Night races in GP4

@Lo2k:

It's quite easy to get light effects on the track..

I modified tree shadow texture:

Lo2k schreef:
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> @TTM :
> Damn' !
> How did you manage to get light effects on the
> track ?

I think he changed the shadow texture, but indeed this looks very promising. I think by changing the materials and env. file it will look better, but we have to try it out.
I wants to make a night version of the Le Mans Bugatti track, so this looks very good.
Could it be possible to have working headlights for cars, that would be fantastic for the '89 WSC mod.

Good work guys,

Grtz

Mark

I see...well done. I never thought a shadow object could be used as a light halo

Just a 2nd thought : as shadows are darkening cars when they pass over the shadow object, are the bright halos lighting them too ? (it would be fantastic)

Lo2k Wrote:
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> Just a 2nd thought : as shadows are darkening cars
> when they pass over the shadow object, are the
> bright halos lighting them too ? (it would be
> fantastic)

Short answer: No. (but i have to make some tests...)

I was thinking of vreating a full shadow over the track (duplicate track/verge/bank..) and then create light 'holes' with alphas. Maybe map that new shadow object to one tex and paint the light 'holes' onto it, or something.
Someone once told me headlights on cars might be possible, but I haven't heard more about it.

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Tony

I found some super-hi-res night sky textures for RACE '07 if anyones intrested.

Very promising new feature. *dreaming about driving Spa at night*

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TTM..

and what if we simply DELETE some faces from the shadow? maybe the ´´light´´ shows up on carshapes uh?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2008 01:20AM by pimpones1.

I think that it's not possible to have nice light effect with shadow object to cars without modifying GP4.exe (Shadow color.) Because i made so many tests with "night" version of the Monza Junior without any success..

@TTM:Just thinking at one trick.
It might be possible to use an environment map only as a light spot (or several ligths, basically using a black map with one or several light circles) and then to set this envmap to be used only for sectors having light...hmm, nearly all over the track if we start with singapore track.
It would need to have static envmaps on but it could work.

TTM..

that´s what im talking about spotlights...