{"id":36,"date":"2010-12-02T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-12-02T19:03:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:03:04","slug":"new-article-at-nodraw-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"New Article at Nodraw.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished writing another post for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nodraw.net\/2010\/12\/lighting-compile-options\/\"> Nodraw.net<\/a> about the Source engine, this one details the more advanced lighting options available since the Orange Box was released in 2007. I still see maps released that clearly don&#8217;t use them so I figured it was time to rewrite all the information about them from the original tutorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.tf2maps.net\/showthread.php?t=2994\">TF2maps.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a few hours whipping up a little map that had enough examples in for a full article, unfortunately I focused on the easiest to explain, -staticproplighting so I have a load of unused shots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/lighting_case_ex3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37\" title=\"lighting examples\" src=\"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/lighting_case_ex3-546x204.jpg\" alt=\"Some lighting examples I didn't use in my article on nodraw\" width=\"546\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/lighting_case_ex3-546x204.jpg 546w, http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/lighting_case_ex3-150x56.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/lighting_case_ex3-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I changed the lightmap scale to 2 from 16 so that the more accurate shadows would be clearly visible so I spent more time compiling than I did actually making it. One thing I wanted to show but didn&#8217;t was the transition between adjacent props that are lit differently, if I&#8217;d remembered to put something to shadow half of the tracks I&#8217;d have been able to show this and make the advantages of -staticproplighting really clear. I also wanted to demonstrate the sunspread angle but couldn&#8217;t stomach the extra half hour waiting for it to compile twice more. I can assure you that this is just an example map and not a small section from any upcoming TF2 maps from me.<\/p>\n<p>Topic of next article for Nodraw will most likely be on reflectivity values for textures, a great way to increase the amount of bounce lighting without adding any significant filesize to the bsp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished writing another post for Nodraw.net about the Source engine, this one details the more advanced lighting options available since the Orange Box was released in 2007. I still see maps released that clearly don&#8217;t use them so I figured it was time to rewrite all the information about them from the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[29,30,31,17,28,27,9],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nodraw-net","tag-staticproplighting","tag-staticproppolys","tag-textureshadows","tag-compile","tag-lighting","tag-nodraw","tag-props"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subtleallusion.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}