Strange round lights on shadow [Source Engine]

[MozArt]

Hi there, I'm Mozart from Deadwood mod team.

I am experiencing matters on my maps since a few weeks. Some rounds of lights come in my shadow areas :

Here's another exemple :

I dunno the hell where it comes from. I'd been told that experienced mappers would resolve my matter.

Thanks and sorry for my bad english, i'm french :roll:

[dux]

That is odd I've never seen anything like that before. Have you deleted and remade the light_environment with a different pitch and angle to see if the problem goes away?

[Sentura]

worst case you can always punch in some block light solids

[MozArt]

@.Dux : I tried to change every parameter of light env and HDR but i did'nt try to delete it and add it again. Gonna try !

@.Sentura : yeah i thought about it to "hide" the junctions. If no one solve the matter i'll try to add a big Block Light bloc behind the displacement.

Thanks :wink:

[MozArt]

I deleted and recreated the light env without changing color parameters and the round lights vanished ! Thanks alot !

[Psy]

Source engine. A fuck load of

[Sentura]

can i ask where you have the waterfall from and how it was made, hmm?

[MozArt]

Well in fact the shadow bugs are still there but we almost do not see them anymore.. :roll:

@.Sentura : We have took it from cs_jungle, we'll add the author in the credits when the map will be finished.

[Wesley Tack]

The solution isn't removing the light_env (it didn't work for me)

The solution for this problem can be found in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=11874&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

!!!SOLUTION FOUND !!! (Credit to Robert Briscoe)

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Vrad

-LargeDispSampleRadius

This can be used if there are splotches of bounced light on terrain. The compile will take longer, but it will gather light across a wider area.