Implicit shaders do not have explicit shader stages but rather use pre-programmed settings that work with a variety of lighting conditions (vertex lit, diffuse lit, and lightmapped) to give the shader the best possible representation when it is instantiated in the game.

There are three variants: implicitMap, implicitMask, and implicitBlend. They take the form of a single line with either a path to a texture, or a single '-' character.

implicitMap	draws an opaque, single-sided texture
implicitMask	draws a masked (alphaFunc GE128), two-sided texture
implicitBlend	draws a translucent (blendFunc blend), two-sided texture

For example:

textures/wood/plank {     surfaceparm woodsteps     implicitMap - }

This shader will use the default standard mapping, using 'textures/wood/plank.tga' as the texture (shader name + tga extension). The only difference internally between it and a defaulted texture shader is the woodsteps. Internally, if the shader is used on a lightmapped surface, it will use a lightmap. If used on a vertex lit surface, it will be vertex lit.

textures/wood/plank_nonsolid {     qer_editorimage textures/wood/plank.tga     surfaceparm nonsolid     implicitMap textures/wood/plank.tga }