custom material error

all my textures look fine in game but when I compile and run a map using my textures most of them give this error

KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer: got NULL key in file materials/blm/tile/tiles_darkmarble.vmt
lightmappedgeneric,

anyone know what this error means?

[Tony Sergi]

Originally Posted by bluemoon6

all my textures look fine in game but when I compile and run a map using my textures most of them give this error

KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer: got NULL key in file materials/blm/tile/tiles_darkmarble.vmt
lightmappedgeneric,

anyone know what this error means?

It means you messed up your VMT

Paste tiles_darkmarble.vmt

I'm going to assume you're missing a quotation mark at one point.

Originally Posted by Tony Sergi

It means you messed up your VMT

Paste tiles_darkmarble.vmt

I'm going to assume you're missing a quotation mark at one point.

Thanks. It was a typo, I had used an open bracket in place of a close to end the file.