Replacing materials/textures

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Texture of Alyx replaced with a custom one.

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Default PAC model with replaced material.

First create your materials:

1. Add any of the material parts (:material: Material, :material: Material2D, :material: Material3D)
2. Tweak the material settings to your liking.
3. Give the material a name (name field). Make sure that it is unique.

Once that's done, add the Model > :submaterial: Submaterial part, then:

1. Go to the sub material id field. Click on … and select the material that you want to replace.
2. Type the name of the material that you created into the material field.

If you want the :submaterial: Submaterial to affect a model different than your entity, simply add it as a child of that model. There is a chance that this will break materials on your entity, to fix that simply add an empty :submaterial: Submaterial to your entity and set the sub material id field to the same value as the one that is affecting the model.

In the example below I made two materials:

• First one, called color will change the color. It has color2 variable set to green.
• The second one, called texture will replace the texture on Alyx. It has an edited .PNG texture link pasted into base texture field.

Download this example: submaterial.txt

• Animated Textures
• Basic Materials
• Colourable Textures
• Extracting game content
• Finding material names
• Material
• Replacing materials/textures
• Submaterial
• VTFEdit: Lowering texture resolution