Hi, this is my first post here!

I have some problem with lightning on models... they don´t be affected by any lights I put on my level, model origin isn´t on the walls or something else, there´s no action assigned too...

there´s a picture of a test level I made

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6720/semsombraom6.jpg


anyone can help???

assign a material to the model

my.material = mtl_entity;

can you post an example? I make an action with the code, but I get an error "parameter unknown mtl_entity"


thanks in advice!!!!

sorry - i gave you the wrong material name

my.material = mat_model;

Well better forget this about the material, I dont see how it can help you when you assign the same material that model has anyway?

Static Lights that you place in WED can throw shadows on the textures of your level walls but not on model textures. Models are external files and get their texture in the model editor and this texture is not going to be changed by whatever is in your level, so they are only uniformly lit by your static lights.

What you need for models is a Dynamic Light, that is another entity nearby with its lightrange parameter set to the range that the light should have, like 500 or so.

action dynamiclight() { my.lightrange = 500; }

@Spirit: Wrong dumbass...

Sorry, didn't really mean to be an [censored], but that was just purely incorrect. Static lights create a lightmap/shadowmap (whatever you decide to call it) on level blocks, and then entities automatically do a trace downwards (limited by floor_range) to recieve the textures brightness, and then apply it to the model. Therefore, models are automatically lit by static (and dynamic) lights, unless you apply a shader, then it's only dynamic lights.

Quote:

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var floor_range

Controls the range within which the entities' light depends on the brightness and shadows of the floor area below (default 1000 quants). If the entities' height above the floor exceeds that range, the entity won't receive light, albedo and fog values from the floor texture. This way it can be prevented that aircraft models in a flight simulator suddenly change their brightness dependent on shadows on the ground.

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also, mat_model is apparently set by default. However, I'd recommend that you create your own material.

thanks to all!! I solved the problem in both ways, with static and dynamic lights... I have the same problem with outdoor levels that contain a terrain, but if I put a level block under the terrain, like a floor everything works!!

thanks again!!

thank you ...you solved my problem as well now my game looks mediocre
lol thankyou...