Lighting in elevators

Lostprophetpunk

409 Posts

Posted Aug 09, 2011

Heya there,

I am using the elevator instances in my map. However, when I am doing the lighting for the elevators I come across a strange problem...

No matter what lights, no matter where I place them, no matter how bright etc I set the lights...the floor of the elevator stays pitch black.

It's rather annoying as people have been mentioning it when they play my maps.

Anyone have the solution? As otherwise I will just leave it, as I have spent ages trying to solve it.

Rubrica

305 Posts

#48877

Posted Aug 09, 2011

Replied 2 minutes later

Edit the ring around the floor in the instance to have 'Disable shadows' srt to true. There is a proper way of doing this that was mentioned recently, but I can't remember it, and this works as well.

Another Bad Pun

516 Posts

#48879

Posted Aug 09, 2011

Replied 1 minutes later

Compile with Full compile -both -final- (slow) and the problem will be fixed.

Vordwann

767 Posts

#48880

Posted Aug 09, 2011

Replied 1 minutes later

This has been talked about a LOT for a VERY long time. Go into the instance and disable shadows on the object that acts as the floor.

lol I posted this as you posted yours rubrica... sry

satchmo

415 Posts

#48884

Posted Aug 09, 2011

Replied 3 minutes later

"Another Bad Pun" has the best solution. I can guarantee that the problem will resolve with a full, final compile.

Lostprophetpunk

409 Posts

#48891

Posted Aug 09, 2011

Replied 1 hour later

Another Bad Pun wrote:
Compile with Full compile -both -final- (slow) and the problem will be fixed.

Thank you. That was what I was after.

Although it did take me a while to figure out I needed to click on 'expert' to change the option to a full compile.

Ah well, you learn something new everyday. =]

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