[BonzaiRob]

I'm working on a plugin, but it's quite a dedicated one that won't see light of day here; it's making weather effects for a specific map, dm_duel_v2. Now, using various bastardised code (that I would obviously credit if I posted it here), I've got rain and snow falling and the skybox changing. Now I want to put snow on the floor.

So, I'm using some of the built-in textures (materials/nature/snowfloor002a.vmt) as decals and spraying them on the floor, but the textures are 512x512, and dm_duel's floor is, of course, 1213 wide, meaning I have a lovely 200ish gap. If I overlay the decals I get that funky I'm-not-sure-what-decal-I-am-so-I'll-be-both flicker; I don't want to tile them with the overlaps because then I get snow inside.

So, my question is, is it possible to resize decals/vmts on the fly somehow, or am I going to have to manually resize it and make people download it?
I'd be pretty happy with just sizing down to 256 if that's all that's possible, since it would pretty much fill the gaps.

(A second question is, if I put the ApplyDecals code in OnMapStart, they don't show up, I have to trigger them manually. How can I delay the trigger a bit?)

[BonzaiRob]

Double post for attachments.

New problem; I made a custom, half-sized (256) vtf. It works the first time it's loaded, but subsequent times I get the white lines shown in the attachments.
It would be purple and black checks if it were missing the texture, surely? :/

[NatalyaAF]

I'm pretty sure the lines refer to some kind of memory error. In my years of mapping I've only seen that happen like one time and all I needed to fix it was a restart.

[BonzaiRob]

Hm. I have 4GB of memory so there shouldn't be any problems. That's annoying. I suppose it might have been because I'd been going in and out of games and restarting maps a lot to test things, but it's not a very elegant solution anyway.

Ok, so next question: Is it possible to create brushes? Could I create a brush that's the right size and texture it with the snow texture from sourcemod?

If not, I'm going to have to make a model of a square... :/

[Dr!fter]

By any chance is this a linux server?

[BonzaiRob]

No, Win XP, but it is a proper dedicated server. Albeit a stripped down XP.

[Dr!fter]

hmm ok. I just had the white line thing appear on my linux servers with an error in console about precaching. But prior to the recent updates it worked fine. Maybe same in windows? Ill have a look at my windows server and see Im having a feeling valve broke something

[BonzaiRob]

Well, now, I've made a prop of the snow to the right size and it works fine, but the prop only loads properly once; if it gets reloaded, I get the same white lines on the prop.
They seem to follow the polys, but they're not missing textures as I said, because they're black and purple checks.
Could it be I need to uncache the prop before reloading it or something like that? Is that possible? There doesn't seem to be a function for it in the docs.

I have "if(!IsModelPrecached(model)){PrecacheModel(m odel);}", but making it not bother checking (just precaching the model) doesn't work.

So, I have no idea :/