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Fading Rainbow Material 2

This adds solid color fading rainbow materials to your materials list in the material tool. The color changes depending on your distance from it and FOV. Also includes a LightmappedGeneric version for use with Map Retexturizer and Hammer. Results will vary depending on the UV mapping of the model you change the material on.

There are a lot of materials with different reflection intensities and roughness using my own fake PBR method. Make sure to hover over the materials so you know what you're selecting. The "metal" materials use cubemaps and also have fresnel and phong shading for more dynamic reflections. The "rough" and "smooth" materials use phong and rimlight.

The texture will be yellow when close up if your texture quality is set to High (mat_picmip 0). To make it red, set it to Very High or anything higher (mat_picmip -1 or lower). This is intentional for optimization purposes.

To maximize the color changing, the texture is 4096x4096 (Source limit), so it may not be potato friendly. The materials using shaders will be even heavier on your GPU. The effect relies entirely on mipmaps, so I have to use a high resolution in order to maximize the texel density. It's as optimized as I can get it.

Tip: When using with Map Retexturizer, change the texture scale to compess/expand the rainbow.

To keep this list small, asterisks indicate a wildcard.

• Faster download version for servers
  
• Extras
  
• Spray version
  
• Original version (discontinued)

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