texture lighting

Has anyone managed to get texture lighting working yet? I have searched and everybody seems to say "you need a lights.rad file".

So I made one and placed it in my cstrike_sample_content\materials folder (after some trial and error) and the tools recognized it there. In my compile log it says parsing 1 texture from lights.rad, however it says I have 0 direct lights, and my level is fullbright.

I have the texture in the map of course.. so what am I missing? Could it be because I have materials loaded into the editor and no .wad files?

Check the spelling in your .rad file? I haven't tried it yet so...

I've tried 2 different textures just for that reason and neither work and I'm sure I'm spelling it right. I also tried putting halflife/ in front of the name (like they have it listed in the materials selection screen) and that didn't seem to work either.

I wouldn't worry about it until the full SDK is released next week tbh!

Open your lights.rad file in notpad and save it again as 'lights.rad'
including the quotes and with 'save as type' set to 'all'. I presume
this won't work as it says it parsed one value, but I had this same
problem earlier and it's worth a shot.

i heard on mapcore that there wont be the texture lighting feature in HL2.

well you heard wrong. :smile: i got the texlights working fine.

hoping that thumb works...

i put lights.rad in cstrike_sample_content (NOT \materials) and all it was is this:

cs_havana/lightb 255 255 255 600

I've done as you said, Baron, and put a lights.rad in my cstrike_sample_content folder with the line

props_c17/light_industrialbell02_on 255 255 255 600

but this didn't work. Is it because I am using a prop?

Is it because I'm tying it to the wrong entity? (I've used all the prop ones)

Thx

Baron ...

http://www.uploadimages.net/show.php?img=488151texlight_test010000.jpg

No quotes and those quotes allowed the site to generate another "http://" thing.

ok now things are just getting wierd. I had 2 entries in my lights.rad file, however my compile log said 1 was being parsed. So I deleted the lights.rad, ran a search on my entire steam folder, none were found and yet the compile log still claims 1 light is being parsed... Where is Ann Landers when you need her? Any ideas?

my bad, cold, i put:

cs_havana/lightb 255 255 255 600

but you need to press tab between the texture and the values for it to work... i think... never really tried w/o tab...

oh
yeah, and i havent tried texlight on the light_industrialbell02 thing
so i dont know if you can use texlights on models/props(i would think
so, though). but since that texture is a skin the entire thing would
glow, not just the light part.

EDIT: Marked this as a correct answer, since the thread starter hasn't replied in so long and is seems correct - ReNo

I'd like to reopen this question. Can anyone tell me the exact location of the lights.rad file? (relative to some other key file). I did a search on all my hard drives and got nothing. However the following appears in my compile log:

----- Radiosity Simulator ----
1 threads
[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[45 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

And a florescent light texture that I used is working (but is waaaay too bright)

Thanks

i think you have to make it for it to be there, otherwise i think its
built in, or something. im pretty sure you put in the same directory as
the gaminfo.txt, could be wrong though...

It's in your Source SDK GCF, in the HL2 (and CS) directory. You can extract it to your sourcesdk/bin physical directory if you want to modify it.

Thank you sirs! I haven't tried it yet, but I am 100% sure this answers my question.

I never did get this working... and I have a lights.rad with the proper texture label :sad:

bump

I take that back, my complie was set not to run RAD

Does it still work if I create a mapname.rad in the same directory as the mapname.vmf to get customized texture lighting? It used to work for HL1, but it seems not to work for the new Hammer. I tried it, and the compiler still used lights.rad instead of my custom .rad file.

Any thoughts?

According to the tutorial on the site you're supposed to put it in the me@myemail.com\sourcesdk\bin folder.

JFry said:
ok now things are just getting wierd. I had 2 entries in my lights.rad file, however my compile log said 1 was being parsed. So I deleted the lights.rad, ran a search on my entire steam folder, none were found and yet the compile log still claims 1 light is being parsed... Where is Ann Landers when you need her? Any ideas?

as for this it is because there is a light rad file embeded in your gcf file in steam. there is onlt one texture light within that file. hense the one being parsed.

As for me i have been unable to get texture lighting to work correctly either. But i will keep working on it and get it figured out. I am sure it is jsut a user error, for me at least...