Ambient Lighting.....

[SunBurN]

I have a question about ambient lighting. I released my maps to few beta testers and I've been told they're "too dark" in places so I took some advice and tried ambient lighting.

 

First I set the values in worldspawn and I started with an ambient value of 25 and using a bluish _color. Well after it compiled and I tryed the map in game, I didn't notice any real difference. So, next I upped it to 35, then to 100 and still the same result, no real improvement. So my question is, what value should I use? Is it the color I've chosen that's problem? Or is the value too low? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

SunBurN

[SunBurN]

Anyone??

[Eldritch]

You should be able to notice values of 25 and 30 in ambient light.

 

The keys to be entered into the worldspawn for white light (or regular light, if you prefer) are:

 

key: ambient

value: 25

 

key: _color

value: 1 1 1

 

How did you key yours in?

[SunBurN]

I went to the "k" color window and selected the blue color I wanted then I used the values for that color which were..

 

0.000000 0.501961 1.000000

 

Are you saying that I should've used

key: ambient

value: 25

 

key: _color

value: 1 1 1

 

 

even if I wanted a bluish toned ambeint light?

[Eldritch]

No, I was saying for regular white light you should've used the value of 1 1 1.

 

I was just using that as an example for how to implement it - I didn't know what color value you were planning on using.

 

Are you positive that you've entered the values in the worldspawn entity?

[rgoer]

You must have made some kind of mistake not to notice an ambient value of 25 in your map... I was doing almost the same thing, a bluish ambient light for the dark parts of my map, and I found 25 to be too much. I use 10, and it still looks too washed-out to me... anyway, just for clarity's sake, here is a steplist that works, 100% of the time, if you follow the steps completely and carefully:

 

1. deselect everything with escape key.

2. press the n key to bring up the entity editor.

3. scroll down in that list to find the worldspawn entity.

4. select worldspawn.

5. add key: ambient with value 10.

6. add key: _color with value 0.9 0.91 1

7. compile a fullVIS and you will notice a difference.

[SunBurN]

Are you positive that you've entered the values in the worldspawn entity?

 

Yes!

 

rgoer:

 

I think maybe it was the value of _color I was using which is why I couldn't see the ambient light.

 

Thanks for the instructions, I'll give them a try right now!!

 

SunBurN