Right now the best way to get realistic lighting effects at night is to make all of your prims "light" prims so that SL won't shade them and apply the shading yourself with textures; but this only looks good to people with local lighting off (and it's an annoyance to people with local lighting on).
A (perhaps) simple improvment would be to decouple the two functions: give us a way to stop SL from shading things without also making the prims cast light.
If we has a script call to find the amount of light falling on a vertex that would be a plus. Or is that all done on the client side?
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Almarea Lumiere
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08-18-2004 10:37
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Huns Valen
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08-22-2004 03:45
It's all done on the client side.
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Catherine Omega
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08-22-2004 12:55
This is really in the same class of mistakes as "let's not use the OS's peripheral input! Let's talk to the keyboard on our own! You know, like people did in 1980!"
 From what I understand, it'd take a fair amount of work to seperate the emissive and shading functions, but the benefits of doing so should be obvious to everyone. C'mon, Lindens! Go for it! _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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08-22-2004 15:32
I wonder if LL had any sort of clue about where they wanted to go when they started
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Goshua Lament
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08-22-2004 20:40
While you're at it, give us some special light prims. Like the lights that Blender uese. Cones, spotlights, suns, difussed lights. Basic lighting stinks.
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Huns Valen
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08-24-2004 05:43
SL's current lighting model is about halfway between Quake 1 and Quake 2. We get colored lights, but no projectors, gobos, pulsers, etc. It would be super awesome to have these things. I wonder if they can do it.
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Catherine Omega
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08-24-2004 15:11
Originally posted by Huns Valen SL's current lighting model is about halfway between Quake 1 and Quake 2. We get colored lights, but no projectors, gobos, pulsers, etc. It would be super awesome to have these things. I wonder if they can do it. Yes, but not in real-time. Back in the day, it took me about 10 hours to run the light stage of compiling a full Quake map. While computers have improved quite a bit, they're not ready for the challenge of doing that in real-time. Doom 3's lighting is dynamic, but it still requires a BSP tree for the maps to run. It's also very, very dark. Fewer light sources means less work on the processors. Now, if they just did it like the current system, yeah, it seems like they might be able to do some more creative stuff there... I suspect it's rather low on the priority list though. _____________________
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