Help with similar textures having odd shading

What Is Schwa · Jun 16, 2011

As you may have noticed, my latest version of Swift has a problem.

I don't know much about textures, so I don't really know quite where to begin. I thought the two textures were using the same grass base texture.
The two textures in question are:
nature/blendgroundtograss007
nature/blendrockgroundwallforest

Any thoughts?

Loc_n_lol · Jun 16, 2011

"$basetexture" "Nature/rockwall001forest"
"$basetexture2" "Nature/grass_07"
"%tooltexture" "Nature/rockwall001forest"
"$blendmodulatetexture" "Nature/grass_blendmask"
"$bumpmap" "Nature/rockwall001_normal"
"$bumpmap2" "Nature/rockground002_height-ssbump"
"%keywords" "tf"
"$surfaceprop" "dirt"

"$basetexture" "Nature/dirtground009"
"$basetexture2" "Nature/grass_07"
"%tooltexture" "Nature/blendgroundtograss007_tooltexture"
"$blendmodulatetexture" "Nature/grass_blendmask"
"$bumpmap" "Nature/dirtground001_height-ssbump"
"%detailtype" "tf_forest_grass"
"%keywords" "tf"
"$ssbump" "1"
"$surfaceprop" "dirt"

Could well be caused by the bumpmap not being the same. Not sure what ssbump does.

Boylee · Jun 17, 2011

Yeah I can't think of what it would be other than the second bump map, weird because I'm sure I've used these two textures before with no issue.

Try dumping this in tf\materials\nature and replacing blendrockgroundwallforest with it.

Loc n lol, background reading on ssbump: 1, 2

What Is Schwa · Jul 4, 2011

BoyLee said:
Try dumping this in tf\materials\nature and replacing blendrockgroundwallforest with it.

Well, that took away the odd shadowing... but...

Pocket · Jul 5, 2011

Ha ha!

Fruity Snacks · Jul 5, 2011

Yea, I was thinking why not just use the blend you were using for everything else, and just make it complete grass, if you have to beld dirt and rock, thats easier than grass.

YM · Jul 5, 2011

It's the bumpmaps, Or rather the ssbumpmaps. they'll need the same ssbump if they're going to look good next to each other, otherwise terrible shading.

Why? cause Valve only code what they need to.

I had this issue a while ago, the only thing to do is take the ssbump out of the ground-grass blend and just have a flat texture. I think (hard to tell which textures have what shaders with how the info is laid out above)

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