Lights.rad

[Aids 1/5]

Hi, so i downloaded Neon texture pack from gamebanana, but i cant get glowing to work, everytime i compile the map,in-game theres no glow, the neons arent emitting any lights.
I tried putting lights.rad (where is .VMF file) and changing the name to map name.
But i didnt work, i also tried few other options, didnt work either.

Please help me, i was trying 2 hours to get it fixed,and still i havent fixed it.

[Werewolf™]

Compile in expert mode and add this parameter to the compile options:

-lights "<filepathoftheradfile.txt"

Make sure the path to rad file is wrapped in quotation marks.

[Aids 1/5]

Thanks for reply. Its not working tho, Maybe i have something wrong with lights.rad ?
So the neon textures are in "....cstrike/materials/devneons/" and my lights.rad looks like this:

devneons/red_neon 255 0 0 400
devneons/orange_neon 255 149 43 400
devneons/yellow_neon 255 255 0 400
devneons/green_neon 0 213 0 400
devneons/blue_neon 43 149 255 400
devneons/purple_neon 70 0 170 400
devneons/pink_neon 255 72 164 400
devneons/grey_neon 144 144 144 400
devneons/white_neon 255 255 255 400

Should i delete "devneons/" from the lights.rad or ?

[Aids 1/5]

Also the VMT file looks like this

"UnlitGeneric"
{
  "$basetexture" "devneons/blue_dev_neon"
  "$surfaceprop" "glass"
  "$selfillum" 1
}

[Werewolf™]

Those brightness figures don't look much, and depending on the room they might not be very visible. Just check to see if they are actually being done by adding an extra 0 to the end (so 4000, instead of 400)

If it still dont work, why don't you paste in here what exactly you're entering in your compile option.

[Aids 1/5]

Hi, this was the problem, since in the parameter of $light i was adding

-lights "lights.rad"

and it didnt work..
Now i copied lights.rad and change it to TEST.rad, and now when i did

-lights "TEST.rad"

it worked! but why? and how will the neons work when i publish my map? should i go with pakrat or smthn?

[Werewolf™]

However you get the .rad file to work, you don't need to pack it. It's only used to tell VRAD to cast light from textures that would not normally cast light.

[Aids 1/5]

Okay, thanks!