Purple shine (fixed)

#1 · October 19, 2007, 1:25 am

hey guys, i have a small problem..

after compiling a portal map, everything appears to be normal but for some reason there is a strange purple effect whenever i move up real close to a wall.
it looks just like this:
[img]http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/640/firstmap0003hd5.th.jpg[/img]
it gets very ugly in dark/shadowy areas

im sure i followed NullSoldier's instructions perfectly (thanks to you btw, for making that thread 🙂 about configuring hammer to work with portal.

this only seems to happen with my map lol, all other custom/campain maps work perfectly. i decompiled some campain maps and ive noticed that theres some env_cubemap entities scattered around, so ive tried adding some to my own map but it still has that damn purple effect.

does anyone know what im doing wrong?

#2 · October 19, 2007, 1:36 am

that happened to me when ever i alt-tab out of the game a bunch of times

i just rebooted portal to fix it

#3 · October 19, 2007, 3:03 am

You have to build the cubemaps in another source game (hl2dm for example), as portal doesn't support cubemap building yet.

#4 · October 19, 2007, 3:24 am

thanks man, i built the cube maps in hl2dm and now everything is working like it should be 😀
[img]http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4558/firstmap0005iz0.th.jpg[/img]