Talk:Light Textures and Falloff Images

This article is kinda weak... I hope someone comes along and beefs it up...

Cumbersome Manual In-Engine Light Map Making

New idea:

No need for 3rd party baking tool...

1) Remove all direct lights

2) Place lights in map the resemble bounces

3) Capture screen-shots

4) Use Image Editor (Gimp) to obscure all but the light patterns (bucket-fill and selection tools)

5) Blur and Smear (faked Radiance transfer)

6) Save as a light texture

Projected Ambient may be a good fit?

Rich_is_Bored Related Concept

PostNew Horizon, on 09 July 2010 - 12:40 AM, said: I wonder if there would be some way for us to create a setting in the SDK to create a negative spectrum setting so that we could just tag a light neg_spectrum -1, and only have to tag the surface we don't want affected?

Rich_is_Bored

I've never tried it myself but it may be possible to pass entity parameters to the spectrum keyword. Something like this...

textures/whatever/mytexture
{
        spectrum Parm5      
        {
                map     textures/whatever/mytexture
        }
}

With something like that in place for all the textures you could isolate geometry into func_static entities and assign them to groups.