.Map :: MoHAA Mapping

Hey guys great site and great tutorials.

I an having a small problem with ambient light at the moment. I added it a few hours after i started mapping because i didn't think i was good enough to use real lighting, but not i've been mapping for a while and want to add a sun and lights and all that, but I cannot get rid of the ambient light i had form the start, this is how i added it in the first place, i think but it was a long time ago.

I built a sky box, selected that, pressed N, set ambient light 60 60 60.

Then later i deleted the sky box and added a new one.

Thanks for reading.

Regards lloyd.

select your skybox and press n like you did before -

now select the setting you want to remove -

ambient

or

ambientlight

and click on delete pair

problem is i have a new skybox

new or old will adopt worldspawn settings you enter as described in my last post.

"Worldspawn" is every brush in the map that has not been made into another entity -- which includes the skybox brushes. If you open your .map file with a text editor, like Notepad, you can edit the worldspawn properties at the top of the page.

well ambient light aint in the properties on the notepad doc, I must sound like such a noob lol.

I'll try some thing that from my limited experience might work, I really appreciate your help and if you know anything else that might help I'd love that too.

If there is a leak in the skybox (file > pointfile), the light compile will be skipped and the map will be full bright with no shadows.

just rebuilt the sky box again using hollow command i get no leaks when i compile, would it help if i pasted you the first section of the notepad .map?

Sure, post it. Also, could you discribe the problem again? What are you trying to get rid of? Ambientlight can only be added/removed in the worldspawn settings.

Here is an example of worldspawn settings.

{
"farplane_color" ".7 .7 .55"
"farplane" "13000"
"classname" "worldspawn"
"suncolor" "55 48 36"
"sundirection" "330 230 0"
"ambientlight" "7 6 4.6"
// brush 0
etc...

hit N to bring up the entity box now scroll to the very bottom highlight worldspawn, now delete the key and value for ambientlight