Light colour

[ajay]

I know this has been discussed here before, so much so that I'm pretty sure I was part of it. Anyway how do you set colour for lights? I was sure it was "color" as a key then something like "0.8 0.4 0.3" etc as the value. Tried it, but no luck. Cheers. ajay.

[toneddu2000]

try with _color

[ajay]

Thanks, just tried that; no luck

[mh]

Some light tools take a 0-1 range, others take a 0-255 range, so try that.

[toneddu2000]

what kind of q3map2 compiling settings do you use?

[Chip]

[ajay]

I'm using LightBSP2...

[mh]

LightBSP2 should work (otherwise I'd have the hellhound that is GB&Co on my trail...)
It should also support both light ranges and be able to autodetect which one is used in the map (sigh - more Quake standards fragmentation... rant for another day...)

A possible cause is this: there are some BSP compilers that will strip out light entities as an "optimization" step, because saving a coupla k here and there is just so so important in these days of 1TB hard drives. Maybe open the BPS file in something like Wordpad before lighting it, check a light entity and make sure that everything needed is still there.

[ajay]

Is there anything I have to use with lightBSP2, e.g. -coloured etc? Or should it work as is?

[mh]

Should just work. I've double-checked the code and can confirm that there are no special options for it, that the keys are color or _color, and that it should autodetect the range (0..1 or 0..255) and calibrate itself.

Maybe try a 0..255 range on one light source in a test map just to ensure?

[frag.machine]

May I suggest to create a simple test map, a box with a single colored light to check things ?

[ajay]

Thanks both; I've tried a test map, both from within the mod directory and id1. I've tried _color and color, variants of up to 1.0 and 255, I've even tried colour instead of color, but no dice. Iv'e run a different test map with coloured lighting (not one made by me) and naturally DirectQ displays the coloured lights. Has anyone got a .map/.rmf with coloured lights I could look at?

[Spike]

is the generated .lit file written to the right place? is it written at all?

[ajay]

Oh Spike you bloomin' genius. The problem was that I copied the .bsp from one folder to the mod folder/maps within the batch file, all I had to do is copy the .lit file too and it works. Cheers muchly


Yes, I do feel foolish

[Spike]

external files suck.