Light Post Lighting

DaRTzO · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:02 pm Post subject:

How did you get the light posts coloured light to look so smooth?

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Good values applied to the light post code in the map file. I know you're aiming to re-create such a smooth effect in RA2 so I'll tell you something for nothing: It won't happen due-to the larger cell size. RA2 is awful for light post usage.

m7 · Commander **Joined**: 17 Apr 2009

Er...I wanna say Holy Master pulls of beautiful non-tiled lighting in Reign of Steel.

Starkku · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:48 pm Post subject:

The larger the radius and lesser the intensity, the less it looks like tiled piece of shit.

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Holy_Master · Commander **Joined**: 21 Jul 2004 **Location**: Thailand

m7 wrote:

Er...I wanna say Holy Master pulls of beautiful non-tiled lighting in Reign of Steel.

i just want to say i don't even intend to do that. since i have little knowledge about make up map. all i do just put default lighting that game already have to tiberium field. :p

and i dunno look from screensht above it look really good enough.

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

I've seen tests regarding that of the increased Radius and decreased intensity, indeed, it looks much better, but still far from achieving the lighting in the above screenshots, in my opinion. However, just overcoming the tiled piece of shit is good enough.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

quite offtopic, but can't Ra2 modder simply create a big alphaimage and then turn the red, green, blue channels on and off like the mirage tank weapon on the bright=yes light effect?
The alphaimage would then allow the smoothest lighting and even different shades in a single cell.

@TO: concerning the last picture, the buildings look really cool. Only the smoke anim could be a tad better (e.g. wider on the powerplant and in general a bit more shades of grey. looks like only one grey color is used)

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ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

LKO, such light control is the combat light control (bright=yes) which has no radius parameter or duration control as it is strictly designed for a flash, it has nothing common with alphas but yes I use such blend in few impacts but its nothing you can apply in constant map lighting sense.

If want constant map light with coloring then need to use the normal building light codes aka tiled light, admittedly alpha could be mixed in to try smooth 'em but I doubt work as good as it could highlight the blending errors instead.

and yes, combatlight/normal lights tend to lag more than alphas do.

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Orac · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:59 am Post subject:

I should have thought of that.

Anyway, I've found lightposts in RA2 to be just as shitty as everyone else seems to have, but so long as you keep them subtle (graduating only a small amount from the map lighting) they don't look too godawful.

DaRTzO · Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:44 am Post subject:

I got them to look perfect, barely any noticeable tiling. Only at the core of the light when the ore is harvested you can see a slight amount of tiling. Other then that they blend perfectly.

Thanks a lot for your help guys!

What I did was adjust map lighting to perfect levels that I desired for map colour and ambience, then I ported and tweaked light post settings and played around with them for a while to get a perfect blending effect. Smile