Hammer To Half-Life 2 Created 19 years ago2005-02-02 21:02:51 UTC by lucky4444

When I make a func_breakable_surf for a window for my map, I apply the glass/glasswindowbreak070 texture to it with the other 5 sides being nodraw. When I look at he window/glass texture it looks all cool and shiny and reflective in hammer, but when I compile the map the glass is very plain and flat looking with no reflections. The texture video setting is set on high.
How do I make it see through and reflective?

Question 2:
I am still useing func_breakable_surf to make my window, but I can only make one side of the window have the glass texture, otherwise the game crashes when I try to play it. And without Having it on both sides of the window, the window looks very flat (meaning that when I break it and look at it, then the glass that is on the edge looks very flat).
Is there a way to make the window look thicker when I break it?

it might not work because you have 5 sides covered with nodraw. It has to be 4 sides.

No, the 5 side part works, but when I make it have only 4 sides with nodraw then Half-Life 2 crashes or removes it from my map.

@IEMC: It needs 5 sides, I've referred to the VALVe maps - cs_office windows are covered on all but one side.

The game will draw it on both sides - It needs a cubemap to look all shiny though.

You can't make it thicker.

oh, it does? thats wierd. So you can only brea it from one side? how does that work?

It works on both sides even if you do not put a glass texture on the other side and you can see it in my ladder example which contains a working func_breakable_surf

http://twhl.co.za/mapvault_map.php?id=2618

It works for HL2 as well so ignore the picture of CSS!

Back to the question with the shiny glass. I did put env_cubmap in on both sides, and it still is not shiny. My texture settings are set to high in Half-Life 2.

You'll need to set a different tex, then, to make it shinier - It probably is fairly shiny, one just can't notice it as it's subtle.

In hammer it is shinny, but in the game it can not even be seen through.