Checkerboards?

HQDefault

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Every once in a while, when I have a texture on a surface, it will have a weird checkerboard pattern on it. What's the cause? How do I fix it? (No, not pink and black. This has nothing to do with missing textures or cubemaps)
 

Egan

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I'm not sure what it's caused by, although I have glimpsed some people in chat talking about it so someone probably knows, anyway here's a screencap that I have of it (probably?):

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Shogun

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The ground texture Crash is talking about is completely broken, and whenever someone uses it someone else will always tell them it broken and not to use it. I wouldn't be surprised if this texture is broken too.
 

henke37

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The checkerboard is the source error texture, it is used when the correct texture failed to load, usually because it doesn't exist.

Basically check the material for which textures it uses and verify that those exist.

Also, verify your cache in steam to ensure that no files have gone corrupt.
 

HQDefault

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The checkerboard is the source error texture, it is used when the correct texture failed to load, usually because it doesn't exist.

Basically check the material for which textures it uses and verify that those exist.

Also, verify your cache in steam to ensure that no files have gone corrupt.

Ahem...

(No, not pink and black. This has nothing to do with missing textures or cubemaps)
 

henke37

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It is the same texture, the pinkness just didn't end up visible because of reasons. Probably because the shader only checked one channel.
 

Pocket

Half a Lambert is better than one.
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Yep. Because one channel (green) is all black and the others are black and white. So the thing Egan posted could be a missing normal map, missing ssbump, or missing blendmap. I'm guessing normal map. Are you sure this is a stock texture and one designed for TF2? I can't tell from that screenshot what it's actually supposed to be.
 

Pocket

Half a Lambert is better than one.
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I don't even know why those five textures are in Soho anyway; they all look exactly like stock textures that are in the concrete folder.