-reflectivityScale causing errors

[Pixel λ]

Hi it's me again

This time i'm having trouble making -reflectivityScale to work​

I'm trying to give my map a brighter look like CS2 but vrad refuses to do anything when the command is present​

This is how my vrad parameters look like ;​

-reflectivityScale (idk what to put here cause nothing works that i tried) -lights custom\clights.rad -textureshadows -staticproplighting -staticproppolys -both -game $gamedir $path\$file

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Here's a valve wiki page that mentions it but its not much help​

Here are some commands that i also want to use but can't until i get reflectivity scale to work ; -extrasky (possibly 32 or 64) -bounce (possibly 256 or more)

Also I tried to make a map to test reflectivity values and I (hopefully) uploaded them here so you can see what im talking about
vrad parameters for it are ;

-bounce 256 -extrasky 64 -both -game $gamedir $path\$file

I'm aiming for around 75% to 80% reflectivity

And here's a (4K SSAA 8X MSAA map_picmip -10 because i'm soo cool with my gtx 1660 ti mobil) screen shot of it ;

 

[Tiftid]

From having tested them in the past, I'm fairly sure the reflectivityscale and luxeldensity parameters don't do anything.
If you want to emulate the low-contrast lighting of CS2 scenes, using a really bright ambient sunlight value and placing extra bluish low-brightness point lights in all of your rooms might do the trick.
For these point lights, you might wanna investigate changing the light attenuation value from Quadratic to Linear.

Also, -bounce and -extrasky should be completely independent of other parameters, and should (in theory) have the desired effect of bonus reflectivity.

EDIT: This page reckons that -reflectivityscale is a float value, and the default is "1.0" - so, maybe you were putting in "2" instead of "2.0" and VRAD was failing to parse that?

EDIT 2: Just tried to compile it with -reflectivityscale 2.0 and VRAD doesn't even mention -reflectivityscale as a parameter, so I'm guessing when Valve was updating TF2 VRAD to be properly multithreaded, they noticed -reflectivityscale does nothing and just removed it.

 

[Pixel λ]

From having tested them in the past, I'm fairly sure the reflectivityscale and luxeldensity parameters don't do anything.
If you want to emulate the low-contrast lighting of CS2 scenes, using a really bright ambient sunlight value and placing extra bluish low-brightness point lights in all of your rooms might do the trick.
For these point lights, you might wanna investigate changing the light attenuation value from Quadratic to Linear.

Also, -bounce and -extrasky should be completely independent of other parameters, and should (in theory) have the desired effect of bonus reflectivity.

EDIT: This page reckons that -reflectivityscale is a float value, and the default is "1.0" - so, maybe you were putting in "2" instead of "2.0" and VRAD was failing to parse that?

EDIT 2: Just tried to compile it with -reflectivityscale 2.0 and VRAD doesn't even mention -reflectivityscale as a parameter, so I'm guessing when Valve was updating TF2 VRAD to be properly multithreaded, they noticed -reflectivityscale does nothing and just removed it.

Thank you for the info :3