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FPSC Classic Product Chat / v.1.16 levels way darker than v.104 levels?

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ctm
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 16:41
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Hi,

i wasnt here the last 3 years.
When i saw the release of v.1.16 i wanted to test it an maybe make a little game.

The first thing i did was building one of my old testlevels i made in early 2007 and i was very surprised...it looks very different to the v1.04 version.
The level is way darker. You even cannot see the fog.

Here is a pic:
The upper pic is v.104 and the one at the bottom v.1.16



Both levels where build with a ambience setting of 25.

My question: Has Lee changed a other setting somewhere which causes this "darkness" which i cannot find or is it just a change of the grafics engine?

As it is now i am not happy with it. Even a light with a range of 300 is not able to really light up a small room.
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Aaagreen
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 17:24
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Lee changed the lighting engine to Darklights, that's probably why it appears differently. You can change it back to normal by closing FPSC, opening setup.ini and changing:

lightmapold=0
to
lightmapold=1

And of course,

lightmapquality=5
to FPSC's old standard
lightmapquality=25
or your own value.

Jeku always gets drunk and tries to Moderate the ocean. Tirelessly slapping the waves as they roll in.
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ctm
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 17:41 Edited at: 25th Feb 2010 17:42
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Thanks Aaagreen.

But that screws up the walltextures and has odd effects on entitys with illumination maps (light entities).

Knew that about lightmap quality (mine is set to 50).

Seems i have to find a compromise between brighter ambience setting and lights with longer range.
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charger bandit
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 18:18
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The best is to put the ambience to 0 and then place static lights around your level.This is the best way to control the brightness while still having nice dark shadows.


A.K.A djmaster
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ctm
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 18:52
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I agree that the contrast looks very good though it can be a tricky work not to accidentally leave pitchblack areas here and there...letting players run against pitch black walls isnt nice .

My problem with the new lightmapping is that even the walls which are full lit by a bright long range light dont look bright (for example the dirty wall behind the barrel at the left side)
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AbdulAhad
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@Aaagreen
Solved my problems thanks

@charger bandit
thanks for the tip

@ctm nice level design!!!
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Bugsy
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@ctm

nice avatar.



to fenix mod!
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ctm
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Posted: 25th Feb 2010 20:00
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thanks Abdul

@Bugsy
your one is great
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