Ns Rad File?

DOOManiac · January 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">anybody have one?</div>I was wondering if there was some sort of common .rad file i haven't seen that has the crap like the additive textures and also values for the NS lights and etc... i'm bad at guessing the light values myself heh.

Silver_Fox · January 2003

nub

Comprox · January 2003

n00b <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Nope, its totally empty, gotta make your own!

DOOManiac · January 2003

Then how are all you people doing that sexy, sexy lighting :X

Greedo · January 2003

Hours and hours of experimentation.

DOOManiac · January 2003

bleh :(

blue2k · January 2003

n00b

read this:

<a href='http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Tutorials/tutorial.php?id=48' target='_blank'>http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Tutor...orial.php?id=48</a>

now j00 no n00b, go0d luck

DOOManiac · January 2003

... I know how texture lights work. That isn't what I asked heh. But I've found out anyway, no thanks to all you guys. Except Greedo. and Comprox.

blue2k · January 2003

dood i gave u uber linkage to a tut to determine your light values. and j00 never thanked me? well thats it now im taking the kids, your dinners in the dog and i always faked it.

Fina · January 2003

What he's asking is if there is a premade lights.rad file with the NS light textures already added and ready to compile.

ChromeAngel · January 2003

I think i'll have a shot at this. it'll make a worthy addition to NS World.

blue2k · January 2003

yes i know, but the thing is you can make any texture emit light all you need to do is slap a ~ before its name. and some of the ns textures look like they should emit light but are not named with the ~ prefix.

SamR · January 2003

To get a rough idea of how my texture light will look like, I create a light point entity in Worldcraft/Valve Hammer, and pick a colour from that big spectrum. Then just copy the number values from their and paste it into your .rad file. Then at least you'll come up with a colour that you kinda wanted, then you can just adjust it to what you want.

Well.... that's what I do anyway. I don't think making a .rad file for everyone to download is a good idea. I enjoy creating my own colour schemes, and making certain textures emit lights. It is a way to vary your own map from the rest. Would having a default .rad file that everyone uses make maps look similar? Maybe...

It would almost be like using a prefab (all prefabs should burn in hell!)

Nemesis_Zero · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (blue2k @ Jan 4 2003, 11:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>yes i know, but the thing is you can make any texture emit light all you need to do is slap a ~ before its name. and some of the ns textures look like they should emit light but are not named with the ~ prefix.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
<b>Every</b> tex can emit light, no prefixes required.

blue2k · January 2003

now theres prefabs, and then theres prefabs man. like i dont use them myself, but its kinda handy for newb mappers to use them. for eg: a set of intricately working doors/crazy machinery/enviromental effects/whatever is useful because we tend to use them again and again. but if your talking about cars/trucks/crazy machinery with 700 info_targets and 4 million lasers/a pool table with several badly clipped balls and a 32 point cue, then yes i agree with you. when i first started mapping i downloaded like 200 prefabs thinking id need them, and i never ever used a single one. they were badly made and if i tried to compile a single room map with one of them in it may take 4 hours because they were so badly made.

blue2k · January 2003

originally posted by Nemesis Zero

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Every tex can emit light, no prefixes required</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

i thought so , but ive never been able to get that to work. i tried making a wall texture glow just as a test, and it still remained as dark and lifeless as a regular wall texture.

Nemesis_Zero · January 2003

o_O

Well, Eniant <i>has</i> some glowing trimtextures. Works like a charm here...

ChromeAngel · January 2003

As promised one .RAD file containing both HL and NS light textures.

<a href='http://nsworld.ns-central.co.uk/mappingguide/ns_lights.rad' target='_blank'>ns_lights.rad</a>

You may have to adjust the intensity values to suite your env_gamma setting.

Angel · January 2003

that looks a pretty sound rad file for a gamme ramp of 1.2-1.4

SamR · January 2003

Sometimes newb mappers rely on them too much though, and then you see the same things crop up in different maps by different authors. I noticed that someone posted screenshots on these forums which featured a pepsi and dr pepper machines, both of which are prefabs which I've seen before.

DOOManiac · January 2003

woot. nice one chrome :)

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