Should be able to

Matt Coles

Code:

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action light_pos_object{

	wait(5);

	my.invisible=on;

	my.passable=on;



	while(1){



		vec_set(temp,my.x);

		if (vec_to_screen(temp,camera)){

			

				my.light=on;

				my.lightrange=300; //could be set also to a skill

			

				my.red=my.skill1; //just put in the r,g,b values

				my.green=my.skill2;

				my.blue=my.skill3;

				

				my.cast=on; //casts a shadow when on

			}

	

		else{

				my.lightrange=0; //if too far away turn it off

				my.light=off;	

				my.cast=off;



			}

	

		wait(1);	

	}	

} 

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Use that for your dynamic light action. That *should* only show a light if it is on the screen itself, though I havn't tried it out. It would be better to use trace though I suppose... Let me know if it bugs out though, and I'll fix it.

I dont think using light code such as that is a good idea.. if the light is behind the camera.. it could still affect the faces that are visible...so you will get lights blinking out and on..better to use a simple range-based approach as in my example.

anothher idea is attaching a light to the player, like a torch or flashlight...then you can concentrate on that source and others are just ambient...
or a flare object too...

I've attached a torch to the player and it worked well , what I was thinking of doing is having a trigger set off by the player walking through hollow blocks which you'd place in corridors about a room or two before the light

how did you do it? attach entity? or just in player code?
any code to share? I'll try again too...
thanks

I posted something like this into the players script:

my.light = ON; // illuminate myself
my.lightrange=2000; //could be set also to a skill


my.red=my.skill1; //just put in the r,g,b values
my.green=my.skill2;
my.blue=my.skill3;

and it worked fine, a real flashlight held by the player should not be much harder to implement

I've converted olivers env and spec shaders so that they work outside with the sun on level geometry now.
Slowly getting a move along
I'm hoping to release everything as sort of a shader pack. My project for the holidays

LOVE NORMAL MAPPING!!
made a test of normal mapping from a high poly model, using polybump plugin...Hint: use cylinder mapping! best way to get a smooth seamless normal map...

Heres a new demo, just player control and some actor follows...tgought it was cool and wanted to share the organic possibilities for skin...
The characters are 800 polys each, with normal maps made from 600,000 poly original.

Download HERE



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