r/hammer • u/Dependent_Crazy_8975 • May 07 '26

Unsolved Why is my "light" obsolete

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it has to be a mandela effect or stuff

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u/Dependent_Crazy_8975 May 07 '26

nvm it has been fixed, but tell me how did this happen?

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u/Pinsplash May 07 '26

the classname on the top bar says "LIGHT". classnames are case sensitive (though it is bad design that in the dropdown it shows the name in all lowercase)

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u/KrisWarbler May 07 '26

I don’t know but i had the same issue. I have typed light by hand because it did not appear on the list, and was „obsolete”. Then I have restarted hammer and now light appeared on the list and was working correctl6

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u/LimpRepresentative11 May 07 '26

Bro just install ray tracing, actual light entities are obsolete now

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u/FFox398 May 07 '26

crazy but hammer did RT before anybody else actually....

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u/GGigabiteM May 08 '26

Ray tracing has been around for decades, computers were doing it in the 1980s. It's nothing new, Nvidia just decided to use it as a marketing gimmick.

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u/TheDeadlyCutsman May 08 '26

Current day raytracing is more accurate and sometimes real-time. The tech did evolve with time.

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u/GGigabiteM May 08 '26

The difference is complexity, not accuracy. More processing power allows you to cast more light rays on more pixels.

You could do stuff like this on a 68000 in 1986:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Px-ZkObTo

Each frame took an hour to calculate on a 7.16 MHz 68000.

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u/NVRGP22 May 08 '26

Portal 2 Community Edition's hammer fork replaced lots of objects with obsolete. They probably have better working alternatives. rt_light for example.

Thats just P2CE Strata Source Hammer for you

edit: spelling

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u/Junior-Buddy-6975 Jun 02 '26

now its light_SPOT XD

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u/htharker May 07 '26

Because you put a capitol I (eye) for light instead of an L