WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
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If only we'd have all the lights options that SFM has... Especially the überlights.
All I'd really ask for is a few tweaks to the material system. Being able to manually crank the brightness of a self-illuminating texture above #FFFFFF would force bloom (if it's enabled) and let us do away with glow sprites, for example. As for light cones, all we'd really need is some volumetric light models to match every fixture, wouldn't we?
Dragonisser
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Does anyone knows how i can get rid of those light bugs? They only occur when im far away.
Also any good tunnel tutorials?
Also any good tunnel tutorials?
Does anyone knows how i can get rid of those light bugs? They only occur when im far away.
Also any good tunnel tutorials?
Light your map properly, and you shouldn't have those problems.
Does anyone knows how i can get rid of those light bugs? They only occur when im far away.
Also any good tunnel tutorials?
Are there any leaks in your map? On the top bar in Hammer, go to Map > Load Pointfile, and see if a file browser pops up. If it doesn't, you probably have a leak, which is a hole in your map to the void. Look for a red line that has appeared in your map; it should show you where the leak is. Patch it up, recompile, and see if these lighting bugs persist. Also, as @Mikroscopic suggests, make sure that tunnel is lit well enough.
For an alpha, that tunnel looks quite good, nice work. Just use the Vertex Tool
to make sure that all brushes line up properly.
Are the gaps between 2 displacements? or is that brushwork? Because i do know that sometimes those gaps are unavoidable due to the way the engine does render. Many tf2 maps have such problems. but as the color of the floor is already relatively bright you just dont notice it.
Dragonisser
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It kinda looks like this. The tunnel sliced and grouped, no leaks, sealed room, and aligned to the grid.
Also the tunnel should be dark, otherwise i would have thrown some lights there
Also the tunnel should be dark, otherwise i would have thrown some lights there
Dragonisser
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Nope i used the clipping tool, bit for bit. It's because of the lines going through the complete brush instead of just segments around the edges?
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It kinda looks like this. The tunnel sliced and grouped, no leaks, sealed room, and aligned to the grid.
Also the tunnel should be dark, otherwise i would have thrown some lights there
You should totally be cleaning up those brushes, it looks like you've carved that tunnel.
You should be using an arch here, and maybe some displacements instead of the props at the left?
Yeah there are some lines overlapping so it looks like you used the clipping tool. This can create excess brushes and issues though, and there's a much cleaner way to make tunnels than clipping or carving - the arch tool. Try to use the arch tool every time because it's much cleaner brushwork.
Here's a quick guide: http://www.interlopers.net/tutorials/2249
Here's a quick guide: http://www.interlopers.net/tutorials/2249
Those "cracks" are a side effect of how anti-aliasing (or MSAA, at least) interacts with the breaks between visleaves. It's only noticeable in very dark areas, but there's no fix for it except to complain to Valve about it and hope someone's listening. I think they've already fixed it in newer engine branches like Left 4 Dead.
Dragonisser
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Even though it looks better now the problem still persists. Maybe some very dark lights will help
