help with lighting Created 17 years ago2007-07-31 14:15:19 UTC by DragonFly

What is the best way to light up lihts such as this one so that it appears light is coming from the whole light not just one spot?

You could have multiple light_spots with a small ray so they all look like one light. Or you could make a block with the white001 textured on it and tie it to func_illusionary to give off light.

Go to the tutorials section and search for texlights.

I know about texlights but the model is all one texture and ends up giving off light in directions there should be shadow.

Oh, it's a model? This is where my help ends.

DragonFly - use texlight for this type of lightning with selfillumination mask ("$selfillumtexture" "texturedirectoryl/texturename" ... maybe, i dont try it on practics).

err....
Ive not got a clue what your talking about there. There is no texture called "selfillumtexture" ???

This "$selfillumtexture" parameter defines light illumination mask to your material. Mask - grayscale image in vtf format; it defines what part of your "$basetexture" will illuminate light (like alphachannel defines what part of image will have opacity). Btw, i dont works it or not.

Is it possible to do this with an existing model texture, make it skin 1 instead of 0 (to keep the old one) and ship it with a map (which will auto transfew from server to user)?

I dont know