by any Goldsource engine based game, so you wouldn't be able to compile a map (or open it) with Jackhammer or VHE 3 once you've added displacements on your map with VHE 4.

I guessed it correctly. Dang. Most people use similar wads, dev wads to source mapping on goldsrc mapping videos. I guess I need to practice more with the clipping tool to make nice brushes.

It's not that complicated with the clipping tool. You basically make a square brush, and cut it diagonally, thus making 2 triangles, and then copy that polygon brush to make an area of triangles.

Just make sure that they're NULLed, and then apply a visible texture on top of them.

Actually I didn't use the vertex tool afterwards, I just clipped a brush until I got a cool displacement...thing. I found twister which is kind of useful for something.