Hello, I'm trying to figure out why my Half life 2 (Aka garrys mod) wont properly have my rad files work when I try to execute them? I tried to create my own and put it in the same folder with the map vmf that I am learning with, And that did nothing at all along with it having the proper name and everything? I complied everything up properly (at least) I think for hammer and even watched multiple tutorials on how to do along with following the guide and tried my own hand on trying to figure out when I keep getting spit at with error messages and missing directories but nothing is making sense after following things on VDC and Interlopers.net Sample msg ->[C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\maps\tutorial_v5.log', but we don't own that location. Allowing.] I think that might be the problem? Im also just following along with TopHATT's tutorial for lighting and I'm just stumped on trying to get my light.rad working so I can continue on but seemingly there was no file for light.rad and I then tried to create my own to no avail because it kept spitting the error "cannot access" at me, So I went to multiple sites re-installing my hammer++ then reconfiguring and nothing at all? Is anyone able to give me some type of insight on this situation? I have tried the methods from TopHATT (Yeah im watching his old tutorials), And from the various websites but it seems nothing is working? Am I doing something wrong? Did I compile something the wrong way? Any insight of feedback will help to get this solved, I really wanna keep following TopHATT's tutorials as they are really informative but I just seem to be stuck with this Light.rad thing taking up 4 hours of my time trying to solve it myself, Any help is appreciated!
##Missing/ Broken/ Hammer++ gmod lights.rad file??
keen phoenix
last junco
the .rad file needs to be where the gameinfo.txt is not the vmf
bleak stirrup
Ahh. I forgot to mention that in my video I t seems
keen phoenix
I presume this is what you mean by a compile log 😅 sorry if I posted the wrong thing I'm a still tad bad new to this whole thing
keen phoenix
the .rad file needs to be where the gameinfo.txt is not the vmf
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It only has that on texture in because im trying to make the trees leaves show up like as it's being done in TopHATT's tutorial
keen phoenix
Also it's called tutorial_v5.rad instead of lights, Because when I was trying to solve the issue myself I read up on something that stated changing it to your map name and putting it with the vmf makes it work but with your insight that does not seem to be the case and from my own trial and error
keen phoenix
Along with this my game info is in the HL2 folder for SDK base multiplayer (dont know if that changes anything or not)
last junco
the lights.rad is being read by vrad the log shows it being read if you use a custom rad file you have to add it in the vrad cmd options like this
put the tutorial_v5.rad where the gameinfo.txt is
keen phoenix
Alright
Thats where Its at Imma give it a test
The things im trying to test test with
making sure the tree is being properly named and all
Now it looks like this
After running it like when hitting go (probably should not have done that)
Yeah running it like that with go made everything bright
keen phoenix
For some strange reason though the dev textures are not changing from the requested file aka the orange textures
The color should be consisting of some sort of brown
should I just change the tutorial_v5.rad to just light.rad and see if that does anything?
(sorry for the late responses btw)
Also trying it with actual GMOD textures
Seemingly no change
last junco
i think you need a space here, like there is here
the dev texture won't emit light because it doesn't have an alpha channel , if you look in lights.rad and check the textures typed in there and opened one in vtf edit or paint.net you'd see they have an alpha channel so they can emit light
the tree does have a shadow thats what forcetextureshadow does, also from https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Texture_Shadows
keen phoenix
i think you need a space here, like there is here
last junco
ok
keen phoenix
the dev texture won't emit light because it doesn't have an alpha channel , if y...
So can I go to a certain sight for that or do I just look into the file itself
etc
sorry if these questions are a bit dumb 😅 just making sure everything is order so I can continue my journey
last junco
add to it -TextureShadows
last junco
this is my lights.rad if you want you can add the tree model to it and yes to your question
keen phoenix
I'll swap it in rn
Should I just remove this file?
Since the one you sent over has the actual stuff in it
last junco
yeah just replace it
last junco
that looks like its working
keen phoenix
Tree shadows might be going crazy because of the fact the things are emitting so much light
keen phoenix
So I remove the tutorial_v5 file in its entirety
last junco
it works you just have to sort out the brightness now
keen phoenix
but its still producing the light emitted
So do I just remove that cmd line thing
from the VRAD and replace it with the light.rad file?
or do i just make my own custom files and keep the light.rad file so it can work properly?
last junco
yeah remove -lights tutorial_v5.rad hammer will check thru the light.rad as normal then
keen phoenix
Should I keep the -hdr thing or nah?
last junco
yes
keen phoenix
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last junco
glad i could help 😁
keen phoenix
Appreciate it very much I was stuck on this for like 4 hours trying to figure it out myself, So it's very much appreciated! 😅
keen phoenix
glad i could help 😁
Oh one final question do I put the rad file in the cmd line or just leave that alone (final question I swear it)
Know it runs as normal just wanna know if I gotta tell it to run it