https://i.imgur.com/W5ENfy9.png

yeah I have it I used to download twitch vods sometimes

https://mega.nz/folder/1CU3CaxR#Jg8QRyv3vMncuUIIi03VDA

Right in the header spec I linked. There are 48 bytes before the value for bumpmap scale, so naturally it will start at byte 48. In the file in your screenshot, the bumpmap scale is set to 1.0. It's not surprising that it's also set to that value in other textures, which was the basis of your question if I understand correctly.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Texture_Format#VTF_header

valve wiki says that the header is 80 bytes (so not 32), and that bytes 48 through 51 are for the bumpmap scale

It's possible you have antialiasing forced off in your graphics driver settings

try tv_autorecord 0

host_thread_mode 0

one thread was probably good

remove the spaces around the =, also if you're on the verylow preset you need particles=low or higher, or cl_particle_batch_mode 1.

yes, but it makes a lot of of the other scout melees have that draw sound also:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ny2fb0i0lq3l2v4/three_rune_katana.vpk

There's a reference to it in the particles/explosion.pcf (and particles/explosion_dx80.pcf) present in stock tf2, not sure if that's what the error is stemming from though

here, same method as the stock original sound one, which isn't really ideal. unfortunately it also changes the sound of some of the other demo swords in addition to the scout sword, I don't think there's a good way to prevent that since they all share the same sound

https://www.mediafire.com/file/lbapjatct96b7lj/three_rune_katana.vpk

also I didnt test it at all so if it doesn't work right lmk and I will fix it

sending a fake user agent achieves the polar opposite of whatever you seem to think it does

for what purpose? i don't think anyone does that

I meant what screen resolution for tf2, since the relative size of crosshair scale 32 compared to everything in the game you're trying to measure differs based on that