. . . at least as far as we can tell. Here's the relevant thread.

The answers given to you by other users were correct: just read the manual section about materials.

In the beta manual on the manual forum you'll also find a description of the A6 lighting algorithm and how the ambient parameter works.

The only way is to change material parameters. Oh well, now I have a lot of entities (ca. 30) that all need different ambient values. I don't think the solution is to give every single entity a different material...

No, I don't think this either. Again, it's all in the lighting engine section of the newest beta manual.

Dunno how a description of the light calculation shall help me solving my problem.

Hmmm. Sad to hear that, but it will at least help other users then.

materials can effect how an entity is lite ( thats what materials and shaders do afterall, effect pixel color intensity)

since most the materials i've seen use some form of ambient light setting influance. adjusting the entitys overall ambient setting I think would be overriden by the materials effects.

only solutions i can think of alter your overall level lighting intensityes ( sun/level ambiance to get overall more or less lighting influnace

or alter the models skin, giving it more or less contrast/brightness

This is no solution for me. It depends on where the entities location and changes fast.
jcl, please don't tell me this isn't possible just because materials overrule .ambient.

JCL,

Pretty simple--thanks.

For the clarification of other users, it sounds like it's accurate to say that entity.ambient indeed does NOT work in the A6 engine (at least not in the same way it did in A5). Apparently that's a good thing though, because it's been replaced by something better.

And I think the important thing for me to figure out was that many video cards currently default the engine to A5 mode.

My.ambient DOES work, i use it all the time. Just include materials.wdl in your scripts, and it should be fine.