full compile error

hello

im wondering WHY i cant do a full slow compile in expert mode but i can in normal mode. basically what im getting is a map that the portions of the floor are fully bright and the models are fully bright. it seems vrad? is crashing. the only odd thing i have in my map is large outdoor areas.

thank you for your replies.

Post a compile log. And a screen shot would help.
(My first guess is you need cube maps.)

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whats a cube map do? the compile log had nothing out of the ordinary...i checked it alot.

A cube map is used to calculate specular effects on objects (such as reflections of the environment). You need to use the "buildcubemaps" command in the dev console.

If rad was crashing everything would be fullbright, not just specific things.

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ok...i seen these on the sdk of lockdown. ill implement them. thanks.

it would seem my textures are glowing........but only certain ones. the map is not in fullbright. i dont quite understand the differance between normal complile and advanced. unless this is including the light.rad file and these textures are part of it.

Did you place a cubemap entity in the map and attach it to the surfaces that use it, then compiled (there is no real difference between normal and advanced, it runs the same compilers, you just have the ability to add arguments or other commands to the overall process) then loaded the map and used the command "buildcubemaps"?

Look here for more information

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so in the half-life 2 console ( the game console ) after i compile it i type in game buildcubemaps?

no i didnt...let me give this a shot.

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ah ha. got it. thank you.

Strange, I never marked my responses as solutions, technically, RedWood should have gotten this one.

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Meh, I never said much. You were the one who gave him the info he needed.

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Crono said:
Strange, I never marked my responses as solutions, technically, RedWood should have gotten this one.

Sorry about that, I was tidying up a little. I hate to see so many threads still tagged as unanswered. I gave it to Crono, as he addressed the thread title (database thing) as well as giving a link to what was actually needed.

The threads that I'm certain someone's given the correct answer in, but have had no confirmation from the thread starter, are ones that bug me. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to mark them up, but I've been certain of things in the past, and well .... enough said about them already.

Then there's the ones that will never get the answer that the poster was hoping for, and correct answers end up marked as wrong. Things like, "how do you make a fully controlable aeroplane that fires laser guided missiles and drops smart bombs for HL1DM". The correct answer would be "go stick hot pins in your feet", but it would never get the green box that it deserves.

cest la vie, as they say somewhere else.

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