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== Generating a Tooltexture for a Material ==
== Generating a Tooltexture for a Material ==
What's the best way to do this for textures that are being recolored or SSBUMP'd and need tooltextures?
What's the best way to do this for textures that are being recolored or SSBUMP'd and need tooltextures?
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Unfortunately, some textures are using a SSBUMP or are being recolored in a way that an image-editing program can't easily simulate.
Unfortunately, some textures are using a SSBUMP or are being recolored in a way that an image-editing program can't easily simulate.


Is there some sort of command you can run to generate one? A good way to take a screenshot of one? Anything?
Is there some sort of command you can run to generate one? A good way to take a screenshot of one? Anything? -[[User:Corion|Corion]] 20:04, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 
== Tooltexture Size ==
Does the size of the tooltexture matter? I don't understand why Valve uses 512x512+ size tooltextures when they could easily use a much more compressed version that would take less disk space and memory. In fact, I don't really understand why Hammer isn't smart enough to generate accurate textures for blends, recolorations, etc. It seems like this would be a useful addition to the authoring tools for Source games.

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Generating a Tooltexture for a Material

What's the best way to do this for textures that are being recolored or SSBUMP'd and need tooltextures?

The tooltextures for blends are easy (just open up an image-editing program and use the two vtf's as sources). Unfortunately, some textures are using a SSBUMP or are being recolored in a way that an image-editing program can't easily simulate.

Is there some sort of command you can run to generate one? A good way to take a screenshot of one? Anything? -Corion 20:04, 15 December 2009 (UTC)