Need help with my custom material.

Garry's Mod mapping
#1

I really need some help with a custom material. Here’s what I did so far:

-Got VTF Edit.
-Extracted a Source GCF file for stock textures.
-Moved a VMT called tilefloor012b.vmt to Half-Life 2 Episode two\ep2\materials, this folder I made myself because it wasn’t there in the first place.
-Created a new VTF in VTFEdit and saved it in the same place, called tilefloor_shiny_012b and renamed the VMF to match it.

-I wrote this code in the VTF:


"LightmappedGeneric"
{
	$basetexture 	ilefloor_shiny012b
	$surfaceprop tile
	$envmap env_cubemap
}

I wanted to add a reflection so that it would be a marble liked reflective floor.

Here’s my problem:

-In Hammer, I can see my material, and apply it to a brush. I can see the basetexture tilefloor and the environment reflection.
-When I start Ep2, it shows as a black/purple squared block.
-When I run ‘buildcubemaps’ in console, it runs, but the problem stays.
-When I create a new folder in the materials folder called ‘Custom’ and change the VTF so that the basetexture links to that folder, I get a black/purple squared block, but with a environment reflection.

What am I doing wrong?

#2

Try it like this;


"LightmappedGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture" "tilefloor_shiny012b"
	"$surfaceprop" "tile"
	"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
       }
#3

It came up perfectly in Hammer, but in Episode 2, no such luck. Black/purple blocks, no cubemap, not even after build.

#4

What folder did you put the actual texture in?

#5

Make sure you have cubemaps in your level, try tieing one to the floor texture.

#6

steamapps\sweetswifter\Half-Life 2 Episode 2\ep2\materials

[editline]04:55PM[/editline]

Added an env_cubemap from the start, and tied all the faces of the inside of the small test room I built, including one skybox face.

#7

I tried moving my custom materials to garrysmod/garrysmod/materials, and they worked in Gmod.

Strangely, my material didn’t have that nice reflection I wanted. Does anyone know how to get a mirror shine? Like a perfect reflection like marble?