ok about sphear mapping.

[Tabulanis]

I read it can be done I can make sphear maps and I dig the idea of using them so the question is. How?
Environmental mapping set to true just well looks bad and only move if the modle in question moves. Camera walking up to and around it doesn't do anything. I want to make really dope water for the next section and I am going to use (Big surprise) and animated actor for the water surface. I'll put boens in and they will animate the waves. But water only looks cool if it reflects hence need for the maps. Also I tried to make a surface with and alpha'ed texture for a floor and the hope was to make the map (It was a sphear map) to work as reflection and apha the actor using the alha channel. Will this work for the water if I can get sphearmapping to work? Then I could put opaque non reflective objects on the surface like leaves or news papper bits. I don't mind if I have to double up on the mesh to get the effects to work as long as it works. So how do I get sphear mapping to work?

Also now my RF is stuck in a mode where the alpha textures seem to be 16bit they look really shoddy next to what they where before. I used VideoSetup.exe from alylum to see if I could improve frame rates but since then I am stuck with 16 bit alpha or maybe its 8bit I dont no but I do know it looks odd. I noticed the opengl renderer is faster than the d3d one too. at least it was but now that the 16bit thing is happening everything is faster, looks odd though. I think I would like the good looking stuff over the performs well stuff. Actualy I would really like a choice between them.

questions order of importance.
1, sphear mapping hot to.
2, whatever the VideoSetup.exe did to RF.

Thanks you ahead of time.

[federico]

Yes i'm working wwith a modified version of the engine and also i had troubles with enviromental mapping. So the problem is 075? I clearly remember that in 072A version env_ was ok. At the end of that QoD nice looking demo, there was two "chrome" enemies. Now I see that the percentmaterial is applied but thhe textures doesn't move anymore. I hope that this can be solved I noticed it trying to make a shining car !

[federico]

I posted in the forum a tutorial abouut Actor Recflection that might be an answer to your spheremapping question. (It isn't enveromental mapping but true spheremapping).