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Posted by Niborius on Tue May 22nd at 7:55am 2012

When I was mapping for Portal 2, I used some Light Textures to emit light, instead of using the light entity.

Now when I am mapping for Left 4 Dead 2, they don't seem to work, even if I can clearly see the icon below the texture that explains that it should emit light. But really they are just plain dark.

Anyone know what to do? Thanks a lot!


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Posted by Orpheus on Tue May 22nd at 11:34am 2012

What did your lights.rad say?
I assume they are still using one for the newer game?





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Posted by Niborius on Tue May 22nd at 3:16pm 2012

These are some lines that I got from the compile log that have something to do with Lights.rad

In the beginning of the log:

[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[59 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

And throughout the rest of the log I found:

[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[2 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

quite a few times.

I cannot find anything out of the ordinary.


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Posted by Orpheus on Tue May 22nd at 3:20pm 2012

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You need to look at the lights.rad file. Not the compile log. Be sure the textures you are using are in it and have settings high enough to emit light. usually its about 1,000.



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Posted by G4MER on Tue May 22nd at 10:15pm 2012

Wish there was a way to agree or like a post, because Orph is right, and I like that post.



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Posted by Niborius on Wed May 23rd at 7:32am 2012

Thanks Orph, that works indeed!

So the texture will emit light even for players who don't have the altered lights.rad? Because it's inside the bsp file, correct?


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 23rd at 1:00pm 2012

Yup. When you compile the map it will be that way for everyone, dependent of course on their gamma settings.



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Posted by Riven on Fri May 25th at 6:35pm 2012

Badda Bing, Badda Boom. Orph's still got it smiley

Quoting G4MER
Wish there was a way to agree or like a post, because Orph is right, and I like that post.

Duly noted. Next Pit iteration should contain such a feature. smiley


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Posted by Orpheus on Fri May 25th at 8:47pm 2012

This question has been answered 100 times prolly.
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