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Tool Textures Last edited 1 year ago2022-07-07 14:08:52 UTC

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Tool textures are special textures which control how the map is compiled. These are the tool textures used by Vluzacn's ZHLT v34. They are found in halflife.wad and zhlt.wad. For detailed usage of each texture, refer to it's individual wiki page.

Image	Name	Allowed as world	Allowed as entity	Casts shadows as world brush	Has lightmap	Cuts visleaves	Solid to cliphull 1	Solid to cliphull 2	Solid to cliphull 3	Solid to bullets	Info
N/A	!cur_0*	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Acts like CONTENTWATER and func_pushable with a speed of 2048 units/s in +X. This texture is always fullbright.
N/A	!cur_180*	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Acts like CONTENTWATER and func_pushable with a speed of 2048 units/s in -X. This texture is always fullbright.
N/A	!cur_270*	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Acts like CONTENTWATER and func_pushable with a speed of 2048 units/s in -Y. This texture is always fullbright.
N/A	!cur_90*	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Acts like CONTENTWATER and func_pushable with a speed of 2048 units/s in +Y. This texture is always fullbright.
N/A	!cur_dwn*	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Acts like CONTENTWATER and func_pushable with a speed of 2048 units/s in -Z. This texture is always fullbright.
N/A	!cur_up*	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Acts like CONTENTWATER and func_pushable with a speed of 2048 units/s in +Z. This texture is always fullbright.
	AAATRIGGER	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Identical to NULL, but shouldn't be used on world brushes as it may cause bugs. Useful for differentiating entities in the editor.
	BEVEL	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Acts like NULL, however it changes the clipnode of a brush in a way that any player approaching the brush will not be collide with the brush until their origin reaches the plane that the BEVEL face lies on. It can be used to eliminate exterior corner clipping bugs, and any remaining clipping bugs that the -cliptype precise CSG parameter may miss.
	black_HIDDEN	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Identical to NULL, but has a lightmap. Brushes with this texture can cast shadows. This texture will not render as black except in Sven Co-op.
	BOUNDINGBOX	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Acts like ORIGIN, but can be used to define a bounding box for an entity. Useful if you have a lot of complex, off-grid geometry and need a bounding box which is snapped to the grid.
	CLIP	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Creates clipnodes on all three cliphulls.
	CLIPBEVEL	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Acts like BEVEL but for clipnodes.
	CLIPBEVELBRUSH	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Acts like CLIPBEVEL, but affects every single face.
	CLIPHULL1	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Creates clipnodes on hull 1, used by standing players.
	CLIPHULL2	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Creates clipnodes on hull 2, used by large monsters (apache, gargantua, gonarch, etc).
	CLIPHULL3	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Creates clipnodes on hull 3, used by crouching players.
	CONTENTEMPTY	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Removes collision from a brush and marks it as an empty volume.
	CONTENTWATER	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Marks the brush as a water volume that will not render anything outside of it. It also removes collision from a brush and mirrors the faces inside out.
	HINT	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Faces with this texture will split visleafs, allowing you to optimize what parts of the map are visible. Other faces of the brush should be textured with SKIP.
	NOCLIP	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Acts like NULL, but no cliphulls are generated. Similar to the zhlt_noclip keyvalue in entities.
	NULL	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Removes the face of a brush it's applied to, however clipnodes are still generated.
	ORIGIN	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Brushes with this texture will act as the point of origin for entities.
	SKIP	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Ignores the face of a brush it's applied to. Should not be used on world geometry except with HINT, as it may cause bugs.
	SKY	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Renders the skybox on faces with this texture, and emits light if all faces of a brush are textured with SKY and you have a light_environment or light_spot entity.
	SOLIDHINT	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Used to eliminate unnecessary face subdivision, especially on complex shapes such as triangular terrain.
N/A	SPLITFACE*	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Brushes with this texture will subdivide faces they touch. It can be used to eliminate bad lighting caused by opaque entities.
	translucent	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Removes clipnodes and mirrors the brush faces inside out.

*This texture functions normally, but is missing from zhlt.wad

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kimilil

Commented 4 months ago2023-12-16 09:30:25 UTC Comment #105738

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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