Texturing Lights?

Avatar
Stirewalt2000
9 Posts
#97553
Posted Jul 27, 2013
On "developer.valvesoftware.com" on a tutorial for creating an observation hallway, at the part for constructing the ceiling lights it mentions texturing lights. I don't know how to do this. If anyone knows what it means by this (or how to do it), please inform me about it. And no, not textures that emit light, but texturing the light itself, or so it seems to say.
0 0 0
Advertisement
Registered users don’t see ads! Register now!
Avatar
TeamSpen210
608 Posts
#97554
Posted Jul 27, 2013
Replied 16 minutes later
I think it means to just use the white009 texture on the ceiling. You could look at the observation room instances to see how it should look, labs/observation_room_256x128_1b.vmf has one of those lights.
0 0 0
Avatar
Stirewalt2000
9 Posts
#97570
Posted Jul 28, 2013
Replied 1 day later
Maybe... Most likely, but -- wait no I think I used white001. I'll see what happens. Thanks.
0 0 0
Avatar
Gemarakup
1,183 Posts
#97575
Posted Jul 29, 2013
Replied 5 hours later
I think that together with the light texture, you need an env_projected texture.
0 0 0
Avatar
FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#97588
Posted Jul 29, 2013
Replied 10 hours later
Not in those lights; you can only have one projectedtexture at the time, and even a single observation room can contain multiple ceiling lights.
0 0 0
Avatar
protoborg
288 Posts
#97617
Posted Jul 30, 2013
Replied 22 hours later

yishbarr wrote:
I think that together with the light texture, you need an env_projected texture.

The projected texture is independent of the light source. The projected texture goes with the window to produce the shadows that are caused by the frame of the window.

0 0 0
Avatar
protoborg
288 Posts
#97618
Posted Jul 30, 2013
Replied 2 minutes later

FelixGriffin wrote:
Not in those lights; you can only have one projectedtexture at the time, and even a single observation room can contain multiple ceiling lights.

I think they may have changed that because the small observation rooms you can add in PeTI all have a projected texture as well. Since it is possible to have more than one of those small rooms attached to the chamber at once, it seems to me the projected texture would have to active in all of them at once.

0 0 0
Avatar
FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#97625
Posted Jul 30, 2013
Replied 1 hour later
No, those ones are light_spots. They're similar but the shadows aren't fully dynamic.
0 0 0
Advertisement
Registered users don’t see ads! Register now!
Avatar
Gemarakup
1,183 Posts
#97627
Posted Jul 30, 2013
Replied 9 minutes later

FelixGriffin wrote:
No, those ones are light_spots. They're similar but the shadows aren't fully dynamic.

You can judge that just by looking at PTI maps.

0 0 0
< Return to Hammer and Modding