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Posted by notnorm on Sun Dec 5th at 6:36pm 2004

I have been able to create my own textures for HL2 but Im having a problem getting them to react to env_cubemap. I know that im getting env_cubemap to work because textures that would normally reflect like glass or tiles are doing so. How do I make my custom textures also reflect. Is it something that I put int the VMT file?

thanks

notnorm



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Posted by diablobasher on Sun Dec 5th at 6:38pm 2004

Under the same sort of problem, how do i get my stone walls to reflect, but not my office wallpaper? its annoying me [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sun Dec 5th at 7:01pm 2004

I sit possible to look at existing materials that do have reflectivity to see how it was done?

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Posted by BSODUtensil on Fri Jan 7th at 3:12pm 2005

think i might be able to help i have made a model in maya and exported it, the trouble was that parts of the model are metal and the other parts where coal. I didnt want the coals to be super reflective but the metal housing to be reflective. I created an alpha with my basetexture, and the used the following flag to tell render to use alpha of basetexture as reflection mask

"$basealphaenvmapmask" 1

From my tests it seemed that nearer to white the aplha gets the less reflective that part of the object is.

here was my final vmt hope ths helps

"VertexLitGeneric"
{
"$color" "[1 1 1]"
"$baseTexture" "models/bsod/fire2"
"$selfIllum" 0
"$translucent" 0
"$alpha" 1
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$basealphaenvmapmask" 1
"$envmaptint" "[ .15 .15 .15]"
"$bumpmap" "models/bsod/fire2_normal"






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