ZAPHOD/MACMAN: Lighting in de_prodigy, reveal your secrats!?

[InsaneSingingBlender]

k it works but for rad its always searches for lights.rad and cant find it and my maps are fullbright

[skdr]

lights.rad is located in your Steam cache, dont care about that, there's bunch of textures set to emit light (mostly single color textures like white(light) etc).

Make sure your map doesnt have a leak.

[InsaneSingingBlender]

i fixed it, all i had to do was create a lights.rad in the bin directory

[Tequila]

cd "**YOUR STEAM DIRECTORY**\steamapps\your@email.com\sourcesdk\bin"




vbsp.exe "**YOUR STEAM DIRECTORY**\steamapps\your@email.com\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\**MAPFILE**"




vvis.exe "**YOUR STEAM DIRECTORY**\steamapps\your@email.com\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\**MAPFILE**"




vrad.exe -smooth 85 "**YOUR STEAM DIRECTORY**\steamapps\your@email.com\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\**MAPFILE**"




pause

Fill in ** **

smooth 85 increases the smoothing group angle to 85 degrees... since the default is like... 0.000000000892731 degrees of wtf?

Odd indeed. Cheers DD.

[Swatje]

fan :

are dynamic shadows supoorted?

[von*ferret]

halflife2 doesn' thave "dynamic shadows"

[DD]

It does too. Although fixed lighting point.

[wacko]

it does not have the same dynamic shadowing that let say doom 3 would have and there is an easy way to prove that build a wall make it fun_breakable... place a "Dynamic Light" and then blow up the wall and wow the shadow from the wall is still there... but the wall is not there Hmmm I don't know... How does that happen??? explain to me the dynamicness(not really a word) of that.

[kleinluka]

I wouldn't call the lighting in HL2 dynamic. Dynamic lighting to me means lighting that changes with moving objects, like a lamp that is rolling around on the floor changes the lighting and shadows etc. And since he was asking for "dynamic shadows" - no i don't think that is possible in Source.

[wacko]

its not possible.... Which i stated but i guess my lack of knowledge on anything mapping related just over powers what i said.

[Defrag]

Thanks for posting that batch file. I was having lockups in hanger whilst compiling (crashed vrad, too). With the batch file it runs swimmingly.

[ShaDoW]

Dynamic shadows would be possible and is supported by the Source engine, but you would have to do this in the form of your own modification. Valve didn't implement this feature in Half-Life 2, as it wasn't really required.

[kleinluka]

actually no because the shadows for bsp objects are pre-compiled, but maybe zaphod can shed some more light on this

[tuemmykids]

I remember seeing dynamic shadows on the caracters in Bloodlines, so it's gotta be possible for props to cast dynamic shadows.

[Schmung]

Isn't it it done a per light basis rather than a per object one?