I'm now working on a map. From HL1 I'm used to use mainly textlights to light my maps because they are better in making contrasts and the projected light is more accurate to its source. So I've used default texture as textlight and got this



As u can see, the floor isn't lit along whole light source, only in middle. Is there any chance to get rid of this (better compile tools perhaps).

If not then Source sucks

Thanx, and excuse pls my english

That picture is tearing my internet connection a new one, but it might just be the server it's hosted on. Next time use imageshack: http://www.imageshack.us
It just stopped downloading after half the picture.

From what you're saying, I'd guess you're having the old "too many light styles on a face" problem. Every face with a texture that emits light is a new light style, if you have more than three light styles on one face, Source can't cope, and you end up with bad lighting.

The solution is to use point-lighting instead of tex lighting. Place a few light or light_spot entities around, and as long as they have the same name (or aren't named), brightness, and appearance, they'll combine as one light style.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
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I don't know what the problem is, but I know I had to download that image directly at about 0.8KB/s.

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If I had to guess, I'd say that his light level is to low in his rad.text and he has an entity light set there.

shrugs

The image isn't very informative and I really haven't noticed this issue before.

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Problem with brightnes of texlight wasn't a problem, I tried to increase its bright to 400 and only what happened that light blob was bigger.

There is an example of what i'm talking about

Good



Bad



Maybe there is some kind of parameter for Vrad. Or am I suposed to wait until somebody like XP-Cagey will upgrade Valve's compilers ?

This is a new one to me.
My (educated?) guess is that there's a problem in your lights.rad file, or the vmt of that texture. Post them both here.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
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vrad always puts pointlights in the middle of the light texture (if it repeats 4 times on a brush then there are 4 pointlights). Maybe the source RAD forgets about that and puts in one light per face? Try splitting up the brush in a few extra parts. The new bsp program usually merges faces with the same texture data but I'm afraid there is little else you can do.

going by what reaper says, making the texture larger, and using it at a smaller scale should give you a more even light source.

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Tested it and spliting it into more faces fixed that problem

Brush not splitted -> light blobs

Smaller texture scale -> intensive light

Brush splitted -> floor equaly lit

Great, please confirm the answer! :heee: