Weird happenings.......Please help !!

[synchromesh]

I have a IE mesh fence in my map and with the shader settings set to "low" i can see the transparent holes fine but the texture looks awful !!

If i set the shader settings to "high" the texture looks awsome but the transparant holes are black !!!

Now the weird bit

If my mate compiles it for me and mails it back i can run it with shaders set to high and its perfect ???
Any idea whats going on ??

Thanks in advance

 

[Dead-Inside]

Have you used the command "buildcubemaps"?

 

[synchromesh]

Have you used the command "buildcubemaps"?

No i havent !!!
To be honest im new to hammer but usually map with Radiant !!
Im still on a learning curve so any advice appreciated.

How do i go about using the "buildcubemaps" command ???

 

[Phisionary]

type in console (in-game) 'buildcubemaps', IIRC

 

[synchromesh]

type in console (in-game) 'buildcubemaps', IIRC

Thanks for the info Phisionary !!
I did what you said but it ignored the shaders that wouldnt work and gave me some info on dX8.0 which confused me to hell until i realised in the video options were set to dx8.0 ??
This i was unable to manually change ???

My card is a GeForce 5200 and is dx9 compatable so after hunting the net a little more i found that from the console you can type (without quotes )
" mat_dxlevel 90 " This will then enable the DirectX9.0 settings that are ghosted out

I hope this info will be of use to others

 

[Phisionary]

You saw a visual difference after changing your dx level (Water reflections are the most noticeable aspect IMO), right? You may be able to override the setting and not have it change anything, I'll bet...

Hmm. It's odd that the option wasn't available.

 

[synchromesh]

You saw a visual difference after changing your dx level (Water reflections are the most noticeable aspect IMO), right? You may be able to override the setting and not have it change anything, I'll bet...

Hmm. It's odd that the option wasn't available.

Oh yes i saw the difference
The first being that my shaders worked in the map im constructing.
But at the end of the day i think my GFX card will need to be updated. I dont really want to fake DX9 i want it to select it by default especially if im mapping for the game....And faking it did add a few jerks to the frames !!