Intermediate Lighting

This tutorial will cover the more advanced lighting techniques used in Source based maps. If you are new to lighting in hammer, I reccomend you read the Adding light tutorial first.

Example of "light" and "light_spot"entities:

Basic omni light - "light" entity
Basic omni light - "light" entity, 200 brightness.

Basic omni light - "light" entity
Spotlight - "light_spot" entity pointing towards right side of room, 700 brightness.

Note: This page is still under construction, and the above content is incomplete. Feel free to add topics relating to "Advanced Lighting" to the list below.

It will cover:

• Spotlights
• Dynamic lights
• Lightmaps
• Environment lighting