Black solid entities

I've created several func_physbox entities and they look just fine in
Hammer, but when I run them in-game they're pitch-black. I'm only using
texture lighting in the map if that means anything. The flashlight
illuminates the textures, and setting _minlight >0 doesn't help at
all.

Any suggestions?

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I'm allergic to tequila, it makes me break out in felonies.

What textures are you using on the physboxes? Make sure they don't have "model" or "prop" in the name - those textures aren't meant to be used on brushes and doing so often results in black solids or other wierd visual glitches.

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It's not the textures..

I was using metal/metalwall052a. I switched to metal/citadel_metalwall074a and the problem was still there.

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I'm allergic to tequila, it makes me break out in felonies.

When in doubt post your compile log.

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Posting And You

Try placing env_cubemaps around the physboxes.

Then run buildcubemaps

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Dark_Kilauea
DVS Administration
http://www.dvstudio-production.com/

** Executing...

** Command: "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\victor_933\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe"

** Parameters: -game "c:\program
files\valve\steam\steamapps\victor_933\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp"
"C:\Program Files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Jan 2 2006)

1 threads

materialPath: c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\victor_933\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\materials

Loading C:\Program Files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.vmf

fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...

ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (2)

ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (2)

Processing areas...done (0)

Building Faces...done (0)

Chop Details...done (0)

Find Visible Detail Sides...done (0)

Merging details...done (0)

FixTjuncs...

PruneNodes...

WriteBSP...

done (0)

writing C:\Program Files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.prt...done (1)

Creating default cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox materials:

skybox/sky_day01_09*.vmt

Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.

No such variable "$hdrbasetexture" for material "skybox/sky_day01_09rt"

Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_day01_09 to build the default cubemap!

Finding displacement neighbors...

Finding lightmap sample positions...

Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Building Physics collision data...

done (3) (780525 bytes)

Emitting linux collision data (use -nolinuxdata to disable).

Building Physics collision data...

done (2) (780525 bytes)

Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Water found with no water_lod_control entity, creating a default one.

Compacting texture/material tables...

Reduced 494 texinfos to 329

Reduced 40 texdatas to 34 (1054 bytes to 779)

Writing C:\Program Files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.bsp

17 seconds elapsed

Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 5

** Executing...

** Command: "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\victor_933\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe"

** Parameters: -game "c:\program
files\valve\steam\steamapps\victor_933\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp"
"C:\Program Files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (Jan 2 2006)

1 threads

reading c:\program files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.bsp

reading c:\program files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.prt

734 portalclusters

1982 numportals

BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (3)

PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (15)

WARNING: Cluster portals saw into cluster

Optimized: 573 visible clusters (0.00%)

Total clusters visible: 67306

Average clusters visible: 91

Building PAS...

Average clusters audible: 393

visdatasize:92735 compressed from 140928

writing c:\program files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.bsp

18 seconds elapsed

** Executing...

** Command: "c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\victor_933\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe"

** Parameters: -game "c:\program
files\valve\steam\steamapps\victor_933\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp"
"C:\Program Files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2"

Valve Software - vrad.exe SSE (Jan 16 2006)

----- Radiosity Simulator ----

1 threads

[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']

[45 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading c:\program files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.bsp

3969 faces

1 degenerate faces

86625 square feet [12474017.00 square inches]

0 displacements

0 square feet [0.00 square inches]

3968 patches before subdivision

16190 patches after subdivision

108 direct lights

BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (33)

BuildVisLeafs: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (11)

transfers 1758050, max 613

transfer lists: 13.4 megs

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Bounce #1 added RGB(30275, 38393, 27494)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Bounce #2 added RGB(1929, 2063, 1057)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

Bounce #3 added RGB(123, 109, 40)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Bounce #4 added RGB(9, 6, 2)

GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

Bounce #5 added RGB(1, 0, 0)

Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.0209 sec>

FinalLightFace: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)

FinalLightFace Done

Ready to Finish

0 of 105 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.

ComputePerLeafAmbientLighting: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness

------------ --------------- --------------- --------

models
78/1024
3744/49152 ( 7.6%)

brushes
2228/8192
26736/98304 (27.2%)

brushsides
18212/65536 145696/524288
(27.8%)

planes
3848/65536 76960/1310720 (
5.9%)

vertexes
7614/65536 91368/786432
(11.6%)

nodes
2946/65536 94272/2097152 (
4.5%)

texinfos
329/12288 23688/884736
( 2.7%)

texdata
34/2048
1088/65536 ( 1.7%)

dispinfos
0/0
0/0 ( 0.0%)

disp_verts
0/0
0/0 ( 0.0%)

disp_tris
0/0
0/0 ( 0.0%)

disp_lmsamples
0/0
0/0 ( 0.0%)

faces
3969/65536 222264/3670016 ( 6.1%)

origfaces
2931/65536 164136/3670016 ( 4.5%)

leaves
3025/65536 96800/2097152 (
4.6%)

leaffaces
4367/65536
8734/131072 ( 6.7%)

leafbrushes
5052/65536 10104/131072
( 7.7%)

areas
2/256
16/2048 ( 0.8%)

surfedges
29648/512000 118592/2048000 ( 5.8%)

edges
17305/256000 69220/1024000 ( 6.8%)

LDR worldlights
108/8192
9504/720896 ( 1.3%)

HDR worldlights
0/8192
0/720896 ( 0.0%)

waterstrips
148/32768
1480/327680 ( 0.5%)

waterverts
0/65536
0/786432 ( 0.0%)

waterindices
2541/65536
5082/131072 ( 3.9%)

cubemapsamples
0/1024
0/16384 ( 0.0%)

overlays
0/512
0/180224 ( 0.0%)

LDR lightdata
[variable]
779472/0 ( 0.0%)

HDR lightdata
[variable]
0/0 ( 0.0%)

visdata
[variable] 92735/16777216 ( 0.6%)

entdata
[variable] 32752/393216
( 8.3%)

LDR leaf ambient 3025/65536 72600/1572864 ( 4.6%)

HDR leaf ambient
0/65536
0/1572864 ( 0.0%)

occluders
0/0
0/0 ( 0.0%)

occluder polygons
0/0
0/0 ( 0.0%)

occluder vert ind
0/0
0/0 ( 0.0%)

detail props
[variable]
1/12 ( 8.3%)

static props
[variable]
1/12 ( 8.3%)

pakfile
[variable]
15748/0 ( 0.0%)

Win32 Specific Data:

physics
[variable] 780525/4194304 (18.6%)

Total Win32 BSP file data space used: 2943318 bytes

Linux Specific Data:

physicssurface [variable] 780525/6291456 (12.4%)

Total Linux BSP file data space used: 2943318 bytes

Total triangle count: 10066

Writing c:\program files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.bsp

1 minute, 9 seconds elapsed

** Executing...

** Command: Copy File

** Parameters: "C:\Program Files\hl2maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.bsp"
"c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\victor_933\half-life 2
deathmatch\hl2mp\maps\bmrfsublevelshl2.bsp"

And DK, I'll try that later today. Thanks.

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I'm allergic to tequila, it makes me break out in felonies.

The compile log looks flawless. Only basic errors that show up on most maps and (normally?) don't cause problems like this. A screenshot would probably be even more helpful. Maybe it's just where you put the entities (lighting and shadows are still fixed and pre-rendered and not dynamic for func_ entites in HL2, so maybe RAD has some problems lighting the brush).