Textures Missing from Hammer Browser (RECURRING PROBLEM)

[Pinwheel Arts]

I tried to find out what was going on with this a while ago and no one had an answer, so I'm going to try again:

I'm using SFM Hammer, and for some reason loads of textures are missing when I open the texture browser. They look like they're only from a few of the mods I have enabled, whilst I really need the ones from other mods.

Those mods are showing up in Hammer's search paths, so I don't know what's wrong here. Any ideas?

[sapphireHESUS]

maybe something went wrong with .vmt's
u could also try hammer from different games and just add thoose textures there

[sapphireHESUS]

can i see the files of the textures or the map that u want to use?

[Pinwheel Arts]

The map I used was the Hayabusa Village Dojo, downloaded Fremont SFMLab:

https://sfmlab.com/project/28749/

The models and textures needed to be extracted so I did that, but they’re just not showing up.

What’s odd is that I was making a map with these exact same materials on my old laptop but once I moved everything over to a new one these ones don’t want to work. The file paths are exactly the same.

[sapphireHESUS]

well if the textures show up in the hammer but they're checkerboarded then that means something went wrong with vmt's. Can you pack YOUR textures and send em so i can see the vmt?

[Pinwheel Arts]

The problem is that they're no longer appearing in Hammer at all - they don't show up in the browser.

What's the best method of sending them to you so you can see them?

[sapphireHESUS]

zip them and upload to google drive or dropbox?

[sapphireHESUS]

also in which folder ur putting in the textures? workshop?

[Pinwheel Arts]

I currently have a mod created called "Japan" for these particular textures - they were originally in Workshop but I've since moved them. The problem persists when moved back to workshop to test it out. I'll compress them and send you a Drive link.

[sapphireHESUS]

so you made a new mod folder called Japan, buuuut did you added it to the gameinfo's search paths?

[Pinwheel Arts]

Here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nsna6vcGpCzBo1244xKz09n2a_4FlhdC/view?usp=sharing

[sapphireHESUS]

hmmm all vmt's are fine but did u added the "japan" folder to the gameinfo's searchpaths? cuz hammer should load all the folders added into searchpaths

[Pinwheel Arts]

Yes, Japan is in the search paths.

[sapphireHESUS]

when u launch hammer can u check if there's no errors in the tiny messages info box at the bottom? or if it's even loading the folder?

[sapphireHESUS]

also im pretty sure source is case sensitive so you could try renaming the folder to lowercase japan

[Pinwheel Arts]

Nope, changing everything to a lower case japan didn't work, and there are no error messages either. It's baffling because these have worked in the past.