Skyboxes?

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Pegg

Hey guys,

Im just wondering if anyone else has the problem that any skybox texture other than hydro doesnt work and makes any reflective surface glow purple?
 
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Pegg

why are they broken? Is there any fix?

And stupid question but when are valve going to fix em!
 

YM

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I heard someone fixed them by extracting the sky textures, making them square and then packaging them with his map (apparently only square sky textures work...)
 
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Pegg

the skytexture itself works, its just the reflections of other textures that get... broken
 

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the skytexture itself works, its just the reflections of other textures that get... broken

well thats what I was saying, the non-square sky texture breaks the cubemaps (apparently)
 

Half-Life_Maniac

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I've used a number of different sky textures for my maps, and havn't had any problems.

Are you all using HDR or anything? Perhaps there's something broken which my low-end hardware can't see anyway.

[Edit] Or maybe I misunderstand what the "problem" is. If we are talking about reflective surfaces not working with cubemaps, I've found that setting mat_specular to 0, building the cubemaps, restarting the map and turning mat_specular back to 1 works. It's just a problem that this must be done after every single compile..
I havn't actually noticed whether or not this only happens with non-Hydro skyboxes.
 
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