MIRRORS?????Help

[stride]

How would I make mirrors like in the final JO SP level where you see desann and stuff??

[Nkenobi]

drom what I know.. that was a shader in JO, but not in JA... you could try moving it over to JA...

 

there is a way I think...

[Mercenary]

If you can find a mirror shader put a misc_portal_surface near the brush. I think it has to be within 64 units or something.

[stride]

in the system textures there is somethin like mirror_yavindraw, qer_mirror and portal in JA could one of them be it???

[stride]

Thanks it was the yavin one. YAY mirriors

[zag]

does this work in MP or just SP?

i tried to make one in MP but i was just invisible...

[stride]

OK big problem need more help. I spent like f***ing 2 hours trying to figure this out. Im trying to make a floor a perfect mirror that reflects everything exactly like it is. All I get is a F***ing black floor. I might rip my hair out soon. Sry guys this is just really confusing for me. O im trying this in SP first but i know it works in MP because i did that JO into JA stuff and played the last level of JO in MP of JA. I looked at the mirror. Well since im a mapper i cant keep those pk3s in my base when i map so i dont use the jk2 textures by mistake. Anyway please help. Thank you.

[wedge2211]

You want to cover your floor in a shader that has surfaceparm portal in its code. Then, place a misc_portal_surface entity (untargeted) within 64 units of that surface, and that should take care of it.

 

This might eat your frame rate, though.

[stride]

good thing this is a small map if this eats fps.

thank you

[Codja X]

If push comes to shove, copy all your geometry, flip it on the z-axis and join it onto the existing geometry. You can then use common/env_glass to split this room in two and make the floor shiny. You won't be able to see npcs or other players in this relfection, but it should be a little bit quicker and should work.

 

I've read in a previous post that Raven took the code out for mirrors in JA, so misc_surface_portal may not work

[WadeV1589]

They didn't take the code out but they did make it a pain to use compared to how it used to be...it only renders if nothing is visible behind it in JA.

[Codja X]

what would you do then? Would you have to setup an areaportal stop the engine drawing behind it?

 

I don't really need to use mirrors, but it would be handy for future reference..

[WadeV1589]

A floor is usually fine, so is a mirror against a wall (on a structural brush) but say you wanted to make a mirror in the middle of a room...you can't now. It has to be totally vis blocked behind it.

[Codja X]

Mirrors are overated anyway...

[stride]

im trying to put a mirror under water to give it the effect of relfecting

[WadeV1589]

That would have been easy in EF, bloody hard now.

[stride]

the closest i got to getting this to work was putting the portal512 shader on the ground and puttind mirror_yavin on the wall. Put to surface portals by each and i got a reflection in the corners of the map and black everywhere else. It was wierd and confusing.