Dark face despite lighting

I have a face in a tunnel that looks something like;
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One of the faces has a ladder infront of it (This is a maintainance entry ladder) but behind it, the face itself goes black. Only some light is shed on it, at the very top by the sun and at the very bottom by the tunnel lights. The rest of the faces light nicely as they should.
Now for the fix I know I saw a "minimum light to hit this surface" option. Problem is that I don't know where I did see this as I can only see lightmapscale in textureediting. I'm not sure it's the best way but any help would be appriciated.

I cant even see what that says.

Sorry, my mistake. Copied my post over from another forum (People over there didn't seem as, shall we say, qualified as you do over here). Anyone got any tips for my lighting problem?

What are you using as the ladder? A brush with the ladder texture on
it? if so then make that brush a func_brush. Or you can turn the ladder
into the ladder model.

It is a laddermodel. 4 to be exact, line up perfectly, etc.

Thing is that the face has light at the top (from the "sun") and at the bottom from tunnel lighting. The odd thing is that I have two lights by the ladder, and all other faces in the entrence ladder tunnel are lit perfectly as they should be.

select all your ladders and turn 'cast shadow' to off.

I had a problem like this with a fence I had sitting on the ground,
even though it wasn't solid it cast a dark shadow that looked very
unatural.

Thanks. Now I'm just looking for a solution to my other problem. Expect a new thread soon :smile: .