Lighting Help

[obi_1_kenobi]

ok my map looks all pretty and all but when i use my lights they are spots on the floor that fade out, doesnt light the whole room, and makes the texture look ugly ill give u a pix link from my site.

 

MY SITE PIC

[RichDiesal]

Well that's what a light is. Light entities are basically big spheres of light that hover wherever you put them. If you want a smoother effect, you'll need light-emitting shaders.

[obi_1_kenobi]

Isnt there a way i can just have th whole room lit up like on other custom maps, rather than there being circles?

[obi_1_kenobi]

Ahhh come on somebody must know how... Any one?

[Leslie Judge]

If I were you, I would move the lights upwards, and add the scale key to the entities with a value greater than 1. The scale will extend the area the light can enlighten.

 

Or maybe more lightsources also will do a good job.

[Joben]

I looked at the cairn dock1.map Raven provided.

they use lights with 'intesity' 5 and 'light' 30 a lot.

I put settings like that in my map and it works quite nice.

you have to use more of them and place them carfuly...

 

and there is a way to get ambient light thoughout the map...but it doesnt

look very realistic ive heard.

[Emon]

You could try light emitting shaders, those rock. They don't seem to give you the lightmap crap when you have tons of them. Just like at Sine_Nomen's Nar Shaddaa, his lighting is awesome, and he uses almost nothing but shader lights.