Yet Another Lighting Issue

uffo

might be a noobish question, but i haven't before run into contrast thingy <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
everyone seems to be talking about it and only thing familiar to me is gamma.
so the question is: how it works, what it does and how do i use it?

and from thing to another:
i have now made layot to my "dream" map and start mapping with huge enthusiasm
and have thought up some neat enviroment ideas, for example in marine start there's
this door and suddenly some big kharaa at other side starts hitting so the door starts to
bend and such.

sorry my bad english and here's pic from my hallways <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Kage

The gamma thing is explained <a href='http://ns.valve-erc.com/?loc=entities&cat=1&ent=15' target='_blank'>here</a>. There's also a tutorial I've seen for bulging doors. I'll grab the url, if it's still available. [EDIT]<a href='http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1045175030-51197600' target='_blank'>Here's the URL.</a>[/EDIT]

NerdIII

Am I the only one who thinks that this hallway looks VERY inspiring?

uffo

ok thanks for the url. i have done bulging doors before, but think about the atmosphere they
could do in NS

Iced_Eagle

wow i like that hallway.. not too plain but not to full... i like it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

The_Real_Quasar

Very nice hall! And I think having someone beat on the door and having it bend in the right place would be hard and take up lots of entities. Best just leave it and give them a vent or something.