Texture Nodraw Textures (not eyemelting)

[Leminnes]

I'm fairly certain most of us like to do our first blocking of a map with the bright yellow no-draw texture to save time later. Personally, I was amazingly sick of looking at that godawful yellow and I also tend to get a headache from looking at it for too long. So, in like 3 minutes I made 3 new Nodraw textures in cool blue, soothing green, and homey tan.

They're all usable as nodraw just the same as the bright yellow one, so use them as you want. They also help to distinguish certain geometry from each other (say the floor from the wall from the ceiling or however you'd like.)

Download it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4222914/NewNodraw.zip

Should only need to extract it to your tf folder.

Also, if you want a certain color, let me know. It's easy as shit to make.

And, thank you to a certain awesome person who knows who they are for telling me how to do this.

 

[awatemonosan]

 

[Leminnes]

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Oh, why thank you, I am flattered.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

This is kinda why valve invented dev textures <.<

 

[Leminnes]

This is kinda why valve invented dev textures <.<

Not the same thing. Dev textures I still need to go through and nodraw places that touch and aren't seen (unless I'm unaware of some magical property of Dev Textures, which might be the case.) This way I can block with nodraw without my eyes running away screaming and texture with regular textures or dev textures after I finish.

Either way, it's useful to me. Might be useful to others as well, so I shared.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

When you are all done with the dev texture stage of mapping you can just go to the material browser, check "only used", then mass-replace any remaining dev in use with nodraw. Prior to that it really won't make noticeable difference on performance if there are hidden faces drawn.

 

[Tapp]

Not the same thing. Dev textures I still need to go through and nodraw places that touch and aren't seen (unless I'm unaware of some magical property of Dev Textures, which might be the case.) This way I can block with nodraw without my eyes running away screaming and texture with regular textures or dev textures after I finish.

Either way, it's useful to me. Might be useful to others as well, so I shared.

Just replace all of the dev textures with nodraw. It's a good idea, but kinda overshadowed. Also, dev textures show-up in-game, which is helpful.

 

[Leminnes]

Well, useless or not, I made them. Yay me!

 

[littleedge]

Have you ever tried Shaded Textured view? It helps.

 

[Cynick]

Don't bite me if I'm wrong...but wouldn't these textures try to autopack themselves as custom materials into the BSP (using pakrat, packbsp, etc.)?

 

[Psy]

Then don't autopack. In my experience autopacking causes more problems then simply adding the content yourself. I do it manually all the time and I've never had problems with Pakrat.

 

[honorum646]

Or after you click "auto" just select the textures and delete them from the BSP... :\

 

[megawac]

Can I request a red skip texture... I love the skip texture for mapping out areas. Thanks if you do this.

*Edit since nobody did it I did it myself... heres the link if anyone else wanted this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5593951/Releases/redskip.7z

 

[r3dw3r3w0lf]

Thank god for this texture, nodraw pisses me off with the coloring. -_- thanks mate.