Quote from The Irate Pirate on June 21, 2011, 4:53 pm

You could use the default instance? Despite it having the occasional lighting issue.

Quote from Vordwann on June 21, 2011, 5:01 pm

Yeah I tried changing the parts in the default instance to prop_dynamics and changing nothing else, but it still had the same problem...

Quote from Marlovious on June 21, 2011, 5:37 pm

I had issues with the stock instance so I collapsed it to my map and set all the models "lighing Origin" to point to an info_lighting. See the map in my signature for an example.

Quote from Another Bad Pun on June 21, 2011, 6:35 pm

The Irate Pirate wrote:

You could use the default instance? Despite it having the occasional lighting issue.

I think Valve solves this using -staticproplighting. There's a nice tutorial on how to use it here.

Quote from Vordwann on June 21, 2011, 6:54 pm

It has nothing to do with the lightning... it's just that two of the parts of the five don't appear when I set them to light well with prop_dynamic.... should I use prop_dynamic_ovveride?

Quote from kwp21 pitts on June 21, 2011, 7:19 pm

You should be using a prop_static, not a prop_dynamic. You could change the lighting origin with the info_lighting entity to fix some lighting issues with prop_static, use info_target with prop_dynamic entities.

Quote from Another Bad Pun on June 21, 2011, 8:13 pm

Vordwann wrote:

It has nothing to do with the lightning...

The Irate Pirate wrote:

You could use the default instance? Despite it having the occasional lighting issue.

I was talking about this, (should have made myself clearer.)

Quote from Vordwann on June 21, 2011, 9:14 pm

I want the lighting to be normalized though with prop_dynamics... however, two of the five don't show up... how do I get them to show up... I can see the void behind tem.

Quote from kwp21 pitts on June 21, 2011, 9:26 pm

Make 100% sure their origins do not leak, or hidden by the world brushwork. The origins can be Identified by the 1Blu, 1green, and, 1red lines that meet at 1 point.