Reality Factory

I have lighting problems when I use either Sun or sunlight entities with static mesh. Everything compiles ok and the level runs, but the staticmesh is totally black. I made sure that I set it to compute all lights and made sure that nothing is wrong with the actor I used for the mesh.

Can anyone please give me some tips on how to fix this problem?



thanks

hmm... I'm afraid it's a bug, will take a look at the code...

ah, ok.. I thought it was just me. thanks for looking in to it and merry christmas

Ok, I've checked the code and it works fine, the problem with the sunlight is that the skybox itself is casting a shadow on static meshes (genesis collision routines are the problem here) so just make the skybox large enough (skybox should be ~10000 texels away from the static mesh in the direction the light is coming from) and the lighting should be ok.

Ok, I've checked the code and it works fine, the problem with the sunlight is that the skybox itself is casting a shadow on static meshes

very wierd

genesis collision routines are the problem here

collisions are a massive problem for me as well as I can just walk up to a wall mesh and go right through it (even jump right though the ceiling part of the mesh.

so just make the skybox large enough (skybox should be ~10000 texels away from the static mesh in the direction the light is coming from) and the lighting should be ok.

I did that ( made it to max size without compiler tossing it out) and it got me nowhere.

I guess this bring my project to a standstill or I will have to find something else other than RF because if I did brushes RF would just bog down big time as you add more brushes.. thanks for having a look at the problem

If you want, you can send me the level and I'll try to fix it for you (realityfactory@gmx.at)

To continue your work, you could set UseFillColor to true and the FillColor to something like 128 128 128 . this gives the mesh a default lighting (of 128 128 128); For small models i always use this method.

sure and thanks


btw, delete the skydome entity because i forgot to add the script file for it or you can just change it.

uhm.. that's just the compiled level... I'd need the 3dt and static mesh actor at least

unfortunatly due to attachment limits I cant post it all, sorry

That's why I said you can mail me the level... you can also upload it to the reality factory ftp space... etc etc

just sent it by e-mail

Ok, I now know what's going on. In the RFEditPro code there is a second Sunlight entity defined which seems to cause a conflict so RF doesn't recognize it. I've used the old RFEdit and there it worked perfectly fine.

I've added a SunLight entity to the level, extended the skybox and changed some entries in the StaticMesh entity (also changed the player scale and rotation since I used virgil as player actor (and had to reduce the bounding box size in the playersetup.ini - otherwise the player got stuck in the cave))

So until I've uploaded a fixed version of RFEditPro you may use RFEdit...


I've just sent you the changed 3dt..

cool thanks, sorry you had to go thru all that trouble to find out what was going on

no problem