Source Lighting

texture lighting is pretty much outt he window now. Pretty much spotlights and omni lights. Spotlights have a lot of neat parameters to them. Texture lights just spawn a bunch of omni lights afaik.

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texture lighting is pretty much outt he window now. Pretty much spotlights and omni lights. Spotlights have a lot of neat parameters to them. Texture lights just spawn a bunch of omni lights afaik.

Glad to hear it; setting up texture lights is a laborous process I could do without.

what? man, texture lighting was one of the greatest features ever. Damn, now I'm pissed.

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what? man, texture lighting was one of the greatest features ever. Damn, now I'm pissed.

You just don't get it, do you?

HL2 doesn't need texture lighting because a) the lightmaps are of a much higher quality and b) the mapper is given a lot more control over said lights.

I'm sure it'll take a few seconds to work it out when you get the editor.

light and light_spot.

lights have parameters to adjust the falloff and brightness, maximum distance

spotlights have brightness, falloff (quadratic), inner and outer cone degree, maximum distance

texture lights are less useful than these entities becuase you cannot control any of the texture lights parameters besides color and brightness.

dynamic lights are light_dynamics, and behave like a spotlight with the exception of a few more parameters.

much luv 4 texture light

I find texture lights to be easier :x you can see all lighting information at once and you can quickly edit it. saves time when you use the same light texture/fixture a few times.

well, it's still there to use. I know you all get a knee jerk reaction of WTF, when there is anything contradictory to what you are used to with hl1.

yeah i just found it easier to work with, and I feel it gave me a more natural style of lighting. Granted I had less control, but thats kinda what I wanted. If i place a light here with certain specifications, this is how it should and did look. I liked that.

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well, it's still there to use. I know you all get a knee jerk reaction of WTF, when there is anything contradictory to what you are used to with hl1.

very accurate metaphor there....

so basically, despite how much fun texture lights were in HL1, they really are obsolete in HL2...so we better get used to it?

thanks for the info!

is half life 2 going to look like cs source? cause i mean....source is cool looking...but it doesnt look nextgen status

On another thing, lightning in CSS seems very strange on objects, they cast shadows based on non existant light sources.

It just looks strange, why is that happening?

it's just the way the code for the dynamic shadows work.

Shadows go thru walls too, and some shadows seem too dark, but no where near the horribleness of doom3s shadows.

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On another thing, lightning in CSS seems very strange on objects, they cast shadows based on non existant light sources.It just looks strange, why is that happening?

the lightsource IS existant.. as it seems, the lightsource for model shadowing is the sun. looks a bit strange but it'd be even uglier without shadows.

no, this is coded in specifically for the flashlight, AFAIK.