how do i make a reflective hangar floor?

[SD_Radical_Ed]

i need a reflective hangar floor for my ja mp level, like this one:

 

 

how do i do it?

[WadeV1589]

Heh, my map

 

Get yourself a nice looking texture, like dark marble, and create a shader for it using the following code (from my upcoming siege map, much more suttle reflection):

textures/sg_hatak/marble_reflect
{
qer_editorimage textures/sg_hatak/marble
portal
sort	portal
surfaceparm forcefield
   {
       map textures/sg_hatak/marble
       blendFunc GL_ONE GL_SRC_COLOR
       depthWrite
       alphaGen portal 512
   }
   {
       map $lightmap
       blendFunc GL_ZERO GL_SRC_COLOR
   }
}

 

Place the shader texture onto the surface of a brush and place a misc_portal_surface entity on top of the brush (within 64 units of the surface).

 

Et voila, a lightmapped reflective floor - i.e. in shadows it doesn't reflect as much, much like a real reflective floor does.

[SD_Radical_Ed]

Yay! Thanks! so this will even reflect my player?

 

in radiant, i cover the brush with the texture

then put another brush in front of it and right click it and select:misc_portal_surface?

[SD_Radical_Ed]

ya if the texture that i want on my floor is called "blingbling_floor.jpg" in my textures/myroom folder, is this how the shader needs to work?

 

i named it "blingbling_floor.shader"

 

textures/myroom/blingbling_floor

{

qer_editorimage textures/myroom/blingbling_floor

portal

sort portal

surfaceparm forcefield

{

map textures/myroom/blingbling_floor

blendFunc GL_ONE GL_SRC_COLOR

depthWrite

alphaGen portal 512

}

{

map $lightmap

blendFunc GL_ZERO GL_SRC_COLOR

}

}

[Lil Killa]

That's it...