Lowering graphical quality in Hammer?

BaggyGirdle

L1: Registered
Apr 12, 2009
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I know a lot of people are looking to getting the better graphics on hammer, but my game functions on the lowest graphics and goes about 2 fps on the highest. This wouldn't bother me much, but on a new map I'm making that involves using a blend texture, the smallest difference between one alpha and the other is the difference between random rock, or dirt. Is there a way to lower the quality so I can see what looks good on mine? I'm guessing that it would look better on high quality.
 

StoneFrog

L6: Sharp Member
May 28, 2008
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This tutorial goes over how to fix a common problem with Hammer in which texture quality is too low. You could just reverse the settings in order to make your Hammer 3D view look worse.

The ConVar.mat_picmip corresponds with the mat_picmip console command in TF2 - that is, texture quality:

-1 is for Very High textures.
0 is for High textures.
1 is for Medium textures.
2 is for Low textures.