Glowing Texture?

[parkour freak]

I forgot the name of the Glowing Texture ...it glows red anyone know the name of it??

 

[Unarmed]

dunno... check lights.rad.

Thats got all the textures that emit light. Or feel free to add another texture there to make a new texture emit light

 

[Dodo]

you mean that texture emits light that gets rendered into the lightmap while compiling ? :/ explain.

-dodo

 

[Unarmed]

Textures that emit light light the map just like normal lights do, but instead of making the light come from one spot (light_enviroment excepted) the light is emitted by a surface, just like with light_enviroment which makes the TOOLSSKYBOX texture emit light.

All textures can be configured to emit light and the really good thing is that this needs little work and no redistribution of any textures or any other files. The lighting is done during compile just like with normal lights and is stored within the bsp.

Each mod has an individual file named lights.rad. If your mod does not simply create one using notepad, look at other ones (HL2 itself for instance) to see how. This file can be opened and edited with notepad and contains information on texture lighting. The structure of this file is easy. Name of texture is followed by red, green, blue values and after that comes intensity. Texture lights can not be directed.

Lights.rad is read by VRAD and lighting is applied. Simple. Hope thats what you meant.

 

[Dodo]

ok. perfect.

-dodo

 

[parkour freak]

i looked in lights.rad and still couldent find it..but when your in hammer the texture looks white but when your in the game it glows red..ill try to mess with it some more to see if i can find it..

 

[parkour freak]

I Found it !! =D thanx for you help guys!

 

[Unarmed]

gz.. whats the name of it?