Material with normal maps ignores ambient light

[Auria]

Hi,

see the attached screenshot :




I am making a material with normal maps (EMT_NORMAL_MAP_SOLID). Unfortunately for some reason I can't figure out, the faces that face away from the directional light are pitch-black - even though the scene has an ambient light (scene_manager->setAmbientLight) and even though I too gave an ambient color to the material in question.

This is irrlicht SVN (trunk r3842) on OS X 10.6

Anyone has any clue what's going on there?

[hybrid]

I don't think that ambient light is implemented in the normal map shader. You have to use your own shader.

[Auria]

I don't think that ambient light is implemented in the normal map shader. You have to use your own shader.

I see do you know of any way to get rid of this "dark side of the moon" effect on materials that have normal maps, without resorting to placing pointlights everywhere?

[hybrid]

Nothing besides adding your own shader. You might also use a two pass rendering where you first render a solid ambient pass, and then a transparent normal mapped pass. But I doubt that this will help in any situation, besides that you save the additional material creation in your app.