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Development => Mapping => Topic started by: Silly on March 18, 2007, 04:25:03 PM

Title: How to use a sun (sky texture that lights whole map with sun)
Post by: Silly on March 18, 2007, 04:25:03 PM

umm...

can you tell me how, or just leave a link on a thread that tells how to please?

thanks a lot guys

Title: Re: How to use a sun (sky texture that lights whole map with sun)
Post by: Spook on March 18, 2007, 04:37:59 PM

1. pick a sky

2. put "sky" "<skyname>" in worldspawn

3. optional: cover the top of the map with the sky texture

4. put _sun_ambient, _sun_diffuse, _sun_light, and sun_angle in worldspawn with the correct values

5. Compile and adjust values as you see fit

for the angles on the suns use the wiki page at: http://digitalpaint.planetquake.gamespy.com/testwiki1/pb2wiki.php?word=Sun+Angles

Title: Re: How to use a sun (sky texture that lights whole map with sun)
Post by: Silly on March 18, 2007, 04:48:31 PM

Can you name some values for them?

Title: Re: How to use a sun (sky texture that lights whole map with sun)
Post by: Spook on March 18, 2007, 07:50:27 PM

for light use 100-300 no higher only lower for moonlight.

angles are given

diffuse i use 20 or lower

ambient i use 20 or lower

Title: Re: How to use a sun (sky texture that lights whole map with sun)
Post by: jitspoe on March 19, 2007, 03:00:32 AM

Note that diffuse should be somewhere between your ambient and light values, as it blends them together.

Title: Re: How to use a sun (sky texture that lights whole map with sun)
Post by: nightryder on March 21, 2007, 06:21:42 PM

jitspoe you should be a teacher

Title: Re: How to use a sun (sky texture that lights whole map with sun)
Post by: Wolf Man on March 21, 2007, 06:37:14 PM

of what? mapping-ology

Title: Re: How to use a sun (sky texture that lights whole map with sun)
Post by: Zorchenhimer on March 21, 2007, 09:17:00 PM

"Mapology" :)