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if you are compiling with Q3Map2:

Leave the sun and light out of your shader completely, and make a pointed light (light targeted at info_null), and give it the key "sun" with a value of whatever light you want it to have. You can color it, whatever you want.

 

And, you can have multiple suns - how cool is that!?

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Hey sorry I have been away but I couldnt access the forums anyway

 

About the last Q

 

I found a BUG with the new QTKRaidnet

 

I dont know if its what I have installed but after a while it stops compileing lvl's properly I dont know why but I have found the only way to fix the problem is to rename the map well its really a prob when im always compiling to make sure if the map is going to work with whatever I just added lol thanks tho for trying to help on that

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i've got som great advice from this thread, but im still runnning into problems. this is how my shaderfile looks:

 

textures/kaminolandingplatform/sky

{

lightcolor ( 1 1 1 )

qer_editorimage textures/kaminolandingplatform/kamino_up.jpg

q3map_skylight 50

q3map_sun 70 70 70 30 0 180

surfaceparm sky

surfaceparm noimpact

surfaceparm nomarks

q3map_nolightmap

skyParms textures/kaminolandingplatform/kamino 512 -

}

 

 

 

but when i try to compile, with q3map2 inside the new gtk-version i get this error when its listing the shaders:

 

 

 

entering shaders/ui.shader

entering shaders/yavin.shader

entering shaders/zoom.shader

entering shaders/snow.shader

entering shaders/kamino.shader

entering shaders/kaminolandingplatform.shader

************ ERROR ************

Line 4 is incomplete

 

 

i've checked the shader several times and i cant find whats causing the error!

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buckman: the skylight row is wrong. You have to use it like this:

 

q3map_skylight <intensity> <iteration>

 

Keep the iteration value low while you are just testing. I use 1 and that creates 4 sky lights. ydnar says that they use 3 or 4 for final. I tried 8 once. It takes a very long time to compile but looks very good. :)

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It's Q3map2. :)

 

The lighting is much faster and the quality is better. It can produce radiosity too.

 

Handles not only md3 models but a few other model formats (like ASE) too.

 

It has lots of enhancements and - the most important - it is updated periodically which we can't say about sof2map.

 

It is true that there are at least one thing, the light styles what q3map2 doesn't support yet.

 

If ydnar read this he could tell more accurate things about the compiler.

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ok, im gonna try some stuff and we'll se if it works...

 

during the compilation, i got this message:

 

error.jpg

 

the compile continued as usual, but when i tried to load the map ingame:

 

error2.jpg

 

i have a huge cone in the map, i suspect that might be causing it?

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You have two of those pathces. If you click on a line in the debug window, GtkRadiant selects that patch for you. Just delete them and remake them if necessary. But do it backwards. I mean delete the #109 first and then #106, because if you delete #106 first, then #109 will become #108. :)

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And you didn't find anything about that in the Error Resources thread?

 

I just don't know if this means you have too many patch planes in the map or in only one patch. If you maxed out the one patch limit, then split it into two endcaps or four bevels. If you maxed out the global limit then what to say? :)

 

BTW, is there a global limit for that?

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Nar he shouldnt have hit the global limit and yer this is its pritty high tho and only a couple of LA SP maps have hit it and you know how big they are...

 

I cant offer any help on this because I havent had this prob at all

 

maybe you should check what you added before that compile that said it back track what you might have done

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This could be just me but....

 

here is a screene of a new prob with Lighting

 

http://members.iinet.net.au/~philai/light.jpg[/url]

 

Please help Kyle looks crap with out light to light him up and the stormtroopers in the lvl

 

also how can I make the big blob go away on the white tiles

 

also to note this is what kyle looked like when I was doing the shader and still does to no avail

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Also do you guy know how to make the floor mirrer what is above it like that Duel map the LA did

 

I have been trying and trying to do it but I can never figure it out its been bugging me because thats one of the main features of my lvl you see im doing the ship the TANTIV 4 lea's ship at the start of A New Hope and the floor is jet black with a shine to it and I think that the mirrer afect would be great I do have a shiny black floor at the moment but it just doesnt make the effect as I would like to

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The picture makes me think that your light entities are to close to the floor. That explains why can't you see any light on Klye seeing him from above.

 

To avoid the very bright spots you can use a smaller light value for the entities and a bigger scale value if necessary.

 

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You can find several threads about mirroring floor, just use the search function. But keep in mind that using a mirroring floor can be lower the FPS if the mirrored environment is high on polygons.

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Try again I wasnt expecting you to look so quickly what I did was type the address before adding the pictures lol

 

anyway I moved the lighting up but still doesnt light up my char I tried everything from light to radius and even scale but ntn works it lights up the place alright but just not the char

 

I have no Idea why to all exptations it should work

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