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Scrolling Textures Creating Flowing water.By Stupendous Man First I would like to introduce scrolling grains since they havent been addressed very well. I have obtained every(prenominal) the information I am sharing through trial and error and through dilegent searching of the web turning up pieces of the puzzle here(predicate) and there. Now the infamous scrolling texture. First of all you have to have a texture in your wad appoint that has the word "SCROLL" as the first six letters. The rest can be what ever you please. (I memorize somewhere that you couldnt have an underscore but torntextures.wad uses one so I would imagine it works. If you dont feel like screwing with it just name your file without an underscore.) For this tutorial I am using "torntextures.wad" that is in the cstrike folder, and I am using the "scroll_water" texture that is 176x176 (I read also that scrolling textures can only be a certain size... but I havent had any problems.. so e xperiment.) business timbers correspond with the Numbered Circles in the Pictures. Step 1Select your texture using either the browse button or the cull down. "scroll_water" is haveed. Good. Step 2 and 3Click on the "Block Tool"( beat 2) select the object type (step 3) and create your Block, or brush for that matter. I happend to get in mine a rectangle 224W x 112l x 1h. It doesnt matter what the size is, as long as it fits your needs. It can be a cylinder, wedge, block, etc. Doesnt matter. (note the more(prenominal) faces the more fun it will be to configure the directions. So be advised to stay away from a bunch of faces.) Step 4, 5 and 6Click on the selection Tool.(step 4)In the 3D ascertain or one of the 2D ones, select your brush.(step 5)Click the "toEntity" Button(step 6)Step 7This menu will pop up when you complete step 6. This is the properties of the object. since we argon tying it to an Entity this is where we choose the type of entity it will be. Step 8This step is how we get our water to scroll. The class of our entity needs to be a "func_conveyor" from the pull down select this. (click to enlarge) Step 9Now we are dismissal to focus a few settings only within the Object Properties box. scratch with the "Render FX". I leave this normal. Step 10