Yes, this manual description is correct. However I suggest that you read the much more detailed description of entity lighting in the 'Lighting Engine' chapter of the new manual. It's for download on the manual forum. Of course, the lighting formula is for A6. If you're using A5 or A5 mode, you can not do much about the lighting.

I'm moving this thread now as it becomes unsuited for the 'Ask Conitec' forum.

I think you want to make do without materials. Anyhow, have a try on them and modify:


material mat_test
{ ambient_red = 255;
ambient_green = 255;
ambient_blue = 255;

diffuse_red = 0;
diffuse_green = 0;
diffuse_blue = 0;
specular_red=0;
specular_green=0;
specular_blue=0;
albedo=0;
power = 10;
}

ACTION leafaction
{
//...
my.material=mat_test;

}

i will try materials later one last time... but i will be rally surprised if it works

Can you let me know your test results? I am struggling with this exact problem but I am just starting to look at it ... so you are ahead of me in resolving it. I would really appreciate knowing how and if you got it working.

Edit:
Oops - disregard. I just tried the material definition kopitzki posted above and it worked perfectly.
THANKS kopitzi!

Don't know how you are progressing - but I found I only had trouble with lighting when placing something like a map entity down on floor tiles which where fully lit. If I did then definately a material definitions was required to correct the lighting (with the ambient settings way down).

Here is a shot of some map entities that are correctly lit without setting the unlit flag or defining a material. There are no blocks beneath these entities so no adjustments to the map entities were required. (The red indicates some missing floor shadows I now have to fix). The ambient values have been decreased for the sprites and models. They also are not using any material defs.