Source textlights (lights.rad) Created 15 years ago2009-01-08 07:42:04 UTC by Captain Terror

I'm experimenting with textlights for ep2, and the lighting looks great(plus i like the added shadow and hdr options)but the texture faces themselves don't show any light.

Is there anyway to make the faces show like as they did in goldsource? I fiddled with "minimum light level" and other stuff but to know avail. I'm going to try some render options next?

I read everything i could find on lights.rad, but i'd appreciate any tips anybody might have on their configuration and use... (I heavily depended on texture lighting for goldsource)

Isn't there some setting when making/compiling the vmt that determines whether or not it emits light?

I didn't even know there were textlights in Source. I always use point-entity lights. I know there is a line of code within the materials .vmt file which determines how much the areas (created using the Alpha map) light up and what colour the light is but I don't think that this emits light like a GldSrc textlight does.

http://www.interlopers.net/tutorials/1834

Texlights are possible in Source, however.. I highly recommand using light entities such as light and light_spot. You have to understand there are some big difference between Source and goldsource, one being lighting. Lighting is dynamic in source and texlights just don't come out that nicely.

Valve used sexy white texlights in the Citadel. They really glow nicely in HDR ;D

:rly: Lighting in Source isn't dynamic. That's what RAD is for in the compile process. The flashlight and light_dynamics are dynamic, yeah, but any other form of lighting isn't.