textures, shaders, and skybox problem

[giganerd]

Ok, I'm making a map that is using custom textures so I have a textures/mytex folder in my pk3 with my custom textures. I also have a custom shader I'm using for the sky, but instead of custom sky textures I want to use the yavin sky textures. Here's the problem: my sky shows up as the texture missing grid because I believe it is looking for the yavin sky textures in my texture directory in my pk3 instead of the assets pk3s that came with the game. I do not wish to include the yavin sky textures in my pk3 because that is redundant and increases filesize. Is there anyway to work around this?

[WadeV1589]

It always looks in the assets#.pk3 files...always.

 

Have you made a custom shader that references the yavin skybox files or are you using the shader that came with the game?

[giganerd]

this is what my custom shader looks like:

 

textures/tristan/yavin_sun

{

qer_editorimage textures/skies/sky

surfaceparm sky

surfaceparm noimpact

surfaceparm nomarks

q3map_sunExt 0.903380 0.983185 1 100 135 25 0 12

q3map_lightmapfilterradius 0 128

q3map_skylight 200 3

notc

q3map_nolightmap

skyParms textures/skies/yavin 512 -

}

[WadeV1589]

Ok now is that in a new .shader file and if it is, have you added the name of that file to shaderlist.txt ? Shaders will NOT be parsed if they aren't in a file referenced in shaderlist.txt by the compiler. The game doesn't need shaderlist.txt but the compiler does and any shaders that have compile-time arguments (sky shaders do) must be in it.

[giganerd]

Yep, it's named tristan.shader and I've added it to the shaderlist.txt.