Inside - outside Lighting

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algonas

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Jul 19, 2008
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Hi all,

I've recently added enviroment lighting to my first map, which includes a completely enclosed area, (something like the base in badlands).

The question is, how do you get perfectly "even" lighting in the rooms?

I've tried adding basic static lights and spreading them out but it doesnt look like the original maps at all.. I took a look at the decompiled Valve maps but i found no evidence of the way they do it. Any suggestion?

-thanks
Algo
 
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Laz

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Jul 5, 2008
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lightmap resolution and a lot more light bounces in your vrad.
using spots with a very wide angel should do the trick. just look at official maps, there is nothing more to it that what you see there, have you tried copy pasting one of their lights into your room to see if that does light up your room?

also some screenshots would help us alot.
 
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algonas

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Jul 19, 2008
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I noticed the insane amount of brightness of the lights on valve maps, and now its properly lit. And my spawn door vanished even tho its still there, working and properly clipping. :p

EDIT: Nevermind, im a noob. Thanks for the tip Laz
 
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Gadget

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here's one tip for HDR lighting: you have to place an env_tonemapcontroller (with name tonemap_global) and one logic_auto. The logic_auto needs to have the following outputs:

- OnMapSpawn | tonemap_global | SetBloomScale | .3
- OnMapSpawn | tonemap_global | SetAutoExposureMax | 1.1
- OnMapSpawn | tonemap_global | SetAutoExposureMin | .7

of course you can change those numbers. This is used to not get overbright HDR lights. Here's some more information about it: VALVE wiki HDR_lighting_settings
 
Earl

Earl

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Dec 21, 2007
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Another trick you can use is to use very bright point lights that have a dark base color. Like 20 20 20 800 for the color settings.
 
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algonas

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Jul 19, 2008
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Thanks all for the info, ill play around with all the settings and see what happens.

Algo
 
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