Need some compile help here!

Hi peeps :razz:

Warning: Too many direct light styles on face

I know what it means, but not why its coming up (i have checked the map and the lights)

If you have the know-how PLZZ tell me

 

Well, if you know what it means then the solution should be pretty obvious: cut down on your use of different "styles" of lights.

First I suggest removing (only temporarily) every light you have that has any kind of flicker or strobe effect.  Remove all switchable lights, leaving only standard entity lights and texture lighting.

This should solve the problem.  If not, you gain some information at least.

Then you can try adding the lights back in, a few at a time.  Fundamentally you can't have too many different types (slow flicker, fast flicker etc.) affecting any one polygon (face).

? posted by Gollum
Then you can try adding the lights back in, a few at a time.  Fundamentally you can't have too many different types (slow flicker, fast flicker etc.) affecting any one polygon (face).

Ya I think it only allows 3 different styles of light.  That brings up another thought too: the 3 different light styles...does that include colored lighting as well?  

Man, I cant wait for HL2 Hammer.

No, coloured lighting is not a "light style" as such.  It's only the flickering/fading effects that matter (and maybe switchable counts as one of these).

it is my understanding that "styles" means only that, the style of light emitted, being strobe,flicker, or whatever.. style should not count as color, because IMO it doesn't apply to light, at least it shouldn't.. it would be as if someone asked you what style car you own, be it a cheapy without ac or with, no one would ask about a style of color.. i might rephrase that as, no one i have ever talked to has.. but in my experience, some people are just petty enuff to include color as if it were important :/

 

anyways.. it is my understanding that color is not a factor in this particular error in HL..

3 max? well i have normal, flickerA, and flickerB. I removed the B, still didnt work

Hmmm, never min about my first post. Somehow it just fixed itself...kinda. I have another question: How to you make a sprite transparent so you dont see the edges and you only see it when it can see you?

Rendermode additive and set the rendervalue to whatever suits it (0-255). Whenever you can see the point where the sprite is based, you will see the whole sprite. It's odd, but how they work.

Cash Car Star said:
Whenever you can see the point where the sprite is based, you will see the whole sprite

Hmm nope, i see it anyway  :sad:

Then I can't help you unless you provide a screenshot, because that's how they work...

if u tell me how to get my angelfire account to be able to show images :smile:

Kapten Ljusdal said:
if u tell me how to get my angelfire account to be able to show images :smile:

by following this link..

http://www.snarkpit.com/cp.php?mode=homepage

bah, Lep isnt here....

Ill just let the sprite thing be for now. Do you think Lep is gonna get mad if i use my webspace for..um, like innocent non-mapping pictures? I read the terms but i didnt remember all of it :rolleyes:

Kapten Ljusdal said:
Ill just let the sprite thing be for now. Do you think Lep is gonna get mad if i use my webspace for..um, like innocent non-mapping pictures? I read the terms but i didnt remember all of it :rolleyes:

unless the content is unethical, he seldom says much..

 

Thats what i meat with "innocent" :smile:

Hey! I cant upload!

How long does it take to compile a rather big map?

Using zoner's P series, a large map may take 45 minutes to 1 hour. A behmothic map may take 1 hour and 20 minutes -- that's for just running Rad. If you run extra, a behemothic map may take... about 18 hours.

thanks, my map compiling suddenly jumpped from 59 secs to more than 8 mins

...this thread was over a year old. If you have a new question, post a new topic, plzkthx.

And 8 minutes is nothing. (If you didnt already realise, always ignore what ballblue says about compilers). The current map I've been working on is about 2 hours total. Once it starts going over 3 or so hours on a decent computer, then you have a problem.

i usually think its refreshing to see old threads revived, it tells me that people read the old stuff, and there is some excellent advice back in those posts.. BUT in this case the topic was revived for a completely unrelated reason.. there must be relevance to the reviving of old threads IMO..

besides, there are s**tloads of posts about compile "TIMES" .. /me wonders if the search would locate them? surely it would.. hint,hint