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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Why Only 8 lights???

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KuRi
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2003 00:16
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Why can't i create only 7 lights + default light zero?.

I think there are lot of games using more than 8 lights at the same time... Perhaps this should be an interesting thing to add...
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Hubdule
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2003 00:18
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The 8 lights is a limitation of hardware and directx as these lights are hardware lights. What you mean are so called lightmaps. It's not a limitation in DBPro but DirectX.

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KuRi
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2003 00:30
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Ahhh, Happy to know. Thanks

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Shadow Robert
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there are literally hundreds of methods to get more lights in DirectX and DBPro ... 8 is the hardware limit, however i'm surprised they've not changed over to DirectX 8.1 point lights as you can have upto 255 of them

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The Darthster
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One method is to switch the lights around, only use the lights that are most important to the current scene, changing their positions and colours when the player moves to a different location. This would be backed up by good level design, meaning you don't actually need more than 8 lights at a time.

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