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Hi all! As you can see above, I am making (one of the millions out there) bloodgulch remake. So, the thing is that I can't figure out how to make the map more.... dark. The snow is too shiny and I don't know why... If someone knows how to solve this, I would really appreciate his help. Have a nice day all!

Dude... check those picture "links", do you see something wrong? Cause I do.

I have noticed that... But this is actually my first time posting here and I have no idea on how to post pictures here... Anyways, do you guys need a picture to help me on this..? As I said, it's the snow that has the problem. It's too shiny. How do I fix that..?

You need to upload your images to an imagehosting site, you can't just post the filepath on your computer.

Try http://imgur.com or http://imageshack.us


Also if the map is too bright, you can open the .scenario tag (should be in levels\test\bloodgulch\) and change the sky. It's probably 'clear afternoon' but if you change the sky to like, the gephyrophobia sky and run lightmaps, it should get darker.

To run lightmaps, open tool, type "tool lightmaps [directory]\[scenario name] [bspname] [quality] [RGB value]"

If your scenario is in levels\test\bloodgulch\, the scenario is named 'newgulch' and the bsp is named 'bloodgulch2' you would type:

tool lightmaps levels\test\bloodgulch\newgulch bloodgulch2 0 0.9

for quality it can be any value from 0 to 1. 1 is the highest quality and takes the longest, so I'd recomment running like 0.3 for now.

RGB values tell the command when to stop. The lower the values the longer the lightmap command will run, and the better it will look. I'd recommend 0.7 for now.
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Aug 13, 2013 at 02:56 PM

The epicness of the fail I have just witnessed cannot be fathomed by words.
If I could just casually access your hard drive, I could get a lot of other information.

One word, EXTERMINATION

Alright thanks everyone for the quick responces ( including the negative ones ) and I have just read a message witch tells me that I can't post pictures until 7 days are passed so... I will do the thing with tool and we will see if that helps.
Edited by AlekosGR on Aug 14, 2013 at 02:32 AM

Some of you are quite proficient at making others feel unwelcome here.

Alright I have tried changing the sky, but no luck. Then I tried the lightmaps thing. I set it to 0.3, still the same. The snow is still too damn bright! What the hell is wrong... Any other suggestions? This thing is ruining my whole map!

0.3 for the command when running radiosity ? If yes, That thing defines quality. So not the right choice

The brightness can be caused by the power of the illumination in the sky tag, or the bitmap you are using for the snow if it's a blended one, my desertbox map always looked very bright since I used a sunset like sky...

Allright, Tiel the shaders are fine, I am sure 100% for that but I will try to take a look... But it's probably what bourrin33 told me, the sky illumination. I will check this out.Let's hope this will fix it... Thanks a lot again guys!!

One Word, Dalek.

Extermination you say?


/threadjack

What about that radiosity_save junk?

Use Tinypic, it doesn't require any registration and you can upload images immediately ;)

If the snow is too shiny, then it could be the reflection maps. Open your shader and scroll to the bottom, you'll see the reflection information. Set everything to 0 and where it shows a path to the bitmap "tags\levels\ect ect" or whatever remove that so the space is empty to save tag space and save. Now go into sapien and look, if it's still too bright, look in the shader for the illumination section. Set both colors to black and everything else to 0 and save. Check again. If it's still too bright, rip the stock UI and use the sky from that. Then open tool and type in (tool lightmaps "your map directory" 0 0.001) without the parenthesis. Check again and if it's still too bright, open the sky tag in guerilla Set color to 0.5\0.5\0.5 and power to 0.3. Save and redo lightmaps. Now check again. That's all i could possibly think of for fixing shiny shaders\shaders that are too bright. Let me know if you still need help after that.


Oh, and i'd like to apologize for the behavior of the more maturely impaired members of this community.

Welcome to modding.

Allright grunt eater I hope this will fix it because everything I have done that is mentioned above doesn't work. Thank you for your time. I really apreciate this.