How Do I make this texture look right ingame?

[wareya]

Almost everyone here is self-taught. That said, here's a troubleshooting list:

1) Did you put the custom vmt in a place where TF2 and Hammer will load it? (under tf/custom/anydirname/)
2) Did you retexture the faces with the custom vmt instead of the stock one?
3) Did you recompile the map?

 

[Pocket]

I'm confused; are the materials you're using actually based on ones in the game? Because, in the pictures on the right, the blend textures don't even look bad so much as just straight-up wrong. Especially the second one; that's clearly the "dirt with rocks in it" one.

 

[Tumby]

I just facepalmed the entire time i read this thread.

 

[wareya]

I'm confused; are the materials you're using actually based on ones in the game? Because, in the pictures on the right, the blend textures don't even look bad so much as just straight-up wrong. Especially the second one; that's clearly the "dirt with rocks in it" one.

Yes, those are stock TF2 blends. Crazy, right?