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Posted by SuperCobra on Tue Jan 11th at 3:53am 2005

How do I make a sun and light come from the sun. Yes I did a search couldnt find anything.
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Posted by ReNo on Tue Jan 11th at 3:54am 2005

Use a light_environment entity to make natural lighting (be it sunlight, moonlight, etc...), and use an env_sun to make the bright spot in the sky. Search those entities on the forums to find out more info.
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Posted by LittleGetty on Sun Jan 16th at 1:31am 2005

http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL2&id=116

there is a tutorial on it. I don't know how your supposed to line it up with the sun on a skybox though.





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Posted by Crono on Sun Jan 16th at 1:34am 2005

Can't you apply sky box images like textures? I know they're in the texture browser. You could just apply them to the inside of the skybox, line everything up then change the skybox texture back to "sky".

Just a thought.
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Posted by Bobv on Sun Jan 16th at 1:38am 2005

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Can't you apply sky box images like textures? I know they're in the texture browser. You could just apply them to the inside of the skybox, line everything up then change the skybox texture back to "sky".

Just a thought.


if you try that, i promise you, itll look crappy......




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Posted by LittleGetty on Sun Jan 16th at 2:01am 2005

Yes. You can't get that to work. It wont line up.

It took me about an hour to figure out that you use a skybox texture and just change the name of the one you want to use in proberties. I felt like a retard.






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