Having some lighting issues with my cust

Having some lighting issues with my custom Portal 2 map

pikaguy900

19 Posts

Posted May 14, 2011

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!

hanging_rope

435 Posts

#31009

Posted May 14, 2011

Replied 10 minutes later

Do you have a leak?

pikaguy900

19 Posts

#31021

Posted May 15, 2011

Replied 49 minutes later

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?

Nacimota

345 Posts

#31024

Posted May 15, 2011

Replied 25 minutes later

That's really odd. Attach the VMF and/or your compile log so we can take a look

pikaguy900

19 Posts

#31032

Posted May 15, 2011

Replied 1 hour later

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.

materialPath: c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\materials
Loading C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\sdk_content\maps\test_level.vmf
ConVarRef gpu_level doesn't point to an existing ConVar
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...100...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\sdk_content\maps\test_level.prt...Building visibility clusters...
done (0)
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (17857 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Compacting texture/material tables...
Reduced 118 texinfos to 49
Reduced 20 texdatas to 19 (629 bytes to 567)
Writing C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\sdk_content\maps\test_level.bsp
1 second elapsed



2 threads
reading c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\sdk_content\maps\test_level.bsp
reading c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\sdk_content\maps\test_level.prt
&nbsp; 36 portalclusters
&nbsp; 58 numportals
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...100...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10Optimized: 3 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 1107
Average clusters visible: 30
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 36
visdatasize:652&nbsp; compressed from 576
writing c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\sdk_content\maps\test_level.bsp
0 seconds elapsed



[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[59 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\sdk_content\maps\test_level.bsp
201 faces
69263 square feet [9973924.00 square inches]
0 Displacements
0 Square Feet [0.00 Square Inches]
201 patches before subdivision
7605 patches after subdivision
12 direct lights
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...100...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10transfers 822552, max 414
transfer lists:&nbsp; &nbsp;6.3 megs
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #1 added RGB(67326, 131176, 158767)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #2 added RGB(37665, 74273, 90523)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #3 added RGB(21257, 42354, 51958)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #4 added RGB(12003, 24127, 29756)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #5 added RGB(6755, 13682, 16955)
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0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #20 added RGB(1, 3, 3)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #21 added RGB(1, 2, 2)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #22 added RGB(0, 1, 1)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10&nbsp; &nbsp;Bounce #23 added RGB(0, 0, 1)
Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done&lt;0.0051 sec&gt;
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10FinalLightFace Done
0 of 12 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10Writing leaf ambient...done
Ready to Finish

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Level flags = 0

Total triangle count: 547
Writing c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\sdk_content\maps\test_level.bsp
6 seconds elapsed

http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=421

I hope I did the download right...

Nacimota

345 Posts

#31039

Posted May 15, 2011

Replied 43 minutes later

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).

msleeper

4,136 Posts

Admin

#31041

Posted May 15, 2011

Replied 2 minutes later

Nacimota is correct, the "_vertex" material is VertexLitGeneric and as such you do NOT want to use it on a brush face.

Sliipperi

30 Posts

#31044

Posted May 15, 2011

Replied 3 minutes later

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.

pikaguy900

19 Posts

#31146

Posted May 15, 2011

Replied 11 hours later

Nacimota wrote:
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).

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!

msleeper

4,136 Posts

Admin

#31166

Posted May 15, 2011

Replied 1 hour later

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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