Lighting........

[Hell Raiser]

Ok, I add in a light entity, but it doesn't light up the whole level, no matter what I set the radius to.

 

I read about ambient lighting in a tutorial for another Radient, so I click on a brush, press n for the entity window, select worldspawn, add in ambient for key and a value of 100 (just to test it) and it did nothing.

 

Can someone take me through the ropes step by step for ambient lighting?

 

On a side note, how in the fraggin heck can I get lighting to be previewed in the 3d view? It's a pita to compile, check, redo, compile, redo again.......

[PurplWulf]

lol, you just described my method perfectly

I add lighting, compile, open the map check it, then go back in and edit the lights, compile, open the map and check it.

 

that's they only way I know to check the lighting on a map so far unless mapping in Q3 offers that additional feature.

 

lucky my machine compiles maps pretty fast and I can do a fullvis in about 45 seconds for smaller maps

 

the purple one

[Hell Raiser]

*cough*

 

Originally posted by Hell Raiser

Can someone take me through the ropes step by step for ambient lighting?

 

*cough*

 

[PurplWulf]

sorry man, can't help ya there

I'm a newbie to Q3 mapping myself

 

but if you figure it out, be sure to let other newbies like myself know

 

*pats Hell Raiser on the back*

that's a nasty cough you got there

 

 

the purple one

[Hell Raiser]

*couughbumpcough*

[UniKorn]

The only way to preview your lighting is by using mohradiant and cofigure it for JK2. It is possible, I am doing it. Just set your mod dir to base and your project paths to the appropriate jk paths.