CS:GO phong on world surfaces

    A few bits I did testing it out. The wood also uses world reflections so it is definitely possible. And I added phong to the carpet to see if it would reflect other lights and it does not. Seems it will only reflect the environment light.


    http://i.imgur.com/X4KhzvF.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/87CiHVN.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/H7Azo6U.jpg


    Quote from nicoreda

    Volvo, please now add tf2 lightmap on models ;(


    Do you have any example pics of this? I tried to look it up when I heard about it but couldn't really find anything.

    with -staticproplighting and moonlight tf2 prop

    http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/7141620562…77C2A8DA1EC156/

    here it look weird, but imagine if you can make modular content on source

    is it wrong if i don't think it looks good? It's mostly a huge bright spot with no details in all of your examples.


    EDIT: Well nvm looks awesome

    There are some other parameters in the hr_train .vmfs that I haven't seen before as well, like $envmapanisotropy, $envmapanisotropyscale, and $envmaplightscale, perhaps more.


    Are these new as well? Does anyone know the parameter space? There doesn't appear to be any documentation on the web, but from my testing they definitely have an effect (can post screenshots tomorrow if need be).

    Quote from Single

    There are some other parameters in the hr_train .vmfs that I haven't seen before as well, like $envmapanisotropy, $envmapanisotropyscale, and $envmaplightscale, perhaps more.


    Are these new as well? Does anyone know the parameter space? There doesn't appear to be any documentation on the web, but from my testing they definitely have an effect (can post screenshots tomorrow if need be).


    lightscale is to change where envmap will do effect. I think it use hdr but I'm really not sure.http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/7141620562…709C3078356834/http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/7141620562…D002F85B9824F8/ By the way all my screens here http://steamcommunity.com/id/nicoreda2/screenshots/

    Updated Resort materials to include phong: http://i.imgur.com/ouhdMhk.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/a8ImBuv.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/9wnB9P3.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Z7urlaY.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/YSDJpel.jpg Some stuff I've learned (don't know if it's been said before): It uses the same mask as envmap, so you can use it with both base alpha or normal alpha.It doesn't work on 4wayblend or water.Since it uses the same mask as envmap, you can only have one on a blend material.You don't need a normal map for it to work, unlike on vetexlitgeneric.$phongMaskContrastBrightness "[1 1]" - the first value is contrast and second one is brightness of the mask, but it's tricky to get results, values go very high, still need to play with this some more.$phongAmount "[1 1 1 1.0]" - this is in format [R G B power], but the last value also makes the whole material brighter instead of just the highlight, so it's best to leave it at 1. You control the specular intensity here with RGB float values, or with the brightness of the mask.And yeah, it only works with environment light, probably because it can use the dynamic shadows as a mask, instead of adding even more data to lightmaps. And bonus:http://i.imgur.com/pbCQ1sa.jpg

    Quote from Yanzl

    Well the water is not actually the new phong. It's the normal water shader with a custom cubemap.

    Oh! Can you tell me how do you make your custom cubemap ?

    Quote from nicoreda

    Oh! Can you tell me how do you make your custom cubemap ?

    I drew the sun on a spherical map of the sky and made the background black in Photoshop like this: http://i.imgur.com/jCvEfS8.pngThen I used HDRshop to convert it to hdr and cubemap format, added it on top of the skybox in Photoshop and changed the exposure +4. The images should be in this arrangement http://i.imgur.com/pa7lnGk.jpg  except mirrored vertical.

    I saved the image as .pfm (it has to end with _hdr) and used vtex to convert it to cubemap with

    cubemap 1

    pfm 1

    pfmscale 1

    nocompress 1

    Then you just add in in the vmt as $envmap "cubemaps/file_hdr"

    Quote from Yanzl

    Oh! Can you tell me how do you make your custom cubemap ?


    I drew the sun on a spherical map of the sky and made the background black in Photoshop like this: http://i.imgur.com/jCvEfS8.pngThen I used HDRshop to convert it to hdr and cubemap format, added it on top of the skybox in Photoshop and changed the exposure +4. The images should be in this arrangement http://i.imgur.com/pa7lnGk.jpg  except mirrored vertical.

    I saved the image as .pfm (it has to end with _hdr) and used vtex to convert it to cubemap with

    cubemap 1

    pfm 1

    pfmscale 1

    nocompress 1

    Then you just add in in the vmt as $envmap "cubemaps/file_hdr"


    Wow, thank you! I was looking for a way to do that.

    I guess the reflections would look better if I would make them blurry manually for every cubemap

    (I'd rather have blur than pixelated cubemaps).

    Is it possible to increase the resolution of a cubemap?

    Quote from TheGuma

    Oh! Can you tell me how do you make your custom cubemap ?


    I drew the sun on a spherical map of the sky and made the background black in Photoshop like this: http://i.imgur.com/jCvEfS8.pngThen I used HDRshop to convert it to hdr and cubemap format, added it on top of the skybox in Photoshop and changed the exposure +4. The images should be in this arrangement http://i.imgur.com/pa7lnGk.jpg  except mirrored vertical.

    I saved the image as .pfm (it has to end with _hdr) and used vtex to convert it to cubemap with

    cubemap 1

    pfm 1

    pfmscale 1

    nocompress 1

    Then you just add in in the vmt as $envmap "cubemaps/file_hdr"


    Wow, thank you! I was looking for a way to do that.

    I guess the reflections would look better if I would make them blurry manually for every cubemap

    (I'd rather have blur than pixelated cubemaps).

    Is it possible to increase the resolution of a cubemap?


    thanks yanzl.

    http://i.imgur.com/I6FBgDD.jpg

    512x512 per image here, made using cfg that "screenshot" and "setangle" 6 times

    then you can use amd cubemapgen

    "$envmap" "env_cubemap" isn't working with phong shading and "LightmappedGeneric" shader. But I think that it works properly with "WorldVertexTransition".


    "WorldVertexTransition" { "$basetexture" "metal/hr_metal/metal_grated_d""$bumpmap" "metal/hr_metal/metal_grated_d_normals" "$envmap" "env_cubemap""$envmaptint" "[0.3 0.3 0.3]" "$phong" "1""$phongexponent" "1500""$phongboost" "30""$phongfresnelranges" "[0.02 0.02 0.02]""$phongMaskContrastBrightness" "[.05 0.08]""$phongAmount" "[4 4 4 1.0]" "$surfaceprop" "metal" }

    Maybe we have a more issues with "WorldVertexTransition" option. I have one - I can't change .vmt after compiling my map, with "mat_reloadallmaterials".


    I wonder if we made a good blend material. I have an issues with two textures. And I can't waiting for complete parallax mapping. "Parallaxtest" shader...

    Quote from Mamorex

    "$envmap" "env_cubemap" isn't working with phong shading and "LightmappedGeneric" shader.


    I have both $phong and $envmap enabled on my texture, and both are visible. The texture is LightmappedGeneric. See image below.


    [Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/0FVYbzZ.jpg]


    The bright spot in the middle is from the $phong 1, from the sun. The envmap is from a cubemap placed nearby. The lighter colour definitely isn't from the albedo, because the step texture on the right has neither $phong or $envmap, and is lit differently. It's $basetexture is basically the same as the main texture. Here is the .vmf:

    The $envmaptint is commented out to highlight the cubemapping.


    Quote from Mamorex

    "WorldVertexTransition" { [...]


    "$phongboost" "30""$phongfresnelranges" "[0.02 0.02 0.02]"

    [...]

    }


    At least on LightmappedGeneric, these parameters don't have a visible effect.

    I had broken "$bumpmap" material. Nice, it works with LightmappedGeneric too. With "$phongAmount" you can change phong shading colour and contrast of it. "$phongAmount" "[1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0]" - looks good with polished floors"$phongAmount" "[0.3 0.3 0.3 1.0]" - looks good with concrete materials etc.

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