Question on lighting and skies

[F1yingF1sh]

Ok the problem that I am having is my sky box. I made a brush and put it above my wall brushes and selected the skies/stars shader for it. I started to compile but when it got to BSP it showed:

WARNING: Couldn't find image for shader textures/skies/stars

WARNING: Couldn't find image for shader noshader

 

It countinued to compile so I loaded up my map and everything looked ok but there were no stars and when I shot at where the sky should be the laser hit the sky brush.

 

 

Another question I have is can you make light shaders more bright?

 

 

Thanks in advance

[Karshaddii]

1. maybe you did not choose the shader for the stars--or maybe the textures didn't load right when you installed RAD--in other words--check again to see if the texture had a white box--otherwise cant help yah.

 

2.--I can help you!!

 

 

Edit the shader--open it up in NOTEPAD

 

It will look something like this:

 

textures/skies/coolsky

 

qer_editorimage textures/skies/sky.tga

q3map_surfacelight 75

q3map_lightsubdivide 512

sun 0.75 0.79 1 250 0 65

surfaceparm sky

surfaceparm noimpact

surfaceparm nomarks

q3map_nolightmap

skyParms textures/skies/nebula2 512 -

}

 

All you gotta do is change the fourth value if you want a brighter or dimmer sun

[F1yingF1sh]

When I edit the shader will it just be effected in my map or in every map that uses it?

[RichDiesal]

Every map that uses it. Shaders are global. Only edit shaders that you created yourself - never edit the originals.

[lassev]

Why, you must edit the originals if you want to be COOL and play wearing sunglasses. Distributing the originals in any form is another matter that I leave to copyright holders.

[Emon]

WTF are you talking about? You can modify shaders and release them in your level, it's perfectly legal.

[RichDiesal]

Neh, that's not what I meant. Don't modify the original files or re-define shaders already defined by Raven. You can pull shader scripts from those files and put them into your own as much as you want.

 

I doubt anyone at Raven cares at all if you steal a shader script. *snicker*

[F1yingF1sh]

Thanks for all the help everyone I really appreciate it.

[MDL_Sas]

You made the sun really bright and your character burned up... lol muuuuuhahahahhahaha... sorry I'm bored..