Has anyone had trouble getting the env_sun entity to work properly? I've noticed that upon loading, freshly compiled maps AND ones that I created or released months ago with properly working sun, the sun now fails to work. Anyone else experiencing anything like this?

I'm a noob but I thought it was just me with that prob. I couldn't get a sun to show up unless I had a light_environment entity in the map as well..... try it ?

ok heres the problem with a little more detail:

here's how the sun in rc1 version of highlander looked for months and months:

http://www.jparlay.com/highland1.jpg


and here's how it looks now:

http://www.jparlay.com/sunprob.jpg

As you can see, I've lost all of the nice 'lightglow' effects and the flaring around edges, etc... :(

switching to wireframe, you can see the env_sun entity is there (the big red box w/ slash in the sky):

http://www.jparlay.com/sunprob2.jpg

So the entity is there, it's just not visible. All you are seeing is the bloom effects from the sun native to the skybox I use... I've loaded customs (dijon, etc) and officials (argentan) and I can't see env_sun's anymore there either.

This is pretty much the only snag preventing me from releasing the final version of Highlander. I wonder if it's a problem only on my machine, and if it would be safe to just release the map, as the sun entity is in there (as the wireframe attests) I would really love to hear any input. Is the sun effect still working for you guys? If anyone has highlander_rc1 and can check to see if the sun is 'flaring' properly, it would be most appreciated!

You'll also notice that the big cloud on the left isnt as washed out in the second pic either.

Have you forgotten to compile with HDR? or accidentally turned it off in your settings? I'm sure you'ce checked this but just to be case.

Other than that, it is really strange.

oh sweet SDK update it worked like a charm!!! :D couple cool new properties for env_sun entity, especially the option to include an overlay as part of the sun burst