Missing Sky And Zhlt.wad

HTEC

<div class="IPBDescription">No-Sky Blues</div> I have done occasional mapping, both before and after Steam came out, and have not had problems with special textures/brushes, i.e. those related to the sky, clipping, rotating objects, etc. Recently, I decided to add a sky to my NS map and all I get is a flat black texture (or black skybox) in place of where the sky should be.

- I am currently using the Batch Compiler with XP Cagey's revision of ZHLT, p14.
- I have checked that I entered the correct name under cl_skyname (mars) under VHE.
- I have tried specifying the location of ZHLT.WAD everywhere I could in both VHE and BC.
- Overriding via WAD.CFG fails.

For some reason, CSG will not include ZHLT.WAD when compiling, even after I played with the configuration of both the Batch Compiler and the Valve Hammer Editor. Note that I can actually use the SKY and other special textures in VHE, but I can't get them compiled in with my map. Here is what I get in the logfile (check out the warnings at the end):

<!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->-----  BEGIN  hlcsg -----
Command line: "C:\Program Files\Valve Hammer Editor\tools\hlcsg.exe"-wadinclude "C:\Program

Files\Steam\SteamApps\email@domain.com\half-life\ns\ns.wad"-wadinclude "C:\Program

Files\Steam\SteamApps\email@domain.com\half-life\ns\ns2.wad"-wadinclude "C:\Program

Files\Steam\SteamApps\email@domain.com\half-life\ns\zhlt.wad"-chart -estimate -high "C:\Program Files\Valve Hammer

Editor\maps\ns_new07"
Entering C:\Program Files\Valve Hammer Editor\maps\ns_new07.map

Current hlcsg Settings
Name                 |  Setting  |  Default
---------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads               [       1 ] [  Varies ]
verbose               [     off ] [     off ]
log                   [      on ] [      on ]
developer             [       0 ] [       0 ]
chart                 [      on ] [     off ]
estimate              [      on ] [     off ]
max texture memory    [ 4194304 ] [ 4194304 ]
max lighting memory   [ 6291456 ] [ 6291456 ]
priority              [    High ] [  Normal ]

noclip                [     off ] [     off ]
null texture stripping[      on ] [      on ]
clipnode economy mode [      on ] [      on ]
clip hull type        [  legacy ] [  legacy ]
onlyents              [     off ] [     off ]
wadtextures           [      on ] [      on ]
skyclip               [      on ] [      on ]
hullfile              [    None ] [    None ]
nullfile              [    None ] [    None ]
min surface area      [   0.500 ] [   0.500 ]
brush union threshold [   0.000 ] [   0.000 ]

Using mapfile wad configuration
Wadinclude list :
[zhlt.wad]
[C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\email@domain.com\half-life\ns\ns.wad]
[C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\email@domain.com\half-life\ns\ns2.wad]
[C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\email@domain.com\half-life\ns\zhlt.wad]

0 brushes (totalling 0 sides) discarded from clipping hulls
CreateBrush:
(0.23 seconds)
SetModelCenters:
(0.00 seconds)
CSGBrush:
(0.55 seconds)

Object names  Objects/Maxobjs  Memory / Maxmem  Fullness
------------  ---------------  ---------------  --------
models              0/400            0/25600    ( 0.0%)
planes           2984/32768      59680/655360   ( 9.1%)
vertexes            0/65535          0/786420   ( 0.0%)
nodes               0/32767          0/786408   ( 0.0%)
texinfos          237/32767       9480/1310680  ( 0.7%)
faces               0/65535          0/1310700  ( 0.0%)
clipnodes           0/32767          0/262136   ( 0.0%)
leaves              0/8192           0/229376   ( 0.0%)
marksurfaces        0/65535          0/131070   ( 0.0%)
surfedges           0/512000         0/2048000  ( 0.0%)
edges               0/256000         0/1024000  ( 0.0%)
texdata          [variable]          0/4194304  ( 0.0%)
lightdata        [variable]          0/6291456  ( 0.0%)
visdata          [variable]          0/2097152  ( 0.0%)
entdata          [variable]          0/524288   ( 0.0%)
0 textures referenced
=== Total BSP file data space used: 69160 bytes ===

Including Wadfile: C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\email@domain.com\half-life\ns\ns.wad
- Contains 10 used textures, 45.45 percent of map (578 textures in wad)
Including Wadfile: C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\email@domain.com\half-life\ns\ns2.wad
- Contains 9 used textures, 40.91 percent of map (296 textures in wad)

Warning: ::FindTexture() texture ORIGIN not found!
Warning: ::FindTexture() texture SKY not found!
Warning: ::FindTexture() texture CLIP not found!
Warning: ::LoadLump() texture CLIP not found!
Warning: ::LoadLump() texture ORIGIN not found!
Warning: ::LoadLump() texture SKY not found!
Texture usage is at 0.88 mb (of 4.00 mb MAX)
1.08 seconds elapsed

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Well, this has been one frustrating afternoon, and I hope that some of you can lend your expertise and help me with this (hopefully small) problem. Thanks in advance.

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Reebdoog

i use -wadautodetect and DO NOT include ZHLT.wad. It auto includes it, as you can see from your log.
Check in the .map file that zhlt is referenced, i.e.
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"wad" "J:\nsmapping\zhlt.wad; J:\nsmapping\decals.wad; J:\nsmapping\liquids.wad; J:\nsmapping\ns2.wad; J:\nsmapping\ns.wad; J:\nsmapping\ns_converge.wad; J:\nsmapping\halflifelights.wad"<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Use wally to open up your ZHLT.wad just to make sure the textures are there.

TheDestroyer

Since we're on the subject of ZHLT.wad (sorry to hijack, but it would be stupid to create a thread when theres a simular one), where is the .wad file located? I seem to not have a copy of it. I'm pretty sure I have used it before a reformat, but now its no where to be found.

brute_force

Might wanna include HL.wad too, as it has SKY, CLIP and ORIGIN.

HTEC

ZHLT.WAD comes only with Zoner's Half-Life Tools, and not with Steam / Half-Life itself. Thus, if you did a clean reinstall, you'll see only NS.WAD, NS2.WAD, etc.

Reebdoog, I checked out my .MAP file and sure enough, ZHLT.WAD was not referenced. Apparently HLFix generates the .MAP files in the batch compiler, so I started looking there. HLFix was compiling with only NS.WAD and NS2.WAD, and this was determined by the contents of another config file, WAD.TXT. I added an entry for ZHLT.WAD in the file, fired up the compiler and voila, it included the sky texture. The sky now functions in-game without problems.

Thank you for the tips; I really appreciate it!

carioca

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tanith.wad have the sky texture
another texture in zhlt.wad try search zhlt in the foruns i post somewhere the donwlaod link for it.