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Do Brushes stop light? Or do I need to light clip an entire room so light will not go through walls?

Yes! Brushes stop light but the light can sometimes leak between brushes that are aligned against each other. Brushes that are turned into entities like doors does not block light.

So use the light "clip" to stop light from going through doors?

Uh what light clip? You could try common/caulkshadow, not sure whether it's solid.

Also, keep in mind it might look weird when your door is opened.

Good old Duke Nukem 3D times.

Well have learned a few things today, playing around with lights and such. Glad I am on vacation, really enjoying this mapping.

I have read through alot of threads about turning lights on and off, so did some playing around and I have blinking lights working. So I would say it is possible to turn them on and off. ( I started with looking at Flughafen with the runway lights)

Only problem right now is fps shoot downward when player near blinking light. So going to work on the script some more. If I get it working perfect and looks good in finished map I will post how I did it.

I think all the lighting really makes a map, so I am trying hard to have very good lighting.

For an awesome sunset lighting I have used this:
ambient light 2.88 4.32 5.76
farplane 5400
farplane_color .45 .3 .25
farplane_cull 2
lightmapdensity 64
map_time 1096043704
suncolor 100 58 10
sundirection -20 160 0 ( I may change this a little for final map)
sunflarename none
vis_derived 0

Side note: so far my FPS average is 70 (very good I think) Using a Ge_force 2 Pro (overclocked), 1ghz cpu (overclocked), and 768meg ram


For those who whine and complain about Moh Radiant...once you start to get the hang of it, its not all that bad...I am living to map:)

How's your Mtex at 1024 x 768?

LOL...maybe getting to exicited....how do I check Mtex? I know you do not want a number like 20...or it will start to hinder performance.

Type fps 1 in the console.

20 is just about ok, don't let it go much higher .

For map reviews I always use highest detail.

Mtex average on map 1.75
Highest 3.05

That's excellent .

Thanks for the sunset settings, I'll try them later

one question for stopping light.

how do you stop lightning flashes inside a building and other underground areas? i want to be able to see only flashes coming through the windows and other opening in a building, like holes or crack.

i have tried light clip and clip all. but no-go on it to work.

Lighting flashes should only occur where you can see your skybox or farplane

1. You do not need the map_time for the sunset. That was just put there as a type of copyright signature. I just put random numbers there.

2. I have come with an idea for light not to pass through doors, I am going to try later today. Was busy with the clan tonight and did not have a chance to try it. Here is the idea though:

since my doors are metal, I am going to try and use metal clip on boths sides of door (making metal clip only one unit thick) and include them along with the door and origin for the rotating door and see if it works. It really upsets me that a light outside the door on the wall leaks around the door.

3. Question. My doors are rotating fine except for one. It will not rotate both ways, just inward towards the room. In the top view the door would open into the room (in top view,the room being south or bottom being 270 degrees)

What anlge does the door have to be set up to rotate both ways?

2. Clip brushes are not supposed to drop shadows

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