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Disable AmbientLight in a specific area? - Dalroc - 03-28-2011
I've just started working on a project and at one point I want the AmbientLight set to 0. AmbientLight is the nightvision kinda thing you get when you're in darkness.
My solution for the moment is to set AmbientLightIntensity = "0.0" in a custom game.cfg and do a full conversion, but that removes the AmbientLight for the whole game. I can work areound this by adding box lights with low intensity to simulate "nightvision".
Is there anyway to fiddle with this without making a full conversion or even better in just that specific area?
RE: Disable AmbientLight in a specific area? - palistov - 03-29-2011
Well you can add large-radius point lights with a very dark color (I used around 0.2 for each RGB field) and it will give you a low, ambient lighting feel. But it counts as a light source, so it will prevent sanity drain. Other than that I haven't much suggestions
Good luck
RE: Disable AmbientLight in a specific area? - MrBigzy - 03-29-2011
I'm not sure if it would work, but you could use global variables. I have a feeling it wouldn't though.
RE: Disable AmbientLight in a specific area? - Dalroc - 03-29-2011
(03-29-2011, 03:03 AM)MrBigzy Wrote: I'm not sure if it would work, but you could use global variables. I have a feeling it wouldn't though.Setting AmbientLightIntensity = ambientLight in the game.cfg and then add AddGlobalVarFloat("ambientLight", 0.5); in the script for the first map gives the same result as setting the intensity to 0, no nightvision.
Is that how you meant?
@palistov
Well you can work around the sanity problem by adding a function that slowly drains your sanity when in dark areas.. But that is a lot of extra scripting :/
RE: Disable AmbientLight in a specific area? - gandalf91 - 03-29-2011
Really really dark lights still drain sanity...at least they seem to in my map. I have a box light in one area with RGB all around 0.03.
RE: Disable AmbientLight in a specific area? - MrBigzy - 03-29-2011
<Player_Darkness
MinLightLevel = "0.15"
That's the point at which you drain sanity. I'm guessing R, G, or B can't be above 0.15.
And yea, I meant you use the variable to change the ambient light, but only in the areas you want it to. Did using it work?
RE: Disable AmbientLight in a specific area? - palistov - 03-29-2011
Cool MrBigzy good tip.
