Map stays pitch black!

[Sgt.NightFire]

So, the map i am working on, had a working light, i can't remember if i ever did something to it, but out of a sudden, the terrain and everything else has become pitch black, screenshot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k8f9xnke19utqdu/Untitled-1.jpg

Tried everything by now, even changed back the old light from a old backup of the map, removed the shaders cache and even added a new light.

 

[-=}WoLvErInE{=-]

Skybox properties. under the lighting tab, uncheck everything except Use Precompute shadow and Accept light.

 

[Catalavos]

Check your sky dome. I'll bet the "cast shadow" and "cast dynamic shadow" are both checked in the properties.

 

[Sgt.NightFire]

Gonna check if this works seeing i also copy pasted skyboxes from other maps to see if it was the skybox giving issues.

 

[Twrecks]

May sound stupid, if you added a large BSP instead of the Lightmass Importance Volume, any lights inside a BSP will be blacked out. And since you're inside the BSP and the faces are single sided, you won't know it unless you move outside the box. Adding a default point light will tell you, it will always light up objects around it, unless inside a BSP.

But it's prolly the skydome... Hard to imagine the 3rd possibility, unchecking ALL the lighting channels in the Dominant Light Source advanced properties.

 

[Sgt.NightFire]

It seemed it was the first possibility as mentioned, the skybox had all light options turned on for some reason. Shadows still looked too dark so i added a skylight and now it looks great again! It sadly can't show the result seeing its a training map exclusively only for my unit. (you can join basic combat training and see it though. )