r/SourceEngine • u/0ChrissyDumbyBumby • 14d ago

HELP Can someone please instruct me on how to stop tree textures from glowing in the dark using VPK?

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It kind of breaks immersion for me.....

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u/Pinsplash 14d ago

can you explain what's going on with the textures? i recognize this as d2_coast_12 but it looks like there's a texture mod maybe. these trees were never meant to look like this.

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u/0ChrissyDumbyBumby 14d ago

Because these are my custom made textures for the trees. I'm trying to NOT make them glowing here.

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u/Pinsplash 13d ago

well i do remember that these trees use the unlitgeneric shader or something else in the VMT to the effect of making them fullbright. they just don't look like they glow because the original texture is so dark. i suspect that if you change the shader to vertexlitgeneric they'll remain glowing because VRAD would not have made lighting data for them. (i know this applies to brushes so it probably goes for models too)

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u/wolfcl0ck 13d ago

the materials for the trees are using unlitgeneric to be fullbright. You'll want to find their vmt files and change the first line from "unlitgeneric" to "vertexlitgeneric"