-light but some spots go black....

(EB) #1

How would you go about fixing this ? …there are light entities on both sides of the black.

I have tried more lights , I was going to revamp the shader for the sky, but all of the building seen is structural. (sky : sd_goldrush)

(CooperHawkes) #2

the wall seems to be vertex lit instead of lightmapped… can you post the shader used for the wall?

(EB) #3

No shader bud, sorry. Just a texture. oh, and it is one brush. I am going to go and search inside the wall again.

(CooperHawkes) #4

strange… then it should be lightmapped…

btw: even when it is one brush magic q3map2 might split the face into many triangles to prevent t-vertices… but I guess you already know that… a picture with r_showtris 1 (or r_showtris 2) might be interesting

(EB) #5

I had figured this already, but how can I fix it ?

(CooperHawkes) #6

that shot confirms my first assumption… the wall definitely is vertex lit… strange thing as it shouldn’t be :-/ just to be sure you can have a look at the lightmap with r_lightmap 1… I guess you will see a white surface or correct shading, but not these strange shadows…

are you sure that none of the existing shader files in your scripts directory contains a shader with the same name as your texture? maybe there is one hidden inside a custom pk3? my first suggestion would be to rename the wall texture and try again… if it is not working try to write a shader for the texture a la:

texturename
{
   implicitMap -
}

however, the second approach is quite stupid because AFAIK this is done automatically for every texture without a shader

(zl1corvette) #7

That is weird. Are you getting any errors during your light compile?

(Oxygen - o2) #8

have you tried using ambient light?

a seeting of 5 usually dose the buisness

(EB) #9

No errors come up, but I am going away for the weekend, I will try what cooperhawkes suggested.

Oxygen, if I forgot to add ambient light to the map I will laugh my ass off. I’ll let you know on Monday.

(CooperHawkes) #10

EB: any luck? just want to know if it worked :wink:

(EB) #11

Sorry to tell you this, but it will be a week or so until I get to do anything to that map, but as soon as I do- I will let you know. Thanks