Lighting Problems Created 18 years ago2006-09-12 04:52:07 UTC by happyman

Okay, so I have put a light into my map, however, the whole thing appears floodlit. I found the section for lighting in the tutorial and tried to do what it said to fix the problem. However, nothing worked.

Upon looking for an errorlog in the folder with my .rmf file, there was no errorlog. Upon entering the console, with '~', and typing 'pointfile', it tells me it can't find my ">mapname<.pts" file, or something like that. Anybody know what I can do to fix this?

If you're compiling with normal settings (not expert), make sure you have VIS, and RAD checked with normal or higher settings. They aren't by default.

VIS and RAD settings? Where can I find those?

When you press the compile button, there's a box that pops up before the compiling starts. It has a bunch of options that you can check. Make sure VIS and RAD are set to "yes".

But from the sounds of it, you should really read some tutorials...

Okay, I've done that, and the lighting shows up perfect in CS. Thanks a lot!

Seems funny, though, that so many parts of my map work fine in game but show up wrong in Hammer... :

How exactly do they "show up wrong"?

Well, for example, it won't launch my CS and run the map, however, I can manually open CS and start a server on that map and it works fine. Also, the lighting works fine in-game, but in Hammer, the map appears floodlit, and, as stated earlier, with no errors or problems found.