Ok. I've been tring to use a env_sprite to make a
visual light source. (ie a glowing ball where the light comes from inside of a lamp made of brushes) I've set it up with different sprites, on different modes,
and still nothing. even using the "additive" mode still doesn't
produce a visual sprite ingame. tho it looks fine in Hammer.

Any ideas??
Thanks
~Spyder

which type of lights are you using? e.g. light_spot or light

Using the regular light. but with a flickerA on it.
because it's supose to be a candle in a lantern.
but I'll deal with just a sprite that ya can see.
I even tried using sprite texture on a small brush,
but it just looks like a box with glowing circles on
each side....
might try a very small displacement brush made to look like a flame. and texture it with the flame sprite texture. But dunno if that will work either.
I might have to resort to them being Magic glowing cubes
in the lanterns... lol *eye roll*

Did you add .vmt to your sprit name?. If so there's a tutorial on avanced lighting here which might help

BINGO!!!
It was the missing .vmt
Ahhhhhh My stress level just
lowered down to normal chaos now.
Thanks Bro!

hehe no problem, glad you got it working