Checkerboard/missing underwater texture on certain maps
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So, after the big update a while back (the one that crashed Gmod for most people, just before Portal 2 came out) the underwater texture vanished on certain maps, and from the surface, it looks like it might be the same texture.
The maps in question (and possibly more) are gm_valley, gm_isles, and gm_seashoal, and Harbor2Ocean_NavalB1.
I want to stress that until that point, these maps worked fine. I've reinstalled GMod, didn't help. Browsing around, it seems other people have had this problem too, on the same maps. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I might remedy this problem?
Well I don't know those maps offhand, but it seemed like many people, myself included, had to verify game cache files on a number of games. Maybe the texture that's missing for you is from a game that you have to do this on. Try running any of the games that the texture might be from, CSS maybe, and see if they fire up normally. Many of the problems people were having were with models not spawning, but I could see textures being an issue too.
Good guess, but it didn't work.
I was able to find a map in HL2 (one of the Highway 17 maps) that used the texture, so I reinstalled the game. The texture's still messed up.
It's just so weird. it's like that texture just vanished. Any other ideas?
Also, forgot to mention, not only is the underwater texture purple checkered, the underwater environments are completely fullbright. Blinding white in all directions.
Hmm are any errors showing up in your console after you've loaded one of these maps?
No. No errors, and nothing else seems to be wrong or non-functional with the maps. The water also looks completely normal from above, but it's all checkerboards and fullbright once you're underwater. I've fiddled with the water graphic detail setting, but it hasn't made a difference.
Well this certainly is a texture error, do you have all your source games installed? ex: tf2, ep1, ep2, hl2, cs:s? these are the most commonly used materials in maps. i suggest installing them all for full functionality. If this does not fix your problem, try changing the texture quality in advanced graphics settings. This should force it to re-load all the textures.
Reinstalled all source games, fiddled with texture quality. Still showing checkerboard and fullbright.
I have a similar problem, but when i go under water the whole screen is nothing but the pink and black checkerboard. It works fine if i have a camera underwater though O.o.
