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 Re: weird light circles
Posted by ishbog on Thu Mar 3rd at 2:02am 2005

circles of light are just appearing all over this room! whats wrong? heres screens and a link to the .zip of my map.

get the map here

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 Re: weird light circles
Posted by satchmo on Thu Mar 3rd at 2:27am 2005

Very strange indeed.

What kinds of light entities do you have in your map at this point? Did you use the carving tool?

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Thu Mar 3rd at 3:28am 2005

I'm shooting blind here, but is it possible that those are reflections of your main light source? I've never noticed that bounced light ever had a "shape", but this might be an example of that. [addsig]



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 Re: weird light circles
Posted by satchmo on Thu Mar 3rd at 5:55am 2005

Are those dev type textures you're using in the map? Perhaps the light map for those dev texture is very coarse by default. Try changing the textures to see whether anything changes.
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 Re: weird light circles
Posted by ishbog on Thu Mar 3rd at 1:57pm 2005

ah, i have 3 spotlights, 2 under platform, one going on top of it. then i have the light environment. and i did'nt use the carving tool, i just made a sphere, ungrouped, took off the lower half, and took out that in the top by deleting the brushes that made up the sphere. i am using dev type textures, maybe i shouldnt be testing with those? ive been using lower lightmaps to more distinguish my lighting in certain areas, and that may be the problem. (filler: last friday i went to Valve for a school project and got to learn alot about hammer from Jess Cliffe. [cool guy] he showed me some teqniques, one of which is lightmapping, so, of course, im experimenting with that.[if you have questions about my trip to valve, dont post em here]) im sitting here at my dads comp before school, so i cant change anything at this time. when i get home.... [addsig]



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 Re: weird light circles
Posted by ishbog on Fri Mar 4th at 6:07am 2005

i changed the textures, still had the annoying circles. im trying changing the angle of the light_environment from -90 to -80, see if that helps... compiling now. soooo...sllooowwww...

i need a super cray.

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 Re: weird light circles
Posted by parakeet on Sat Mar 5th at 4:11am 2005

i think that all those gamers out there with super powered comps should trade with the mappers comps ;P
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