DarkBASIC Classic and DarkBASIC Professional have always been separate, incompatible programming languages – until now. For the first time, a program has been made (in DBC) to produce source code that compiles and runs in
both!
Lightning Lights lets you illuminate your 3D game levels and give them stunning visual effects with precision and ease – and all in a matter of minutes! It’s all down to an intuitive Windows environment, combined with almost every standard lighting command that DarkBASIC offers.
Set up your level by loading up to ten .x or .3ds objects, or MagicWorld levels. Apply lighting effects by creating and fully manipulating point lights, spotlights and directional lights. Add fog effects, adjust the ambient light level, even colour the backdrop to transform this:
into something like
this:
Then with a few clicks of a button and a handful of keystrokes, you can export all your lighting effects as a .DBA source code file. Just copy the code into your game, compile it and run it, irrespective of whether you use Classic or Professional.
You can download a free, unlimited trial version here:
http://mythrada.distantstar.org.uk/Lightning_Lights_Trial.zip
Only the export source code feature has been disabled, all other functionality is preserved.
Lightning Lights is on sale for just £10.00 (fantastic value for money!) but I would like to put it through beta testing, and so I’m asking for four or five volunteers. You’ll receive the full program absolutely FREE, just post here with your e-mail address and I’ll send you download instructions for an update patch that will convert the installed trial version to the full version.
I must have at least one DBPro user though. All the commands exported by Lightning Lights are present in Pro, but I haven’t been able to actually compile them as I don’t have a copy of DBPro. I did download the trial version of DBPro but because I didn’t have the internet on the computer it was to run on, I couldn’t activate it and so couldn’t compile anything at all...
Feel free to contact me with any comments, criticism, ideas or suggestions, especially any additional file formats you’d like to see added to Lightning Lights. Thanks for reading all this, and I can’t wait to hear from you.
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