Environmental Light

[Tutorial]

category
General Half-Life 2/Lighting

description
A helpful list of all the skyboxes and the optimum light_environment settings for each one.

keywords
environmental, environment, light, lighting, sky, skybox, box.

This tutorial is for those mappers that want to find the perfect settings for their light_environment entities without having to use trail and error. I've included a list of most of the skybox textures and the settings to use with your light_environments (you can see good sky pictures here). All the settings were taken from the game, so they should already be perfect.

This tutorial assumes that you know how to use skyboxes, light_environments, and changing basic entity settings.

-- The settings for the light_environments are in bold

sky_day01_01

Angle: 165
Pitch: -35
Brightness: 237 218 143 800
Ambience: 190 201 220 100

sky_day01_04

Angle: 165
Pitch: -55
Brightness: 248 234 205 1000
Ambience: 194 236 252 175

sky_day01_05

Angle: 165
Pitch: -35
Brightness: 243 224 158 1200
Ambience: 194 236 252 225

sky_day01_06

Angle: 148
Pitch: -35
Brightness: 240 187 117 1000
Ambience: 135 172 180 150

sky_day01_07

Angle: 108
Pitch: -35
Brightness: 235 166 71 1000
Ambience: 135 172 180 150

sky_day01_08

Angle: 108
Pitch: -35
Brightness: 235 155 71 1000
Ambience: 105 142 165 120

sky_day01_09

Angle: 12
Pitch: -45
Brightness: 175 230 239 50
Ambience: 43 45 57 5

sky_day02_01

Angle: 225
Pitch: -25
Brightness: 254 242 160 400
Ambience: 172 196 204 80

sky_day02_02

Angle: 225
Pitch: -20
Brightness: 255 244 213 700
Ambience: 172 196 204 50

sky_day02_03

Angle: 280
Pitch: -45
Brightness: 243 238 224 500
Ambience: 172 196 204 100

sky_day02_04

Angle: 240
Pitch: -45
Brightness: 243 238 224 400
Ambience: 172 196 204 50

sky_day02_05

Angle: 135
Pitch: -30
Brightness: 255 255 249 448
Ambience: 172 196 204 100

sky_day02_06

Angle: 270
Pitch: -20
Brightness: 255 252 230 475
Ambience: 172 196 204 120

sky_day02_07

Angle: 225
Pitch: -15
Brightness: 255 252 230 500
Ambience: 183 204 210 140

sky_day02_09

Angle: 200
Pitch: -5
Brightness: 237 232 209 70
Ambience: 122 140 169 60

sky_day02_10

Angle: 135
Pitch: -30
Brightness: 253 255 249 448
Ambience: 172 196 204 100

sky_day03_01

Angle: 150
Pitch: -25
Brightness: 241 227 173 70
Ambience: 190 201 220 125

sky_day03_02

Angle: 140
Pitch: -35
Brightness: 236 218 145 650
Ambience: 160 184 211 150

sky_day03_03

Angle: 120
Pitch: -40
Brightness: 236 218 145 700
Ambience: 160 184 211 150

sky_day03_04

Angle: 53
Pitch: -60
Brightness: 239 207 141 350
Ambience: 75 96 116 300

sky_day03_05

Angle: 82
Pitch: -12
Brightness: 238 200 128 450
Ambience: 75 96 116 150

sky_day03_06

Angle: 280
Pitch: -21
Brightness: 221 112 13 300
Ambience: 255 255 253 20


ferret

[ferret]

Yay!!!
Anyone found this to be of use yet?

[nickmade]

Nice!

[ferret]

Nice!

Thanks -- It took a while to vmex all those maps

[A1armedassailant]

nice one ferrit. this really added the effect to my map that i was aiming for.
cheers M8

[waff]

nice dude....are you planning on getting these for the other skyboxes?

[ferret]

nice dude....are you planning on getting these for the other skyboxes?

You mean like the CS: S skys? I would do those but I can't find a good skynames list like here on interlopers (its only a HL2 skylist).

[Ripper_hugme]

omg, tut u my god.

wat about sky wasteland

[ferret]

omg, tut u my god.

wat about sky wasteland

Well, Valve never uses that sky in any maps so I coulndn't extract any information for it. Also, the wasteland sky is not good because it has that blue line around the top

[HeadCrab]

Nice tutorial,it adds that much more atmosphere to my map when I can stand on a skyscraper and look at how nicely the light comes from the right spot and makes nice,proper,pointing-the-right-direction shadows on my buildings.Thanks a lot,and nice tut!

[lo-fi]

what about borealis

[ferret]

what about borealis

Hmmm, I don't know. If Valve uses that sky in one of their maps then yes.

[kam]

I used day 1 05 settings (slightly modified) I think for this...
http://kam.ozfortress.com/maps/xpress/xpress0082.jpg
...so yes, it was a helpful tute ;D

[ferret]

if anyone knows where I could find a nice skynames list of all the CS:S skies I could do the same tutorial for those.

[snufflez]

boot up hammer for css, open the texture browser, type in "skybox" it gives you all the skyboxes.