when i put a terrian in my level and added a new template a6 script to it, and ran the engine, the terrain had no shading at all. so i went to the sun angle and light in the map properties box and changes some values, and still nothing. so i did some investigating and found on the display00 code "var sunlight=1;" and commented it out. it worked! my terrian was shaded (although rather bright). so what is that variable?

thx,

Alex

that variable determines whether or not models should treat the sun as a dynamic light source.

good job figuring that out!

julz

but why is everything dulled out when its on?
thx tho

hmm... in my version of the manual it seems to be undocumented. a bit more research revealed the variable that i was referring to is actually called sun_light which, if set to anything other than zero, places a dynamic light at the sun position. maybe the templates use "var sunlight" to in a function to determine certain settings?

julz