[GametagAeonFlux]

Wouldn't that lag the game a little?

[Eagle4ever]

Originally Posted by Airstriker";p=&quot

There is a possiblity you didn't copy the Shaders options completely, and that's causing the problem.

I've gone over it 5 times now and my settings are EXACTLY the same as the ones in the pic. The reflective part shows up in W3D viewer but it's overpowered the base texture.

Originally Posted by GametagAeonFlux";p=&quot

Wouldn't that lag the game a little?

It's only for the dome of one building which has a build limit of 1.

[key0p]

use two passes

[Eagle4ever]

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use two passes
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In which way? Should Pass 1 just be the texture and should Pass 2 Stage 0 Texture be the reflection?

[key0p]

I had a look at CBSecretLab.w3d(if that is what you mean), and it does not use any kind of reflection at all.Its just a standard material.

To make a reflective glass suface, use the reflection texture on pass one, with opaque shading and enviroment vertex mapping.

On pass two, use the building/unit texture.There should be an alpha channel appropriately shaded on the glass sections of the texture.Use Alpha Blend shading, and change the ambient colour to white.

*Edit AH I see you wrote SECRTLAB_G, I looked at several of the lab models but obviously not that one, as it is reflected Anyway, its still the same process.

[Bart]

Maybe it is Enabled ingame with the can_cast_reflections KindOF

[key0p]

Its not that.Open them in w3dviewer or with renes material script.

SECRTLAB.w3d does not use a reflection texture, while SECRTLAB_G.w3d(Im assuming 'G' is for 'glass') does.

[Eagle4ever]

Originally Posted by key0p";p=&quot

SECRTLAB.w3d does not use a reflection texture, while SECRTLAB_G.w3d(Im assuming 'G' is for 'glass') does.

Actually the "G" is for GARRISONED. I've tried a few combinations in Renx and can't seem to emulate the exact effect. However I realised that the texture I was using did not have an Alpha layer. I'll keep trying but I've got a good idea of how to acheive the desired effect. Thanks alot Keyop for explaining.

[homura]

in fact, it uses two texture to create this effect, just for the windoes.

You start in the textures tab, by assigning your regular texture bitmap to the "stage 0 texture". For stage 1 you need a nice looking sky or environment bitmap. While still on stage1 set the pass hint to "environment map".

Then jump to Vertex Material and choose "WS environment" for stage 1 Mapping. It is by far the best looking.

that will get the outcome you want.

[key0p]

It wont get him the outcome he wants if he is trying to replicate a generals reflection, they use enviroment, not ws enviroment.