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DP LITSPRITES

From Quake Wiki

Indicates this engine supports lighting on sprites, any sprite with ! in its filename (both on disk and in the qc) will be lit rather than having forced EF_FULLBRIGHT (EF_FULLBRIGHT on the entity can still force these sprites to not be lit).