lighting issue

[Casper]

I dont completely understand the lighting in GTKradiant. I had a map, and it was completely dark except where i had put lights. I had to fix something with the textures in the pk3, and now the whole thing is lit. does anyone know why?

[Blake]

Are you using a skybox because some skyboxes are scripted to emit light? Maybe your skybox wasn't showing up before and when you fiddled around with stuff it started working and therefore emitting light?

[Flame[1up]]

I am havin the same problem and i have no skyboxxes in my stage it is drivin me nuts (i have no lights in it either)i had a texture i put as the sky which was the storm cloud ones i put ivy for the walls and grass for the ground (if you know whats wrong plz help me)

[Casper]

haha sry, but i just started making maps like 2 days ago. Whats a skybox? 

[SnKQuaKe]

Did you compile with lighting. If you turn it off everything will be bright bright.

[Casper]

i changed the sky texture and it stopped. haha... 
anyway, i really need to check out a few tutorials, i still have no flippin clue what im doing half the time

[Flame[1up]]

well you are right now if someone could fix my other problem the error max patch max planes i know what caused it (from bio) i had tons of patches copied on to each other i fixxed that but it still wont work (any ideas)

[Casper]

my lighting is on the fritz again. all i did was add a door leading to a sniper spot. i added this outside of the original walls, and used the same texture as the walls. now my whole stage is lit up and i dont know why