Help: Super Bright Lighting

[GoldSabre]

Hello folks. I've been working on a map for Alien Swarm over the past few days, overcoming odd errors from time to time but fixing them. When it comes to adding lights, however, I'm absolutely flummoxed. It seems silly that lighting should cause the problems it is.

I was working on my map with no lights, leaving the in-game brightness to the default. Once I added a light, the ground became super-bright, blanking out most of the map.
(http://a.imageshack.us/img834/6981/light4.jpg)

By getting rid of the light and turning on mat_fullbright 1, it returned to the way it was before, but with bright glowing spots on the wall and pillars that were not present before I added and deleted the one light.
(http://a.imageshack.us/img834/4517/light5.jpg)

To check to see if it was the map or something to do with Hammer, I whipped up a fast test map with a floor, 4 walls and a structure_seal func_brush around everything. A light at 50 brightness was very bright, so setting it down to 20 brightness gave me this: (http://a.imageshack.us/img834/382/light1.jpg)

When I threw a flare, it glowed an intense white light that blocked out even my character when standing over it: (http://a.imageshack.us/img834/3038/light2.jpg)

When I used a flashlight, it glowed with the same bright intensity as the flare. (http://a.imageshack.us/img834/5706/light3e.jpg)

I know that light is most definitely not supposed to do this. The flashlight in Jacob's Rest is not as blinding as the one I tested. The flares are not as super bright as the one I tested. What am I doing wrong? Can somebody help me?

[spartic]

take a look at this thread

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1371332

[GoldSabre]

Hmm, thanks a lot spartic! That seemed to do the trick; I still had to turn SetBloomScale to 0.1 (down from 0.3) to get rid of most of the glow. Now I just need to figure out how to get some sort of outdoor light working. My light_environment and light_directional don't seem to be doing anything.

Another interesting thing is my concrete floor - although there is a light above it that shows on the railings and walls near it, it doesn't brighten the ground at all. Flares and flashlights work, but not a "light".

[churche0]

wrong section, belongs to "C.C./maps" (:

*just boosting my post count*

[GoldSabre]

Sorry. I assumed that SDK related issues would belong in this section. Feel free to move this thread, mods.

[churche0]

i was just kidding
;P
hmm mods r like non existant in this board ;(