bad/strange lightning of prop_physics entities in map

I have several rooms in a deathmatch map I am making where I have placed all sorts of office like stuff (desks, cabinets, monitors. computers etc.) using the prop_physics entity, but they appear in a greyish color when i run the map, somewhere the greenish cabinets are shaded from green to grey.

This is annoying when I compare to the dm_lockdown map where all items have their brightest colors. I have copied several desks and cabinet entities from there to se if that hepled, but to no avail...

Any ideas?

The Schwartz

You must add lights in the room containing these stuff....grey shades mean that they have no light to reflect...( or DARK)

if this didnt work try putting them prop_physics...this enables u to catch them woth ur gravity gun too...

hope this helps

Correction - sorry but all the items are prop_physics (which I now have corrected in my original post) and they still turn out grey!

And i have ligths. In one room I have a ligh spots and I can see that the further from the ligth the more greyer the entities are...

Any other ideas?

hmmm...i actually dunno...but i had this problem fixed when i added lgiht....

but i think this may work:

• Add A skybox Block around the map from the outside.
• Click on it
• Click tools
• click make hollow
• insert the number ranging from 10-20
• Hit OK

Then compile and play...does this work??

I had this problem also, but I solved the problem by adding a cubemap entity in the room.

I promise this will solve your model lighting issue.

P.S. Don't forget to run "buildcubemaps" from the console after loading the map!

This is great - just what was needed the whole map looks fine and evrything is A-OK. But how do I get this "buildcubemaps" command compiled into the BSP ?

If I want to distribute people shouldn't and won't do this everytime they use the map...

Thanks Again

The Schwartz

When in game with the map loaded, go to the console (usually the ~
key), and type 'buildcubemaps'. If you have cubemap entities
around, the screen will start flashing various view-points (6 for each
cubemap entity), and the BSP will be re-written with the information...
or at least I think the BSP is re-written.

I'm pretty possitive it will be rewritten into the bsp =)

To make sure that the new cubemap information is incorporated into the new .bsp, just quit Half-Life 2 and restart it, then load up the map again. If everything looks okay (without having to run buildcubemaps again), then the .bsp will look good for everyone else too.

I have just tested this, I had a file manager open beside the 'windowed' HL2 when I wrote the command in the console. My .bsp file changed date to the current time and the size changed immediately after the command had executed. This must prove it - The map is rewritten!

Thanks Again

The Schwartz