I like the circular steps at the front. Reminds me of a bank.

Yep, coming right up!





Changes since a19:

• Added an outside area, it's meant to be an outside car park with a road down to the inner car park
• Added light switches so that you can turn off the lights on the curved parts of the ceiling, I'm planning on making this even more of a feature by reducing the amount of ambient lighting - turning off the lights will mean it will be very dark
• Removed the fire escape

Coming up in a21:

• A redesigned fire escape
• A little drop-down area behind the building
• Some texturing, just testing
• Option to turn off all of the lights...
• Change of spawn point and bomb site
• Reduced ambient lighting and environment lighting, works better for the sky texture

I'm going to have to remove the light switches... the more lights controlled by switches, the more this happens...



And that just isn't pretty.

Update: With the light switches removed, it looks like this:



Update: With the lights uniquely named (instead of shared), I still get the same problem as before...

What caused the top picture?

Could you have all the lights on one switch, like a fusebox?

No, unfortunately not.

I thought that the problem might be due to the naming of my lights.

In the first picture, all lights on one floor were named the same. They were:

curvelight_3floor (4 lights)
curvelight_2floor (5 lights)
curvelight_1floor (2 lights)
curvelight_gfloor (2 lights)

So I thought it might be trying to unite the light in to one and therefore cause those strange errors...

So I changed them to all unique names...

curvelight_3floor_1
curvelight_3floor_2
curvelight_3floor_3
curvelight_3floor_4
curvelight_2floor_1
curvelight_2floor_2
curvelight_2floor_3
curvelight_2floor_4
curvelight_2floor_5
curvelight_1floor_1
curvelight_1floor_2
curvelight_gfloor_1
curvelight_gfloor_2

Nup, still didn't work.

It seems like the compile just doesn't like the lights being able to be switched. Although the lights are on and set to my own defined level of brightness, they seem to render at both a lower level of light and also at a very low resolution... Never mind!

I'll just have to drop back to normal lighting, it looks good enough.

I guess it's just a quirk of the editor. Thinking about it, I never really did see any light switches in official games.

I just followed the light switch article on fpsbanana.com and well, it works, but obviously it has problems. I'll have to inform the author.

Yeah, I'm guessing that it just doesn't like lights. Thinking about it, it would probably work in Source 07, due to all the new dynamic lighting stuff, but original Source was just static lighting.

Actually, there is an option to use dynamic lighting, and I really didn't think of that for whatever reason... probably because it's a little bit more intensive on the graphics than standard lighting.

I don't think the current version of CSS supports dynamic lighting. It was a fairly big thing in the Orange Box.

If it's supported in Half Life 2: Episode 2 then it should work. If it does, then in theory all it means is that the official maps are just waiting on a recompile with the new features. Damn, a bug just bit me.

HL2:ep2 is a different engine to CSS. To prove it, go in HL2 and pick a saw, turn your flashlight on, then do the same in ep2...

Dynamic lighting is supported in CS:S, I've just checked it out in Hammer. light_dynamic is a point based entity available to all Source engine games.

Hmm, odd, I don't think CSS supports true dynamic lighting properly, though.

Unfortunately, I can't check it out at the moment as I am unable to compile any maps following an update.

Aaron, it could be the long names.

I remember having problems with entities in the original HL with names that were too long if I remember right.

It's a longshot, but you never know. Try abbreviating them to something like:

cl_3f etc

Na, tried it

Dang!

Any other ideas?

I'm currently working on a25.

Unfortunately, no release coming soon as I'm on holiday in 9 days, and I won't get much time between now and then to make a releaseable map.

Could you make sure the latest released version is on the server before you leave?

Yup no problem

Its lookin pretty immense well done

Thank you

Now, I thought this map was on my laptop... but it isn't. So I am desperately hoping it is on my girlfriends PC otherwise this map is pretty much dead.

Can you decompile it from the ones we have?

The one I uploaded to the server is many revisions out of date, but if the worst comes to the worst then I will have to give that a go.