Editing the stock Surface Parms.

MPowell1944 · Post by **MPowell1944** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 4:33 am

I am trying to edit the stock texture's surface parms but no matter what I do, they won't change. When you create new textures, you can change the surface parms around, but with stock textures you can't. Anyone know why? Thanks.

Post by **jv_map** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:45 am

You did extract the shaders and modified them?

panTera · Post by **panTera** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:59 pm

I think you're tying to edit just the shader(parts) which won't work.
If you want to edit some stock textures' parms you'll have to extract those textures and shaders and save them under a different name (like you'd do with a new custom texture). If you don't use different names the game will just load it's own pk3's and won't use the parm-changes you made.

MPowell1944 · Post by **MPowell1944** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:21 pm

Yes I have the textures and shaders extracted. What I am trying to do is change a snow texture to a grass texture. I already changed both the shader and the texture and made a .pk3 named zTextureGrass to make sure that it would be used instead of the stock surfaceparm. Now, if I save it under a different name, then how will the game know to use that as the texture in a stock map versus the original texture?

Thanks for your help.

Post by **jv_map** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:32 pm

Why are you so sure it doesn't work?

MPowell1944 · Post by **MPowell1944** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:08 pm

There is no way you can rename the texture, and have the game see it as the one to be used in one of the game's maps. You tell me how I could accomplish this and I will be all ears.

panTera · Post by **panTera** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 12:11 am

well you didn't mention in your first post you wanted to change the parms of a stock texture in a stock map. Then of course renaming has no effect as the game tries to load the original texture name. I once tried the exact same thing but for some reason the game didn't read my modified shader from my new pk3 which is strange 'cause the game does seem to read a modified ubersound.scr.

Therefore if you're trying to edit the parms of let's say one texture from the norway-set, you'll have to include the whole (modified) norway-shader. Can't think of another way.

tltrude · Post by **tltrude** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:18 pm

Have you tried naming the pk3 "AAA.pk3"? Maybe shaders are loaded first and the game ignores any duplacate shader names. Just a thought.

ZeroSkaten · Post by **ZeroSkaten** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:25 pm

Yeah, I dunno what to do, my only suggestion is the same as tltrude.

panTera · Post by **panTera** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 10:31 pm

hmm I think numbers come before characters? But you may be right. It's worth the shot.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 11:11 pm

Files in the file system ( not in *.pk3:s ) are selected before an identical file in the same file structure in a*.pk3....

Was that clear? I just had some beers, so flame ne if I'm not making sense here...

panTera · Post by **panTera** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:45 pm

Nice to see you got it to work.

whatever... :/