Cant create a cubemap for a skybox

SparkyShock

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Feb 6, 2016
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im using a standard skybox (sky_trainyard_01) and used the recommended setting off of the Valve skylist. and i get this error.
*** Error: Skybox vtf files for skybox/sky_trainyard_01 weren't compiled with the same size texture and/or same flags!
Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_trainyard_01 to build the default cubemap!
Can someone help?
 

Kube

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Aug 31, 2014
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If nothing odd is happening in your map once it's compiled, you should be able to safely ignore this error.
 

killohurtz

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Feb 22, 2014
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You can ignore this error. It's purely a visual thing, it won't have any negative effect on your map, and you'll be building your own cubemaps manually later so it doesn't even matter.
 

henke37

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The error is a sanity check that no longer makes sense. If anything, it's a bug that it still shows up. But the message of you having to build cubemaps manually isn't as much a workaround as how cubemaps work.