Removing some not so nice textures...

Gravidea

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Apr 17, 2017
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So I've been planning to stream myself while map making, but it seems I have a little problem... I'm not sure where they came from, possibly a trade map or something, but whenever I go to browse through my textures in hammer, some pretty horrendous textures pop up that I feel would not be appropriate for the streaming platform I'd want to stream on. I don't even want to describe how these look, but I want them gone. So, what I want to know is where hammer gets the textures from so I can find them and remove them as soon as possible. Anyone have any quick answers? Thanks in advance! (Also, sorry if anyone feels this is a dumb question, or that I've been making too many threads lately!)
 
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Berry

resident homo
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Materials for hammer can be stored in these 3 places as far as I'm aware:
- team fortress 2/tf/materials/
- team fortress 2/tf/download/materials/
- team fortress 2/tf/custom/X/materials/

If you've downloaded them from a server, chances are they'll be in the second one
 

Gravidea

L5: Dapper Member
Apr 17, 2017
233
105
Materials for hammer can be stored in these 3 places as far as I'm aware:
- team fortress 2/tf/materials/
- team fortress 2/tf/download/materials/
- team fortress 2/tf/custom/X/materials/

If you've downloaded them from a server, chances are they'll be in the second one
I'm not seeing those exact textures... Do you think that it would be safe for me to delete everything in tf/download/materials just to be safe, and see if that works?

EDIT: Never mind! I did some further investigating, and found the textures, successfully removing them. Thank you for your help!
 
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AsG_Alligator

qhull precision error
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Don't forget to use "tf" in the keywords field to instantly filter out any textures that aren't meant for TF2 mapping. Some rare textures do not have a tf keyword tho, and some hl don't look too bad in some situations, but it will be helpfull 98% of the time.

ABS pack adds the tf tag to most tf2 textures that were missing it originally btw.