forgot to mention this on the mosaic forums but you could (if you have
room, remeber Reno's area is above you) build a hollow box behind your
skylight at the angle you want the sun to come from and texture the
back face with one of those white textures. I think white002 or
003 will give you a nice warm light.

this will cast a hard shadow on the floor in the shape of the window.

Ah, I see you found the skylights anyway. Some areas seem a bit dark, particularly the first two screens.

New water looks nice, as do the skylights. The new ceiling really adds something better to your map. I also noticed the new doorway thing, which will be excellent to stop the linearness of the area.

One concern with that new gateway though. Because it offers players with a direct route to the pool area, you should put something (perhaps a weapon, or some handy secondary ammo) in the little shower area to entice players to go in that little section. Or else I think the area could often find itself empty, and useless. I think a little enticement could work wonders.

I changed my spot_lights as per Doc's suggestions, and I'm halfway happy with the results.



I like the way the light_spots look in this section, but overall its
way too dark. How can I subtly brighten up the area while keeping
the appearance that the light is only coming from those wall mounts?



Same with this area, I like the way the lighted part looks, but it's way too dark. Suggestions?





I'm definitely going to keep the shafts of light, I think they look
good... yet the lighting isn't convincing in this area, and its still
too dark. Should I add regular light entities with low brightness?



New water, which I like. Looks like dirty chlorine.

Looks very nice, ReNo.

Addicted to Morphine said:
Does anyone know a good visual effect for perhaps getting streaming light through the skylight? I'm not too worried about the actual lighting, just the appearance of light streaming through.

I think there is a model - effects/vol_light mdl I think it's called - which basically gives the effect of sunlight. I think you should test it out on your skylight to see how it looks.

looking very nice.

AtM, there is a model in the effects folder that makes a beam of light. Just turn off collision and shadows and place it.

Ooooooh the other lights, I get you now. Yeah thats the "point_spotlight" entity very neat little entity that :smile:

I spent a bit of time tonight sprucing up the interior style, since before it was just really dull...

Oh ok.. I heard there was a built in thing in Lights now that would do the light glow.. like we used to do with a texture. You know it would fade from Bright Yellow to black/clear, to give the effect of the light shinning out, like it does on the cool little lights you have in your pictures Reno.

The entity is an "env_lightglow" actually, I wrote it wrong. Its
basically the same as the old "env_glow" entity, that renders a sprite
but it changes in size and brightness as the player gets closer or
further away.

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting ReNo</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Thanks mate, glad you like it :smile: Not been working on it the past couple of days - I've got an idea on the layout I want to have but I'm not sure the best way to build it up interestingly.

What do you mean by getting the light props to work so nice? They are just one of the standard prop_wasteland lights with a light entity a bit of distance in front of them, and a light_glow to give them some added intensity.</DIV></DIV>

Light Glow, how do I do that? Thats the effect of the light shinning out from the light right? What we used to do in HL1 with a texture?

Hey Can I make a small section for this? this is HL2DM right?

Does anyone know a good visual effect for perhaps getting streaming
light through the skylight? I'm not too worried about the actual
lighting, just the appearance of light streaming through.