From 9bee25ef819d5a19bdb94a0aa9ffee318148403a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Garux <garux@mail.ru>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 00:27:11 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix global _ambient not being used on entities w/o _ambient
 specified

---
 tools/quake3/q3map2/surface_extra.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/quake3/q3map2/surface_extra.cpp b/tools/quake3/q3map2/surface_extra.cpp
index 417159d9..f01f0058 100644
--- a/tools/quake3/q3map2/surface_extra.cpp
+++ b/tools/quake3/q3map2/surface_extra.cpp
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ void WriteSurfaceExtraFile( const char *path ){
 			fprintf( sf, "\tsampleSize %d\n", se->sampleSize );
 		}
 
-		if ( se->ambientColor != seDefault.ambientColor || se == &seDefault ) {
+		if ( ( se->ambientColor != g_vector3_identity && se->ambientColor != seDefault.ambientColor ) || se == &seDefault ) { // 0 == use global
 			fprintf( sf, "\tambientColor ( %f %f %f )\n", se->ambientColor[0], se->ambientColor[1], se->ambientColor[2] );
 		}