basic lighting query

[Th3one]

Hi,

I have disabled dynamic lighting on my weapon because the change in brightness of it looks a bit dodgy. I used the following code to do so:

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weapon1->setMaterialFlag(video::EMF_LIGHTING, false);

I was wondering if there was any way of setting the material so it has a constant lighting level that isnt affected by the other lights in my scene?

[krama757]

Im a bit fuzzy, but isnt there a way to change the diffuse and specular of materials in the engine? In which case you could make a model and apply a material that isnt affected by light. Then change its specular and diffuse to some value?

[Guest]

hi!

you can change the material colors like this:

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//AmbientColor = the color of the ambient lighting of the node
//SpecularColor = the color of the specular lighting of the node (specular effects are light reflection and such things, like shininess i think)
//DiffuseColor = the color of the diffuse lighting of the node 
//EmissiveColor = the color of the light which the node emits
//Shininess = how much the node shines/reflects .. of you use a very low shininess effect it looks a little like a bloom shader, could look very cool in some scenes


//turn dyn. lighting off/on
node->setMaterialFlag(EMF_LIGHTING, false);

//set the ambient color lower than the MAX (255,255,255,255), because otherwise no specular/diffuse effects are seen (taken from the irrlicht api documentation)
node->getMaterial(0).AmbientColor.set(alpha, red, green, blue);

//set the specular color
node->getMaterial(0).SpecularColor.set(alpha, red, green, blue);

//set the diffuse color
node->getMaterial(0).DiffuseColor.set(alpha, red, green, blue);

//set the emissive color
node->getMaterial(0).EmissiveColor.set(alpha, red, green, blue);

//set the shininess value of the node  (0.0f = off, > 0.0f = on)
node->getMaterial(0).Shininess = 0.0f;

i hope that could help you a bit

for further documentation, take a look at SMaterial in the irrlicht API documentation!

good luck!

[Th3one]

GFX...you are a genius, just what I was looking for. Thanks mate...owe u bigtime

[Guest]

If you don't want it affected by lights in the scene but want to have it "lit" why not lightmap it?