make my own blend material?

[pseudo goblet]

im trying to make my own blend material for CS2 (also to be used in other source titles once i move on to that stuff and S&box comes out)

but when i load the material into hammer it shows both channels being the same material

ive found it quite difficult to find a tutorial for this, and the documentation on developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki confuses me alot of the time (im getting better at understanding it as i learn hammer and source engine stuff more so bare with me)

i attached all images i think are relevant if you need more information please let me know and i will provide it

also if you dont want to explain it and you know of a tutorial for this im happy to watch that, i just struggled to find it on my own from looking around on youtube and google

thank you so so much in advanced if you do help me, i really appreciate you taking the time to help ❤️

[atomic monolith]

Basically how a blend works in CS2 is that it is a material that references two existing materials

So step one is to make both materials you want to blend separately

As CSGO_Environment shader

Make sure you give both a heightmap as that acts as the blend mask

Then once you have both made, make a new material with the CSGO_Environment_Blend shader

Then your material layers, you will just select your pre-made materials

The Blend material basically just exists to reference two existing materials

I will also throw in that this is NOT the same for all games

And different games have different shaders

So this information is not valid for HLA and probably won't be for sbox

[pseudo schooner]

Hey there!
Is it possible to add a 3rd, or 4th texture into a blend texture? I'm currently only seeing the possibility for 2 textures. Cheers.

[atomic monolith]

no