Cube maps only work on my computer.
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Posted Jul 30, 2013
This one is a little hard to experiment with, because the issue doesn't show up until after I have uploaded my chamber to the workshop. But it seems that whenever I use pakrat for a chamber, the cube maps only work on my computer. Does anyone know why, and what I need to do to fix this problem?
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Posted Jul 30, 2013
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Did you rename the map after building cubemaps?
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Posted Jul 30, 2013
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Are you paking the content before or after building your cubemaps?
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Posted Jul 30, 2013
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I can't open the bsp file after packing it. I haven't seen issues before I pack, so I haven't really tried to build cubemaps. I just put them in. I'm still kind of new to hammer, so I can imagine that I am missing something there. Ill try to look into building them, lol, maybe thats what I'm missing?
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Posted Jul 30, 2013
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First use "buildcubemaps" in game to build cubemaps and THEN put content via Packrat into your .bsp. Never the other way around!
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Posted Jul 30, 2013
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Ok, I just tested by doing what skotty just said, and that didn't work. I built the cubemaps, packed textures, then published. I played the published version on my computer. It was fine. I had my brother test it on his computer, and it was horrible.
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Posted Jul 31, 2013
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@Goldenknighttim: what you put inside your maps is an entity called env_cubemap. But still, you need to run the command buildcubemaps after you loaded your map via the console. For this command to work out you need to put a copy of your map into your portal2/portal2_dlc2/maps folder, otherwise the cubemaps building will crash.
After building cubemaps correctly, problems with cubemmaps can come via 2 possible ways:
a) Once you finished building cubemaps and packing the custom content, you ran p2map_publish.exe BUT chose any other copy of the map from whatever other folder than portal2_dlc2/maps, like for instance your portal2/maps folder. Still, when you run your map via the console in your computer, you load the correct map since the portal2_dlc2 folder has priority over the rest folders.
b) You left a space into your map's name, and even though you pick it correctly from portal2_dlc2/maps when publishing, the p2map_publish.exe program renames it removing that space and maybe giving it a bunch-of-numbers-type-name.
Revise and let us know if you finally manage it 
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Posted Jul 31, 2013
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Do underscores count as spaces? I have underscores in the names. However, I have been doing what you are saying to do. and it works on my computer, even after I play the published version, but it isn't working on other machines.
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Posted Jul 31, 2013
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No, underscores are fine... If you are uploading the file you have into portal2_dlc2/maps with the cubemaps already built in, no clue then, man, sorry.
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Posted Aug 01, 2013
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Thanks anyway. Ill post on here if I find an answer.
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Posted Aug 01, 2013
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Did you do a full compile...?
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Posted Aug 01, 2013
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For rad, yes. For vis, no. Ill try runing both on full now and see how that goes.
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Posted Aug 01, 2013
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Ok, I just ran a full compile, placed the new bsp into the dlc_2/maps folder, I builtcubemaps, I packed it with pakrat, I published the packed version, I got onto another computer, unsubscribed and resubscribed to the chamber, got into the chamber, and the cubemaps were not working. I then tested it on my computer, and it was working.
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Posted Aug 01, 2013
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The same thing that happened before? Sorry, no idea...
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Posted Aug 01, 2013
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For coop maps, you have to start them via Splitscreen to build cubemaps. Starting coop maps in singleplayer mode and building cubemaps won't work. (Probably. I know I had such an issue, too and solved it via this).
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Posted Aug 02, 2013
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It is a singleplayer map. Thats good information to know because I want to make multiplayer maps soon. I think that I should mention that this problem happens every time I pack custom textures with pakrat, and it never happens when I don't use pakrat.
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Posted Aug 02, 2013
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For the sake of troubleshooting, I am thinking that the failing cubemaps may be a problem on that specific other computer that I'm testing with. I don't think that this is the case, because it runs the cubemaps on other chambers fine. They work fine on my computer, can anyone test to see if it is a problem with everyone's computer, or just the one I am testing with? The map can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =164327033
You should be able to tell by looking at the first elevator. I really want to fix this problem, however, I am close to giving up.
You should be able to tell by looking at the first elevator. I really want to fix this problem, however, I am close to giving up.
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Posted Aug 02, 2013
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Maybe it could be because one computer uses LDR and the othe uses HDR? Try building cubemaps twice with both enabled.
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Posted Aug 02, 2013
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Ok, I don't know what ldr and hdr are yet. Where can I find that type of information?
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182 Posts
Posted Aug 02, 2013
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I was just looking in the advanced compile options. Just found those options there. I'm trying your idea now.