Texture Issue with a Checkerboard

#1 · February 19, 2012, 12:02 pm

So I'm doing some skinning and was testing out some skins and found that when light was applied to one of the skins I was planning to use (without the light everything looks fine) the skin gets a faint checkboard pattern over the skin (not the pink and black style but a checkboard none the less, any thoughts on why this is happening or maybe a solution?

mat_fullbright 1 (no lighting effects)

mat_fullbright 0 (lighting activated)

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#2 · February 19, 2012, 1:54 pm

i think that is a problem with the texture itself. i also wanted to use that texture but didn't.

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#3 · February 19, 2012, 2:30 pm

what texture is it anyways?

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#4 · February 20, 2012, 2:34 am

metalwall_bts_001b

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#5 · February 20, 2012, 5:46 am

this is a long shot, but could it be a cubemap problem?

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#6 · February 21, 2012, 12:27 am

I think it may be referencing to a normal map that does not exist, therefore it has the checkers. If cubemaps weren't build it would be pinkish where the shiny parts of the material would be.

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#7 · February 24, 2012, 12:35 am

chickenmobile wrote:

I think it may be referencing to a normal map that does not exist, therefore it has the checkers. If cubemaps weren't build it would be pinkish where the shiny parts of the material would be.

Bingo, your right.

The consensus for things like this:

Missing texture: pink-black checkerboard period
Missing Normalmap: checkerboard bumpmap on the texture
Missing cubemaps/Missing cubemap-deprived Normalmap: reflective pink-black checkerboard.

#8 · February 24, 2012, 1:00 am

so this may be a stupid question, but is there a fix for this, and if so, what is it?

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#9 · February 24, 2012, 1:33 am

Get rid of the normalmap parameter in the vmt or make a custom one.