Quake3World

What is the best way to add global light level to a map other than ambient (which tends to make things look washed out) or placing light entities everywhere (which is a pain in itself to get right)?

_minlight?

I guess then it comes down to what kinds of level art and detail you're working with....also how is it you have a map that's too hard to manually light?


Use....brighter textures I guess

or code your own shaders that emit a little bit of light?

Still new to Q3 mapping so I was wondering what my options were as far as lighting up a level without dumping in a lot of lights or using ambient like you did in Q2 but thanks for answering.

My usual process is to use skylights and surfacelights first. Then add point lights. Then if needed, _minlight or compile switches to fine tune.

NetRadiant features floodlighting, this is somewhat similar to using the minimum ambient lighting key (but it looks somewhat nicer/less washed out).

http://dev.alientrap.org/projects/netra ... r_features

I try to get as many places as possible lit with skylight (both in q2 and q3) because it looks cool and saves tons of work, then I place lights manually for the rest. I always use a bit of ambient/_minlight, too.