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This happened to the mirrors in Caduceus of St Alban due to changes in 4615. The workaround was to edit the material. textures/washroom/mirror The workaround was not a complete restoration of functionality as the original mirror had the reflection blended with a darkening mask to make it look old, dirty and primitive (like a 16th century mirror). I saw another mirror with the same problem in Crystal Grave. Now, what I don't get is that the reflective transparent puddle patches in Sir Talbot's and Penny Dreadful 2 work just fine even though they also are using a reflection in a blend operation? |
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At revision: 15033 Question: I can see mirror.dds in dds\textures\glass but no textures/common/mirror.tga that textures/common/mirror wants to use. Ideas? There is some tinting on the mirror in this map but I'm not sure where it's coming from |
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> Now, what I don't get is that the reflective transparent puddle patches in Sir Talbot's and Penny Dreadful 2 work just fine even though they also are using a reflection in a blend operation? I haven't seen the workaround version, but in the 2.05 installation I'm looking at, textures/washroom/mirror and textures/common/mirror use the global mirror keyword, whereas textures/darkmod/decals/dirt/puddle uses a mirrorRenderMap stage. Relevant? |
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> Question: I can see mirror.dds in dds\textures\glass but no textures/common/mirror.tga that textures/common/mirror wants to use. Ideas? The image loader will skip uncompressed images if there is a DDS version available so that is what you are seeing there. The map says to load an uncompressed texture and Id Tech 4 is saying "nope, we have compression enabled so go get the DDS instead". Now don't ask me how the code works because I tried to puzzle over it during my early RGTC\LATC experiments and I'm clearly missing some part of the process because it was utterly confusing... I'm probably missing some trick in the pattern match call or something. Going back to the original material, it loads the native "mirror" image rather than explicitly calling for a mirrorRender map and it then uses that as the input for a blend filter operation (needlessly spelled out with the literal GL functions gl_dst_color,gl_zero instead of just using "blend filter" keywords). |
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There's no DDS version of textures/common/mirror.* in tdm_textures_base01.pk4. In fact there's no dds/textures/common/* in there at all. |
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