The NORMALS Problem

noki

Just when i thought i was getting the hang of it...

How do i fix all these lighting excess? Also in some angles it gets messy, that is because of the color or the normals?

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Double up the thickness inside, That brightness is usually due to the "hollowness" of most voxels.

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

RA2 lighting is crap by default and this is the normal result.
3 ways to fix it
-handpainting the normals and placing on the sides a normal that is normally used for upper faces and not for sides
-using a darker color for the sides, than the top areas
-changing voxel.vpl to change the lighting for all voxels

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noki · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:50 am Post subject:

Darkened it and made a simple texture, now it dosen't looks like an moving blob. Gonna try doing an turret that hides the "imperfections" :p

noki · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:37 am Post subject:

Too lazy at the moment to make my own turret, but this is how it looks like with a grizzly turret (Made by bu7loos)

Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

One other thing is you need to add more details and gradient effects on voxels.

BTW... WaterImage Units still refer to their LandImage for FLH's for now so if you plan on making a Tsunami Tank better make sure they have the same height.

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Allied General · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:24 pm Post subject:

Try playing around with lower values for:

ExtraUnitLight=
ExtraAircraftLight

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