nice lighting

catron · Post by **catron** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:08 am

I've seen some impressive lighting in the demos.
I try to put this in mine and change it to work with my code and it compiles, but it is like nothing happened.

So, my question is how would i create advanced/plain lighting effects using opengl and dev cpp.
we have plans to run this on a ps3.

BTW i'm not a noob programmer, just a newb irrlicht user.

sorry, and thanks.

Catron

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:51 am

Then show us some of your non-nnob code examples. Otherwise the answers will be "check the tutorials" or "You get light effects by adding lights and effects". How shall we know about what you want and what you did?

nullterm · Post by **nullterm** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:38 pm

Make sure you enable the stencil buffer.

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    IrrlichtDevice *device = createDevice(video::EDT_DIRECT3D9,
            core::dimension2d<s32>(640,480), 16, false, true);

I just had that one catch me. Then,

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			node->addShadowVolumeSceneNode();

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:42 pm

Stencil buffers are only necessary for shadows, usual lighting effects run without (even faster).

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:53 pm

Did you set the node lightning to false ???
If so, set it to true:

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node->setMaterialFlag(EMF_LIGHTING, true);

otherwise the nodes don't act on lights...

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:42 pm

If you set it to false remove the statement, lighting is enabled by default.