...A while back, Ruthven asked if it were possible to light the second level of the mod dynamically. After playing around with the light for a bit, I determined that it was not possible to make it look decent enough to be worth it.

A few weeks ago, I came up with an idea of how to fix the problem with having single source dynamic lights for large open levels. I decided to test it out on the sg1 mod level 2, first and these are it's initial results:


Please excuss the level itself. It's still a WIP.

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niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

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jEDIkIRBY - Putting the Romance back into Necromancer.
Proud Leader of the Minnessassian Council

Live on, Adam.

By the way people, take a look at the glare on the gun. Notice any *coughrbgcough*? Dynamically Colored. Now I just have to figure out how to get him to tell me how he did it.

JediKirby

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jEDIkIRBY - Putting the Romance back into Necromancer.
Proud Leader of the Minnessassian Council

Live on, Adam.

oh my god.

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Massassi - Muh-Sah-See

Nice waterfall. I have some ideas for lighting that might help, if I can only get some time to put a level together as an illustration.

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Sector tint.

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Holy s*** that's awsome.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

But it's dynamic sector tint, actually. So, in reality, dynamic colored lighting. In JK.

JediKirby

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jEDIkIRBY - Putting the Romance back into Necromancer.
Proud Leader of the Minnessassian Council

Live on, Adam.

Except that all the lights take on the same tint, so, no.

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

So tell me . . . does that light flicker?

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Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

OMG I have to play this mod now!

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~Nightfire Mod~

Nope. Currently, the skydome is the light source.



Irrelevant. I can use a cog to change the sector tint, thereby changing the color of the dynamic light. If it weren't for the fact that the evironment is completely made of 3do's, with 3d accel. enabled, you would hardly tell the difference if the sector tint was changed. In fact, that is the hart of the day-night system I'm working on right now. I don't have to worry about switching models to ones with night-time textures, all I have to do is have a cog adjust the EXTRA LIGHT value and the sector tint accordingly.

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[This message has been edited by Friend14 (edited July 23, 2004).]

Well, if you like that one, your going to love the new one I'm working on to replace it.


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[This message has been edited by Friend14 (edited July 23, 2004).]

Man, you guys would be great on a new engine.

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"I'd rather be hated for who I am rather than loved for who I pretend to be." -Janis Joplin

Got to finish exploring the limitations of the old engines first.

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Besides, he'd be too limited on most other engines.

JediKirby

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jEDIkIRBY - Putting the Romance back into Necromancer.
Proud Leader of the Minnessassian Council

Live on, Adam.

[EDIT]
Looking cool

[This message has been edited by Jenny_Kitty (edited July 24, 2004).]

Er, being absolutely serious, is that JK? I can't tell .. maybe just because I've been out of the scene so long..

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yes Pom it is... and Wangtactular!

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What happens when you cast heal on the undead?

Pure love...You just need figure out how to do some convincing mist at the base of the falls, and you'd be golden.

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...how easy life would be... if only it came with a consistancy checker.
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Actually, with all of the nice dust effects aaron's made, I don't think convincing mist will be a problem at all, really.

JediKirby

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jEDIkIRBY - Putting the Romance back into Necromancer.
Proud Leader of the Minnessassian Council

Live on, Adam.

You know, I asked ya'll to ignore the rest of the level.

It'll use a combination of sprites and particles.

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Oh. My. Friggin. hell.

I go away for one weekend and I miss this?!?!?

HAHAHA I kept complaining taht dynamic light had great potential!!! You got it right!!!

So yes, I saw the pics, and I jumped up and down very fast, no joke.
amazing. I'm so motivated, I'm gonna go work on my mod... mmm, tomorrow.

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Very nice.

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|"Girls = time * money. Time is money, so Girls = money * money, or money squared. But money is the root of all evil, so Girls = (the sqare root of evil)^2 Therefore, Girls = evil.

SWEET!!! thats too awesome!!