lights not compiling correctly?

Pink_Panther

L3: Member
Dec 14, 2008
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I've made HL/TFC maps for years and took a couple year break. I randomly decided to give TF2 a shot and ran into a very strange problem with lights.

In the map the lighting will change intensity, color and shadow on walls while im moving around. All the lights are standard lighted textures, light entity, light enviroment types. It almost looks like the lights want to reflect off the entire wall individually instead of bending together to make a single reflected color.

what i did:
I copied an older map i made and pasted it into a TF2 map. Changed all the non-Func_wall entities to a TF2 type and retextured. I was trying to cheat the system a bit as a testbed project.

known bugs:
-There are a couple textures somewhere that have a HL texture name
-4 of the teleport end entities are too close to the wall/floor and player gets stuck
-I apparently used a texture associated to another texture in the map and vbsp complains

things i have tried:
-modified the lights.rad file for texture lights
-added light entities
-HDR and LDR lighting
-compiling vrad before vvis
-changed vrad settings to -final

I'm guessing that I missed some major HL2 item that tells it to light correctly, but have no idea what it could be. I included both the vmf and the bsp in the zipped file.

http://pinksrealm.com/files/SnipersTest.zip

Thanks ... and Hello
Phil
 

Altaco

L420: High Member
Jul 3, 2008
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You're using model textures on brushes. Head into the material browser, check "only used textures," and find any textures that begin with models/ or props/. Replace them with the identical texture but that starts with something like wood/ or metal/. This is a really common problem.
 

Pink_Panther

L3: Member
Dec 14, 2008
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Thanks, that did the trick.. Not sure why it makes a difference, but it worked.