Portal 2 Reflective Metals not reflecting?

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ZeronFX
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#30907
Posted May 14, 2011
Something's been bugging me ever since I started mapping for Portal 2. Any of the slightly bumpy, reflective surfaces have not been reflecting. At all. I've tried using fast, normal, and HDR lighting, using cubemaps, and even starting anew in my maps, but to no avail. Is there something really obvious that I'm missing?
Thanks for your time!
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msleeper
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#30909
Posted May 14, 2011
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Do you have cubemaps? Have you built them in-game?
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ZeronFX
32 Posts
#30912
Posted May 14, 2011
Replied 11 minutes later
Yes I have, in both regular and HDR mode.
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msleeper
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#30915
Posted May 14, 2011
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Post a screenshot then, because if you have cubemaps and if you built them then they should be working.
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ZeronFX
32 Posts
#30919
Posted May 14, 2011
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http://tinypic.com/r/e8mv4o/7
http://tinypic.com/r/nvcyhc/7

I've checked other places for help as well, and the most help Ive gotten was "Just start a new map make a box with the textures set down a light entity and they should be working"

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Sidneys1
89 Posts
#30921
Posted May 14, 2011
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I've actually been having the same problem, but I've been putting off asking about it until my map is more final..

Have a nice day,
~Sidneys1

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msleeper
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#30922
Posted May 14, 2011
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How many cubemaps do you have placed? You should, very roughly, have about 1 around each light source. Are you sure your settings even allow for refelctions enabled? It looks like you are running the game in super low detail mode.

Sidneys1 wrote:
I've actually been having the same problem, but I've been putting off asking about it until my map is more final..

I have put cubemaps in my 2 Instance example maps and they work fine...

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ZeronFX
32 Posts
#30924
Posted May 14, 2011
Replied 6 minutes later
Oh wow, I feel like such an idiot.
Yes, the problem was my bro keeps screwing around with the settings because he claims the game looks better that way.
In result, my shader was set to low.
When I set it to high everything worked as normal. Thanks!
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msleeper
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#30926
Posted May 14, 2011
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Punch him in the nuts and tell him the internet thinks he needs his eyes to be checked.
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Sidneys1
89 Posts
#30985
Posted May 14, 2011
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All my settings are on medium (shaders and game effects) or high (models and textures).. At 720p.

Have a nice day,
~Sidneys1

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Sidneys1
89 Posts
#30992
Posted May 14, 2011
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Aha! Bumped my shaders up to high, and specularity shows up great. Runs like crap though, so I turned it back down to medium and went looking for Portal 2's equivalent of "r_specularity".. Instead found "r_showenvcubemap"! Set this to one and you get this result: http://steamcommunity.com/id/sidneys1/s ... 0784607199 Shiny portalgun! Useful :smile: Now I just need to find the cvar I was originally looking for :biggrin:

Have a nice day,
~Sidneys1

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Motanum
248 Posts
#30994
Posted May 14, 2011
Replied 14 minutes later
Do you have high enough settings to see reflections?

Also, mat_specular 1?

Ups, I see you have solved the issue.

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Sidneys1
89 Posts
#31000
Posted May 14, 2011
Replied 13 minutes later

Motanum wrote:
Also, mat_specular 1?

Gah, it worked but now I get a lot of "trying to set a pixel shader that does not exist" errors... =P My GeForce 8400 mobile gfx card can't handle the all shaders on high, so that's not an option.

Have a nice day,
~Sidneys1

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msleeper
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#31037
Posted May 15, 2011
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Yeah shock and awe, you might need a computer that was made more recently than like 4 years ago to view high quality effects.
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Sidneys1
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#31107
Posted May 15, 2011
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Specularity shouldn't be a high-level shader. Specularity is medium settings in pretty much any game.. Don't know why they would reserve this pretty basic feature for high settings.

Have a nice day,
~Sidneys1

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