Well I figured it out finally. I had printed out all the shader params of the material I was using and saw that indeed there was no selfillum. I realized you must set and unset the selfillum flag to control that option.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Harris Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:10 PM To: 'Discussion of Half-Life Programming' Subject: [hlcoders] Material Proxy not finding a known existing variable, $selfillum Hey, I am trying to write a proxy that enables and disables $selfillum based on the game's state. The problem is that the Material Proxy is unable to find the variable "$selfillum". I can define it 0 in the vmt or 1 and no matter what it will always say that var does not exist. According to IMaterial.h the SelfIllum is part of a group of vars that have this comment: // NOTE: Only add flags here that either should be read from // .vmts or can be set directly from client code. Other, internal // flags should to into the flag enum in IMaterialInternal.h So I assume that the var is able to be used this way, but I am not sure why my proxy keeps saying the var was not found. Chris _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
