Ah, ok, so how do i make my outside textures (ie. The sky and such)  I thought i had to load the pak0.pak in the textures list....i dont know how to pic out my sky...like a night sky or a sunset sky... or what ever it is that i want.  (sorry about posting it in the wrong spot...newbie error )

Edit: wtf?

NEED HELP!!!

OK, heres the deal. My light environment will NOT work.  I have done everything that i am sposed to do....I have looked in other formus, and they tell me to set pitch to a negitive number....and the brightness doesnt seem to help. My level is compleatly black. Except for the sky, the sky is fine, but everytime i try to make an outdoor area, nothing seems to work. We need a tutorial badly on How to make outside area's.  I was wondering if it is becasue i am compiling Opposing Forces textures with the WC settings as HL.  I dont know if light even touches the texures, b/c the textures may not even be there. Just a thought...I really have no idea what im talking about .  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

=\ i'm right there with ya ronin, i am just starting out as a mapper aswell..although i ahve had one sucessful map, but it looks like shat...but all the outdoor maps i have attempted to make i have had problems with the enviroment light...=\ must be n00b luck...

You either have the brightness of the light environment at 0, or you have it pointing up or you accidently deleted it/changed it before compiling.

Have to laugh at that tutorial though, so old that it still thinks you need more than 1 light environment!!

Thanks guys, i will try to do everything i can as a noob to make my maps work.  As for the brightness and angle....the brightness is 600, and the angle is 180.  But i have another question....My map is a dusk map, so do i even need an envrironment light?  I can just use texture lightning, right?  I mean i think its going to go with the dusk setting very well....lol i think...well...sit back and watch me noob away...

It's just a thought, but you might try the light_spot ent. it has an "is sky" flag. this makes it exactly the same as the light_environment but at least it's somthing else to try.

You definatly do not want to try and replace an environment light with texture lighting.

i was never keen on that method, am not sure if its wrong exactly, but my preferance is the light_environment..

set it up, just like a normal light, set the pitch to a minus number, such as -75 and angle it down... use the clock dial to designate how you want the sun to shine FROM in the top down window of your editor..

thats all there is to it.. remember a L_E is far brighter than a regular light, start with about 50, then bump it up or down, depending on the light level you wish.. color is very important to....

good luck