Wednesday, October 24, 2012

No Surface Material Type

The following are the steps required to remove the 'No Surface Material Type' thing that pops up whenever you walk on or shoot a surface in Crysis. It is a hack solution, and there is a legitimate way of removing it, but if you have a lot of textures, it takes a lot of time.

The legitimate way:
assign a 'Surface Type' in the properties of the Crysis material.
Now instead of getting the message popping up, the material will react according to it's surface type. Concrete, for example, will appear to chip and crack when you shoot it.

The hack way:
Copy the .dds texture file from here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3ClvuCv6FZsMjFaQ2JXV0k4YkU
Paste it into Game>Textures folder, don't rename it
If you don't have a Textures folder in your Game folder, create one
Done

This is overwritting the texture used for the 'No Surface Material Type' message with an invisible texture. It is still popping up, you just can't see it, and if you want the material to react to being shot you will still need to assign a surface type in the material properties.

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