What clipping texture to use? Or how do I make one?

[Clueless Newbie]

I need a texture that can be made to cap non-solid .ase models. The texture has to be solid in all ways, yet is not rendered (IOW is invisible in the game) and leaves no shadow. I tried the "full clip" texture, but that seems to work like a player clip — which isn't good enough. I've also tried making my own texture, but haven't had any success. The shader looks like this:

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textures/wodenspit/invisiblesolid
{
   qer_trans 0.40
   surfaceparm nodraw
   surfaceparm nolightmap
   surfaceparm trans
}

The result is solid and all that, but it isn't invisible; it's just another texture. Also, it's not transparent in GTKRadiant. What am I not doing right?

[sev]

I think for a full clipping we are supposed to use the weapon clip (quote from the common.shader: textures/common/full_clip // silly shader, use weapclip instead)

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textures/common/weapclip
{
   qer_trans 0.40
   surfaceparm nodraw
   surfaceparm nolightmap
   surfaceparm trans
   surfaceparm nomarks
}

But, if you use your own texture/shader, you need to include

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qer_editorimage textures/wodenspit/invisiblesolid.tga (or jpg, depending on what format it is)

Otherwise, Radiant won't know that the texture is connected with a shader.

[Clueless Newbie]

I think for a full clipping we are supposed to use the weapon clip (quote from the common.shader: textures/common/full_clip // silly shader, use weapclip instead)

Yeah, that worked... bad name for a clip texture that blocks everything though.

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textures/common/weapclip
{
   qer_trans 0.40
   surfaceparm nodraw
   surfaceparm nolightmap
   surfaceparm trans
   surfaceparm nomarks
}

But, if you use your own texture/shader, you need to include

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qer_editorimage textures/wodenspit/invisiblesolid.tga (or jpg, depending on what format it is)

Otherwise, Radiant won't know that the texture is connected with a shader.

Nah, that did not work. But it doesn't matter, since weapclip seems to do what I want.