I think we've been at cross purposes, at least with my original suggestion rather than the card. FBX shouldn't replace or likely even exist in-game along side the .MDL format, but rather be easy to i… (View Post)

They said last week that they were working on a few new demo pieces to show off the new texture mapping capabilities but didn't show them then as the artists wanted to get them looking perfect. They … (View Post)

niv said this on Discord yesterday, haven't tested it yet tho. add the following lines to your .mdl (or .txi): renderhint NormalAndSpecMapped texture0 filenameoftex (alias = bitmap) texture1 filename… (View Post)

Expansive visual updates may be a way down the line but 8156 will (should) give us support for those maps so modders and CC makers can get cracking straight away! People'll\be showing off stuff befor… (View Post)

I don't think we'll see much beyond a few demo pieces with the new textures in this update (though I'll happily be wrong!). But just the added support for Normal and Spec maps is a phenominal boost f… (View Post)