I have tried the tutorial on creating custom textures at least 25 times and I still have not gotten it to work.

My new textures are not even showing up in radiant.

Can someone that has them working point me toward the source of info they used so i can also become engraciated into the wonderful world of custom textures also?

Any help is appreciated, Thanks, Rake

Ok, I did a tutorial for custom decals for some people which you can look at here. Also, there is a problem with the 1.5 patch and custom textures, but the solution is in that post as well.

Hope this helps.

Try this topic as well.
Custom Texture Problem

It's a long thread but has some very helpful info in it.

The problem with 1.5 is that they fixed it, the game won't read custom iwd's (and therefore textures) unless a mod is running (in which case the iwd needs to be in the it's usermaps folder (although putting it in the mod folder still works))

Rake, which settings are you using for materialtype, usage, all that jazz?

and are you putting the materials into the fastfile?

edited on Feb. 25, 2008 10:39 am by NovemberDobby

I will try when I get home from work tonight, I followed novemberdobbys post to the letter, I tried with a .dds and a .jpg texture. Everything seemed to go ok, but nothing showed up in the editor texture window. I listed them under metal and sign, and all I tried every variation of every tutorial and forum post on the subject I could find.

Putting the files into the iwd file wasnt an option since I couldnt even apply them to anything in the editor.

I wish they used the same asset manager I have at work, then I could have a texture artist help me here

I will try again tonight, sometimes just trying it on a different day seems to give me a different perspective, Thanks guys, Rake

I was having the same prob, I made the dds file without mip maps and made the compression dxt5 & it worked after that.