Textures

[ironman]

adding textures is both simple and very complicated..
here is how it goes

standard texture

start your project, then go to the textures button (top of screen)
press on it and a lot of textures will be displayed..
Now you can use all the comon textures that are in the game, for example the Assault textures, or the oasis textures (all standard map textures)

here is a example of textures and service inspecter..
I made a simple ground and i made a wall with a 45degree angle

The i loaded the common textures
These are the ladder and all the stuff you DONT see in the game,
for example a slippery floor, or a ladder (to climb) and also the chalk texture (out side of any and all maps needs to be chald
just go out side your light map and u will see it is all white chalk out side.
(has to do with light and bouncing lights)


The i made the ground a chalk white (too see the diffrence between wall and ground)

The i loaded the assault textures and i clicked on both wall parts then i pressed on the bunker wall texture and both parts became bunker walls

as you can see above the 2 wall parts didnt connect very good, the are out of allignment and that looks really ugly in game,

Now high light both walls the press S (surface inspector will load)


now press FIT and then DONE
then you will see the 2 wall parts (textures) will allight perfectly as if it was one complete wall



When you use the standard tetures off oasis, assault goldrush etc etc
then you are done and you dont need to do anything else, the wall will appear to be the same in any game..

[ironman]

My own textures

here is where it becomes more difficult
i will give a example of how i did it and with killinghouse textures..
i assume you have the plc maps i made in your etmain folder and the example below will use them..

iam gonna make a PLC themed door, the door is made in the grid 8 size,
a normal door is
*1 square wide and
*2 squares high
* 1 grid of scale 8 thick



Now press textures and look for the texture(s) plc_door


Click on the door
then click on the plc door texture that you just loaded
maybe u need to use S for surface inpecture and maybe the door will fit as is.. (that is mose propably because 2(16) blocks by 1(8) wide by 1 of grid 8 is a normal door)


Now you can save ur game and test it, in game when you make a dedicated door you will see it, but as soon as you share your map with friends and they play on it they wont see the door, they will see the missing texture image (ugly purple blocks) that is because you used a none standard texture that is not standard in the game..

in order to let your friends see the actual door, you will need to go to ypur ETmain folder, then use winrar to open the PLC_killinghouse map, then go into the texture foler and extract the door texture to your own lighttest.pk3 texture folder

*in short you need to add my texture to your texture folder so it is part of your map now and thus if you share you map others can see that door..

* as you may have noticed when you loaded the plc door textures not all my textures fit the back ground i made them on, take for example our dragon emblem, it doesnt fit and looks ugly when used in this way..



i use diffrent grids to make it fit on its proper background, because the surface inspecter will not fit this imagex because the weapons on the background are part of the image
if you use surface inspecter to make it fit it will make the total image fit, not just the dragon emblem part..

Now inorder to make your own images and be able to use them in radiant and thus in game, you will need to ripp a already used texture out of the game and first redo it then add it..
For exaple:

*open your ETMAIN folder
* right click on the pak0.pk3 file and open it with winrar
* open the texture part..
then look for a texture that comes close the the texture you want to make, for example if you want to make a new door look you open a already existing door texture..
Now when you foud a texture you think you can use extract it to your desktop
Now open your painshop and start altering your image.
when you are happy with the result and want to know what it looks liek ingame, then you open your lightmap.pk3 and add it to your textures folder (in its own folder)
example hellman folder with hellman texture in it added to lighttest.pk3 textures folder.

Now you are ready to use it in gradiant
start gradiant, then open textures tab
look for the hellman folder and load it, if all is well you will have loaded your very own texture...

[ironman]

textures extended

sometimes you only need one side painted of a certain object..
for example, here iu made the plc emblem block a little bit more fat and sqaure and now i want the top to be a bunker image (texture)


Hold CTRL+SHIFT and click on the top part


Now click on a other texture (in this care bunker wall)
and now you have a diffrent texture on the same piece you made.

[Hell_Man]

im gonna read that carefully...

[ironman]

hellman said:

im gonna read that carefully...

it is very simple..

REMOVE ALL MODS AND MAPS from your etmain folder, untill you have pure wolfenstein ET with shrub..

then when you open radiant and you open textures you will see all the standard basic Textures,
these are the textures that everyone has standard.. so when you use only those you dont need to add new once to your map because that maks a map much much bigger ..