texture help

(shadow-mongoose) #1

i’m having some problems with a door texture. i made a door and gave it a door texture but it comes out half of one side of the door cutting in the middle. is there a way to fix this? or do i have to move my entity?

(Ifurita) #2

hit Ctrl-Shift to select the face, then S for the surface inspector. You can either use the horizontal and vertical shift to manually align the texture or you can try using the fit button.

Hint 1: Grab irfanview from www.irfanview.com. It’s great way to preview textures outside of Radiant

Hint 2: Take note of the texture size when in irfanview and if possible, try to stay with the same relative dimensions. It will make ‘fitting’ textures easier and more natural

(MindConfusion) #3

Or while is surface inspector you can click on FIT if the door is the size you really want. I generally use fit alot, too lazy to fix it all up, but still looks good.

(rgoer) #4

Or you can select the face and hit shift+b to do a “fit” operation without having to open the surface inspector first. The inspector opens, but you don’t have to do anything.

(zbeta) #5

as rgoer said … .select the brush face … press shift+s and close … dont touch anything.

(rgoer) #6

shift+b does the “fit” operation and opens inspector window
shift+s opens the inspector window only

(redfella) #7

shift-s is the patch inspector… Though I never use it.

I do just about all of my texture manip with the shift and cntrl hotkeys:

shift-pageup = rotate 45 degrees
shift-uparrow = scroll texture up
cntrl-uparrow = scale texture up
4 = change to grid 8
5 = change to grid 16

etc. etc.

I only use the inspector for patches.

Note: and I mention the 4 and 5 hotkeys for they will not only change your grid with one keystroke, but they will also change your texture step. So say you are trying to align a texture, but its not fitting right… all you gotta do is lower the grid, and then you will be able to step your texture in lower intervals.

Im babbling.

(rgoer) #8

You’re right… in my haste, I mistyped. “Shift+b = fit” was the main point I was trying to get across.

And you never use the patch inspector? You poor, poor soul ;^) The patch inspector owns you! You will learn to love it!