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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Question on dynamic lighting: pros and cons

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Leander
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 18:31
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If you want to create a creepy atmosphere you often use dark rooms.
The player should hardly see.
But then you can just use the right keys and you can light up everything, so the atmosphere is gone, you can see enemies and objects you shouldn't see that well and so on.

But if you don't use dynamig lighting it could happen that one player is able to see the screen like you suppose him to...while another one sees too little. My screen is medium-dark. I know darker ones. But my girlfriend's screen is light.

Of course you can also change the monitor's settings...but...well, my question actually is how an atmosphere with dark rooms can be achieved without having players "cheat" with keys.
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fallen one
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 22:10
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Quote: ""cheat" with keys. "


how do they do that?

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Leander
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 22:26
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With the keys you can turn the light up and down. Change how dark everything is. If the creator of a game wants items (e.g. key) to be hardly visible it's ruined as the player can turn the lights all the way up and see everything...and automatically things the creator wanted to hide through dark effects / rooms...
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Inspire
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 23:03
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By pressing "<" or ">", I think.

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TGPEG
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Oh, he means that you can manually change the brightness with the < and > keys. You need to change the keys in the config file to stop this from happening, i think.

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DarkFact
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Quote: "Oh, he means that you can manually change the brightness with the < and > keys. You need to change the keys in the config file to stop this from happening, i think."


I don't think you can do that. I think they're hard-coded into the source.

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SamHH
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Posted: 24th Sep 2007 02:07
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They should only be able to be used when in test game but it seems that it is not disabled in a built game.


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Use a triggerzone or modify the setuplevel.fpi file to always reset the ambiance every loop (constantly).


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force master
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This is something that tgc need to fix
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