Light Textures...an Interesting Discovery.

[Renzatic]

Zol, a guy I discussed ambient lights with over at D3W, just sent me an ambient lightsource without any falloff on the texture. Turns out it worked exactly like I thought the ambients should...I can make it any size I want and it's still evenly lit.

 

There was only one small and very weird hitch..I had to rename it from nofalloff to ambientLightnfo before it'd work. Before it just cast your average light, it was blocked by geometry and cast shadows, after the renaming it acted like an ambient light.

 

I wanna test this out to see if it's just me, or if D3 depends on naming to determine the type of light along with the globals. I'm gonna upload em both, anyone that wants to try them out is more than welcome...and send me the results when you're done.

 

Zol's Ambient

 

My Ambient

 

Edit: Just figured it out...there was a naming conflict with his. Because he installed it in /base it overwrote the Id made texture, but I installed it in /darkmod so it was being overridden by the original material.

[sparhawk]

Are these working maps? If not can you send me a small map with that type of light for testing? Thanks!

[Renzatic]

Alright. I'll be uploading the newer version of the pagan map here soon.It should work exactly like the previous ambients, considering that it's using the same code.