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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Models look different than DB

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MatriX
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Posted: 31st Oct 2003 18:45
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Coming over from DB, I'm trying to figure out why every model I load has specular overbrightness going on. In otherwords they turn white on certain angles. It looks like there's a million watt light shining on them. In DB everything looked flat and cosistant. If I have no light sources, what is causing this? Any suggestions? I don't want to see every facet like I am now..

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 31st Oct 2003 18:48
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there is a command that changes the specular brightness!
set object specular


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David T
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Posted: 31st Oct 2003 18:49
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In Patch 5 they changed the lighting to specular, causing ceratin models without specular information to look bright.

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But what are the defaults? If I never turn them on why should it be so bright? It tried turning them off and they still glow.

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Hamish McHaggis
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Try just fiddling around with the new light commands (specular, ambient, emmisive and diffuse) and see what settings fix your object.

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David T
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Have a look at the emissive etc. properties - they could be causing it.

SET OBJECT DIFFUSE : SET OBJECT DIFFUSE Object Number, Color Value
SET OBJECT AMBIENCE : SET OBJECT AMBIENCE Object Number, Color Value
SET OBJECT SPECULAR : SET OBJECT SPECULAR Object Number, Color Value
SET OBJECT EMISSIVE : SET OBJECT EMISSIVE Object Number, Color Value
SET OBJECT SPECULAR POWER : SET OBJECT SPECULAR POWER Object Number, Power

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zircher
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Also, you can try hide light 0 to remove the default light and you should definately try set normalization on/off.
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TKF15H
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I had a similar problem. Though for me, instead of going white, polygons turned black. It was horrible but I fixed it by using set object ambience to 0.

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Quote: "But what are the defaults? If I never turn them on why should it be so bright? It tried turning them off and they still glow.#"


The default for specular lighting is "on".

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