light_spot lighting brushes very uneven?

#1 · June 28, 2011, 10:42 pm

i'm trying to put some dramatic lighting in my map.
though when i have a nice light_spot casting a shadow, it seems to very unevenly shade all the brushes.

Is there a way to fix it so that it is lighted evenly?

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#2 · June 28, 2011, 11:07 pm

Lower the lightmap scale of the surfaces in question. Make sure you don't go overboard though, and you DEFINITELY don't want to do this to every surface in your map.

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#3 · June 29, 2011, 9:24 am

it solved it a littlebit, but i was actually talking about the problem with the brush left of the metal grate getting a good exposure, while those above/under/left get underexposed, even though they are on the same plane

it is also happening to some objects in the same room:

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#4 · June 29, 2011, 9:41 am

This is fixable with -staticproplighting. If you compile in the advanced settings with Final HDR and LDR (slow) on it should automatically apply this.

#5 · June 29, 2011, 10:14 am

that fixed the props, i still have ugly brushes

EDIT:

i added another light, this "illuminates" the problem a bit better
so how to fix that???

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