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Revision as of 07:10, 5 February 2015
Light is one of the stages of map compiling. It calculates lighting and shadows for a bsp file previously generated by QBSP.
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What Light Does
Using the light entities from the entity lump of the bsp file, it precalculates the lighting on each surface in the level, and saves that data as lightmaps in the bsp file.
Some modified Light tools can also calculate colored lighting for the level and save it seperately in a lit file.
Using Light
Light is a command-line tool, generally named light.exe. You can invoke it from a command prompt, via a shortcut or batch file, or from the "compile" or "build" menus of some level editors.
Command-line options
TODO
EDIT: Acient Linux user attempting to fill in the gaps.
If you have the tyrutils package and you can't figure out what to do because all the guides are for the windows executables with all three tools built in and a GUI. All the tools have been compiled already and can be located in the bin folder. For instance light you simply open the terminal in the bin directory along with BQSP, Light and Vis. Execute the file like so
"./light"
It will show you the available options.
[[File:.http://i.imgur.com/w0OKJ7F.png[]
Error Messages and Warnings
TODO
Updated Versions
In addition to id Software's official Light, there have been various unofficial versions that improve on the original or add additional features. For a list of Light variants, see mapping tools.