Costume textures and cubemaps

Building cubemaps is done by entering game and typing commands, yeah. It is (or at least this has always worked for me) mat_specular 0, buildcubemaps, run a diffrent map, and then run yor map again.

This turns reflections off, builds the cubemaps, and forces the game to run the maps with the cubemaps in.

Use PakBSP http://technofovea.com/blog/projects/packbsp to pack your map. It's loads better than PakRat.

And yes you have it in the right order. Compile, Pack, Cubemaps. For building cubemaps check out http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=16452

-map <mapname>(Load your map)
-mat_specular 0
-buildcubemaps
-mat_specular 1
-disconnect
-map <mapname>(Load a different level; clears texture cache)
-map <mapname>(Load you map again)

Thats a little extensive, but it works. If you don't feel like loading a new map reload_materials 1 works too. Or was it reload_allmaterials 1. Eh, I forget but that's the general idea.

I was under the impression it was mat_reloadallmaterials.

(Blind men and elephants, anyone?)

LeSwordfish said:

I was under the impression it was mat_reloadallmaterials.

(Blind men and elephants, anyone?)

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Could be.

Also, you mean Custom, not Costume. Costume is fake clothes.

EDIT: Ooh, 700 posts.

you can skip loading another map by just typing in sv_cheats 1 then mat_reloadallmaterials