Any mappers here that can help me with this?
Is it possible to get Quake II to compile with vrad.exe or hlrad.exe? Half-Life's lighting is simply higher quality, and given the one year and same father engine status of both, I figure its not too hard for vrad to be backwards compatible. How about it?
Sure, I can help you. What's your Steam name?
>>337403201
http://steamcommunity.com/id/xmonger
What's your steam, helpanon?
>>337403602
I'm doxing you, buddy. Have fun!
>>337403834
I don't think I've ever kek'd so hard
>>337403834
Thanks :)
New Jersey, right?
>>337404102
Yes, of course!
>expecting people on /v/ to be helpful
Try /vg/.
Oh, you used to play Hellzone Clan Half-Life 2 rp?
Quite the super admin you were.
>>337404376
mein negger
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use source sdk
>>337404782
Source SDK wont help me use Goldsource compiling programs for the Quake II engine.
>>337403602
>http://steamcommunity.com/id/xmonger
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>>337404851
YOU'RE DUMB
>>337404910
Fuck off, normie.
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>>337405085
Link?
>>337402429
you shouldn't be lighting with point lights, quake 2 is meant to be lit with surface lights from textures
i don't think there's any way for this to work, saying a year apart like it's nothing shows you don't realize how much engines changed per year back then. goldsrc is no longer quake engine, and was never quake 2 engine.
I understand and use surface lights, this was merely a demonstration map. The problem still stands that Quake II lights cut off too short, necessitating very bright settings to be used.
Ambience is also relatively weak-- shadows need to be micromanaged more.
>>337402429
.......so why didnt you do a point light of 350 value if 300 is too dim and 400 is too bright?
>>337406561
Because Q2 300 is already brighter than HL 100.
>>337406727
To elaborate, there's two variables at stake here
1. Radius
2. Intensity
To get the same radius in Q2 as in HL, the intensity goes up extremely higher
To get the same intensity, the radius goes down extremely lower.
The third factor is, as I mention, radiosity and light bouncing, but that's minor compared to the prior two.
>>337406859
yes i know i was a mapper during the era and know exactly how this shit works. that's why i told you quake 2 uses surface lights. quake 2 isn't intended to be point lit.
half-life's light program is just more advanced, that's all there is to it. play through the quake 2 campaign and you'll see the same high intensity short falloff lights.
The last game I made maps for was Marathon, where you just set the light value per poly.
