Texture Lighting

Olmy · February 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">is a pain in the...</div> This is very annoying. I made light fittings with the texture lighting values 255 0 0 400 in the rad file. In game most of the colour information is lost and what you have is a very red saturated texture. Looky.

Any ideas how i can avoid this while still using texture lighting? Maybe different colour values?

Mendasp · February 2004

255 0 0 = Pure red
400 = Intensity

It's right... what were you trying to put?

Olmy · February 2004

I'm aware what the values represent, what i'm trying to say (i wasn't very clear) is that the white centres of the lights are altogether gone. I want the fitting to emit red light but not at the expense of making the texture look completely washed out <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />

Mendasp · February 2004

You can always use overlays...

tomteverkstan · February 2004

now im really intressed in what overlays is...

ShenTraX · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Mendasp Posted on Feb 6 2004, 07:41 AM
You can always use overlays...
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correct, Overlays would achieve the effect you are looking for.

ShenTraX · February 2004

see <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=61436' target='_blank'>this thread</a> i made today

is about halfway through the post, but you'll find it.

Olmy · February 2004

I've always wondered what overlays are. Thanks.

Olmy · February 2004

One thing, can overlays emit light?

Belgarion · February 2004

make the overlay texture emit light instead of the light texture.

Kouji_San · February 2004

An overlay is nohting more then a entity in front of the textured light and the texture you use on it can emit light if you set its properties in lights.rad

I used an additive texture on my floorlights and let that texture emit light:

<a href='http://members.home.nl/m.borgman/ns-forum/ns_achio/ns_achio31.jpg' target='_blank'>ns_achio screen 31</a>

Olmy · February 2004

Can anyone explain to me how to get this effect to have transparency? I tried overlays on a screen and it looks just as washed out as the lights in my original post <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />. I thought maybe making it a little transparent would tone it down. (i tried changing render amount but it seems to have no effect when using additive)

Sorry for behaving like a complete noob.

Kouji_San · February 2004

Additive rendermode set to 255

now all you need is a texture which is black at the edges and the color you want towards the center

ns2.wad example "+0ctrl_01a_fx"

[edit]the black becomes invisible and anything further away from the black tint is more and more visible

btw you might want to try render mode 100 or something near this value, it has a more smooth feeling to it and also wont block the light texture behind it. I mean what good is an overlay if you cant see the lighttexture behind it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />[/edit]

Olmy · February 2004

ignore this post

KungFuDiscoMonkey · February 2004

I can't show you an example b/c I'm at school, but I often like to use the 'off' texture for the light fixture, and the overlay as a func_illusionary to give off the light.

Thaldarin · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (KungFuDiscoMonkey @ Feb 6 2004, 09:19 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I can't show you an example b/c I'm at school, but I often like to use the 'off' texture for the light fixture, and the overlay as a func_illusionary to give off the light.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I designed a quick overlay tutorial, I missed out the nulling of some faces, although KFS added that as a comment. Below is the link:

<a href='http://snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=54' target='_blank'>http://snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=54</a>

Olmy · February 2004

You might want to mention that putting render fx down to a smaller value like 150 might be necessary to make the texture not look saturated with one colour. (depends on what env_gamma is set to, i have it at 2.0 so i need to put render fx down to 100 to look decent.)

Ok one last thing i need to ask, i want the overlay to flicker, like a flickering light or screen, so how do i get the light to flicker in time also? (texlight style and render style have totally different modes, like one has flourescent flicker and the other has fast flicker?) <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />

Thaldarin · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Edgecrusher @ Feb 6 2004, 07:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> You might want to mention that putting render fx down to a smaller value like 150 might be necessary to make the texture not look saturated with one colour. (depends on what env_gamma is set to, i have it at 2.0 so i need to put render fx down to 100 to look decent.)

Ok one last thing i need to ask, i want the overlay to flicker, like a flickering light or screen, so how do i get the light to flicker in time also? (texlight style and render style have totally different modes, like one has flourescent flicker and the other has fast flicker?) <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
It says for NS lower it a bit, I believe KFS mentioned his own values there too.

I know of no other way of making lights flicker etc. without those options.

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