Reflective problems

Hey all!
I've been an on-off mapper for a while now, and member of
twhl for ages! However, I'm starting to find I've outgrown it a little,
and moderators have been stumped by questions and reccomended I come
here.

Main issue at the moment is with my latest idea,
rp_casino. As the name suggests, it is a fully-functioning online
casino built within the source engine, to (hopefully) be constructed
entirely without modifications to code, and only entities.
It will
allow the player to work in the casino as a croupier, security,
surveillance, host etc. until they have some savings, which they can
then blow at the tables!

Whilst I lay down the back-end logic to
handle all the complicated games etc. I thought I would get at least
some brushwork for the externals of the casino completed.

Whilst messing with a design I liked, conbined with a reflective texture I designed, I noticed some odd problems in game:


Note
the odd triangular shadows, despite the fact that the brushes they
appear on and around are all uncarved, solid, and have either 90 or 45
degree angles.

Anyone help me out?
Thanks,
Chris

Could be a number of thins, such as your current lighting setup, smoothing groups, or that fact that it's in an outdoor area. Have you tried copying the building into a few different test rooms? Try putting it into the following rooms:

1) With dynamic light (no sky)
2) A normal room with normal lighting (no sky)
3) A completely black or white textured room (no sky)
4) Change the smoothing groups and put it into a variety of rooms (no sky)
5) Change the sky to a few different ones to see if it is any different

If none of this works, try making smaller or different geometry using the same texture and see if the problem persists. Also ensure that you don't have any leaks, because that screenshot looks fullbright.

do you still get the strange shadows when the brushes are covered with a default texture?

Also ensure that you don't have any leaks, because that screenshot looks fullbright.

do you get shadows in a fullbright map?

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Model shadows, yes, but not brush shadows.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

Perhaps Stadric, you're implying he's using a VMT with a "VertexLitGeneric" instead of just regular 'ol "LightMappedGeneric?"

If that's the case, then just switch to that latter shader instead. But maybe it is something else within the VMT that is causing this. Could you post the VMT for that texture?

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