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Dark GDK / Only few lights possible?

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Red Eye
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Posted: 19th Jul 2009 00:37 Edited at: 19th Jul 2009 00:38
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Hey,

I just have been informed, that we cant get more then 8 lights.
But i have seen DarkGDK users, using more lights then just 8. Is there a way to add mroe lights, then just 8?

Thanks,

Red Eye

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dark coder
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Posted: 19th Jul 2009 08:18
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That's 8 active hardware lights maximum. It's possible to seemingly exceed this by only activating lights that are either visible or near the camera. You can also bake lights to texture aka lightmapping to simulate more than 8 static ones or if you need 8 potentially dynamic ones then you can use shaders to handle it or deferred rendering+shading.

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Red Eye
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Posted: 19th Jul 2009 14:08
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Ok thanks. I will look into it.

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Red Eye
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2009 19:07 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2009 19:07
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If i would purschase DarkLights and Install it. Is DarkGDK compatible, and can i have more then 8 lights then?

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dark coder
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2009 09:40
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Quote: "You can also bake lights to texture aka lightmapping to simulate more than 8 static ones"


Which is what DarkLights does.

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Red Eye
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2009 12:22
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Aha. Ok Nice. I think i will purchase it then.

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Zuka
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2009 13:37
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You can try to get deferred lighting to work, though it's probably just not worth it in DGDK.
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