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This all sounds awesome, but i have to be honest in that ive never used phong before. I just kinda thought it might add even more functionality and atractiveness to your pluggin, using a shader thats all but neglected in the source engine.

Hey shawn, just wondering if there was a way you could incoporate phong into your tools somehow. Like making it easy for people to use on their models without  having to go through some very complicated steps. Prety much what youve done with everything else so far :)

Thanks again for this amazing tool!

Shin

NICE! Good to hear your making progress. I cant believe that this tool is going to get easier to use. The process before these tools were crafted was mind numbingly tedious. I cant thank you enough for stream lining everything.

Hey sorry for the late reply, ive been working on a viewport model the last fiew days, should tested it quicker. Yeah that was it!

Strange that there is that much difference in calling it a normal and a bitmap, in the normal channel. I don't know why they really even give you that option if its the same thing.

Also just checked something for you. There is a slot in the bump channel called "additional bump" so i added my normal map in there. I tried exporting with just that option selected, and than i tried it with both selected. Same thing, the exporter just cant seem to find it.

Yeah they're all tga's. Took a pic for yah. This was from a different model i was working on of a cinder block. Just a diffuse and bump on this one.

You can see the two check boxes are just the diffuse targa's for the model and its lod. Not finding the bump for some reason.,

Fixed the scale, added in the puny little valve popcan for reference.

I plan on having it be a usable item in my mod.

Next step is to animate an arm cracking it open and drinking it.

Watch in HD. Sorry for the video/audio lag. Fraps and my processor dont get along too well.

Tested, still just finding diffuse and specular. Lemme know if you want me to guinea pig out any thing else. This tool is making modding entertaining for change  ;D

Just noticed when exporting the vtf's that the tool only finds my Diffuse and specular channel, and not the bump map channel.

Using the latest version .996

Windows XP Sp3. 

3DS Max 2011

Fixed it by making it a prop_physics_overide. Of course the scale is completely off. Thats a massive can of beer.

Looks great in the model viewer. But when i add it into a test map, which is basically just a square empty room with dev textures and an info_player_start. And compile it, it wont show.

I added it as a prop_physics.

Im running a hl2 multiplayer mod created through the mod creation wizzard on the 2007 version of the engine. Not sure what im doing wrong. Any clues? I cant get particle effects to show up either, they work in tools mode but never in game.

Woops, figured it out. I wasnt using targas. Ill post a pic soon so you can see!

Hey Shawn, thanks again for this amazing pluggin.

Im moddeling a beer can and ive got it all the way into the model viewer but for some reason the textures are gone. Just getting pink and black checkerboard.

I noticed there is a export vtf function and a "Export selected" option.

Does the material im using for my uvw map in the material editor have to be a vtf? or does your plugin convert it to vtf somehow?