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Bug: Hammer skybox preview ignores $hdrbasetexture

Open Montydog9 opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Description of bug

The skybox preview in hammer does not show HDR skyboxes and instead shows a purple and black checker texture but non-HDR skyboxes appears fine. However in-game the skybox will show up fine.

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To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

  1. Open map in hammer
  2. Set skybox to a HDR skybox (e.g. vertigoblue_hdr)
  3. See missing texture instead of skybox

Expected behaviour

To see HDR skybox previewed in 3D viewport

Operating System

Windows 10 (Not sure about others)

Montydog9 avatar May 08 '21 12:05 Montydog9

still seems to be an issue as of now, probably relating to this skybox not defining a valid $basetexture. a temp fix is copying the $hdrbasetexture to $basetexture

vertigoblue_hdr.zip ^ copy of the said skybox material

November-N avatar Sep 22 '25 21:09 November-N