TF2 Purple Reflections?

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    I have two cubemaps in this screenshot and they're both the same, I've built them and I'm not using HDR (when I do, I get the same result, except more pronounced). Not using the skyname_hdr thing as that gave me more purple stuff. Tried googling this but kept getting people who had purple checkerboards for textures, not reflections. Oh, and using the tc_hydro sky, not that it matters since I've tried at least 3 others.

    do you mini/maximize the game instead of closing/reopening? usually that happens there, and there wont be anything wrong with the final map as long as people dont mini/maximize.

    Nope, but I don't know if you can tell or not, but the cubemap closer to the player in that screen is fine, there's nothing wrong with the reflections there.

    This is the exact console output after building cubemaps:

    Compile:

    I've found some posts stating that you can get around it by not using a TF2 sky, but that's not really good enough for me.

    Another post said to do mat_specular 0, build cubemaps and then reload the map, but then I get this error:

    Code
    *** Error unserializing VTF file... is the file empty?


Error reading texture header "materials/maps/textest2/c-2080_256_32.vtf"


*** Error unserializing VTF file... is the file empty?


Error reading texture header "materials/maps/textest2/c-768_256_64.vtf"

    And the purple reflections come back after I re-enable mat_specular.

    Solved, apparently you have to load another map after building your cubemaps with mat_specular 0, then reload your map...

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    Solved, apparently you have to load another map after building your cubemaps with mat_specular 0, then reload your map...

    I've always had this issue using EP1 SDK, neither reloading materials nor mat_specular 0 resolved it.

    I just load a different map after building the cubemaps, no need to change mat_specular. It's pretty annoying though.

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