IN THIS THREAD I WILL ANSWER YOUR SOURCE QUESTIONS

    Quote from X-Tender

    Got a question about env_cubemap .. is it true that currently the calculation of the cubemap is not possible ingame? Because every time i want to make it the console tell me that the file is write protected ..

    This is a good question X-Tender .. mybe someone can answer it here ..

    Quote from kleinluka

    I saw some cube mapping in css so i'm pretty sure it's possible. Check if the file is read only? What "file" are you talking about anyway?

    No, X-Tender's right. When you try and use the "buildcubemaps" command in the console, as the SDK tutorial tells you to do, it says the map cannot be written to.

    mmk, I thought that might be the case. Thats how it used to be but I had a feeling they might have changed it in the last few months, I'm too lazy to test it in cs:s

    How do I tell VTEX where my .tgas are to be converted? They're currently in C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\[email protected]\counter-strike source\cstrike\materialsrc and apparently I should tell it this using the '-game' tag, but that just utterly fails.

    Well, when you convert .tgas to .vtfs they go from the materialsrc folder to the materials folder. If you havent created a sub folder, they should just be in the root materials directiory.

    Quote from Tequila

    How do I tell VTEX where my .tgas are to be converted? They're currently in C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\[email protected]\counter-strike source\cstrike\materialsrc and apparently I should tell it this using the '-game' tag, but that just utterly fails.

    Quote from DelaZ

    Noobie video tuts :How to create vtf & vmt files (textures) :

    http://www.insmod.net/team/delaz/files/texture_creation.rar

    :roll:

    Put them in :

    C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\steam@account\sourcesdk\cstrike\materialsrc

    Quote from DelaZ

    :roll:

    You can cut those rolling eyes right now. I tried that tut. vid a while ago and it totally wouldn't play. I'll try again now.

    Edit: updated my codecs, a nice little tutorial, sir. Thing is, I already knew how to do this yet there must have been some small detail I was missing, because now it has worked fine.

    Double edit: And this was dragging and dropping from the counter-strike source folder, not the sourcesdk one, so I guess I don't have to tell VTEX where it all is after all.

    Zaphod, i tried a few more things, and i cannot get specularity working in the alpha channel of the normal map. Is there a sepcial method? Right now ive just created a new alpha channel and threw the color grey i wanted in...and nothing happens when i test it out ingame. Any help would be great.

    make a test spec mask of pure black and white checkers so it's real obvious when you get it working.

    make sure you have

    "$envmap" "env_cubemap"

    "$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" "1"

    then make sure you are specifying a skybox in your test map, when there aren't cubemaps compiled (which I guess you guys cant get working) then it uses the skybox by default.

    In the E3 HL2 Tech Demo there was the demonstrated ability to have real time cameras. Is this still in the engine and does CS:S have access to it.

    Point being: could we have a control room with real time security cameras?

    the camera shows anything, and you can parent it to anything. You could parent it to a barrel, and create the BARRELCAM and get dizzy watching it rolls down a ramp from the barrels point of view. All it does it render the scene to a texture. Thus is expeinse too, it you have a camera in a different part of the map, it has to render that part as well as the part you are in.

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