I can't get my very basic box BSP to show up properly ingame.

I have proper skies, proper BSP, proper materials and such, but my skies are always missing and all I see is their fog effects and monotone backgrounds, and my BSP is very very dark, like so:


Kirby mentioned setting the sky and fog tab in the BSP file to 0, as opposed to -1, but this seems to cause exceptions when loading the map in Sapien or HCE.

I have OS installed and use the os_tool commands to complete my processes.
Edited by Jesse on Aug 17, 2013 at 09:43 PM

You don't have +sky material.

I had only said sky, I never said anything about fog. Setting the clusters sky index to 0 in the BSP tag will be the same as you having +sky in the BSP, it just associates that cluster with the sky index 0 (while the +sky also makes the area transparent. Its basically +seamsealer with setting the 0 sky index)

Thanks Higuy.

I do have a few more questions though, like what if this were an interior BSP, one which didn't need a +sky material because there are no windows\skylights? Do you mean there has to be a +sky material somewhere, even if it's not really used or necessary?



Also, your tip worked:

Edited by Jesse on Aug 17, 2013 at 09:59 PM

Foundry 2.0

No, so long as you have some lights somewhere to provide lighting you don't need +sky.

^^^

The reason you didn't see anything was because there was simply no light sources. I gave you the sun by adding +sky material.

In the future you could also keep it the way it was, and go in and make some lights through 3ds Max (you can do it through shaders) or through scenery objects. I believe theres also a way to control ambient lighting through whichever sky tag you use so that could also lighten it too.

I hit a roadblock a few months ago when I was working on my HALO 4 UI, which was that my render-only BSP Forward Unto Dawn model wasn't lighting properly.

Still having some odd lighting issues, but I'll figure it out.

Loljesse