Help with brush lighting Created 16 years ago2008-07-14 12:36:32 UTC by Skals

Hey guys, im making a sven coop map. In my map i have alot of lights (brushes), all of them are from the half-life.wad.

Now For some reason, when i get inside my map, none of these light brushes give out light / shine or do anything like they should!

Has any one got any ideas for why they wont give out light?
Or, are there any special requirements to get the lights to work?

Depending on how you compile your map (with Hammer's built-in compiler, Nem's Batch Compiler or my Compilator) you probably didn't specify the full path to the lights/valve.rad file. This file contains all the textures that should emit light.

If you tell HLRAD where it can find the rad file, your texture lights should hopefully emit light ingame.

If you tell HLRAD where it can find the rad file, your texture lights should hopefully emit light ingame.

and how do i do that?

Make sure there is at least one light entity. Otherwise nothing will be lit.
You will notice an error in the log if that happens.

i have lots of light entities in my map.

Use the compilator.
There's a space where you just browse to the .rad file and it'll automatically include the rad file.

And did you Make the changes in the rad file that make the texture emit light??
like
"
LAMP04 255 255 255 200
""

Use the compilator

I am using it. nothing changed.

And did you Make the changes in the rad file that make the texture emit light??
like
"
LAMP04 255 255 255 200
""

Nope. I figured they'd already be there because its half-life.wad we're talking about.