Shadows/Lighting (dumb Q)

[R!ghteous]

I am recreating the middle point of cp_well for my own purposes. I have all of the brushes/lights/models in the proper places but the lighting is still way off. I dont know what I am doing wrong but im sure someone here knows whats up

This is what I have currently:

This is what I want:

What am I doing wrong? I know its something that i should know but... alas i fail.

 

[Ida]

Well, decompiled maps are often a bit messed up.

I know that leaks can cause the lighting to look all wrong too. Have you checked to see if you have one?

 

[R!ghteous]

Not that I am aware of. Is there a simple way to find out?

 

[R!ghteous]

I just checked again. There are no leaks. I still have no idea why this is happening.

 

[Nineaxis]

Do you have a light_environment with the proper settings for the well skybox? It appears you have no ambient light.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Sky_list#team_fortress_2_materials.gcf

 

[R!ghteous]

Yes i do have the light_environment created with the proper settings enabled. :-/ I Have no other idea what it may be.

 

[Bonafide]

you need to disable the shadows on the props. Thats why everywhere is so black.

 

[R!ghteous]

I really dont think thats it. The props are supposed to have shadows as you can see from my images however there is no minimum light on brushes. I dont know how to fix this... anyone?

 

[Ida]

It doesn't hurt to try disabling the shadows. You could always turn them back on afterwards.

 

[FaTony]

Obvious leak, dude.

 

[R!ghteous]

I have checked and rechecked and rechecked. I have used the pointfile tool to verify that there are no leaks.... I have no idea how to fix this at all. Does anyone have a clue? I am happy to send the file to anyone who wants to take a peek. please let me know. What other options could it be?

 

[Laz]

valve always compiles its maps with extra lightbounces. but still the difference is to big. Disabeling shadows might help, perhaps your ambient light settings?

 

[Bonafide]

I can almost guarantee its because of the shadows, just disable them for a test. It cant do any harm to see. massive props create massive black shadows like the ones you are seeing.

 

[Dox]

Definitely not a leak because a leak causes fullbright, AFAIK.

 

[R!ghteous]

I was able to fix it. Thank you all for your help.

 

[terrorist_hell]

Could you explain why? That would be helpfull for other people. I kinda hate it when people just say "fixed", but that leaves other folks with the same problem in the blue.

 

[99X]

Yes, please tell us what you did. This happened to me and I want to know how to fix it also.

 

[Gadget]

You could place some normal lights under those lamps in addition to the light_spots. Just use the same lighting values and maybe turn down the brightness a little.

 

[Koei]

Props stuck in geometry a bit? make an info_lighting in front of em and select that as the calculation source for lighting instead of the location of the prop itself.

 

[YM]

Try this - http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=2994 (the bit about static props, not the texture lighting bit)