Reflection on second vehicle

Hello,

I was wondering if there has been some major changes to the reflection concerning the secondary vehicle on unofficial maps? I run the game nearly maxed out
and since the new update the reflections on the second/third/etc... vehicle are not exisiting anymore. And I may have missed it but after searching for a while I didn't find
anything to change it. On official maps this problem is less bad but still there.

I couldn't care less for playing but for videos this looks ridiculously ugly. I just wanted to know if this is a bug that only happens to me or is this some kind
of placeholder for better upcoming reflections in the next updates?

And no the blue car is not some badly ported russian mod, it's the pessima...


(imported from here)

 

Dynamic reflections are essentially a whole rendering of the scene, and are therefore very intensive. I'm pretty sure someone asked tdev about this, and he said it's for optimization.

I don't even use dynamic reflections, and I suggest you do the same, the cubemap looks good enough and it works on multiple vehicles simultaneously. I'm really hoping to see screen-space reflections, they would run much better and work on many different instances at once.

 

It should still be an option, even if not make the other car have cubemap reflections and not completely matte.

 

Gabe also said something about some non-official maps not having the correct basic cubemap for
sky reflections, rendering vehicles matte no matter what.

 

Yea I found that post. Community-Screenshots So some of the unofficial maps don't have the static cubemap.

 

I think ever since one update after the dynamic reflections one, dynamic reflections for multiple vehicles was disabled. As others have mentioned, reflections essentially render the scene twice and cause a huge performance hit. Default cubemaps should look fine

 

You can always just add one, under the .mis in theLevelInfo put:

globalEnviromentMap = "BNG_Sky_02_cubemap";

under AdvancedLightmapSupport.

 

Thank you....was just going to ask about that.

 

I should add that some levels have more than one theLevelInfo for some strange reason, so you need to put that under both/all of them. Also, if it doesn't work you'll need to move the cubemap files into the level, you can find them in Hirochi Raceway or other official maps and just copy the "skies" folder into the art folder of the mod level.

 

Ah thanks a lot! But isn't this a bug then? Because the map in the SS is expressway and it definitely always had a sky and a cubemap! (And still has I checked)
Also, I tested it, if you disable dynamic refl. even with the vehicle you use it is broken. Since the update the vehicles just dont "recognise" the cubemap anymore even if its there.

 

I dunno, I think it's just changed the way cubemaps are handled. You can get Riverside Expressway to use a static cubemap, just follow what I said, and I know it works because I've done it myself. You just need to explicitly say which cubemap to use instead of before where it would automatically find the cubemap.