How can I get light with shadows but no falloff?

[Fidcal]

How can I get light with shadows but no falloff? The spawnarg/value falloff 0 seems to have no effect.

 

I have a big recessed internal window and want to just add a little ambient but it doesn't look right. There is a plant pot which is lit all around with no shadow if I use a normal ambient light.

 

I can get it looking reasonable with a normal light but if you stand on the window sill then the player is bright lit.

 

Guess I'll remove the plant pot if it's not possible to have no falloff except with noshadows.

[Tels]

The falloff is computed by the light texture, so if you use a full white (_white?) for the texture, it should have no falloff.

[Fidcal]

So.... I make a new texture with just map _white in it? And call it say lights/allwhite? And add that texture to the light?

[DeTeEff]

Wouldn't a solution be to use the white ambientinfo (the one used for the ambient_world)?

[Tels]

So.... I make a new texture with just map _white in it? And call it say lights/allwhite? And add that texture to the light?

 

Either try what FieldMedic says, or simply use "_white" in the box for the light entitie's texture. If that fails, try "textures/darkmod/sfx/white" or "textures/sfx/white", I forgot if these already exist.

[nbohr1more]

I have the impression that there may be confusion about the texture for XY falloff (projection image) verses the Z falloff (falloff image) based on the initial posts (and all the confusion in the Light Baking thread).

 

I presume that Tels had correctly identified that Fidcal's problem was for the Z falloff but I am not sure that Fidcal (et al) have been clear about the remedy

 

lights/My_Custom_Light1 
{ 
lightFalloffImage makeIntensity( _white ) 
	{ 
	forceHighQuality 
	map textures/lights/map_specific/My_Custom_Light1_XY 
	zeroClamp 
	} 
} 

Edited October 2, 2010 by nbohr1more

[Fidcal]

OK, thanks. lights/tdmnofalloff seems to be the texture I want. This gives no falloff but does give a shadow. Don't know what use that falloff spawnarg is so I've just deleted it from my light.