Does Hammer II...

[PvtRyan]

... still support texture lighting? Certainly beats point based lighting!

And does it still work with lights.rad?

 

[Vegeta897]

I am not sure about the problem you're having (sorry), but it's not "Hammer II"
It's Hammer 4.0.

 

[pmab]

no more lights.rad, its all done through materials / shaders:

http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/Materials/materials_creation.html

 

[PvtRyan]

no more lights.rad, its all done through materials / shaders:

http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/Materials/materials_creation.html

Woah.... seems a whole lot more complicated this time? Or is it still easy to set up a texture light for a certain material?

 

[Lobster]

It is simply a case of editing a text file with the properties of the texture, then compiling them both into a material, theres plenty of examples, and alot of effects that can be done.

 

[Mendasp]

You still have texlights, you just need to specify the folder too, instead of only the texture name, example:

de_test/amazinglight 255 255 255 400

 

[PvtRyan]

K, thnx :cheers:

'nother question: does the func_detail cast lightmap shadows? I assume so, that would be great.

Explanation: func_detail is used for complex brushes that intersect with other brushwork, normally, the brush that it intersects with, gets subdevided, with func_detail, it doesn't. In HL1 mapping, to prevent high poly counts made you place things like pillars 1 unit abobe the floor or make them entities (which made you lose the shadows).

 

[Argyll]

func_detail does cast shadows, if that's what you're asking

 

[PvtRyan]

func_detail does cast shadows, if that's what you're asking

Yeah, I mean lightmap shadows, created when the map is compiled with VRAD.