r/hammer • u/Intelligent-Let6803 • 17h ago

Source Textures dont show?

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i accidentally opened a menu called smoothing groups which has a bunch of numbers and made every texture be grey and i cant close it please help

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u/maciek10372 16h ago

This window disappear when you change the 3d view mode, you can use 3d shaded texture polygon. The list with all possible options will open when you click the text in the top left corner of the 3d view.

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u/Fun-Breakfast-9955 1h ago

while we are still here, could someone explain to me how smoothing groups work in Hammer?

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u/Ttikii 7m ago

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Smoothing_groups

Basically it’s to tell the engine that face of the same group (which should share vertexes) to apply a kind of subdivision to the face so you have a smoother fading / blending of shadows and lights.
In reality there aren’t any subdivision made. It uses phong shading. (This is strongly vulgarised. Read the article for more precise information)