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I have a rock wall model I made. With a normal map applied FROM A DISTANCE the model appears unlit, not affected by the light_enviornment but still showing its normal map/phong. When I walk closer the proper lighting on the model fades in, and in turn removes all normal map/phong effects.

I dont know why this is happening. I would like the model to display properly with a normal map and being properly lit from a distance and up close. When the normal map is removed the model lights fine from any distance. Pics:

Proper lighting, no normal map:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/68 ... 00003.jpg/

Normal map, distance, not lit properly(Note shadow on ground, but not wall):

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/33 ... 00001.jpg/

Normal map up close:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/25 ... 00002.jpg/




VMT example:

"VertexlitGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "models/mountainrange/mountainrange"
"$bumpmap" "models/mountainrange/mountainrange_normal"
"$surfaceprop" "Rock"
$detail detail\noise_detail_01
$detailscale 48
$detailblendfactor 1
$detailblendmode 0
$model 1
$nodecal 1
$halflambert 1
$phong 1
$phongboost 4
$phongfresnelranges "[0.05 0.5 1]"

}



Please if anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it!

Seems like a basic compile problem there, make sure you have "-StaticPropLighting -StaticPropPolys" in your light compiler and try again.

Those are all there by default in expert mode

try these

"$envmaptint" "[ 0.2 0.2 0.2 ]"
"$envmapsaturation" 1

Not sure if this still applies on CS:GO, since it's on a newer engine version, but i know that per-vertex-lighning won't be used on normalmapped props.

But since your issue seems to be related to your distance to the prop, it might be something like the detail map fading out on a certain distance.

Xyos212 did you ever get to the bottom of this problem? I started getting the same problem today, and it seems to occur in Hammer and Model Viewer as well.

To elaborate, I've uploaded a video to show the problem in action (the sexy music is just a bonus ) :



I've tried reducing the VMF to the very basics (no spec, bump or anything) but the problem persists.

Problem solved. Turns out I had some funny mipmap settings in VTFEdit (I have a bad habbit of tinkering with settings I don't fully understand). Xyos, if you used VTFEdit to import your texture, make sure you didn't set mipmap generation to "Darker".