TOPIC: valve hammer editor (help 2.0)

How do I turn on the lights in this thing so I can begin making maps?

Now we’ll add some lighting to the room. If no lights are placed your map will automatically be lit “fullbright” when it is loaded in the game, but as you’ll have noticed this is hardly ideal. Creating lights will make your map look far more realistic.

Note: In order to see lighting in a map which was previously loaded in the game without lights, you may need to open the developer console and set mat_fullbright to “0”.
Activate the Entity tool Mt-entities.png (lights are entities too) and pick light from the drop-down list in the Object Toolbar. This is the most basic light of them all, and it shines all around from an invisible source. Place one in the center of the ceiling now by clicking in the 3D view:
Place the light.

We are now going to edit the color and brightness of this light. Switch back to the Selection tool Hammer select.png, and then double-click on the light entity in the 3D View to open the Object Properties dialog. To bring up the settings for the light’s brightness, find and click on the Brightness field in the KeyValues list.
While you could type a color into the new text box directly, it’s better to use Hammer’s built-in dialog by clicking the Pick color button, just beneath the text box:
Select the Brightness field, then click the Pick color button.

The Color dialog will now appear, letting us change the color of the light.
Change the hue and saturation of the color by clicking in the square color spectrum area on the right.
Because luminance is set to max, the color will still be white. Lower the luminance to change the color from bright white to something of the hue you picked. You can see how the color changes in the preview square at the bottom of the dialog to something more colorful, instead of white.
Click the OK button to confirm your choice:
Change the hue/saturation and luminance of the light, then click OK.

We have now set the color of the light, but this has not affected its intensity. The color is described by the first three numbers of the Brightness setting, leaving the brightness value itself as the fourth number. Mark this number (currently 200) with the mouse, and enter 800 instead, to have the light shine four times as intensely:
Raise the brightness of the light by increasing this number, then click Apply.

Tip: If you want your light to shine in a different color under High Dynamic Range lighting, edit the “BrightnessHDR” or “BrightnessScaleHDR” settings. This is generally used to balance out the richer colors that HDR generates.
Now that we’ve made changes to the light’s parameters, hit the Apply button to commit them. The color of the light’s icon will change to the color you have selected for it.


wrote that all by myself

Jim_Jam wrote:
that takes care of that

yo wtf?

Jim_Jam wrote:

hmmm

developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Adding_Light

add a light_enviroment to make your map bright

I used to be able to move brushes around in 3D view but I must have pressed something cuz now I can only select objects/brushes. How do I go back to the glory days?