Need Help using/placing dynamic lighting

[metkillerjoe]

Hi, I've searched throughout halomods.com and some other websites, but nobody (that I've seen) has a tutorial for placing/using dymanic lights or any sort of light emitters.

I'm doing an indoor level with no sky, so I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks for your time and patience.

[p0lar_bear]

I would advise against dynamic lights; lower-end video cards can't render dynamic lighting, and it can cause strain if too many lights are placed.

What you do is make your shaders emit radiosity; mess with a shader_environment tag in Guerilla to figure it out.

You can also make what I call a radiosity plane, put in logical spots to create a glow. You give the plane a shader is render-only. two-sided, and that has no bitmap applied, or a bitmap with no alpha channel (so it's invisible). Then you add radisotiy properties to the shader tag to have affect the lightmap when you run radiosity.

[metkillerjoe]

Thanks I'll remember that.

But could you also tell me how to place dynamic lights because this won't be for public release.

Thanks for your time and patience.

[tcblmaster]

Go to tags\levels\a50\devices and there are some light emmiters to play around with, if you don't have them then extract them from a50.map using HEK+ or download theghost's tag pack that includes all the files form the SP levels.

TCBLMA$TER

[D]

well find a light texture apply it to a plane any were u want but make sure ur material has ! after it for rendering only