Intermediate Lighting
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Introduction
This tutorial will cover the more advanced lighting techniques used in Source maps. If you are new to lighting in Hammer, you may want to read the basic light tutorial first.
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Light Entities
This is a list and rundown of each entity you can use to cast physical light.
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light
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light_spot
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light_dynamic
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light_environment
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Related Items
This is a list of all the topics related to lighting itself but dont emit light.
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env_lightglow
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shadow_control
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Lightmaps
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Glowing Textures
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Vrad
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Techniques
This covers how to use the mentioned items to create effective lighting.
Static Vs Dynamic
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Creating a true light source
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Conclusion
This covers the base of all lighting effects. Any lighting affect that can be achived is a mixture of all or some of these effects.
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