I am working towards creating an rpg where the player will be outdoors quite often, both during the day and the night. I want the player to be able to use a torch at night to illuminate his path, but as it seems now this is not going to work.

Is it possible for lights placed within C-Script and WED to affect the terrain? If so, how would I go about accomplishing this?

Thanks,

Wha would not work?
Using a dynamic light?

It doesn't seem to affect the terrain at all, it will affect all of the blocks and other level geometry, just not the HMP. Perhaps I am just experiencing a weird bug with my system? But it's the same on both of my computers.

Thats strange, i never tried it before, so i dont know anything about that...
Which version?
(for example A6.5 Pro )

A6.5 Commercial

It just seems odd to have everything but terrain with shadows and lighting.. Hopefully someone knows of a workaround..

I have the same version of GS and here on my PC there is at least one solution.
Try the multitexture shader from the templates. It is sensitive to sun_light and dynamic lights. But basically dynamic lights should work on regular terrain too ...

I forgot to mention that I am using an HMP generated by IceX2, and if I am not mistaken it uses the multitexturing shader. As it is right now, the terrain is affected by the sun and the ambient light.

I tried placing dynamic lights next to a wall that I have in the level, and I can see that the light is illuminating the wall but the terrain below it remains uninfluenced by it.

I suppose I'll try it on another PC as soon as I get the chance, but I'd really like to get it working on my development pc's. I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but my primary PC is using an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. I know the card is older, but it should be more than adequate for this situation.

Thanks alot for your help guys,

@ Robotronic:
As i know the Gs has no shadowmpas on entitys, right?

Okay IceX terrains work different. I´m not familiar with this tool, but I read several times here in the forum, that IceX terrains don´t show entity shadows for example and you have to use a special shader, that comes with this tool. But I´m not sure about this. Maybe someone, who knows this tool can give you some advice or correct me.
There was a thread about multitexturing some time ago, where I posted some pics, which show some of the outdoor lighting possibilities with the template shader.

link

I must say, I tried several shaders and this one was the only one that really reacted in a very simple way to dynamic changes of sun_light, -_angle and -_color. And in addition to that it´s sensitive to dynamic lights. My only problem was with mipmaps, but I solved this.

@derOmega:

You can bake static shadowmaps into the entity skin. Some modelling tools, such as Blender can do this. Most Multitexture shaders also support a static shadowmap. You can have dynamic stencil shadows on terrain- and modelentitys. If you don´t set the cast flag a model can also have a (stencil) shadow on itself. Models (but as a whole) are also affected by the precalculated shadowmap in a WDL-level ...

Thanks a lot for all of that info Robotronic.. I suppose I shall look for that shader and try to figure out how to implement it.

Perhaps someone with a lot of IceX experience could explain?

Thanks a lot,