tree branches in the dark

[WAR_Nuker]

HL2DM map. im attempting to make a large forest and all is going well except my tree branches look a little phony, as they are pale in comparison to the tree itself. i tried adding a cubemap and building it to see if that would have any effect, but no go. The trees are all prop_static.

any help would be spiffy.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

I believe that this is because the minor branches are planes with an alpha-mapped branch texture on them, rather than nice, vertex-lit polygonal meshes.

 

[UltraProAnti]

perhaps you could change the theme to a christmas map

 

[WAR_Nuker]

ill try adding fog...i wonder if that would make it looks more natural.

 

[The_One_Free_Man]

that would most likley do the trick