Call of Duty 5: Lighting

This tutorial show you how to add basic and primary lights to your map.

Basic Light

• To create a light right click on the grid and go to "light".
• If your light is too small or too big you can open the entity editor with "n" and type in the Key / Value of radius / ###.

Primary Lights

First create a normal light as explained above. Then in the entity editor "n" click on the check box for PRIMARY_OMNI.

• For any primary light we need a null entity connected to the light to tell the game what direction to cast shadows in.

Right click on the grid and go to "info -> null". Place this under your light. Connect the light to the null entity.

• Select the light THEN select null, press "w" to connect.

Light Settings

Key / Value

• _color / # # # <----- # = value / 255. R G B
• radius / # <----- # = units
• intensity / #
• fov_outer / # <----- # = degrees
• fov_inner / #

Light Preview

To get to the Light Preview options go to "View -> Light Preview".

• Enable Light Preview - Enables or Disables the preview as a whole.
• Preview sun as well - When previewing lights, it shows worldspawn lighting too.
• Start previewing selected - Adds selected lights to continuous preview.
• Stop previewing selected - Removed selected light from continuous preview.
• Clear preview list - Resets continuous preview.

Sources: Treyarch's Wiki