How to make maps and textures work from addons?

[crazymonkay]

I've seen a lot of maps that do this, have a folder that u can put in addons with the map and materials and it will work. I was wondering how they did this.

[Geni]

POut an info.txt in.

[crazymonkay]

[QUOTE=Geni;16374801]POut an info.txt in.[/QUOTE]

the map worked, but not the materials

[crazymonkay]

sorry about the double post, but i'm also wondering how to put materials in a folder in the materials folder, like garrysmod/garrysmod/materials/*folder name*/*.vmt's and .vtf's*. For some reason this hasnt been working for me

[Metallics]

Firstly, just pack the textures into the .bsp using pakrat ([url]http://www.geocities.com/cofrdrbob/pakrat.html[/url]) it's much neater than providing things seperately.

Secondly, you would need to ensure your .vmt is written correctly. Put both .vmt and .vtf in

garrysmod/garrysmod/materials/subfolder/

Now make sure that the vmt references subfolder/nameoftexture

e.g.

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "subfolder/nameoftexture"
"$surfaceprop" "Concrete"
}

[crazymonkay]

[QUOTE=metallics;16379984]Firstly, just pack the textures into the .bsp using pakrat ([url]http://www.geocities.com/cofrdrbob/pakrat.html[/url]) it's much neater than providing things seperately.

Secondly, you would need to ensure your .vmt is written correctly. Put both .vmt and .vtf in

garrysmod/garrysmod/materials/subfolder/

Now make sure that the vmt references subfolder/nameoftexture

e.g.

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "subfolder/nameoftexture"
"$surfaceprop" "Concrete"
}[/QUOTE]

I've actually tried pakrat many times, but it doesnt work for me (first it froze when i saved the bsp, now its saving without freezing, but the textures still seem to be missing)

And i've made sure the .vmt addresses the right folder/material. I copied the folder with the .vmt's and .vtf's in ep2/materials directly to garrysmod/materials. But it still gives me the checkerboard o' rape.