another cubemap thread

[WAR_Nuker]

getting back to HL2DM mapping a bit after a couple years of inactivity. things have definitely changed. im trying to make my first map with HDR lighting and its going well. i am aware i need to build cubemaps twice so i will address that later when i am finalizing.

the issue i am having is when i build cubemaps in the console i need to restart HL2DM to see the effects of the cubemaps, which is time consuming. previously i could just restart the map and i could see the cubemaps working fine. now i have to exit and restart HL2DM completely for the cubemaps to display properly. does anyone else have this problem? is there a console command or something i can enter so i dont have to go through the trouble of restarting HL2DM just to see the cubemaps?

 

[tschumann]

I'd assume everyone has this same problem. It's probably just the enigne keeping your map in memory to decrease load times.
There might be a console command to stop this behaviour, but I don't know of one.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

i ended up being suggested something that works sort of decent.

load your map, buildcubemaps as normal, load different map, load your map again.