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[[Category:File | Due to their purpose-formatted nature, they are not particularly reusable. Third party VRAD compilers{{clarify}} should be used if desiring to use custom vertex colors in a way that wouldn't normally be generated by VRAD's static prop lighting calculations. | ||
== See also == | |||
* [[PPL]], the equivalent for lightmapped props | |||
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Latest revision as of 07:06, 9 April 2025
VHV files (Valve Hardware Verts) stores pre-baked vertex colors used for "per-vertex" static prop lighting, in a format designed to be very cheap to upload to the GPU.
Description from 
public/materialsystem/hardwareverts.h:
// Contains data purposely formatted for a dma copy into a D3D Vertex Buffer. // The file is divided into two partitions, the foremost contains the static // portion (header), the latter contains the streamable compliant portion. // The streamable component starts and ends on a sector (512) aligned boundary. // The header identifies the vertex format of the data and the atomic sizes of each component. // The hierarchial mesh is flattened for dma but the vertex counts are available // per mesh to transfer each mesh individually.
Due to their purpose-formatted nature, they are not particularly reusable. Third party VRAD compilers[Clarify] should be used if desiring to use custom vertex colors in a way that wouldn't normally be generated by VRAD's static prop lighting calculations.
See also
- PPL, the equivalent for lightmapped props