Overlay Question!

tozzie

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Jun 20, 2008
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Hey there everyone!
i'm getting into mapping and i seem to be having some trouble with the overlay tool!
When i apply an overlay to a wall, it shows up in hammer but when i go in game it just shows a black square where the overlay should be.
I'm mapping for tf2. Decals seem to work fine but i dont want to use decals for signs and stuff because they're always too big, and i like being able to move the overlays around and to scale them.

I've used the interlopers Error checker in the compile log to see if there was something wrong there, but there wasnt.
i must be doing something wrong -_-

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks alot,

-Tozzie
 

YM

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You got lights in your map? I've heard that overlays don't work sometimes for maps that have no lighting at all
 

Nineaxis

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Yeah, this happened to me. You have to have lights in your map for it to render correctly.
 

tozzie

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Jun 20, 2008
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oh! i dont currently have lights on my map, that must be it!
Thanks alot for the super fast replies :D
 

Nineaxis

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Don't just say thanks,
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thanks! ;)