Mirror in the Source engine

Ever wondered how to make a mirror for half life 2 or any other source game? Well, wonder no more, today you're gonna learn how to finally do it. You won't believe how easy it is.

First step:
Open up hammer and select the "reflectiveglass" texture

Second step:
Make a brush using that texture. The brush will represent the mirror.

Note* Don't worry if you see black-purple texure in hammer, it's normal.

Third step:
Select the brush and tie it (ctrl+t) to "func_reflectiveglass" and click "apply".

Fourth step:
Compile and test it!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• mirror
• source
• sdk
• hammer
• synergy
• thirdperson
• firstperson
• reflection
• tutorial
• hl2
• ep2
• orange
• box

[fourrecoil]

what all commands did you use for getting that good thirdperson?

[RaduIc3Man]

@fourrecoil "Sv_cheats 1" to enable cheats and then just type "thirdperson".

[fourrecoil]

@RaduIc3Man i mean your char is more on the left than mine, mine has a croshair in my head >:O

[RaduIc3Man]

@fourrecoil Type "cam_offset" in the console and you should get a few options to choose from.

[omnacky]

I can't find the reflective glass texture in my material library, I'm running my hammer editor off of half life 2's content and stuff, I have the valve complete pack so yea i guess i could use other ones, can you tell me where you get it or if it comes with the content?

[RaduIc3Man]

@omnacky You can find it in any other game that uses the Orange Box engine.

[TheTerraTitan]

Can the mirror be a func_breakable_surf?

[retardedmario1]

its a shame valve didnt make an official gorodon model for hl2. it would have been awsome looking at him in the mirror. XD

[tonihomi]

The Source-Engine is an epic win!

[av3nger3]

0:37..so you are a vampire?

[MEKON17]

wtf, i remember the dodgy shit people used to do to simulate a mirror. this is cool !

[automat3000]

@RedDotRampage Yes thank you. I know what a grammar nazi is. I was being facetious.

[RedDotRampage]

@automat3000 no, as in, grammar nazi, it's commonly used on-just never-mind...

[automat3000]

@RedDotRampage Well then don't even bring the nazis into it in the first place then.

[RedDotRampage]

@automat3000 Nobody says "pronunciation nazi"

It doesn't have the same ring to it and you can probably guess what I really mean

[automat3000]

@RedDotRampage What's grammar got to do with pronunciation?