I need help with using a glow texture

byte512 | 2010-03-24 14:00

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Hi everybody
I am currently creating a map that is really dark ("ambient" is set to "16 8 8").
Now I wanted to have some parts of the map covered with a glowing texture.
As glow textures I am using the textures available here: http://www.quadropolis.us/node/2406.
Now my problem is that the brightness of those glowing textures is affected by the ambient value,
so it's not bright at all at the moment.

Is someone able to tell me, how to use those glowy textures from this package without having to change the ambient value?
Or am I doing something wrong?

regards, byte

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viruz | 2010-03-24 15:37

try to calclight with low ambient. after the (final) calclight, set ambient higher.

maybe it works, but im not sure

byte512 | 2010-03-25 05:38

Thx for your try to help me, but I already tried this.
If I do this all the textures on the map are getting real bright.

regards, byte

RaZgRiZ | 2010-03-24 16:03

setshaderparam glowcolour # # # (values of RGB from 0.0 to 1 as sane values)

byte512 | 2010-03-25 05:39

Tried this out, does not work for me :(

regards, byte

SheeEttin | 2010-03-25 07:30

Copy-pasting packages/textures/colored_tiles/package_glow.cfg from that package and jacking up the glowcolor does not do anything for you?

byte512 | 2010-03-25 13:23

Oh, ok, i tried it ingame.
I'll try it out in the way you said soon.

@edit: it doesn't change anything when i change that value inside the cfg :(

regards, byte

RaZgRiZ | 2010-03-25 09:43

no way, you must be doing it wrong o.O

check this, from my map replicator:

setshader bumpspecmapparallaxglowworld
setshaderparam "glowcolor" 1 0 0
texture 0 gibbie/teletop_d.jpg
texture n gibbie/teletop_local.jpg
texture s gibbie/teletop_s.jpg
texture g gibbie/teletop_add.jpg
texture z gibbie/teletop_h.jpg
texscale 0.5

that is how your texture could look like with the glowcolor parameter. if you need to add other texture definitions below you MUST change the shader, or the last used glowmap will be added to all the textures below it.

byte512 | 2010-03-25 16:02

Thx for your try to help me.
I'll try this later on, since I haven't got any time atm.

@ edit: you gave me the idea to play around with some shaders and it's working now!
Thank you very much!

regards, byte

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