I am using a Hoth tunnel prop (specifically hoth_bldg_small_chamber_natural) (and Sky's cavebase assets) to make a small cave. In that cave, I have some (four) torches that I modeled with torch fire effects from Endor placed inside the Hoth prop; those work and look good and everything. So, in Zero Editor, I have an omni light placed "in" each torch's "fire part". All of the omni lights share the same settings: color of 255,255,120, cast specular enabled, cast shadows disabled, static set to yes, radius set to 9, PS2 overbright obviously set to no, and no texture projection. Once I finished placing them, I noticed that they all cast pure, white light onto the Hoth prop, so I thought, "Hmm, how quaint is this?" I then burnt the terrain (with build accurate object collision checked upon loading the map in Zero Editor) with object shadow set to 'yes', and let Zero Editor do its thing. Then I saved, munged, and went in-game. For some odd reason, everything (everything being the torch props and myself) but the Hoth prop was lit (yes, my lighting is set to high). The lighting effect I am aiming for with the torches in my cave is something like this: My OPTION file for the Hoth prop's MSH is this: How do I make it so this stupid Hoth prop is lit like it's supposed to be? (Yes, I have read through the BF2_lighting document.)

Oh, and I checked some of the stock levels to see how Pandemic did it; I found that in Coruscant where those outdoor statues are they have omni lights placed as well with the same general settings (except with cast specular disabled) and everything works out for them just fine with both the statue and the cor1_bldg_walk_young MSH lit properly.

LGT file (the omni lights are "cave"):

Take "-vertexlighting" out of the .option file

Thank you, that worked, even though I had to make the prop's textures brighter. :O