Purple and Black Textures

Garry's Mod modelling
#1

I’m not quite sure if this is the best place to post this (since I’m compiling for the OB I guess it doesn’t matter anyways). I’ve been working on recompiling Daimao’s hats to work server side however when I use these models in game the textures are purple and black. I (hopefully) fixed the QC file and I’m sure I fixed the .vmt but no matter what I do I can’t get the texture to appear properly.

Here’s the QC



$cd "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\*****\sourcesdk\bin\compiling"
$modelname "dd\hats\elvis_hair.mdl"
$model "Body" "engy_hair.smd"
$cdmaterials "\dd\hats\elvis_hair.vmt"
$hboxset "default"
// Model uses material "elvis_hair.vmt"
$surfaceprop "cloth"
$illumposition -37.752 -0.000 38.626
$sequence idle "idle" loop fps 30.00
$collisionmodel "phymodel.smd" {

	$mass 2.0
	$inertia 1.00
	$damping 0.00
	$rotdamping 0.00
}

Those asterisks are my username

Here’s the .vmt for the only texture:



"VertexlitGeneric"
{
	"$baseTexture" "dd\hats\elvis_hair.vtf"
	//"$bumpmap" "models\player\items\engineer\elvis_hair.vtf"
	"$phong" "1"
	"$phongexponent" "30"
	"$phongboost" "2"
	"$lightwarptexture" "models\lightwarps\weapon_lightwarp"	
	"$phongfresnelranges"	"[.25 .25 .25]"
	"$basemapalphaphongmask" "1"


	// Rim lighting parameters
	"$rimlight" "1"												// To enable rim lighting (requires phong)
	"$rimlightexponent" "4"										// Exponent for phong component of rim lighting	
	"$rimlightboost" "2"										// Boost for ambient cube component of rim lighting

	// Cloaking
	"$cloakPassEnabled" "1"

	"Proxies"
	{
		"weapon_invis"
		{
		}

	}
}

Can someone help me out?

#2

Your $cdmaterials shouldn’t point to the actual texture itself, it should point to the directory. Try changing that to $cdmaterials “\dd\hats”.

If that doesn’t work, you can use the MDL Texture Info tool here to see where the model is looking for the texture and adjust it accordingly.

#3

It says the texture directory is fine, give me a sec while I get a screenshot.

EDIT: There appears to be two slashes on the material directory I’ll check that out

EDIT EDIT:

EDIT EDIT EDIT: It works fine now, thanks!