worldspawn lighting help


(connect) #1

:banghead: I got a question about the next keys , wich values can I use for this 2 , I want to be a litle bit dark, any values you can tell me ?
-------- KEYS --------
“ambient” Ambient light value (must use ‘_color’)
“_color” Ambient light color (must be used with ‘ambient’)

thank u 4 the help.
:bash:


(G0-Gerbil) #2

For darkness you don’t include any ambient light - ambient light is always added to any extra lighting - it’s a quick way of brightening a dark map.
You should use small values to start with, eg 10, then increase slowly if you feel the need.
If your map is too bright, you may have too bright a sunlight source which is washing everything out (sometimes you want this, eg oasis).


(Detoeni) #3

“_ambient” will brighten the whole map, this dont look good.

Use “_minlight”,"_minvertexlight" and “_mingridlight” they will just brighten dark areas of the map.


(ildon) #4

ET doesn’t have vertexlight… :moo:


(G0-Gerbil) #5

Actually it does if you run your own unpure server, you can disable lightmaps.
Not recommended, it’s griiiiiiiiim :slight_smile:


(connect) #6

thanks all 4 the help :banghead: