Transparent Degreaser? Need help

[r0m3x]

I try using the degreaser in one of my photos and I noticed its transluscent, can anyone show me how to fix this? Please and thank you!

[R234]

That's the AO bug. The only actual "fix" would be to recompile the model with the $mostlyopaque flag. But there's also a workaround, which makes AO disappear from the model.

Go to Steam/SteamApps/common/SourceFilmmaker/game/tf/materials/models/weapons/c_items/. Open c_degreaser_blue.vmt and c_degreaser_red.vmt in Notepad. In both of them, add the following line of code:

"$ambientocclusion" "0" 

Save the files.

Either that, or don't use ambient occlusion.

[psi onix]

Tell me about it. Spent about an hour today adding "$ambientocclusion" "0" to a bunch of GTA IV props someone decided to port without the mostlyopaque command. Real pain in the rear. But definitely worth it to bring some life into the "Big City" gmod map.