Missing default textures

[GHLeeroy]

Hey, gonna make this short and sweet,

I have textures missing from maps like gm_construct and many models, ragdolls and weapons are invisible.

I have tried uninstalling and unsubscribing every addon, aswell as completely uninstalling and reinstalling the game, got new graphics drivers and even got round to updating all my other source engine games (hl2-ep1-ep2 css dod tf2)

The problem has remained exactly the same.

any ideas??

[BreakinBenny]

Is SteamPipe causing trouble?

[GHLeeroy]

:P sorry, Whats steampipe? (thanks for the reply)

[BreakinBenny]

It's a new content distribution system for Steam, which is meant to make it easier to distribute and install mods up to smoother downloading times.

I'm only giving the details, Google can help you out with the rest!

[GHLeeroy]

Great, google told me all about SteamPipe and it sounds cool, all my games are now "converted" but I'm still not having any success.

I don't know if this helps but the missing things (purple and black textures and invisible objects) seem to be completely random, and not from a specific game. eg I can see the walls but not the grass.

Thanks again.

Edit: One more thing I noticed is that I have gmod files in both steamapps/common/garrysmod/ and steamapps/[username]/garrysmod/ Again, if that helps, great but im just not too sure what to do with the info. :P

[BreakinBenny]

The content in username/garry's mod is your decision to make, any custom mods you installed'll have to be moved. Here are the directories and what they contain;

Maps: BSP files (Goes in maps folder)
Materials: Texture files (VMT & VTF)
Models: Model files, really
Sound; Pretty obvious, no? (WAV n' MP3 files)

Sometimes, when you download content upon joining servers, you might wonder 'Where's the custom content I downloaded?'. Well, they now end up in [B]ExecutableDirectory/gamedirectory/download[/B]

[GHLeeroy]

Sorry, I may have been unclear, I want to start a super fresh new gmod, no addons or anything. I tried deleting everything (including unsubbing addons and deleting their files) and reinstalling the game, but it still insnt how it should be. All the addons are gone and have not tried to reinstall but textures which should come with the game (the physgun texture, gm_constructs grass) are missing.

I do, however, have a plan, so I will try that first.

If it doesn't work, Ill be back tomorrow, but thank you, genuinely, for all your help.

Its nice to know there are still nice people around. :D

[BreakinBenny]

For the Physics Gun, its textures go in 'materials/models/weapons/v_physcannon' as [B]v_superphyscannon_sheet[/B]

[U]Why? Because the GMOD Physgun re-uses the blue (Dark Energy Field) version[/U]