Lighting issues

[cyberdash]

Hey, I'm a beginner at mapping, and am looking for some assistance.

When the player moves into a darker area (lighting from light_environment) shiny/transparent parts of the player appear to be glowing. This is the same for glass and some other models. Eg.

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I was wondering what could cause this issue? The issue seems to go away when I remove light_environment

light_environment settings are:

Pitch-Yaw-Roll: 0-0-0
Pitch: 0
Brightness:255 255 255 200
Ambient: 255 255 255 20
BrightnessHDR: -1 -1 -1 1
BrightnessScaleHDR: 1
AmbientHDR: -1 -1 -1 1
AmbientScaleHDR: 1
SunSpreadAngle: 5

Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Mr.Bob]

This can be normal. What mod is this for, and are you using HDR?

[cyberdash]

Well, happens both on HDR and non HDR. I'm doing this in Counter Strike Source. No mod.

[Kimbo]

Put the clutch into reverse

[cyberdash]

Originally Posted by Kimbo

Put the clutch into reverse

Uhh, thanks for the tip. Anyone else?

[Kimbo]

Anytime, though... I feel a little hard done by that I'm not getting a little bit of a cash incentive from this.

[8IronBob]

You should really set the brightness of the environment lighting to a ratio that coincides with the size of the room. Like if your map is 4096x4096x2048, consider a 255 255 255 4000 brightness level for that size, for example. At least that's what I did. Just like a 2048x2048x1024 map would be a 255 255 255 2000 setting, and so on, so forth.