How to light a scene evenly?

nzervu · Post by **nzervu** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:48 pm

Hi,
I would like to ask how to light a scene evenly?
Can I use a single light node? If I use many lights, meshes have multiple shadows, and I prefer to avoid that.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:00 pm

Do you want to have a lighting effect on each node (then probably directional light is good) or do you want a base light which lights all meshes similar (then ambient light would be good)?!

nzervu · Post by **nzervu** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:39 pm

Thank you for your answer. I believe ambient light would be good.

nzervu · Post by **nzervu** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:54 pm

I believe the default light type is :
ELT_POINT //! point light, it has a position in space and radiates light in all directions

Is this ambient light? My problem is that I cannot simulate sun light in my scene.. Some points in scene are very dark, others very lighted.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:42 pm

no. point light is point light not ambient.

you can set your ambient light directly at the scene manager

smgr->setAmbientLight(SColorf(255, 255, 255));