Stingers source tutorials Optimizing maps #4 - AreaPortals @comradestinger

Uploaded January 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Part four in the series. this one, explaining what areaportals are and how to use them.

Stingers source tutorials Optimizing maps #4 - AreaPortals

$VAVLe did it again. I figured it out. The texture consists of one normal map for refraction, a white, oval basetexture with a new parameter in portal 2 called $localrefractdepth which aparently offsets the basetexture? anso an envmap for the cubemap.$

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