Reflective Floors Created 19 years ago2005-01-28 22:28:54 UTC by lucky4444

How do I make reflective floors? Or is it not possible with the source engine, still?

After the first question is answered, I have another question about it, how would I make mirrors?

Define your texture to have a reflective shader/EnvMap.

Probalby the same way as youd make the floor. Something with cameras and the video screens.

I dont know much about that, though. I hope rabid can hope answer it.

woops, a little late. He posted that at the same time...

Define your texture to have a reflective shader/EnvMap.

???
I don't understand.

while i was playing half life 2 the only kind of reflective floor i saw was flooes that reflected light only. i didn't see floor that reflected a room. So my guess is that if you want the floow to reflect the room you gotta use the old reflective floor flip trick. please correct me if im wrong.

Example VMT: (Look at the SourceSDK Creating Materials article if you want to copy it as the forum will auto-format it)

"LightmappedGeneric"
{

"$basetexture" "shadertest/LightmappedTexture"

"$envmap" "shadertest/LightmappedTexture_envmap"

// If the shader falls back to shader "LightmappedGeneric_DX7",
// then the environment map defined in this block will be used instead of the
// one defined above. Since $basetexture isn't defined in this block,
// the original one will be used.
"LightmappedGeneric_DX7"
{
    "$envmap" "shadertest/OverrideEnvMap"
}

// If the shader falls back to shader "LightmappedGeneric_DX6",
// then the base texture defined in this block will be used instead of the
// one defined above. Since $envmap isn't defined in this block, the original
// one will be used.
"LightmappedGeneric_DX6"
{
    "$basetexture" "shadertest/OverrideTexture"
}

}

This should act shiny, dunno about perfect reflections, if you define an EnvMap.

Any tex-making questions or more about the VMT can be found at the Source SDK site.

Hmm, I think someone made a reflective floor material once. IIRC he just modified a water material to have no refraction.

From http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/Materials/water.html:

$reflecttexture (texture name)
Texture to use for reflection. For real-time reflections, use ?_rt_WaterRefraction?.

Hmm, something like this on a specular material..?