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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 09:00
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I have been trying to get static lights to actaully light up the scene, but whenever i place them, they do not light in game
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 09:33
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They will take effect when you bake lighting. If you are only using real-time lighting then stick to dynamic lights.
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 09:36
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I have tried it with baked lighting, and the static lights still do not light the scenes. Is it a specific baked option out of the 4?
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 09:48 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2015 09:50
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I always just use f4 if baking lighting. Depending on how your global sliders are set up and how you have your shader effect settings it may minimize the effect. It may be worth noting that bright ambient or surface lighting can pretty easily overpower a placed static light.
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 09:53
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Ahh ok. The map i was working on is quite dark, so i will have to fiddle with global sliders and shaders. Cheers
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 13:32
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you need to put the entity setting to highest i believe
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 13:48
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I tried a bunch of combinations and static lights still will not light up. Can anyone post a screen of static lights working with all the rexourse and slider info, to see how u guys are getting it to work
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 13:49
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@ small g, I have tried that but thank you
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2015 21:33
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seems to be only terrain shader you need to be above medium not entity, i never remember which is which but i'm sure it used to be high+ only so must have been an improvement somewhen

however i think i may misunderstand... when you say static light, are you meaning you're switching them to static mode? i dont think that's possible? i just tried it and they dont light up for me either no matter what i do
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2015 01:01
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This is static light rendered on High mode for all:

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2015 06:12 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2015 06:14
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Thanks a bunch PirateMyke. Everything is working fine now. Cheers

@Smallg, everyone else...it seems you cannot add static lights to a map that was already built. It has to be a new map, and set some static lights from the get go in order for it to work.
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