Environmental Light

[jcameron47]

Thanks for the info Ferret. You rock!

[couto_607]

good tut but can you please include the CSS skys aswell?

[Loki]

Very useful, they do add just the right ambience to the map. Cheers for that... Now if we had settings for the env_suns it would be perfect... not to pressure you or anything!

[ferret]

Very useful, they do add just the right ambience to the map. Cheers for that... Now if we had settings for the env_suns it would be perfect... not to pressure you or anything!

that's easy! just use the same angle, pitch and brightness color

[JakeParlay]

not to rain on anyone's parade, i'm sure this list has been helpful to many. but there's a comprehensive list here:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Sky_List

covers every sky in Source, with picture goodness and light settings

[NOCTVRNVS]

Has anyone else noticed that... these don't actually line up?

Most of them are slightly off, which is actually interesting because they WERE actually slightly off in the Valve maps! I noticed this particularly in one level, where the sun was shining on a white concrete plane, but if you stood on that plane you couldn't even SEE the sun. It's a little bit of a throw-off...

[ForceFist]

Where and how should i put the light_environment for maximum effect?

[ELMO]

The position of the light_env doesnt matter/it doesnt have any effect if you move it.

[SaN]

hmm.. maybe a little offtopic, but still.. i know there is no way to trigger light_env.... still, maybe someone can give an idea, how to make for example change of envoirmental lightning on logic timer? i mean, when map starts, its light - and after some time it get's dark?

Thank's for all ideas you can give...

p.s.

sorry for my english))

[TicTac]

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).

All of the skybox sun properties can be found HERE

[Psy]

hmm.. maybe a little offtopic, but still.. i know there is no way to trigger light_env.... still, maybe someone can give an idea, how to make for example change of envoirmental lightning on logic timer? i mean, when map starts, its light - and after some time it get's dark?

That's not possible because lights are 'baked' into maps making them static and non-changeable.

[FlynT]

Its halfway possible but requires a really fine tuning. You can use a clever Skybox in combination with the color correction.

[Spektrum]

It ain't possible.

[FlynT]

Don't say that, ok its coded but nothing is impossible ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzygBMHoHMM