Tool Textures Last edited 4 years ago2020-03-05 00:17:50 UTC

I made a version with legends and emojis. The aim is threefold:

1. trim the wasted space the table headers are using, and give more space for the description column
2. Immediately infer the properties with emojis without constantly having to look up the yes/no columns back to the header way up the page
3. hopefully get this to display better on mobile

For now it's in this comment for my personal use. If feedback is favourable then we can merge this version into the main page.

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merged to main page 2024-05-03

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2024-06-09

• for the !cur textures, you can make them invisible by using the _HIDDEN suffix, so !cur_0 becomes !cur_0_HIDDEN

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2024-08-29

• _HIDDEN suffixes doesn't work in entities for some reason. since models don't take lighting from brush entities anyway there's no use case for it, so probably just use NULL instead.
• Found a way to use tool textures in a way which imparts its properties, but without having it be part of any resulting face of the brush, but it only works on MAP files. You just insert an additional line defining a plane of the brush using the tool texture of interest, but the plane is way, way out towards the extremities of the map that it never intersects with any other planes of the brush:

{
( 80 144 96 ) ( 80 144 32 ) ( 80 208 96 ) NULL [ 0 -1 0 0 ] [ 0 0 -1 16 ] 0 1 1
( 144 144 96 ) ( 144 144 32 ) ( 80 144 96 ) NULL [ 1 0 0 0 ] [ 0 0 -1 16 ] 0 1 1
( 80 208 32 ) ( 80 144 32 ) ( 144 208 32 ) NULL [ -1 0 0 -0 ] [ 0 -1 0 0 ] 0 1 1
( 144 144 96 ) ( 80 144 96 ) ( 80 208 96 ) NULL [ 1 0 -0 0 ] [ 0 -1 0 0 ] 0 1 1
( 144 144 96 ) ( 144 208 32 ) ( 144 144 32 ) NULL [ 0 1 0 -0 ] [ 0 0 -1 16 ] 0 1 1
( 144 208 32 ) ( 144 144 96 ) ( 80 208 96 ) NULL [ 1 0 -0 0 ] [ 0 -1 0 0 ] 0 1 1
( 80 208 96 ) ( 80 208 32 ) ( 144 208 32 ) NULL [ -1 0 0 -0 ] [ 0 0 -1 16 ] 0 1 1
( 32767 32768 32768 ) ( 32768 32768 32767 ) ( 32768 32767 32768 ) !CUR_0 [ -0.707107 0.707107 0 0 ] [ 0.408248 0.408248 -0.816497 0 ] 0 1 1
}

• The above spawns a NULL brush but with cur_0 contents. I figure a map pre-processor like MESS could implement this featur, inserting tool texture faces into the resulting brush defs in the output .map.

It's great, kimilil!

SDHLT also has BEVELHINT, CONTENTSKY, and CONTENTSOLID.

ZHLT supports the env_sky tool texture, which is apparently to be used with Spirit of Half-Life's "Unreal-Tournament style sky view" (3D skybox) entity also called env_sky.

Valve's wiki lists more textures
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Tool_textures_(GoldSrc)