Having some lighting issues with my custom Portal 2 map
I searched the forums, but i couldn't find anything to help me solve my issue. I'm having an issue where for some reason, a few brushes on my test level start out extremely dark when I'm far away from them, and as I get closer, they get brighter, brighter than the surrounding brushes. It's really strange. I have some pictures to help show what I'm talking about:
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg13/MatthewPZC/Other/test_level0000.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg13/MatthewPZC/Other/test_level0001.jpg
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg13/MatthewPZC/Other/test_level0002.jpg
I really don't understand why it's just these few brushes that are doing it... I'd appreciate any help anyone can give me!
Do you have a leak?
It doesn't appear so. I don't see an error about leaks in there... Should I go ahead and upload my .vmf file for others to check through, or should I wait about that?
That's really odd. Attach the VMF and/or your compile log so we can take a look
Okay. I'm not sure how to do it all, so please let me know if I do anything wrong with giving you the info.
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materialPath: c:program files (x86)steamsteamappscommonportal 2portal2materials
Loading C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamappscommonportal 2sdk_contentmapstest_level.vmf
ConVarRef gpu_level doesn't point to an existing ConVar
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
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Average clusters visible: 30
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Average clusters audible: 36
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http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=421
I hope I did the download right...
No, I just meant attach it to a post in this thread.
Anyway it looks like the surfaces you're talking about are using a different texture.
On most of your surfaces, you're using metal/black_wall_metal_002a but on the surfaces that are causing you problems, you are using metal/black_wall_metal_002a_vertex. Change to the first texture and you should be fine.
The _vertex more than likely refers to VertexLitGeneric which is a special shader that is used for model textures. It doesn't really work well for regular world geometry (for static lighting, most textures in Source that are used for brushwork use the LightmappedGeneric shader).
Nacimota is correct, the "_vertex" material is VertexLitGeneric and as such you do NOT want to use it on a brush face.
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In Hammer, go to Map -> Load Pointfile, it will show you the leak if you have any.
I tried to run your compile log through the Interlopers' error checker, but it said that there were no vbsp, vvis or vrad included in the compile log.
http://www.interlopers.net/errors/
Edit: Problem solved, I see.
Anyway it looks like the surfaces you're talking about are using a different texture.
On most of your surfaces, you're using metal/black_wall_metal_002a but on the surfaces that are causing you problems, you are using metal/black_wall_metal_002a_vertex. Change to the first texture and you should be fine.
The _vertex more than likely refers to VertexLitGeneric which is a special shader that is used for model textures. It doesn't really work well for regular world geometry (for static lighting, most textures in Source that are used for brushwork use the LightmappedGeneric shader).
Ah, I see. I thought that the texture was simply a different look... It worked, so thanks! I can't believe I never figured that out. 
I think I heard something about it during one of my searches, but never really thought it applied to my textures... Oh well, I'll be sure to pay even more attention to the filenames from now on. Again, thanks!
Anything with the name "vertex" in it, or if the path is in the "models/" directory, you want to avoid using it on a brush face.
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