Lights.rad Created 20 years ago2003-12-02 07:12:43 UTC by AJ

In the old Hammer (Worldcraft 2.1 or something) in the help file it said that u have to rename valve.rad to lights.rad. Is this still the case today? I find that i have to do that to get my texture lights to work

You never HAVE to, it's just recomended. valve.rad contains all the default texture lights for the halflife .wad file. It dossent matter what version you use, because the lights.rad file you get with hammer comes empty for some silly reason; meaning no textures listed to be lit. You have to either edit it yourself or replace it with a renamed copy of the default texture light settings in valve.rad.

I thought zonners had one.

hlrad.exe?

or is there a real file light.rad

yeah, zoners also comes with a practically empty lights.rad. -and im not talking about hlrad, im talking about lights.rad!

Actually, I had 3.4 and my valve.rad contained an incredible one light - I downloaded one from, uh, somewhere. Want it? Look at "Texture Lighting" in the tutorials (by me, o'course )

#this one, say the most about beauracrats, ain't in his head now#
#dobba dobba bobbabobba doba dobba#

the lights files are there to get you started to make your own

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