Talk:Creating a Material

I don't get it. A large chunk of this article (the basic stuff) was already in Creating Materials, just organized differently. Why two articles? It looks like the simple stuff from here that isn't in the other article should be merged into that article, and the more advanced topics like parallax mapping should be put into their own small articles. This is getting way too big. I think it should be split up like this and linked together:

• Creating Materials (which already exists)
• Creating Normal Maps
• Creating Reflective Materials
• Creating Parallax Maps
• VMT Parameters (a reference of the VMT parameters, which is sadly lacking)

--IanL 13:28, 9 Jul 2005 (PDT)

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Multiple Skins on a Single Model

Creating multiple skins under one model requires the $texturegroup definition in your .qc file following the $body.

It must follow the $body definition or else the .qc will simply not compile.

$body studio "models/test/test.smd"

$texturegroup skinfamilies

{

{ "test1.vtf" }

{ "test2.vtf" }

}

Your textures can be named anything you wish as long as you've referenced them correctly in the .qc

This information was researched from the Valve Editing Resource Centre forums.

Would that let you have more than one material, though? All the current Source models have the same material whether it's a plastic helmet or bare flesh. --TomEdwards 05:34, 5 Jul 2005 (PDT)

Not sure about that. This could all go in its own article, or added on to an article in the Modeling category. There is no textures category.-mungo

I added a little guide to making normal maps, could someone double-check that it works correctly? --Charron 12:42, 8 Jul 2005 (PDT)

Looks good. I added a little bit. -mungo