texlights

Hi, i need some help with texlights. Anyone know a basic tutorial for that??

not of the top of my head, but they are pretty easy.

all you have to do is make a text file with a .rad extention like so "mapname.rad" put in a line such as this:

ExactTextureName R G B L

RGBL stands for Red, Green, Blue, Luminance. in place of those letters you would put in a number(0-255), except for L which can be any integer. here is a concrete example

~lightA4 255 255 160 300

place that line in a file called mapname.rad and when you compile the texture (~lightA4) will emmit light to those specifications.

in order for this to work, you must place the .rad file in the same directory as the .rmf file.

Tracer Bullet said:
in order for this to work, you must place the .rad file in the same directory as the .rmf file.

Err, not RMF, it should be in the same folder as the .MAP file.

And for the default texlights to work, you need to rename the valve.rad file (comes with VHE) to lights.rad and copy it to your compile tools directory.

Here are some links to tutorials on them, or relative tutorials that mention something useful. Texture lights are very, very important in mapping. It's easy and makes your maps look nicely made.

• http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1037470021-37580600
• http://www.vlatitude.com/tutorials.php?tutID=6

If those don't help, tell me then I can explain in a detailed paragraph.

fraggard said:

Tracer Bullet said:
in order for this to work, you must place the .rad file in the same directory as the .rmf file.

Err, not RMF, it should be in the same folder as the .MAP file.

And for the default texlights to work, you need to rename the valve.rad file (comes with VHE) to lights.rad and copy it to your compile tools directory.

That's right, I just assumed the directories would be the same. who wants the default texture light though?

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Hey! I always thought it had to be in the same directroy as RAD & the Map! What is RMF? Never heard of that... I think Quark users use qrk files.

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Err, not RMF, it should be in the same folder as the .MAP file.

And for the default texlights to work, you need to rename the valve.rad file (comes with VHE) to lights.rad and copy it to your compile tools directory.

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RMF is Worldcraft/VHE's native map storage format. It's expanded as Rich Map Format (I think. Ask Gollum, he knows more about it). If you're a Quark user, you might not have heard about it.

Thats teh spirit Ljusdal :biggrin: - thx for the help guys

Weird, I just edit the Lights.rad file which is in the same folder as hlrad.exe. Has always worked fine for me. U guys using Zoners tools?

That works too, I just think it's easier overall to a have one for each map.