Madman, another question -track lighting

Im working on something "secret" at the moment.

I have an idea on how to create car headlights, but what i cant do is turn everything dark!

Can we just turn the sky dark? Or is there lighting features that need altered?

Simply put - is it easy to turn Day into night in GP4?




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In GP4?
You need to adjust ambient environment light. But it's would not produce great effects for car headlight using spot light types.

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I think we can use Alpha Layers to create headlights.

The brake glow obhjects can be used to control windows transparency, and if u make the alpha layer correct u can create a fade effect

I know strictly its not lights but its an effect i think we can create

How easy is it to turn Day to night in GP4?




Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

Depend on few factors. Most important is ambient env. light itself. Then some diffuse and specular vertex colors defined in carshapes and trackshapes. I'll try to modify the ambient light first and post the pic when it can be done without modifying vertex colors.

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

ok kool, im working on something that to be fully appreciated needs darkness. I could make it work under day time, but it might not have the "impact" night time would have




Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

hehehe, I think I know what you're making

hehehe i dont

the only question i would have on this issue, is the transition from day to night? would you be able to do it? i mean, surley once a track is loaded the light setting or whatever is set?

im intreguged ellis, talk to me on Msn



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Bad news, Ellis.

GP4 ignored and did not used lighting when rendering track shapes. Lighting only used for car renderings. Some track renderings (like tarmac, etc)using lightmap to boost performances, instead of using environment lights.

This is can me "emulated" by replacing "night" textures on track wad files. But for day/night transition, we must patch additional codes to force env. lighting on track rendering.

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didn't jon manage to turn the sun off once?

btw what is ur idea Ellis?



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i didnt need a transition from day to night

Thanx for the help madman, but replaicng every track tex is too much work for me

Using transparecny effects on alpha layers i was able to create car headlights and stuff, but becuase it was day-time they didnt really do much, and looked bit odd :P




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But I'm still curious about this one. I've been searching all entire codes to find at least single instruction which adjust ambient and light setting used for track rendering. I just realize that track shapes are rendered using tranformed lit method, so there is lots of code patching to convert the track rendering to be able rendered using lights and ambient environment.

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