Quote from spongylover123 on November 25, 2011, 2:27 am

What kind of lighting do you want?
Skybox lighting?
Dynamic Lighting?
Fog Lighing?
Normal Lighting?
Or Wall lights lighting?

Quote from BobbyJEL101 on November 25, 2011, 2:34 am

All of it. Except skybox... My maps just seem darker than normal maps should... It's not a problem, I just am lost when It comes to lighting...

Quote from spongylover123 on November 25, 2011, 2:43 am

Fog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz-qwPfYpbs

Dynamic Lighting (only shadow):
Compiling with
-StaticPropLighting
-textureshadow
-StaticPropPoly

Normal Lighting:
Add a light or light_spot to your map and set your colour

Glass Lights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taKtmMYbIRY
(this is easier than the light holes from portal)

Quote from BobbyJEL101 on November 25, 2011, 3:45 am

Here is my situation

Quote from BobbyJEL101 on November 25, 2011, 4:21 am

First I tried this Instance... (Pretty fail-ish)

Then I tried these Panels (Instances). Which seem to give off barely any light what-so-ever (Also Fail)

Then I added normal Lights to the panels giving me this: (We're getting somewhere!)

I even tried env_projectedtexture (Nevermind)

I want my light-panels to look like this [Which in fact have no entity:lights above them, like I tried] (Good job valve...)

This is where I get frustrated

Quote from beecake on November 25, 2011, 4:44 am

So you place the instance model of those lights you want, where you want. They don't cast any much light if no light is in the instance. Now you can do 2 things.

1: Place a Light in the middle of the model. Make its brightness about 185 225 219 100 (At the picture above i see there is used 2 lights at every model. You can do that too. You can easely see where the light is place if you look where the light casts out from the model)

2: Place a Light_spot at the same place as where you would put the light, and make it point up. I guess the brightness would be the same: 185 225 219 100

Quote from Robdon on November 25, 2011, 6:34 am

Hi,

If you find some lighting that you like or want to try out, just decompile the map that has it in, and see how Valve did it.

I hate lighting, so that's what I did to try to learn and see how to do it.

Rob.

Quote from Brainstone on November 25, 2011, 7:58 am

If you think your room is too dark, just set a single "light" in the middle of the room. Don't place it at the wall, but exactly in the middle. that should really make your room brighter. The player won't notice it, but these lights are the main source of brightness. If its too bright reduce the last number in the "brightness"-property.
Then, to lighten the white panels like you showed on the picture, just take the normal lights/light_panel_x_med instances. Those emit only very less light, but enough to give these panels a nice touch.
I've also learned that if you don't change any of the quadratic/linear/constant/50%falloff/100%fallof the light will look the most natural.

Hope I could help

Quote from beecake on November 25, 2011, 11:28 am

BrainstoneX wrote:

The player won't notice it, but these lights are the main source of brightness

Sometimes you do notice it if the room isn't that big. Then when you walk beneath it the portal gun gets lit up. That kinda annoying