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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Natural lighting

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Butt monkey
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2007 23:15
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Hi

I've beenn experimenting with lightmaps and i'm curious. What is the best way to create an outdoor environment in the daytime? How would I create a bright, sunny environment using lightmaps?

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Zdrok
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2007 23:21
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Use a big, yellow light with a range of 50,000.

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Slayer222
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2007 23:27
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no way tried it use white belive me
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Butt monkey
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2007 23:31
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Ok, with a range of 50,000?

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Slayer222
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2007 23:38
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no try 1000 maybe 2000
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Nomad Soul
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Posted: 4th Apr 2007 00:03
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I messed around with lighting up an outdoor environment and found that the best approach is to give the maps overall ambience lighting level something that suits the skybox that you are using with it.

Then light the scene with individual lights where effective. Personally I found that this worked out better than relying on 1 light source to light the entire scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-_UIsGZ0IM

You can check out my results in the link above. I only spent a bit of time with the lighting so I could get the terrain uploaded to the forums for the community to use so it looks better in some places than in others but might give you some ideas!

If you want to have a go lighting up this terrain for your own testing purposes you can download it from here

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=100284&b=24
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Butt monkey
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Posted: 4th Apr 2007 01:09 Edited at: 4th Apr 2007 01:09
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Thanks Nomad

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Avenging Eagle
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Posted: 4th Apr 2007 17:26
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Ambient of over 150 and a single white (perhaps slightly yellow) light with a range of 4000. Also, it may help to turn down the lightmap quality to 10 or something to help get those realistic feathered shadows on a cloudy day, or down to 30/40 for a sunny day.

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