Pirate Myke: I uploaded all the new files to daily3d.com

Excellent. Thanks. I will give them a test.

Preben - do the shaders on daily3d only work on the internal beta? I have downloaded them and tried them in the latest public release but all I get is a plain diffuse on cube_basic.fx and a black entity on cube3_basic.fx, as per below:


I was rather hoping it would look a little more like this:

TGPEG: Yes sorry at the moment it only works on the beta , i think Lee is close to updating the "public preview"

Cube2 and Cube3 working really well for me Preben - thank you!

Cheers.

cybernescence: that glass ball look awesome

Hi, Preben, thanks for your awesome work.

Just downloaded the files from daily3d.com

Just to let you know, I noticed this in the settings file PEROJECTLIGHT is this a spelling mistake?

Reliquia....

reliquia: Yes my special spelling ability PEROJECTLIGHT , but you cant change it , you must use it with the spelling error, ups. i will fix it for later versions

Should have been PER OBJECT LIGHT.

Hey Preben thanks for the latest update, I have a question about lighting how do I make my entity glow like a light you posted a couple of screen shots somewhere about increasing the specular level of an entity, I am trying to make the lights on my billboard appear to be on but cannot do it is it possible?

You add an illumination map texture to the model.

An illumination map is a grey scale image, where white is bright, and black is dark, the whiter the colour the brighter the area illuminates.

For a very basic illumination map, basically take a copy of your texture, highlight the area you want to illuminate, and full it with white, then fill all he rest with black, and save it as nameoftexture_I.dds (that's a capital i not a lowercase L :p ), then when you put the model in the game and set it to highest quality it will be illuminated, you can adjust the illumination with bloom.

(don't use pure black and white because GameGuru gets a bit funny with them, 5,5,5 for black and 250,250,250 for white should work fine).

Hi Belidos

thank you but am I allowed to modify someone elses model I am using the ceiling_light from entitybank\classics\Metro Theater

there is already a ceiling_light_I.dds do I just edit that?

If there is already a _I then it should already work, it will only glow if you have entities the entities set to highest quality, and the bloom on (the higher it is the brighter it is).

As to editing, as far as i'm aware you can edit models to your hearts content as long as you use them for your own games only, you can't pass them on to anyone else except in a game, however if you are changing the texture you can give people the new texture, just not any of the original work.

GraPhiX:


You can do like Belidos say , if that dont give you enough light you can increase this by editing settings.fx and enable:

If this is not in the settings.fx yet , Lee did not post a update.

Or you can do it the easy way , edit settings.fx and enable:

After this change you can just enter properties and set specular to the amount you want the object to light try 250 first. This will work on all settings Low,Medium,Highest and do not requere a _i.dds illumination texture

So some LUA command to play with specular coming handy. So we can increase/decrease gradually specularity, so then brighness as well, via code in test game.

3com

3com: blinking light , traffic light signals changing , plane landing: with scrolling light signals ... , so mush would be possible

Yah! that's the idea.

3com