Mirrors

[Gorksta]

While playing through the entire Halflife2 single player campaign I never saw any mirrors. Is it possible to make a mirror in Hammer? And If so can someone please point me in the direction of a tutorial or explain it for me. Thanks for any help.

 

[MrMan]

Due to the fact there is no gordon freeman model...he's a mysterious bloke...wouldn't be sure how to create one

 

[Gorksta]

I would appreciate if someone could tell me if mirrors are possible or not and if so how to make one. Sorry for the bump

 

[Billtcm]

well you could just make a brush a monitor and a camera pointing straight away from the brush in pretty much the exact same space, and then have the monitor display a clear picture. It wouldn't really be a mirror but it would make it look like one.

 

[Death.Trap]

Real mirrors are possible, you might have to do a bit of coding for it though. Maybe all you would need is a metalic texture with the right shader. I don't know anything about writing shaders though. Heh.

 

[The Dark Elf]

You can do a mirror easy enough.. It's basically just water surface minus any ripple effect.. BUT, you wont actually see yourself, just "maybe" the first person model of your weapon/hands perhaps. But it'll reflect everything else though.

There are some commands in game to change the amount of ripple/animation on a waters surface so you could play with those and see what you can come up with to test it with whats available before doing things properly.