particles Default grass particles ignore lighting and appear fully bright

[MirceaKitsune]

I'm trying to use grass particles on my map as they're the best way to get small dense grass at good performance. The only reliable model for this is tdm_grass_clump_01.prt and tdm_grass_clump_02.prt. However these particle models have an issue in their configuration: They don't respond to lighting and render at full brightness which looks badly broken! I'd rather not fork the particle settings just to work around a bug, so I thought I'd report the issue instead. Can the lighting on those models be fixed please?

Note that tdm_wildgrass_1.prt and tdm_wildgrass_1a.prt have the exact same issue; Please address those too if anyone will look into this.

[duzenko]

You can just use this particle now and create a bug tracker for this

It will eventually get fixed, maybe before your mission is released

[Dragofer]

Looks like it uses the .tga image directly, without putting it in a material. You can simply create a material for your FM by copy-pasting an existing decal material and changing its paths. It would actually be quite helpful, because then a team member can transfer your fix to the core asset base.

The bugtracker is definitely the best way of tracking asset issues like this.

[MirceaKitsune]

https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=5689

Done, thanks for confirming. I don't plan on releasing my FM before TDM 2.10 so if it's fixed in the next release it's all good.

[stgatilov]

Can particles in TDM be affected by lights?

As far as I remember, that was limitation of the renderer...

[MirceaKitsune]

30 minutes ago, stgatilov said:

Can particles in TDM be affected by lights?

As far as I remember, that was limitation of the renderer...

They can. tdm_flowerbed_*.prt for instance is lit correctly, already using that and getting the best lighting results possible with particles.

I noticed most smoke particles appear to not be lit either. In their case it's a darker texture so it's not as noticeable. Still could they be fixed too? It would result in more realistic lighting, and this doesn't seem like it affects performance noticeably either from what I'm getting so far.