why does spotlight only affect non-shader-surfaces?

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why does spotlight only affect non-shader-surfaces? #390730 01/04/12 10:57 01/04/12 10:57
Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 354 saeculum II MPQ OP Senior Member
MPQ OP Senior Member Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 354 saeculum II	hi, got the following problem: when I use spotlights for directional light, it only affects surfaces, where no shader is applied. On eg normal-mapped surfaces spotlight behaves like normal pointlight though the Spotlight flag was set. Is that normal? new project in early stage... Intel Xeon X3450 2,66GHz \| Mushkin 8 Gib \| Zotac GTS250 + 7300LE \| A8.3 com

Re: why does spotlight only affect non-shader-surfaces? [Re: MPQ] #390754 01/04/12 13:22 01/04/12 13:22
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 619 Turkey, Izmir Emre User
Emre User Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 619 Turkey, Izmir	Afaik, that's normal. if you want to spotlight with shader, you must calculate it in shader. Check this example

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